Should researchers get to pick who wins and who loses?
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...
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Domestic funding for social sciences: lessons for Peru
The future of social sciences in developing countries cannot depend on foreign donations. It has to be owned domestically through public and private support. This is what...
Research and evaluation of a think tank/thought leadership concept for the American Institute of Physics
Project brief AIP wishes to explore the concept of Think Tank/Thought Leadership to inform its own strategic change process. The study includes the following...
On Think Tanks Conference 2019: a report
On Think Tanks (OTT) is the leading global platform dedicated to the study and support of policy research institutes and the broader policymaking environment. OTT provides independent...
On public engagement
There are many histories of think tanks – but I like this origin story of the modern think tank. Sometime in the late 1800s, business leaders, policymakers, experts and the interested...
Impact Stories for the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research
Project brief To become better informed about its own impact and to be able to communicate that impact to a wider audience, the Alliance commissioned OTT to undertake a...
The flaws in the ranking
I was going to let it go this year. But after a quick read I found so many mistakes that it became a challenge not to write this at all. OTT and many others have been critical of the ranking...
Core funding unexpected (positives)
Core funding from foreign aid funders for think tanks in developing countries does not seem like a revolutionary idea - but it is. Think about it: a funder provides long term funding for an...
New ideological battlegrounds for think tanks
Sarah Lucas, from the Hewlett Foundation, told the audience at the Think Tank Initiative's Exchange in Bangkok that we must talk about and be part of something that is bigger than...
Core funding unexpected (negatives)
The Think Tank Initiative's Exchange in Bangkok has been a well deserved celebration of the contribution the initiative and its approach to supporting think tanks has made to the sector. It...
Social movements and think tanks
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...
Talking evidence in Latin America: right on time?
The 3rd Latin American Evidence Week is over. It involved more than 80 events involving 15 countries and more that 3,000 participants among researchers, policymakers, journalists, activists,...