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The Knowledge Sector Initiative Indonesia: reviewing progress made by 16 policy research institutes

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Supporting the establishment of the Alexandria Economic Forum (AEF) with GIZ

Review of partnership models to support the use of evidence with Giving Evidence

Strategy development for the Mawazo Institute

Evaluation and landscape scan of the Hewlett Foundation’s Transparency, Participation and Accountability Strategy

Strategy exploration and design support for the Open Society Foundations

Understanding the social protection sector in Indonesia

Social movements and think tanks

Research systems research for K4D Helpdesk

Communication strategy for the Bernard van Leer Foundation

OTT-TTI Fellowship Programme

Support the development of IPRE’s policy, research and advocacy capacities

Strategy development for Instituti GAP

Designing a partner leaning approach and fund for Laudes Foundation

The Knowledge Sector Initiative Indonesia: reviewing progress made by 16 policy research institutes

How are funders supporting development organisations to be more effective?

How and how well do organisations learn?

Improving organisational effectiveness: what are funders doing beyond providing general operating support?

Governance and service delivery in sub-Saharan Africa: Eight reflections from a recent landscape scan

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s organisational effectiveness …

The merits and drawbacks of working in a networked organisation

What shapes the authority and power of leaders and their followers?

Supporting the China Dialogue Trust to improve its capacity to monitor, evaluate and learn from its communications work

In charge but not in control: Lessons from leading teams in a networked world

Racism in think tanks — how and why it manifests and what we might do to address it

Taking complexity seriously: helping officials to use evidence more skilfully in the Zimbabwean government

Lacking in ‘capacity’? Why workshopping isn’t always the (whole) answer!

Are you a troublemaker?

Rethinking organisational development: an OTT series

Devising, revising and evaluating strategies for funding organisations: 10 lessons from OTT’s work

Supporting the establishment of the Alexandria Economic Forum (AEF) with GIZ

Review of partnership models to support the use of evidence with Giving Evidence

Strategy development for the Mawazo Institute

What do people really mean when they talk about organisational culture?

Ethics and organisational partnerships

Evaluation and landscape scan of the Hewlett Foundation’s Transparency, Participation and Accountability Strategy

OTT Conference 2020, the 2nd online event: a report

Exploración de la relación entre think tanks y movimientos sociales

Activists and policy experts: Exploring think tank engagement with social movements

Understanding think tank–social movement engagement

Letting the light in: how think tanks can be more nourishing places to work

Strategy exploration and design support for the Open Society Foundations

Helping emerging think tank managers to improve their practice with the OTT-TTI Fellowship

Engaging the public: lessons from history

Twelve ways to decide what actions to take

Twelve tips to set up a team and establish relationships

Thirteen tips to conduct a successful evidence context study

Three ways to select policy issues to work on

Five questions to understand the evidence context

Understanding the social protection sector in Indonesia

Social movements and think tanks

Strengthening research systems: concepts, actions and actors

Ten lessons from facilitating strategy with think tanks and policy teams

Getting better at influencing policy is a social process: lessons from work with an international agency

Doing research for (and not on) development: some important questions for the Global Challenges Research Fund

Research systems research for K4D Helpdesk

Communication strategy for the Bernard van Leer Foundation

OTT-TTI Fellowship Programme

Learning to live with one another: lessons from an interdisciplinary research project

It’s people, not papers, who matter: how policymakers acquire knowledge in Indonesia

Opinion, Research

From using evidence to improving judgement: lessons from disaster response in Nepal

Complexity and paradox: lessons from Indonesia

Support the development of IPRE’s policy, research and advocacy capacities

Strategy development for Instituti GAP

Political and economic transition in Vietnam and its impact on think tank traditions

La transición política y económica en Vietnam y su impacto en el rol de los think tanks

Political and economic transition in Vietnam and its impact on think tank traditions

Strategic planning: it’s just as much about the present as the future

Organisational Development: more of an art than a science?

North-South Collaboration: Eight tips for working with local think tanks

Supporting think tanks series: Developing capacities in complex environments -experiences from Vietnam