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              <title>Buenas prácticas organizacionales de think tanks de los EE. UU.</title>
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              <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 14:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
            
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              <description><![CDATA[Como parte de la edición especial del School for Thinktankers 2021 se han recabado una serie de buenas prácticas organizacionales de think tanks estadounidenses que podrían adoptarse y adaptarse a think tanks interesados en mejorar algunos ámbitos de su capacidad organizacional. Este documento entiende como buenas prácticas a los procedimientos que generan buenos resultados, y [&#8230;]]]></description>
              <content:encoded><![CDATA[Como parte de la edición especial del School for Thinktankers 2021 se han recabado una serie de buenas prácticas organizacionales de think tanks estadounidenses que podrían adoptarse y adaptarse a think tanks interesados en mejorar algunos ámbitos de su capacidad organizacional. Este documento entiende como buenas prácticas a los procedimientos que generan buenos resultados, y [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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              <title>Managing change and uncertainty within a Serbian think tank</title>
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              <pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2021 13:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                  Igor Bandović                </dc:creator>
              
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              <description><![CDATA[After two years as director of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP), I have written this piece about the process BCSP went through to consolidate itself as an organisation and to spearhead the work of the think tank community in Serbia and the Balkans on contested and challenging topics in the times of global [&#8230;]]]></description>
              <content:encoded><![CDATA[After two years as director of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP), I have written this piece about the process BCSP went through to consolidate itself as an organisation and to spearhead the work of the think tank community in Serbia and the Balkans on contested and challenging topics in the times of global [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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              <title>What Works? Developing a global evidence base for public engagement</title>
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              <pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2021 14:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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                  Reema Patel, Stephen Yeo                </dc:creator>
              
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              <description><![CDATA[In 2020, the Wellcome Trust commissioned OTT Consulting to recommend the best approach for enabling public engagement communities to share and gather evidence on public engagement practice globally, and in particular to assess the suitability of an approach adapted from the UK ‘What Works Centres’. This report is the output from that commission. It draws [&#8230;]]]></description>
              <content:encoded><![CDATA[In 2020, the Wellcome Trust commissioned OTT Consulting to recommend the best approach for enabling public engagement communities to share and gather evidence on public engagement practice globally, and in particular to assess the suitability of an approach adapted from the UK ‘What Works Centres’. This report is the output from that commission. It draws [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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              <title>How are funders supporting development organisations to be more effective?</title>
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              <pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2021 08:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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                  Ajoy Datta                </dc:creator>
              
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              <description><![CDATA[In my last post, I described what an organisation is and how it might be made more effective, drawing on three schools of thought. In this post, I describe what funders are doing to improve organisational effectiveness (among their grantees), drawing on a recent OTT paper. Many organisations receive general or programme support and senior [&#8230;]]]></description>
              <content:encoded><![CDATA[In my last post, I described what an organisation is and how it might be made more effective, drawing on three schools of thought. In this post, I describe what funders are doing to improve organisational effectiveness (among their grantees), drawing on a recent OTT paper. Many organisations receive general or programme support and senior [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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              <title>How and how well do organisations learn?</title>
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              <pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2021 08:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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                  Ajoy Datta                </dc:creator>
              
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              <description><![CDATA[There’s a lot of emphasis on being a learning organisation nowadays. But how and how well do organisations learn in practice? Based on my experience of consulting to funding organisations in Europe and North America, I draw insights on 1) how staff understand learning and what opportunities they have to learn; 2) how well staff [&#8230;]]]></description>
              <content:encoded><![CDATA[There’s a lot of emphasis on being a learning organisation nowadays. But how and how well do organisations learn in practice? Based on my experience of consulting to funding organisations in Europe and North America, I draw insights on 1) how staff understand learning and what opportunities they have to learn; 2) how well staff [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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              <title>Improving organisational effectiveness: what are funders doing beyond providing general operating support?</title>
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              <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2021 08:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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                  Ajoy Datta                </dc:creator>
              
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              <description><![CDATA[This paper asks the following questions: Why is general or programme support insufficient to properly address the organisational effectiveness of grantees? What have funders done to go beyond general or programme support? What are the benefits of providing additional support to grantees? What factors have enabled and constrained the provision of additional support to grantees? [&#8230;]]]></description>
              <content:encoded><![CDATA[This paper asks the following questions: Why is general or programme support insufficient to properly address the organisational effectiveness of grantees? What have funders done to go beyond general or programme support? What are the benefits of providing additional support to grantees? What factors have enabled and constrained the provision of additional support to grantees? [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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              <title>What makes a policy work and how can think tanks support this?</title>
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              <pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2021 08:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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                  Annapoorna Ravichander                </dc:creator>
              
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              <description><![CDATA[This is an important question given that policymaking is a critical activity of governments and impacts the lives of all people across the globe. Think tanks play an important role in supporting policymaking processes to be informed by the best available scientific evidence. What is policy? Typically, policy is a measured set of guidelines to [&#8230;]]]></description>
              <content:encoded><![CDATA[This is an important question given that policymaking is a critical activity of governments and impacts the lives of all people across the globe. Think tanks play an important role in supporting policymaking processes to be informed by the best available scientific evidence. What is policy? Typically, policy is a measured set of guidelines to [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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              <title>On think tanks in Iraq: Is it viable for think tanks to reform and operate in an unstable environment?</title>
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              <pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2021 08:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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                  Mohammad S. Alzou’bi                </dc:creator>
              
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              <description><![CDATA[My first meeting with a number of leaders, pioneers, and experts of Iraqi think tanks, within the DEVE M.E. Think Tanks Initiative, was highly successful and allowed me insight into the real situation of these institutions. Several golden proposals and suggestions have emerged to overcome challenges and crises, to enable reform and healthy operation, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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              <title>Governance and service delivery in sub-Saharan Africa: Eight reflections from a recent landscape scan</title>
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              <pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2021 08:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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                  Ajoy Datta                </dc:creator>
              
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              <description><![CDATA[Several actors within the global development sector have assumed that better governed states would lead to improved service delivery and better social development indicators.  Is this the case in sub-Saharan Africa? What explains this? And which actors have the capacity to influence the current state of affairs? Here I offer some reflections on these questions, [&#8230;]]]></description>
              <content:encoded><![CDATA[Several actors within the global development sector have assumed that better governed states would lead to improved service delivery and better social development indicators.  Is this the case in sub-Saharan Africa? What explains this? And which actors have the capacity to influence the current state of affairs? Here I offer some reflections on these questions, [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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              <title>Six takeaways from six years as Director of Communications at On Think Tanks</title>
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              <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2021 08:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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                  Erika Perez-Leon                </dc:creator>
              
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              <description><![CDATA[I have been part of small and large organisations, each with their own complexities, challenges and advantages. By 2016, I thought I’d done the communications rounds: advertising, design, photography, not-for-profit, NGOs and a global health crisis. The role at On Think Tanks (OTT), however, was unlike any of these experiences: it was about communicating ideas. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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