Think tanks and impact investing: is there an opportunity?
This document provides an overview of the impact investing industry with a focus on impact measurement and management and makes the case for think tanks to consider...
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Science at the epicenter of Peru’s pandemic: a crisis of values
It is about time we have another serious conversation about the accountability of researchers, research organisations and their funders. Back in September 2020, I...
Communications and Uptake Plan for the FCDO GRSP Evaluation
Project brief OTT leads on the Communications and Uptake for the evaluation of the global Gender Responsive Social Protection Evaluation (GRSP) programme (2020-2023). The...
The scalingXchange: introduction
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) online scalingXchange 2020 brought together Southern innovators to exchange learning and experience on efforts to scale impact for the...
Guiding principle 2: Optimal scale
Optimal scale challenges the "bigger is better" scaling model. Scaling produces a collection of impacts and to determine optimal scale, we have to consider the trade-offs between different...
Guiding principle 4: Dynamic evaluation
Scaling creates dynamic change that calls for dynamic evaluation – continuous learning before, during and after scaling. Dynamic evaluation helps us to apply the other three principles by...
Guiding principle 3: Coordination
Scaling takes place in complex systems and involves coordinating with a diverse and evolving set of stakeholders. Considering the people, places and things that affect or are affected by the...
Guiding principle 1: Justification
Scaling is a choice that must be justified based on a balance of technical evidence and values. And that choice to scale must be shared. An introduction to Guiding principle 1:...
Final session: remaining challenges in scaling science and practice
The final session offered the chance to explore remaining questions by IDRC. Guiding questions What were some good practices that emerged to support integration of...
Learning from 2020: being global by engaging locally
2020 has been a difficult year. We have all had to deal with personal and professional challenges. We have all been affected – some more than others – by the pandemic...
New Peruvian think tanks. Part one: LidLab
I have chosen four new – or relatively new – think tanks to write about. Each has a different business model and offers a different proposal, but they all promise to contribute to...
Gustav Brauckmeyer, Executive Director, Equilibrium CenDE
Equilibrium CenDE caught my attention for two main reasons: its Latin America focus and its foreign founders. In Peru, it is not common to find researchers or research...