How have southern think tanks responded to the pandemic?
. The pandemic imposed many unprecedented challenges on think tanks in the Global South. Amid lockdowns and uncertain cashflows, they found themselves overstretched...
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. The pandemic imposed many unprecedented challenges on think tanks in the Global South. Amid lockdowns and uncertain cashflows, they found themselves overstretched...
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are one of the “UN ideas that have changed the world.” The state of actual delivery on MDG promises, however, remains a...
Southern Voice's mission is to ensure that southern expertise not only reaches, but also influences, global development debates. That is why we wanted to ensure that...
At Southern Voice, we have been discussing internally ways in which we can engage our network to get a broad range of insights on the crisis from across the Global...
The OTT Fellowship 2022 is a five-month collaborative working programme. It is designed for current and promising think tank leaders who are committed to undergoing a process of personal and professional...
Background As the world responds to the urgent impacts of the current COVID-19 crisis, it is important that we continue to look towards preparing for the future and securing our place in it....
The School for Thinktankers 2022 is a three-week programme delivered from 24 January to 11 February. Over the course of these three weeks participants are expected to join the learning space every day from 12:30 GMT...
Back in 2010, before founding OTT, I volunteered as a union rep at a think tank in the UK. It offered an opportunity to see the organisation from an entirely different perspective. I was...
It’s spring 2020 in Myanmar and the global pandemic has begun. The international organisations that 'dominate' the Mynamese research policy field are operating at...
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...
The Open Think Tank Directory was born to overcome the lack of centralised and publicly available information about think tanks and other policy research organisations. But it serves other...
The German think tank landscape has become larger and more diverse in recent years. The Robert Bosch Stiftung and Stiftung Mercator, both funders of think tanks,...