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Parliaments play a critical role in our national evidence systems. They’re charged with making laws, holding our elected governments to account, scrutinising their...
The Advocata Institute was conceptualised in 2016, with a single goal in mind. We wanted to create a lawful Sri Lanka, where anyone may succeed through hard work and free...
Founding and leading a think tank is a demanding and often thankless job. It requires a unique blend of skills: strategic vision, fundraising, management, and...
The School for Thinktankers recently concluded its eighth School. As in every other School, I came out feeling energised and with a wealth of ideas for moving forward and...
I’ve been working on evidence use for the last seven years, or so. I started out in the VakaYiko Consortium, under the Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence...
10.00 am, Colombo, Sri Lanka. I’m on a bus 5,000 miles away from London, reading about Cast From Clay’s study on democracy in the UK. They warn of an...
OTT Talks to Dr. Abraham Ibn Zackaria, Deputy Director of Research in the Parliament of Ghana, shedding light on how evidence is used in Ghanaian policymaking.
OTT Talks to Grant Dalton, researcher at the Institute for Government, a leading British think tank, about the findings of a diversity and inclusion sector report he co-authored and...
In this new OTT Talks, Joe Miller, Director of Soapbox Washington Studio, talks to Louise Ball, OTT Communications Director, about his new book Screens, research and hypertext. Listen to the podcast here.
Enrique Mendizabal, OTT Founder and Director, talks to Irene Pingkan Umboh from RTI International and Widjajanti Isdijoso from SMERU Research Institute. They look back over the last 10 years...
For World Health Day, OTT Talks about scientific advisory systems and the global pandemic, with OTT's Marcela Morales and Enrique Mendizabal. Read the full report: ‘Scientific advisory...
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...