Lessons on organising Exchange meetings/logistics
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...
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Reporting on progress: what we did in 2014
We re a bit late with this post but here it is. The Exchange has just turned one. In October, we submitted a report on the first year of The Exchange for the three institutional funders,...
Collaborating Challenges: Lessons from joining late in the process
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...
Collaborating challenges: what happens when you are late to the party?
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...
Reflections and Lessons Learned (So Far) from a Global Exchange
As in many NGOs, my job in Centre for European and North Atlantic Affairs has two components. As a research fellow in think tank focused on foreign policy, security and...
Reflections on Collaboration after a Team Meeting
How often do you go back and evaluate your work? How often do you think of your performance and try to improve your organizational practices? Measuring organizational performance is a time...
Day four of #TheExchangeJakarta
The last proper working day of The Exchange meeting in Jakarta was focused on the projects. Each team ‘retreated’ to a breakout room and worked on their projects. By the end, the...
Day three of #TheExchangeJakarta
During the third day of The Exchange in Jakarta we visited SMERU for a meeting between the members of The Exchange, the Knowledge Sector Initiative and Orazio Bellettini, representing...
Day two of #TheExchangeJakarta
The second day of The Exchange meeting in Jakarta focused on group work: Tuesday Sept 30th 8am Meet to go to Article 33 9am-10am Introduction to the Performance...
Day one of #TheExchangeJakarta
Once again, thinktankers from 10 different organisations and 9 countries came together, this time, in Jakarta, Indonesia. The objectives of this second meeting of The Exchange...
Collaboration challenges: lessons from the On Think Tanks Exchange
The On Think Tanks Exchange is an initiative designed to support and learn from think tank’s collaborations. The papers we have published over the last few of months...
Principles of effective collaboration between think tanks: a theory
It is worth sharing some of the principles that are behind the design of The Exchange. The initiative was first conceived as a series of separate collaborations that would take place over a...