Clara Richards
Stocktaking on Research Quality at the Think Tank Initiative Exchange
When I found out that TTIX would focus on research quality, I was quite excited (maybe you have seen my previous posts that focus on...
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Clara Richards
Feb 16, 20152 min read
Sharing data: a first step using infographics
[Editor’s Note: This post was originally published by Maria Urbina-Fauser, Programme Officer at the Think Tank Initiative IDRC...
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Clara Richards
Feb 5, 20154 min read
Online Training: a perspective from India
Introduction The impact of global economy brought about a drastic change after e-learning came into focus in India. Earlier people,...
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Clara Richards
Feb 3, 20154 min read
Training opportunity in Latin America: online course “Leaders of change: developing Latin Amer
[Editor’s note: this post announces the call for applications for an online course targeted to policymakers in Latin America on the use...
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Clara Richards
Jan 27, 20152 min read
The role of evidence in public policies: informing means or ends?
In ‘The Well-informed. Citizen: An Essay on the Social Distribution of Knowledge’, Alfred Schutz (1974) states: “… expect from the...
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Clara Richards
Jan 15, 20154 min read
Is there room for evidence? Factors affecting the use of information in policy making (part 2)
In the first part of this post, we concentrated in two groups of factors that influence the use of evidence in policy making. On the one...
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Clara Richards
Jan 13, 20153 min read
Is there room for evidence? Factors affecting the use of information in policy making (part 1)
Incorporating evidence into decision making processes is not a linear task. On the one hand, evidence coexists with other various...
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Clara Richards
Dec 19, 20146 min read
Producing meaningful knowledge: The missing piece in the influence agenda
As you may have noticed, my last blogs have been devoted to the work of researchers who want to impact policy or social change more...
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Clara Richards
Dec 11, 20143 min read
Conceptual Framework No. 5: Models of Operation Research
[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series devoted to tools and frameworks for researchers to plan better projects right from the...
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Clara Richards
Dec 9, 20142 min read
Knowledge brokering to enhance the impact of academic research on public policy
Canadian academic research in all disciplines is among the best in the world but Canada is not extracting full social and economic value...
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Leandro Echt
Dec 4, 20144 min read
The role of evidence in policy making: “The ideal adviser should meet three skills: analytical-conce
[Editor’s Note: This interview is part of a wider series of talks with current and former officials, politicians and researchers from...
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Clara Richards
Oct 30, 20146 min read
Learning from and with others: an experience with the Think Tank Initiative
By Denise Krebs under CC license In June 2014 the Think Tank Initiative (TTI) commissioned Politics&Ideas to undertake a ‘light touch...
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Clara Richards
Oct 24, 20144 min read
To more complexity, more dagu!
Courtesy of nero vivo under CC at flickr.com This is the second post of a series focusing on how we can better incorporate the complexity...
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Clara Richards
Oct 21, 20143 min read
Voices from the ground: policy makers’ challenges to the use of evidence
[Editor’s note: This post is the fourth of a series produced by Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt from Politics&Ideas to share what we...
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Clara Richards
Oct 9, 20144 min read
Embracing complexity: welcome to our land!
By Michael Heiss under CC license This is the first post of a series focusing on how we can better incorporate the complexity paradigm as...
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Clara Richards
Sep 30, 20144 min read
What are we missing when trying to develop policy makers capacities to use evidence?
As part of the development of an online course at P&I, we have been reviewing a broad set of available resources (papers, toolkits,...
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Clara Richards
Sep 18, 20141 min read
The challenges facing southern researchers in the Arab world
Development experiences from many Arab countries show that the achievement of development in different sectors depends on the practical...
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Clara Richards
Sep 10, 20141 min read
Giving more voice to Southern policymakers to co-build a new capacity development agenda
[Editor’s note: This post is the second of a series produced by Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt from Politics&Ideas to share what we...
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Clara Richards
Sep 2, 20143 min read
Capacity development for policymakers: a new opportunity to learn and co-create relevant knowledge
Thanks to the support of Vayayiko Grants from INASP, at P&I we have recently started a new project to enhance current capacity of...
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Clara Richards
Aug 22, 20142 min read
Conceptual Framework No. 3: The formal hypothesis
[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series devoted to tools and frameworks for researchers to plan better projects right from the...
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