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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
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Inclusive Knowledge Systems in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Three things to remember
[This blog post was produced by Clément Gévaudan as a generous and thoughtful contribution to ignite discussion around our paper “State...
Clément Gévaudan
Mar 5, 20195 min read
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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
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Emerging leaders: daring to design strategies that bring the “I”, “we” and “it/s” together
[This blog post is part of a new series “Emerging leaders” that will explore ideas, practices and approaches to enable a new paradigm in...

Vanesa Weyrauch
Mar 8, 20185 min read
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Emerging leaders: Daring to really listen
[This blog post is part of a new series “Emerging leaders” that will explore ideas, practices and approaches to enable a new paradigm in...

Vanesa Weyrauch
Sep 5, 20173 min read
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Leaders who dare: a new paradigm to enhance the knowledge and policy interaction
Ken Wilber´s Four Quadrants As the complexity and depth of organizational and social issues arise, the need for a new type of leadership...

Vanesa Weyrauch
Jul 17, 20173 min read
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A primer on policy entrepreneurs
[Editor’s note: This post was originally published by Joe Luetjens, a PhD fellow in the Successful Public Governance program at Utrecht...
Joe Luetjens
Apr 26, 20175 min read
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Knowledge and policy-making: acknowledging each policymaker’s contribution to the decision-mak
By Waponi at flickr.com under CC It is interesting to reflect on the use of knowledge in the public sector or the different state...
Clara Richards
Aug 13, 20153 min read
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The role of evidence in policy making: “The ideal adviser should meet three skills: analytical-conce
[Editor’s Note: This interview is part of a wider series of talks with current and former officials, politicians and researchers from...

Leandro Echt
Dec 4, 20144 min read
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To more complexity, more dagu!
Courtesy of nero vivo under CC at flickr.com This is the second post of a series focusing on how we can better incorporate the complexity...
Clara Richards
Oct 24, 20144 min read
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Voices from the ground: policy makers’ challenges to the use of evidence
[Editor’s note: This post is the fourth of a series produced by Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt from Politics&Ideas to share what we...
Clara Richards
Oct 21, 20143 min read
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Embracing complexity: welcome to our land!
By Michael Heiss under CC license This is the first post of a series focusing on how we can better incorporate the complexity paradigm as...
Clara Richards
Oct 9, 20144 min read
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What are we missing when trying to develop policy makers capacities to use evidence?
As part of the development of an online course at P&I, we have been reviewing a broad set of available resources (papers, toolkits,...
Clara Richards
Sep 30, 20144 min read
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Selecting diverse ways to reach audiences: a strategically ongoing effort
In this previous post about how think tanks are segmenting communications to reach diverse audiences we shared some findings of this...
Clara Richards
Aug 14, 20143 min read
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Researcher policymaker: A missing bridge?
It’s quite amazing the amount of time and effort that southern researchers invest to research their ideas and present them to the world,...
Clara Richards
Aug 12, 20142 min read
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Getting policy makers to hear community voices
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Rebecca Pointer, Information and Communication Officer at the Institute for Poverty, Land and...
Clara Richards
Jul 29, 20144 min read
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From managing research to mentoring: an effective mechanism for a generational transition
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Raquel Zelaya, Director of ASIES, in Guatemala. It is part of a series of posts emerging from...
Clara Richards
Mar 5, 20142 min read
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Imagining a better 2014 (2) – by Raquel Zelaya and the team at ASIES
Our second respondents are the team at ASIES, a Guatemala-based think tank. 1. What are the most important lessons about research and...
Clara Richards
Jan 17, 20142 min read
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Imagining a better 2014 (1) Ramón-Antonio Gutiérrez Palacios
Our first respondent is Ramón-Antonio Gutiérrez Palacios, international consultant based in Santiago de Chile, partner at the Innovation...
Clara Richards
Jan 9, 20142 min read
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Think tanks’ executive directors: background, profiles and qualities
Leading a think tank is not an easy task. Usually, these leaders need to make key decisions that involve a huge diversity of issues: from...

Leandro Echt
Aug 16, 20134 min read
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