On Think Tanks was founded in mid 2010. It has evolved from a blog into a global platform dedicated to study and support policy research and policy research centres, or think tanks. The members of the On Think Tanks Team and its Advisory Board are spread out across 6 continents!
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Meet the On Think Tanks team Enrique Mendizabal talks about On Think Tanks and its development. He also shares his thoughts on how think tanks compare across different regions, what the the think tank of...
Round 3 of the On Think Tanks Data Visualisation Competition is currently open for submissions. We’ve had some great entries in both Round 1 and Round 2, but this is...
We have seen important improvements in think tanks' communications capacities. It is time that we focused on management. Enrique Mendizabal argues that the next big push...
About 4 years ago, Fernando Straface from CIPPEC called for Latin American think tanks to share what he called a new technology of influence in electoral years. After...
Questions over think tank foreign funding have opened the door to a very interesting debate in the US. Concerns for foreign funding are also present in developing...
In this post Enrique Mendizabal presents several ideas to increase think tanks' publications numbers. Using associates, introducing publication targets, and investing in new skills and...
Are some organisations too successful for their own good? How can think tanks take a brake from donor led project funding to develop their own agendas and take the initiative on the projects...
Chukwuka Onyekwena talked to Enrique Mendizabal about the policy space in Nigeria and the context in which think tanks operate, how the Covid-19 crisis has impacted the demand for research...
Los líderes de think tanks deben ser más que excelentes investigadores, también debe ser gerentes, networkers, comunicadores, etc. El School for Thinktankers está diseñado para preparar...
with contributions from Julie LaFrance, Simon Hearn, and Enrique Mendizabal Over the last couple of years, OTT has provided services to large funders to develop,...
Rose Abdollahzadeh, Director of Research Partnerships at Chatham House, talked to Enrique Mendizabal about the Chatham House SNF CoLab and the Futurescape project. The SNF...
Project brief Working in partnership with Grupo Faro and with funding from UNDEF, OTT is developing and delivering an online training programme for political party...