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Opening up to new possibilities
[This blog post is part of the P&I series where we share our personal and professional journeys and how they link to a re-thinking of P&I...

Vanesa Weyrauch
Nov 17, 20202 min read


Time to harvest: a new approach for P&I
[This blog post is part of the P&I series where we share our personal and professional journeys and how they link to a re-thinking of P&I...

Leandro Echt
Nov 2, 20202 min read


Crystallizing our purpose
[This blog post is part of the P&I series where we share our personal and professional journeys and how they link to a re-thinking of P&I...
Clara Richards
Sep 28, 20202 min read


Our strengths: courage, integrity, and more!
[This blog post is part of the P&I series where we share our personal and professional journeys and how they link to a re-thinking of P&I...
Clara Richards
Sep 2, 20202 min read


Sensing how we could change within our surrounding system
[This blog post is part of the P&I series where we share our personal and professional journeys and how they link to a re-thinking of P&I...

Leandro Echt
Aug 24, 20202 min read


Co-initiating the P&I of the future
[This blog post is part of the P&I series where we share our personal and professional journeys and how they link to a re-thinking of P&I...
Clara Richards
Aug 14, 20203 min read


From MY journey to OUR journey: rethinking P&I’s purpose
[This blog post is part of the P&I series where we share our personal and professional journeys and how they link to a re-thinking of P&I...

Vanesa Weyrauch
Aug 5, 20202 min read


Time for tough questions and brave work: a shared journey
[This blog post is part of the P&I series where we share our personal and professional journeys and how they link to a re-thinking of P&I...
Clara Richards
Jun 29, 20204 min read


A celebrated journey: sharing questions in good company
[This blog post is part of the P&I series where we share our personal and professional journeys and how they link to a re-thinking of P&I...

Vanesa Weyrauch
Jun 22, 20203 min read


A journey to re-discover where our best potential future is
[This blog post is part of the P&I series where we share our personal and professional journeys and how they link to a re-thinking of P&I...
Clara Richards
Jun 8, 20202 min read


Embracing the pause
At P&I we embrace the current challenging, changing and sometimes fearful scenario we are all sharing right now. In fact, in December...
Clara Richards
Apr 14, 20201 min read


Enabling organizational change through adaptive and flexible management
[Editor’s note: This article originally appeared at the Think Tank Initiative’s blog, as the first in a series on lessons learned from...

Vanesa Weyrauch
Aug 14, 20194 min read


Working in a way that brings up the best of yourself, in a place of wholeness, purpose and freedom
I am in a call with my team, talking about ideas for the future. One of my colleagues mentions that a group of civil servants she met in...

Vanesa Weyrauch
Jun 24, 20194 min read


‘Context Matters’ framework for improving evidence use: what do policymakers and practitioners think
In 2016, INASP and Politics & Ideas (P&I) produced the Context Matters Framework – a lens through which to examine the internal and...

Leandro Echt
Feb 27, 20192 min read


Government agencies and their use of evidence: A webinar to envision together a better future
How can government agencies improve the production and use of evidence to inform their policies? Is there a systematic way to move...
Clara Richards
Oct 16, 20182 min read


The importance of integrated approaches to organizational change
Government agencies are increasingly committing resources and energy to improve the way they use knowledge to inform policy. These...

Vanesa Weyrauch
Oct 15, 20185 min read


Supporting organizational change for evidence use at Ghana’s Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Ghana has been working with Politics & Ideas and INASP to apply the Context Matters...

Leandro Echt
Oct 11, 20185 min read


Context matters for organizational change—but how exactly?
Emily Hayter, Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt reflect on working with agencies in Peru and Ghana to help understand how they use...
Emily Hayter, Vanesa Weyrauch, Leandro Echt
Oct 11, 20185 min read


Give voice to community within a community
[This blog post by Dr. Meena Nair, Head of Research and Dr. Annapoorna Ravichander, Head, Policy Engagement and Communication at Public...
Meena Nair, Annapoorna Ravichander
Aug 17, 20183 min read


Organisational change and innovation in the public sector
[This article is part of a series to share insights on a pilot to apply our framework on how context affects the use of knowledge in...
Clara Richards
Oct 9, 20175 min read
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