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Join the conversation: OTT Annual Review and Conference 2022. Think tanks play an important role in shaping evidence-informed change in the world. But they can’t do it alone. Increasingly, think tanks are...
If you’re thinking about setting up a new think tank, you probably have a lot of questions. Like: Where do I start? How do I fundraise for it or budget operating costs? How much weight...
Think tanks are civil society organisations with a particular focus on conducting research to influence policy. But within this broad definition, there is a lot of diversity. Over the years,...
This article has been cross-posted, read the original post on Cast From Clay. Stories are essential in policy communications. That’s because research is never...
Elections can be a great moment for think tanks: a chance to step forward as the link between policy, evidence and the public. As I look back over 17 years of think...
Just 13 Saudi think tanks were accounted for in the University of Pennsylvania’s Think Tank and Civil Societies Program global go to think tank index report 2020, whereas Saudi’s regional...
For International Women's Day 2022, we have an OTT Talks about women in think tank leadership roles with Andrea Ordoñez, Director at Southern Voice, Fiona Moejes, Interim CEO at Mawazo...
Chukwuka Onyekwena talked to Enrique Mendizabal about the policy space in Nigeria and the context in which think tanks operate, how the Covid-19 crisis has impacted the demand for research...
Chenai Mukumba currently works as Policy Research and Advocacy Manager of Tax Justice Network Africa. At the time of this interview, she was head of CUTS International...
Alvin Mosioma is the executive director at the Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) as well as one of its founders. TJNA is a pan-African organisation established in...
Iara Pietricovsky is an anthropologist, researcher and activist whose main areas of work are related to indigenous peoples and environmental issues. Since 2001, she...
Abdoulaye Diagne is the director of the Consortium pour la recherche économique et sociale (CRES), and a professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management...
This ‘health check’ aims to support think tanks and research institutes to refine and improve their communications. The tool covers six key areas: strategy, capacity, systems, audiences, channels & messaging and monitoring. It recognises that communication is a complicated process involving strategy, tactics and all sorts of inputs. In other words, it is not all about outputs.
The Economic Justice Program (EJP) of the Open Society Foundations ran from 2018 until the end of December 2021. During this time, and building on the work of its two parent programs (Fiscal...
Raymond Struyk, author of Improving Think Tank Management, writes about the key empirical facts on the shift from solo-authored papers to team production, introducing couple of options for...
How can think tanks play a role in contributing to solutions to address the challenges in the impact investing sector in emerging markets? Consolidate, communicate and facilitate...
Raymond Struyk, author of Improving Think Tank Management, writes about how two recent developments may be having significant effects on the way think tanks are structuring their staff...
Esta publicación fue elaborada por Leandro Echt sobre la base de un documento de reflexión elaborado por Martha Farmelo, consultora independiente en fortalecimiento de ONGs, en base a su...
Raymond Struyk, author of Improving Think Tank Management, writes about the evolution in staff assessments for think tanks. There is an ongoing, comparatively quiet evolution in the...