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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...
Project brief The Mawazo Institute is a non-profit research institute based in Nairobi, Kenya. Its mission is to support the next generation of female scholars and thought leaders in East...
Welcome to the OTT Conference 2021, co-hosted by the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). This year, the conference's main topic is think tanks and change. Last year we hosted our first online...
Project brief OTT leads on the Communications and Uptake for the evaluation of the global Gender Responsive Social Protection Evaluation (GRSP) programme (2020-2023). The...
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) online scalingXchange 2020 brought together Southern innovators to exchange learning and experience on efforts to scale impact for the...
Scaling creates dynamic change that calls for dynamic evaluation – continuous learning before, during and after scaling. Dynamic evaluation helps us to apply the other three principles by...