Communications monitoring, evaluating and learning toolkit
This toolkit provides a framework to think about communications monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), and provides example questions, indicators and tools to do...
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This toolkit provides a framework to think about communications monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), and provides example questions, indicators and tools to do...
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This publication by IFAD provides guidance for developing policy engagement strategies. These are mainly directed at their country offices but offer useful advice for agencies interested in incorporating policy...
A style guide helps your organisation use a consistent voice – and you should seriously consider creating one All think tanks need a style guide: Here’s how to write yours If you work in a policy, research...
As a policy research organisation, CSTEP is in the business of producing large amounts of written communication. In order to improve the quality of its research products, such as reports, policy briefs, articles,...
A stress test for think tanks can help determine their long term sustainability -financially and otherwise. Funders and think tanks alike cold use this to determine if the organisation is ready to withstand future...
In this post, Jeff Knezovich explains how to create interactive dashboards with Tableau Public. It is part of a series of posts on How to develop Data Visualisations for think tanks
We've already seen one of the ways that we can develop maps using Google FusionTables. But that method gives us points on a map that don't change over time. This How To on Data Visualisation...
In this how to, we will look at how to summarise that data to answer specific questions using the PivotTable utility in Excel.
Most of us have to write formally as part of our work and, as we know, effective writing gets results. Few of us, however, have been trained to write effectively and many of us see writing as...
Experience has shown us that development efforts that ignore local technologies, local systems of knowledge, and the local environment generally fail to achieve their desired objectives....