On Think Tanks was founded in mid 2010. It has evolved from a blog into a global platform dedicated to study and support policy research and policy research centres, or think tanks. The members of the On Think Tanks Team and its Advisory Board are spread out across 6 continents!
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A new book, Transforming Research Excellence: New Ideas from the Global South, highlights gaps and shortcomings in how the notion of ‘excellence’ is currently applied...
Project brief Delivery of an extensive directory of think tanks that focus on the topics conflict, climate change, migration and inequality. Dates December 2019 to...
Project brief Assessment of the Institute of National Affairs and the Consultative Implementation and Monitoring Council in Papua New Guinea. OTT is leading a team of international and...
Project brief Design, facilitation and reporting for the IDRC scalingXchange event in Mexico City, 23-25 March 2020. The scalingXchange event is a conference that brings together experts...
Over the last decade, several global challenges have affected national politics, economics and societies to their core. Corruption and weak institutional development have crippled Latin...
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...
Project brief Working closely with the Wellcome Trust, OTT will: Review models of global research centres; Consider the most relevant models to study and...
Project brief This mapping of research organisations and related organisations for UNICEF. The project builds on our Open Think Tank Directory but focuses on organisations that work in...
Project brief The Open Society Foundations and the Transparency and Accountability Initiative asked OTT to design and deliver a retreat for the EDs of organisations that...
The first On Think Tanks Conference in the US was held on June 25 2019 at the World Resources Institute in Washington DC. The conference brought together thinktankers,...
Project brief The evaluation will: Assess results to scale the impact of research for development; Provide insights into the strengths and weaknesses of past...
This is article is challenge statement. It is meant to elicit a reaction. Please, do join the discussion. Evidence Action recently announced that it has decided to...