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Dr. Jyoti Parikh is a founding member and a member of the governing council at Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe) a think tank based in New Delhi,...
I recently had the opportunity to attend a course titled Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders at the Stanford Business Graduate School of Executive Education. There were 58 participants...
How deeply should think tanks engage with the larger ‘public’ in policy matters? This was a recent topic of a discussion amongst South Asian Comms Platform...
The Think Tank Initiative (TTI) introduced the Policy Engagement and Communication Programme (PEC) to primarily support think tanks to produce, synthesise and communicate...
The Public Affairs Index 2018 uses data to rank Indian states on governance. 2018 was the Index’s third year; it was bigger, more comprehensive and more rigorous,...
As head of the Policy Engagement and Communication, Resource Mobilisation and Training team at the Public Affairs Centre (PAC), the 2019 OTT Conference gave me lessons which are both useful...
Public Affairs Centre (PAC), a think tank based in Bengaluru, India, is engaged in a project with support from Southern Voice. The project“Will women be a part of India’s future...
Dr. Annapoorna Ravichander, editor at large for South Asia at On Think Tanks, interviewed Antardhwani's chief mission officers Seethalakshmi S and Rahul Nandan in December...
Dr. Annapoorna Ravichander, editor at large for South Asia at On Think Tanks interviewed Gurucharan G, director at Public Affairs Centre (PAC) in Bengaluru, as part of the series on South...
Most think tanks organise events around the publication of a book or report or run workshops, seminars and round tables to exchange and disseminate information. Ideally, a policy engagement...
Think tanks in Canada face concerns similar to their US counterparts. Funding, of course, is a key challenge. Sustained and unconditional grants are the most coveted...
Based on what we discussed in the previous posts of this series, we can conclude that Indian think tanks are still evolving. Looking at their history, we see that they have grown and expanded...