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...
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Mobilising domestic funding for think tanks in developing countries: a way forward
One of the topics that concerned the participants of the First On Think Tanks Conference in February 2017 was think tanks financial sustainability. One of the...
Think Tanks and Domestic Funding Reading List
On Think Tanks has been interested in the subject of funding of think tanks right from the start as it is linked to issues such as independence and autonomy, business models, governance and management, research...
The New Philanthropists: Rohini Nilekani, Founder and Chairperson of Arghyam
You only get what you measure. But what you may be able to measure is not what you treasure Rohini Nilejani is the founding chairperson of Arghyam, former journalist and...
Domestic think tank funding: what can foreign donors do?
Domestic funding is the only sustainable option for think tanks in developing countries. But getting there, moving away from a dependence on foreign funding, will take...
What happens when foreign donors leave (and they will)? Domestic funders wanted
Foreign funding for think tanks has raised a few eyebrows lately. There is an increasing concern that this involves meddling with domestic politics. In developing...
‘Tourist’ funders are unhelpful when supporting and evaluating think tanks
I've been in Peru for the last couple of weeks working on several projects related to think tanks: helping to establish a think tank focused on forestry based on a series...
An alternative to funding domestic think tanks: bring out the big guns
I often write that we have to stop funding foreign researchers to helicopter over developing countries to undertake what can only, at its best, be mediocre (and irrelevant...
Foreign funding and social science research in Peru
Kelly Bay, Cecilia Perla and Richard Snyder undertook, back in 2008, a study of the way foreign funding affects social science research in Peru. Its findings are quite...
Fund like a “Secret Dragon”: some ideas on how to support think tanks
Think tank funding comes in many guises: large untied funds offered to think tanks to do whatever they want; short or mid term institutional funding to support certain...
Public funds for public policy research in Latin America: a study by Lardone and Roggero
Think tanks in Latin America are mostly dependent on private and foreign funding, while governments don’t have a policy toward funding them and the social sciences...
Whose money is it anyway? think tanks and the public: an Indian debate
Gyaneshwar Singh commented in this blog’s Submit a Request page that during his research he found that: … there was always a question in mind that though public...