By Tontographer en flickr.com under CC license [Editor’s note: This post is part of a series produced by Leandro Echt and Vanesa Weyrauch...

South Africa has had a policy unit in the Presidency for some time, which since the mid-2000s also focused on M&E. This was reinforced in...

By Venessa Miemis at flickr.com under CC At the recent TTIX 2015, besides facilitating a session on written communications as a way to...

What factors hinder the evaluation process, from the generation of information to its effective use in the public policy process? The...

What is the role that evidence generated by research may have on the policy process based on your experience? In Uruguay the reality is...

When I found out that TTIX would focus on research quality, I was quite excited (maybe you have seen my previous posts that focus on...

[Editor’s Note: This post was originally published by Maria Urbina-Fauser, Programme Officer at the Think Tank Initiative IDRC...

I work for a small private non for profit health research center dedicated to Health Policy and Systems Research-HPSR-, a specific field...

Introduction The impact of global economy brought about a drastic change after e-learning came into focus in India. Earlier people,...

[Editor’s note: this post announces the call for applications for an online course targeted to policymakers in Latin America on the use...

In ‘The Well-informed. Citizen: An Essay on the Social Distribution of Knowledge’, Alfred Schutz (1974) states: “… expect from the...

[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series that will look at think tank funding models. It is based on an online course that had been...

In the first part of this post, we concentrated in two groups of factors that influence the use of evidence in policy making. On the one...

Incorporating evidence into decision making processes is not a  linear task. On the one hand, evidence coexists with other various...

As you may have noticed, my last blogs have been devoted to the work of researchers who want to impact policy or social change more...

Courtesy of anankkml at www.freedigitalphotos.net [Editor’s note: This post is part of a series that will look at think tank funding...

[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series devoted to tools and frameworks for researchers to plan better projects right from the...

Canadian academic research in all disciplines is among the best in the world but Canada is not extracting full social and economic value...

[Editor’s Note: This interview is part of a wider series of talks with current and former officials, politicians and researchers from...

[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series devoted to tools and frameworks for researchers to plan better projects right from the...