{"id":3461,"date":"2016-09-21T12:28:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T17:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/articles\/\/"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:39:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T22:39:53","slug":"monitoring-evaluation-and-learning-for-think-tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/articles\/monitoring-evaluation-and-learning-for-think-tanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring, evaluation and learning for think tanks"},"content":{"rendered":"
Measuring the results of the work of think tanks poses many challenges; the results are often intangible \u2013for instance, building strong relationships with policy makers, or playing a key role in a policy network or debate. Another key challenge is that success is often framed as policy change, but this tends to take a long time, it is hard to attribute this change to a specific organization, and policy makers are unlikely to admit to policy influence.<\/p>\n
So we need to think differently about measuring success when it comes to policy influence. The most important thing is to define success \u2013 what do the policy objectives look like for each organization.\u00a0 For this it is important to understand where you locate yourselves in the policy process with any particular issue.<\/p>\n
Learn more about Monitoring and Evaluation of Policy Research:<\/p>\n
On Think Tanks School Monitoring and Evaluation courses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n