Greater policy impact: Stronger post-project engagement
Think tanks exist to improve the quality of decisions made by governments at all levels. Most are rightly concerned about their image as an organization that...
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Greater policy impact: Stronger post-project engagement
Raymond Struyk, author of Improving Think Tank Management, writes about the importance of think tanks' post-project engagement to measure their impact and influence. To be effective a...
Think tanks: why and how to support elections
Democratic elections facilitate the exchange of ideas in a country and are an important moment for public engagement in political processes. Elections present an opportunity for...
Getting better at influencing policy is a social process: lessons from work with an international agency
More and more organisations are putting an increasing emphasis on influencing policy (and not just delivering services). Staff working for these organisations are now...
It’s people, not papers, who matter: how policymakers acquire knowledge in Indonesia
Funders around the world have provided considerable support to (non-governmental) think tanks, assuming they are well placed to influence government policy by, amongst...
Complexity and paradox: lessons from Indonesia
The Greek Philosopher Heraclitus once said that “the only thing that is constant is change”. And the international development industry is certainly obsessed with instigating it (and not...
Scoping study: Evidence translators’ role in evidence-informed policymaking
Abstract This research study focused on evidence translators’ role in the evidence-informed policymaking ecosystem. We define evidence translators as individuals and...
What’s new in our understanding of how evidence influences policy? A view from Latin America
It seems rather hard to come up with anything original to say in the field of evidence-informed policy – unless we consider the change from evidence-based to...
Scoping study: Evidence translators’ role in evidence-informed policymaking
Abstract This research study focused on evidence translators’ role in the evidence-informed policymaking ecosystem. We define evidence translators as individuals and...
The moral case for evidence in policymaking
‘Morals’ is an unusual topic for me to take up, since I’m neither a philosopher nor clergy person. The narrative around evidence-informed policymaking tends to ring the bells of...
How can think tanks be agents of social change?
Across the world, the numbers of think tanks have surged as both thinktankers and their funders realise that, by promising at least part of the credibility awarded to universities and the...
What is the role of a think tank or social change organisation today?
What is the role of a think tank or social change organisation today? While this is unlikely to be a burning question for many, it is something we, at the RSA, regularly...