Letting the light in: how think tanks can be more nourishing places to work
Work is love made visible Kahlil Gibran Many thinktankers will find their work hugely satisfying. And equally, think tanks can be hugely fulfilling places to work as...
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Strategy exploration and design support for the Open Society Foundations
Project brief OTT Consulting is working with the Economic Justice Program at the Open Society Foundations to support the development of a new strategy. OTT's support...
Helping emerging think tank managers to improve their practice with the OTT-TTI Fellowship
Together with colleagues at OTT, I’m coordinating the 2018/19 Fellowship. This year it’s being run in partnership with the Think Tank Initiative. The Fellowship is...
Engaging the public: lessons from history
As Enrique Mendizabal says, think tanks and experts have all too often side-stepped the public and worked with politicians and bureaucrats, often behind closed doors. Recent events have...
Twelve ways to decide what actions to take
In this post we provide twelve suggestions on what you might do to support policymakers to improve their use of evidence. Do you work within or beyond formal constraints identified by the...
Twelve tips to set up a team and establish relationships
You’ve got a better idea of the context which shapes policymakers use’ of evidence and selected an issue to work on. So, what next? Here’s some advice on how you...
Thirteen tips to conduct a successful evidence context study
In my last article, I wrote about what an analytical framework for an ‘evidence context' study might look. Here, I highlight thirteen lessons to hold in mind when...
Three ways to select policy issues to work on
Consultants may have to conduct evidence studies on a range of policy issues but then have to provide capacity development services in only a few. If you find yourself in this predicament,...
Five questions to understand the evidence context
To identify entry points for your work with policymakers, you’ll first need to understand the political context for the acquisition and use of evidence. Doing this requires an understanding...
Understanding the social protection sector in Indonesia
Project brief This project aims to understand the factors that enable and constrain the willingness of key stakeholders in Indonesia's social protection sector to act in...
Social movements and think tanks
Project brief The Open Society Foundations (OSF) and On Think Tanks (OTT) are exploring how they can best support partnerships between think tanks and social/popular movements. To inform...
Strengthening research systems: concepts, actions and actors
There are few frameworks that explicitly conceptualise social science research systems in a ‘developing’ country context. What frameworks there are tend to focus...
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