July 4, 2021

Interview

Paul Wang and Krishanu Chakraborty from IDinsight (video)

Paul Wang and Krishanu Chakraborty from IDinsight talked to Andrea Baertl about the challenges for data collection during the COVID-19 pandemic, what can be done to overcome them, and how it can be done safely.

About the author:

Andrea Baertl: Director of Research and Learning at On Think Tanks

Influencing a post-COVID-19 e-commerce policy: lessons from Rwanda

By Ismael Byaruhanga

Post-COVID-19, the Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR)-Rwanda is running a project to provide timely evidence and policy recommendations to support Rwanda’s...

Evaluation of IDRC’s strategy to scale research results

By Cathy Chames, Dena Lomofsky, Louise Ball, Nana Davies, Simon Hearn

The International Development Research Centre (IDRC)’s 2015–2020 strategic plan included a strategic objective to ‘invest in knowledge and innovation for large scale...

What Works? Developing a global evidence base for public engagement

By Reema Patel, Stephen Yeo

In 2020, the Wellcome Trust commissioned OTT Consulting to recommend the best approach for enabling public engagement communities to share and gather evidence on public...

Mapping of think tanks and advice on how to support them for the Gates Foundation

By Andrea Baertl, Enrique Mendizabal, Jenny Lah, Jessica Correa, Julie LaFrance, Louise Ball, Shannon Sutton

Project brief The project involves: Undertaking a mapping of the policy ecosystem and identify relevant think tanks in 15 countries of focus for the BMGF's Europe,...

10 charts on transparency, participation and accountability funding in 2019

By Jenny Lah

Is funding for transparency, participation and accountability (TPA) decreasing? Who is funding TPA now? What specific issues and countries are they focusing on? I’ve...

US-Panama think tank collaboration with the US Department of State

By Andrea Baertl, Andrea Correa, Cristina Ramos

Project brief Grupo FARO and OTT have partnered to deliver a programme to support the development of Panamanian and regional think tanks and policy research institutes...