Find out about The Exchange, who funds it, how it developed, what ideas and who is behind it.
Background information about The Exchange
Background and project design
Background The On Think Tanks Exchange is a new initiative that aims to encourage and support exchanges between think tanks for the purpose of developing new relationships, facilitating collaboration in research...
Principles of effective collaboration between think tanks: a theory
It is worth sharing some of the principles that are behind the design of The Exchange. The initiative was first conceived as a series of separate collaborations that would take place over a...
Communication for learning and accountability
At The Exchange we believe in sharing everything we do and know. This, we believe, is the best way to support learning and remain accountable. Therefore we have developed a simple communications strategy and...
Participants
After reviewing the applications, the Steering Committee chose 10 candidates to join The Exchange. We had originally said 8 would be able to participate, but the Knowledge Sector Initiative in Indonesia joined...
Collaborative projects
The Exchange supports two types of collaborative projects: A divers and barriers to collaboration action learning project; and A series of Policy or Organisational Development collaborative projects The...
Events
The Exchange will bring the participants together in a series of face to face and online events. Each event event will have broad three objectives: Enable the interaction between the participants to foster new...
Updates to The Exchange
Reporting on Progress: new lessons, risks and plans
During the Quito Exchange we spent some time reflecting on the lessons learned so far and this featured in the report prepared for the period between November 2014 and...
Report on Progress: November 2014 to April 2015
During the period we worked on the organisation of the third event and progress on the three projects. Planning for the third event At the Jakarta Workshop we decided to allow the...
Collaborative projects: Case Studies on Communication Strategies of Think Tanks
This project examines the external communications activities at the team members’ think tanks. The approach differs a little from the other two projects (business models...
Comparative projects: Performance Self-Assessments for Think Tanks
Like the “business models” project, the PSATT team spent January and February narrowing their very broad topic – “think tank performance” to something more...
Collaborative Projects: A comparative study of business models for think tanks in Indonesia and Latin America
The Business Models study is the third collaborative project supported by The Exchange. Although “doing business” is one of the main preoccupations of think...
Collaborative Projects: Performance Self – Assessments for Think Tanks
The Performance Self-Assessment for Think Tanks (PSATT) project is one of the collaborative projects of The Exchange. “Performance” is a very broad concept – too...