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Theatre, a strategy to raise awareness about public policy challenges

Dr. Prasoon Agarwal and Annapoorna Ravichander

Feb 10, 2016
3 min

Theatre, a strategy to raise awareness about public policy challenges

[Editor’s note: This post was written by Dr. Prasoon Agarwal, Senior Advisor at Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), and Dr. Annapoorna...

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Research knowledge is crucial to national and global development

Clara Richards

Feb 3, 2016
2 min

Research knowledge is crucial to national and global development

[Editor’s note: This post was written by Julie Brittain, who has recently become the Executive Director of the International Network for...

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How think tanks attract, engage and retain its human resources: CSTEP’s HR Unit

Kavitha Nair

Jan 27, 2016
4 min

How think tanks attract, engage and retain its human resources: CSTEP’s HR Unit

[Editor’s note: This post was written by Kavitha Nair, Human Resources Manager at the Center for Study of Science, Technology and...

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Outcome Mapping: a liberating tool for program design

Clara Richards

Jan 20, 2016
4 min

Outcome Mapping: a liberating tool for program design

I have been using the logical framework approach for many years to help organisations with designing their projects or monitoring and...

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Working on your funding model: more ideas from our course

Leandro Echt

Dec 16, 2015
3 min

Working on your funding model: more ideas from our course

Are we ready to innovate? There is a lot of interest from most organisations in introducing innovations to their funding models. These...

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Geographic Information System (GIS): a useful tool for analysing data in policy making decision

Clara Richards

Dec 9, 2015
4 min

Geographic Information System (GIS): a useful tool for analysing data in policy making decision

[Editor’s note: This post was written by Pareexit Chauhan, GIS Analyst, and Dr. Gaurav Kapoor, Senior Research Scientist at the Center...

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Re think your funding model: challenge the assumption and move away from the comfort zone

Vanesa Weyrauch

Dec 2, 2015
3 min

Re think your funding model: challenge the assumption and move away from the comfort zone

Starting from September I had the opportunity of participating in the “Online Course: Re Thinking Funding Models” delivered by the...

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What concerns think-tankers about their funding models?

Clara Richards

Nov 12, 2015
3 min

What concerns think-tankers about their funding models?

As we close a new edition of the online course “Re-thinking your funding model”, we thought it would be interested to do a brief summary...

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Sustainability of funding models: what can it really mean?

Clara Richards

Nov 2, 2015
4 min

Sustainability of funding models: what can it really mean?

Most of the think tanks that take our online course on “Re-thinking your funding model” indicate that enhancing their sustainability is...

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Experiences from government institutions: how can we deal better with context?

Clara Richards

Oct 16, 2015
3 min

Experiences from government institutions: how can we deal better with context?

In a recent post we shared that we are currently conducting with INASP a study called “Going beyond context matters”, which has two main...

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Insights into the state of research systems in developing countries – Part 2

Clara Richards

Oct 8, 2015
3 min

Insights into the state of research systems in developing countries – Part 2

In May 2015, as part of INASP’s strategy development process, we engaged an independent consultant to conduct a phone/skype survey of 39...

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Insights into the state of research systems in developing countries – Part 1

Clara Richards

Oct 6, 2015
3 min

Insights into the state of research systems in developing countries – Part 1

In May 2015, as part of INASP’s strategy development process, we engaged an independent consultant, Teresa Hanley, to conduct a...

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Monitoring, evaluation and learning to manage and implement research projects at think tanks

Clara Richards

Oct 1, 2015
2 min

Monitoring, evaluation and learning to manage and implement research projects at think tanks

[Editor’s note: This post was written by Rezarta Delibashzade, Project management/Researcher at the Democracy for Development Institute...

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M&E&L for a think tank: test drive or driving test?

Clara Richards

Sep 29, 2015
3 min

M&E&L for a think tank: test drive or driving test?

[Editor’s note: This post was written by Andriy Andrusevych, Senior Policy Expert at the Resource & Analysis Center “Society and...

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Policymakers: unravelling a heterogeneous world

Clara Richards

Sep 16, 2015
6 min

Policymakers: unravelling a heterogeneous world

[Editor’s Note: This post was written by Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt, from Politics & Ideas, and it was originally published at...

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Seeking a place for Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning within a think tank’s institutional strategy

Clara Richards

Sep 9, 2015
2 min

Seeking a place for Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning within a think tank’s institutional strategy

The online course on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning has been a valuable and in the same time – challenging experience. The...

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Reflections on developing a MEL framework

Clara Richards

Aug 27, 2015
4 min

Reflections on developing a MEL framework

[Editor’s note: This post was written by Dena Lomofsky from of Southern Hemisphere. It emerges from reflection from P&I´s online course...

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Is your funding model a good friend to your research?

Clara Richards

Aug 25, 2015
4 min

Is your funding model a good friend to your research?

[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series that looks into think tank funding models. It is based on a course that Politics & Ideas...

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The Dollars and Sense of Ethical Practices in Think Tanks

Clara Richards

Aug 20, 2015
4 min

The Dollars and Sense of Ethical Practices in Think Tanks

[Editor’s Note: This post was written by Ruth Levine, Program Director, Global Development and Population Program, William and Flora...

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Knowledge and policy-making: acknowledging each policymaker’s contribution to the decision-mak

Clara Richards

Aug 13, 2015
3 min

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...

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