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‘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,...
Clara Richards
Aug 14, 20174 min read
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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...
Vanesa Weyrauch
Aug 2, 20173 min read
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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...
Annapoorna Ravichander
Apr 11, 20175 min read
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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...
Leandro Echt and Vanesa Weyrauch
Oct 18, 20164 min read
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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...
Leandro Echt and Vanesa Weyrauch
Sep 20, 20164 min read
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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...
Clara Richards
Sep 14, 20164 min read
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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...
Clara Richards
Sep 6, 20163 min read
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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...
Clara Richards
Aug 23, 20164 min read
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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...
Clara Richards
Aug 7, 20161 min read
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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,...
Clara Richards
Aug 4, 20165 min read
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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...
Clara Richards
Aug 2, 20162 min read
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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...
Clara Richards
Jun 28, 20166 min read
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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...
Clara Richards
Jun 1, 20163 min read
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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...
Clara Richards
May 18, 20163 min read
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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...
Julie Brittain
Mar 30, 20163 min read
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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...
Leandro Echt and Vanesa Weyrauch
Mar 22, 20165 min read
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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...
Clara Richards
Feb 24, 20163 min read
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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...
Dr. Prasoon Agarwal and Annapoorna Ravichander
Feb 10, 20163 min read
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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...
Kavitha Nair
Jan 27, 20164 min read
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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...
Leandro Echt
Dec 16, 20153 min read
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