Designing a partner leaning approach and fund for Laudes Foundation
Project brief The project consists in developing a partner (grantee)-led learning approach and fund for the Laudes Foundation. OTT's role includes designing and...
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Project brief The project consists in developing a partner (grantee)-led learning approach and fund for the Laudes Foundation. OTT's role includes designing and...
The Knowledge Sector Initiative (KSI) - funded by Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) - supported 16 policy research institutes over 10 years...
In my last post, I described what an organisation is and how it might be made more effective, drawing on three schools of thought. In this post, I describe what funders...
There’s a lot of emphasis on being a learning organisation nowadays. But how and how well do organisations learn in practice? Based on my experience of consulting to funding organisations...
This paper asks the following questions: Why is general or programme support insufficient to properly address the organisational effectiveness of grantees? What...
Several actors within the global development sector have assumed that better governed states would lead to improved service delivery and better social development...
US foundations give away billions of dollars a year to improve human development around the world. Most of the money goes to organisations, which in turn make efforts to...
Until recently, I was an associate with On Think Tanks (OTT); like many other associates, I was neither a sole trader operating in a free market, nor a salaried employee...
Drawing on open systems theory and unconscious group processes, I’d like to highlight four factors that shape the authority and power of leaders and followers as they...
Project brief Taking a participatory approach and building on the China Dialogue Trust's existing monitoring and evaluation practices, OTT is supporting the CDT to...
In the last couple of years, I’ve been fortunate enough to lead teams to deliver complex assignments. The teams I’ve managed have ranged between five and ten people...
The Overseas Development Institute published a piece on racism in the international development sector and how to address it. However, there was very little on how...