School for Thinktankers 2022
The School for Thinktankers 2022: a three-week programme 24 January - 11 February. Participants join the learning space daily from 12:30 GMT to 14:30 GMT. The programme is designed to deepen your think tank...
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How and how well do organisations learn?
There’s a lot of emphasis on being a learning organisation nowadays. But how and how well do organisations learn in practice? Based on my experience of consulting to funding organisations...
Three lessons on evaluation: why thinking about usefulness, communication and learning matters
The article by Ajoy Datta from OTT covering lessons on devising, revising and evaluating strategies for funding organisations inspired me to pull together three critical...
School for Thinktankers 2021: a summary
The School for Thinktankers is designed to prepare and inspire the next generation of think tank leaders, build a community of thinktankers, and encourage participants to reflect on their...
Scaling up impact – the key challenge for the development community
‘Scaling up impact’ is the new watchword in development. Cynics might be inclined to dismiss it as the newest fad in the merry-go-round of fads in development...
School for Thinktankers 2021
The School for Thinktankers is going online! We look forward to welcoming thinktankers and policy entrepreneurs from around the world to our new digital learning platform in February 2021. The 2021 School for...
Responding to a pandemic: acting fast, being transparent, and moving online
The fourth annual OTT Conference was meant to be held in Berlin from 30 March to 1 April 2020. At the end of February we consulted with our advisory board and conference...
Going digital – What we have learnt about online learning approaches
Over recent weeks a huge number of face-to-face conferences, workshops and training events have been cancelled or postponed. This has massive implications for the...
Operationalising public engagement: four reflections for think tanks
In a previous article, I reflected on how citizen voice and public engagement can increase the quality of research, as well as the credibility, relevance and perception of...
Citizen voice and think tanks: a Nigerian case study
There’s a common perception that top-down development approaches have failed. And public agency is playing a bigger role in policy discussions and in politics, as Stuti...
Public engagement: three considerations for think tanks
How does your think tank visualise ‘the public’? Is it an amorphous sea of faces, where you know they are there but you can’t make out any defining features – much...
What happens when expert and public opinion clash?
Something that has always interested me is this: should policy priorities be based on evidence promoted by policy support organisations (like think tanks) or public opinion? And what happens...
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