Patience as strategy: how think tanks are winning the long game
Impatience and frustration with the status quo motivates policy players to act. But patience determines how they act. Amartya Sen addressed one side of this debate in a...
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Impatience and frustration with the status quo motivates policy players to act. But patience determines how they act. Amartya Sen addressed one side of this debate in a...
This article is adapted from Dr Joseph Asunka’s keynote address at the OTT Conference 2022. The justification for partnership is clear; the path to successful...
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The Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) is a young, dynamic and ambitious charity established in 2013 to champion and support the use of effective early intervention to improve the lives of children and young people...
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The African continent faces a plethora of issues, and many of the most pertinent ones relate to conflict. Since the first wave of independence the continent has...
The first phase of the On Think Tanks Exchange (OTTE) comes to an end on September 2015. We are planning a meeting in Rio for the week of the 14th, hosted by CEBRI. This...
As we returned from our meeting in Jakarta we had a clearer picture on the scope of our collaborative efforts and the performance self-assessment tool we were developing...
The Exchange has organised 3 multi-party meetings -and is about to organise one more in Quito in April 2015. These meetings have served a number of purposes including building or helping...
I joined in The Exchange very late. My organisation, the Institute for Research and Empowerment, assigned me to replace my fellow researcher, Bambang Hudayana. For one and...
There is a Hungarian saying “he got into something like Pilate got in to the Credo”. It means: “accidentally, without really belonging there.” (The reference is to...