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Clara Richards
Aug 14, 20174 min read
‘Reading organizations’: a new diagnostic tool to improve knowledge to policy systems
[This post was produced by Clara Richards, member of Politics&Ideas and Senior Programme Manager, Evidence-Informed Policy Making Team,...
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Vanesa Weyrauch
Aug 2, 20173 min read
Improving the use of knowledge in the Secretariat for Public Administration of the Prime (SGP) Minis
About a month ago, Politics & Ideas and INASP invited government agencies to participate in an opportunity to improve the use of...
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Annapoorna Ravichander
Apr 11, 20175 min read
How can we improve feedback?
Introduction According to a web definition feedback is a “Process in which the effect or output of an action is ‘returned’ (fed-back) to...
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Leandro Echt and Vanesa Weyrauch
Oct 18, 20164 min read
Conceptual framework for how public institutions generate and use knowledge /Culture 1
[Editor’s note: This post is part a series produced by Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt from Politics&Ideas to present the conceptual...
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Leandro Echt and Vanesa Weyrauch
Sep 20, 20164 min read
Conceptual framework for how public institutions generate and use knowledge / Intra and inter-relati
[Editor’s note: This post is part a series produced by Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt from Politics&Ideas to present the conceptual...
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Clara Richards
Sep 14, 20164 min read
Conceptual framework for how public institutions generate and use knowledge / Intra and inter-relati
We have focused our first and second posts of the series on the first dimension: the macro-context, which comprises the overarching...
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Clara Richards
Sep 6, 20163 min read
Conceptual framework for how public institutions generate and use knowledge / Macro-context (Circums
By screenpunk at flickr.com under CC We have focused our first post of the series on the structural factors of macro-context, which very...
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Clara Richards
Aug 23, 20164 min read
Conceptual framework for how public institutions generate and use knowledge / Macro-context
[Editor’s note: This post is part a series produced by Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt from Politics&Ideas to present the conceptual...
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Clara Richards
Aug 7, 20161 min read
Context Matters: a framework to support knowledge into policy
In 2016, Politics & Ideas published the study “Going beyond ‘Context matters’”, a framework to help government organizations improve...
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Clara Richards
Aug 4, 20165 min read
The power of reflection when building your research agenda
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Tanja Jakobi, Media analyst and researcher at CENTAR Public Policy Research Centre,...
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Clara Richards
Aug 2, 20162 min read
So, how do we start from context?
[Editor’s note: This post is part a series produced by Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt from Politics&Ideas to present the conceptual...
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Clara Richards
Jun 28, 20166 min read
Framework to get knowledge into policy. Dimension #1: Macro-context: structural factors that draw cl
[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series focused on sharing findings from the conceptual framework developed under the study “Going...
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Clara Richards
Jun 1, 20163 min read
Going beyond “Context matters”: our conceptual framework is ready waiting for you!
Our study on how context matters is finally here to share! After several months of reading, interviewing people and systematizing...
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Clara Richards
May 18, 20163 min read
Context: why focus on public institutions and on politics?
As we have already shared in some previous posts, P&I jointly with INASP are about to publish a study called “Going beyond context...
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Julie Brittain
Mar 30, 20163 min read
Openness is good but not simple
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Julie Brittain, who has recently become the Executive Director of the International Network for...
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Leandro Echt and Vanesa Weyrauch
Mar 22, 20165 min read
Our focus for context: governmental institutions
[Editor’s note: This post is part a series produced by Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt from Politics&Ideas to share what we learn...
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Clara Richards
Feb 24, 20163 min read
So, what is context?
As we have already shared in a previous post, P&I jointly with INASP are developing a study called “Going beyond context matters”, which...
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Dr. Prasoon Agarwal and Annapoorna Ravichander
Feb 10, 20163 min read
Theatre, a strategy to raise awareness about public policy challenges
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Dr. Prasoon Agarwal, Senior Advisor at Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), and Dr. Annapoorna...
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Kavitha Nair
Jan 27, 20164 min read
How think tanks attract, engage and retain its human resources: CSTEP’s HR Unit
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Kavitha Nair, Human Resources Manager at the Center for Study of Science, Technology and...
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Leandro Echt
Dec 16, 20153 min read
Working on your funding model: more ideas from our course
Are we ready to innovate? There is a lot of interest from most organisations in introducing innovations to their funding models. These...
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