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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
There are few frameworks that explicitly conceptualise social science research systems in a ‘developing’ country context. What frameworks there are tend to focus...
A lot of effort goes into developing strategic plans in think tanks and government institutions as means to bring about change. However, in a previous post, I argued that...
More and more organisations are putting an increasing emphasis on influencing policy (and not just delivering services). Staff working for these organisations are now...