Poverty and Inequality

“A Difficult Lady”: Shutting Down Pollution in Kampala, Uganda

Publication Date: October 15, 2021

In 2011, sanitation and environmental management expert Judith Tumusiime joined the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), where she and KCCA Executive Director Jennifer Musisi quickly became a dynamic team, working together to execute a mandate...

By Design: The Thinking Behind Uruguay Crece Contigo Betting on the Power of Personal Connection (B)

Publication Date: May 20, 2021

This is the second case in a two-case set that explores why likeminded policymakers in Uruguay and Chile, focused on the same basic problem, made very different choices in designing a government program to tackle it. Overall, this case pair...

By Design: The Thinking Behind Uruguay Crece Contigo Planners Mull Ambitious Early Childhood Model in Chile (A)

Publication Date: May 20, 2021

This is the first case in a two-case set that explores why likeminded policymakers in Uruguay and Chile, focused on the same basic problem, made very different choices in designing a government program to tackle it. Overall, this case pair...

Cuna Más: Peru’s Home Visiting Program Evolves into a Comprehensive Early Childhood Development Strategy

Publication Date: May 5, 2021

The first case in this series describes the creation and initial expansion of Cuna Más, a national home visiting program in Peru. This second and final case in the series picks up a few years after Cuna Más was launched and charts...

Crianca Feliz: Brazil’s Ambitious Early Childhood Program

Publication Date: April 30, 2021

In October 2016, Brazil launched one of the largest home visiting programs in the world—Criança Feliz (or Happy Child). The flagship program aimed to reach the country’s most vulnerable pregnant women and young children. Even...

Change at the Speed of Trust: Advancing Educational Opportunity through Cross-Sector Collaboration in Louisville Practitioner Guide

Publication Date: March 19, 2021

This Practitioner Guide accompanies HKS Case 2215.0. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Louisville, Kentucky, found itself in the middle to the back of the pack among peer cities along a number of key measures of prosperity and quality of...

Change at the Speed of Trust: Advancing Educational Opportunity through Cross-Sector Collaboration in Louisville

Publication Date: March 19, 2021

At the turn of the twenty-first century, Louisville, Kentucky, found itself in the middle to the back of the pack among peer cities along a number of key measures of prosperity and quality of life. Since then, two consecutive mayors had advanced...

Shanties in the Skyline: Addressing Unauthorized Building Works in Hong Kong Practitioner Guide

Publication Date: December 16, 2020

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, high atop a great many of the older, concrete-block buildings in lower-income areas of central Hong Kong and the neighborhoods of the Kowloon peninsula, informal metal-framed wooden structures housed...

Shanties in the Skyline: Addressing Unauthorized Building Works in Hong Kong Epilogue

Publication Date: December 16, 2020

This epilogue accompanies HKS Case 2194.0. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, high atop a great many of the older, concrete-block buildings in lower-income areas of central Hong Kong and the neighborhoods of the Kowloon peninsula,...

Shanties in the Skyline: Addressing Unauthorized Building Works in Hong Kong

Publication Date: December 16, 2020

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, high atop a great many of the older, concrete-block buildings in lower-income areas of central Hong Kong and the neighborhoods of the Kowloon peninsula, informal metal-framed wooden structures housed...

“Pressing the Right Buttons”: Jennifer Musisi for New City Leadership Epilogue

Publication Date: September 9, 2020

This epilogue accompanies HKS Case 2186.0. Jennifer Musisi, a career civil servant most recently with the Uganda Revenue Authority, was appointed by President Museveni as executive director (equivalent to city manager) of a new governing body...

“Pressing the Right Buttons”: Jennifer Musisi for New City Leadership Practitioner Guide

Publication Date: September 9, 2020

This practitioner guide accompanies HKS Case 2186.0. Jennifer Musisi, a career civil servant most recently with the Uganda Revenue Authority, was appointed by President Museveni as executive director (equivalent to city manager) of a new...