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Over the last decade, several global challenges have affected national politics, economics and societies to their core. Corruption and weak institutional development have crippled Latin...
In 1990, Michael Fix and I co-edited a book of articles about the use of a technique called ‘auditing’ to measure discrimination against ethnic minority groups when...
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In a previous article, I reflected on how citizen voice and public engagement can increase the quality of research, as well as the credibility, relevance and perception of...
There’s a common perception that top-down development approaches have failed. And public agency is playing a bigger role in policy discussions and in politics, as Stuti...
How does your think tank visualise ‘the public’? Is it an amorphous sea of faces, where you know they are there but you can’t make out any defining features – much...
Something that has always interested me is this: should policy priorities be based on evidence promoted by policy support organisations (like think tanks) or public opinion? And what happens...
Over the last few decades, the ways think tanks produce and communicate knowledge has changed. For think tanks, this is an opportunity to hear more voices and to engage with society in new...
Monitoring and evaluating (M&E) communications is an important, but sometimes intimidating, task. At my Lima-based think tank Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), we recently...
This scene might be familiar: A meeting is held to plan a project’s communications. Both the research and communications teams are eager to maximise the impact of the...
Concepts like gender analysis, gender mainstreaming, gender budgeting and intersectionality are often bandied about. But how often do think tanks look within to assess their gender equality,...