#Influence

Clara Richards

Communication off the map: three principles for policy influence in emerging democracies

[Editor’s note: This post originally appeared at Research to Action. It was written by Nicholas Benequista, a researcher with an interest...

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Do like Adam Smith: Ride the train with your policymaker (as often as possible)

Some of the arguably most fundamental, longest-lasting changes in the world economy resulted from the policy influencing efforts of an...

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Capacity building -from our Topic Guide

[Editor’s note: This post is the last one of a series that introduced our Topic Guide. Please feel free to check the insight our Topic...

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Monitoring and evaluation -from our Topic Guide

The subject of monitoring and evaluation is central to any effort to attempt to improve the connections between policy and research (or...

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How to conduct a transition in the Executive Direction? Two experiences from think thanks in Latin A

As I wrote in a previous post, think tank’s directors need to deal with a huge diversity of issues: from budgetary choices, to...