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Clara Richards
Jul 26, 20133 min read
Common funding myths: lessons from Nigeria
The sources from which think tanks get their funding from may present different challenges and scenarios. More often than not, these can...
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Clara Richards
Jul 18, 20133 min read
Communication innovations to inform public debate: PLAAS’ Fact Check series
This post was written by Rebecca Pointer, Information and Communication Officer, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies...
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Leandro Echt
Jun 17, 20134 min read
Institutionalizing the demand for research: CIES' Public Sector Advisory Council
Editor’s note: This post was jointly written with Iliana Carrasco Díaz, Media and Public Relations Officer at CIES. The Economic and...
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Clara Richards
Jun 7, 20134 min read
Involving the private sector in funding ideas: planning a fundraising event (part 2)
Editor’s note: this post was jointly written with María Laffaire, responsible for individual funders at CIPPEC’s Institutional...
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Clara Richards
Jun 6, 20132 min read
Methodological caution when presenting evidence
This post appeared originally at on think tanks, and it comments on a post by Michael Bassey of the LSE British Politics and Policy blog,...
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Clara Richards
May 31, 20133 min read
Involving the private sector in funding ideas: planning a fundraising event (part 1)
Editor’s note: this post was jointly written with María Laffaire, responsible for individual funders at CIPPEC’s Institutional...
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Clara Richards
May 29, 20133 min read
Leaps of faith: the successful policy without evidence
Finnish schools are among the best in the world, but did not know, and apparently did not want to know it. Ironically, Finns found out...
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Clara Richards
May 22, 20133 min read
Politics & Ideas: An open research agenda
Creating a research agenda is always an exciting job. On the one hand, we are always seeking for overarching structures and frameworks...
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Clara Richards
May 8, 20134 min read
Global research organisations, foreign funding and absent states: the health research agenda in Peru
In the academic world, little attention has been paid to how the priorities and agendas of global research organisations, along with...
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Clara Richards
Apr 26, 20132 min read
Say no to developing new communication channels that are not linked to your core business
[Editor’s note: This Idea was shared by Laura Zommer, CIPPEC’s former Head of Communications and current Director of Chequeado.com] I was...
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Clara Richards
Apr 17, 20132 min read
Demand, supply and intermediaries: unhelpful labels
Demand, supply and the market We know that the separation between the demand and supply of research is artificial: Ideas emerge and are...
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