OTT Conference 2022 – Think tanks and partnerships for change
During the OTT Conference 2022, On Think Tanks (OTT) welcomed 271 people from around the world to explore partnerships between think tanks and other changemakers. Over the three days,...
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OTT Annual Review 2021-2022: Think tanks and partnerships for change
Think tank survival depends on their relationships with others. How do think tanks work with other actors to promote evidence-informed change? What are the benefits of these partnerships?...
Building a think tank: why, what, who, how, when?
If you’re thinking about setting up a new think tank, you probably have a lot of questions. Like: Where do I start? How do I fundraise for it or budget operating costs? How much weight...
Build a think tank: A guide for policy entrepreneurs
This guide is not a recipe to set up a think tank – there is no such thing. Think tanks are all different and all respond to their contexts. This guide is framed around a series of...
Challenges for the activist think tank
Adapted from Simon Maxwell’s blog. Some think tanks focus exclusively on research and policy engagement. Others describe themselves as ‘change hubs’ opening space for collaborative...
Survey Think Tank State of the Sector 2020-2021
The On Think Tanks sector surveys help gain an understanding of how policy research centres, think tanks and those related to think tanks and evidence-informed policy see the current context,...
Think tank state of the sector 2020-2021
Drawing on data from 3,107 think tanks worldwide registered on the Open Think Tank Directory, the State of the Sector report offers evidence-informed policy community data and analysis on...
Knowledge Translation in the Global South
OTT Consulting is working with the Institute of Development Studies to undertake an environmental scan of knowledge translation practice among researchers and funders to support the advancement of the International...
School for Thinktankers 2022
The School for Thinktankers 2022: a three-week programme 24 January - 11 February. Participants join the learning space daily from 12:30 GMT to 14:30 GMT. The programme is designed to deepen your think tank...
Managing change and uncertainty within a Serbian think tank
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...
How and how well do organisations learn?
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...
Improving organisational effectiveness: what are funders doing beyond providing general operating support?
This paper asks the following questions: Why is general or programme support insufficient to properly address the organisational effectiveness of grantees? What...