Public engagement: How to build a global evidence base?
Done well, public engagement can empower the public and help researchers, scientists and policymakers to identify the most relevant questions and best decisions....
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Done well, public engagement can empower the public and help researchers, scientists and policymakers to identify the most relevant questions and best decisions....
In 2020, the Wellcome Trust commissioned OTT Consulting to recommend the best approach for enabling public engagement communities to share and gather evidence on public...
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 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...
I think that the people of this country have had enough of experts from organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong … Michael...
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...
Project brief OTT Consulting worked with the Think Tank Initiative to deliver the 2018-2019 OTT-TTI Fellowship Programme. The programme aimed to support new emerging think tanks leaders...
For the past few years the UK magazine Prospect has organised awards to think tanks, initially focusing on UK think tanks, and more recently adding EU and North American...
In 2017, the Asia Foundation asked On Think Tanks to assess the prospects for establishing a Public Policy Institute (PPI) in Timor-Leste. Such an Institute would build on...
The first article in this series highlighted some aspects of the local context that were important in designing a new think tank for Timor-Leste. The balance between “in...
It depends … on the local context. That’s where we started our work (and this article): with the research, evidence and policy environment in Timor-Leste. In the...