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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The Knowledge Sector Initiative Indonesia: reviewing progress made by 16 policy research institutes
The Knowledge Sector Initiative (KSI) - funded by Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) - supported 16 policy research institutes over 10 years...
How are funders supporting development organisations to be more effective?
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...
How and how well do organisations learn?
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...
Improving organisational effectiveness: what are funders doing beyond providing general operating support?
This paper asks the following questions: Why is general or programme support insufficient to properly address the organisational effectiveness of grantees? What...
Governance and service delivery in sub-Saharan Africa: Eight reflections from a recent landscape scan
Several actors within the global development sector have assumed that better governed states would lead to improved service delivery and better social development...
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s organisational effectiveness …
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...
The merits and drawbacks of working in a networked organisation
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...
What shapes the authority and power of leaders and their followers?
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...
Supporting the China Dialogue Trust to improve its capacity to monitor, evaluate and learn from its communications work
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 charge but not in control: Lessons from leading teams in a networked world
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...
Racism in think tanks — how and why it manifests and what we might do to address it
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...
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