Vanesa Weyrauch

Vanesa Weyrauch has worked in the field of policy and research for more than 20 years, particularly with Latin American think tanks and policymakers. Her work has focused on knowledge generation, capacity building, technical assistance, and mentorship. She has pioneered online learning on topics like strategic planning, research communications and monitoring, evaluation and learning on policy influence, especially with organizations in the Global South, promoting peer learning. She leads capacity building and organizational transformation projects built on systemic approaches, collective intelligence, and the co-creation of new and emergent approaches to traditional challenges. To that end, she uses a combination of participatory and creative facilitation methodologies such as Theory U, Design Thinking, and Liberating Structures. She is also an expert in monitoring, evaluation and learning and has worked with international organizations like Save the Children, UNICEF, IDB, PEERSS, GDN, OSF, DFID, IDRC and others. She has recently facilitated a Future Search process for the ideation of CIPPEC (Argentina’s largest think tank) for 2021-2031 and for Epica, a new social movement to empower citizens to make changes in Argentina.