Unfolding leadership

Working in a way that brings up the best of yourself, in a place of wholeness, purpose and freedom

Vanesa Weyrauch

Jun 24, 20194 min read

Working in a way that brings up the best of yourself, in a place of wholeness, purpose and freedom

I am in a call with my team, talking about ideas for the future. One of my colleagues mentions that a group of civil servants she met in...

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Inclusive Knowledge Systems in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Three things to remember

Clément Gévaudan

Mar 5, 20195 min read

Inclusive Knowledge Systems in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Three things to remember

[This blog post was produced by Clément Gévaudan as a generous and thoughtful contribution to ignite discussion around our paper “State...

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Supporting organizational change for evidence use at Ghana’s Environmental Protection Agency

Leandro Echt

Oct 11, 20185 min read

Supporting organizational change for evidence use at Ghana’s Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Ghana has been working with Politics & Ideas and INASP to apply the Context Matters...

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Emerging leaders: daring to design strategies that bring the “I”, “we” and “it/s” together

Vanesa Weyrauch

Mar 8, 20185 min read

Emerging leaders: daring to design strategies that bring the “I”, “we” and “it/s” together

[This blog post is part of a new series “Emerging leaders” that will explore ideas, practices and approaches to enable a new paradigm in...

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Emerging leaders: Daring to really listen

Vanesa Weyrauch

Sep 5, 20173 min read

Emerging leaders: Daring to really listen

[This blog post is part of a new series “Emerging leaders” that will explore ideas, practices and approaches to enable a new paradigm in...

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Leaders who dare: a new paradigm to enhance the knowledge and policy interaction

Vanesa Weyrauch

Jul 17, 20173 min read

Leaders who dare: a new paradigm to enhance the knowledge and policy interaction

Ken Wilber´s Four Quadrants As the complexity and depth of organizational and social issues arise, the need for a new type of leadership...

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Joe Luetjens

Apr 26, 20175 min read

A primer on policy entrepreneurs

[Editor’s note: This post was originally published by Joe Luetjens, a PhD fellow in the Successful Public Governance program at Utrecht...

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Knowledge and policy-making: acknowledging each policymaker’s contribution to the decision-mak

Clara Richards

Aug 13, 20153 min read

Knowledge and policy-making: acknowledging each policymaker’s contribution to the decision-mak

By Waponi at flickr.com under CC It is interesting to reflect on the use of knowledge in the public sector or the different state...

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The role of evidence in policy making: “The ideal adviser should meet three skills: analytical-conce

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 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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Voices from the ground: policy makers’ challenges to the use of evidence

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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Embracing complexity: welcome to our land!

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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What are we missing when trying to develop policy makers capacities to use evidence?

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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Selecting diverse ways to reach audiences: a strategically ongoing effort

Clara Richards

Aug 14, 20143 min read

Selecting diverse ways to reach audiences: a strategically ongoing effort

In this previous post about how think tanks are segmenting communications to reach diverse audiences we shared some findings of this...

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Researcher policymaker: A missing bridge?

Clara Richards

Aug 12, 20142 min read

Researcher policymaker: A missing bridge?

It’s quite amazing the amount of time and effort that southern researchers invest to research their ideas and present them to the world,...

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Getting policy makers to hear community voices

Clara Richards

Jul 29, 20144 min read

Getting policy makers to hear community voices

[Editor’s note: This post was written by Rebecca Pointer, Information and Communication Officer at the Institute for Poverty, Land and...

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From managing research to mentoring: an effective mechanism for a generational transition

Clara Richards

Mar 5, 20142 min read

From managing research to mentoring: an effective mechanism for a generational transition

[Editor’s note: This post was written by Raquel Zelaya, Director of ASIES, in Guatemala. It is part of a series of posts emerging from...

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Imagining a better 2014 (2) – by Raquel Zelaya and the team at ASIES

Clara Richards

Jan 17, 20142 min read

Imagining a better 2014 (2) – by Raquel Zelaya and the team at ASIES

Our second respondents are the team at ASIES, a Guatemala-based think tank. 1. What are the most important lessons about research and...

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Imagining a better 2014 (1) Ramón-Antonio Gutiérrez Palacios

Clara Richards

Jan 9, 20142 min read

Imagining a better 2014 (1) Ramón-Antonio Gutiérrez Palacios

Our first respondent is Ramón-Antonio Gutiérrez Palacios, international consultant based in Santiago de Chile, partner at the Innovation...

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Think tanks’ executive directors: background, profiles and qualities

Leandro Echt

Aug 16, 20134 min read

Think tanks’ executive directors: background, profiles and qualities

Leading a think tank is not an easy task. Usually, these leaders need to make key decisions that involve a huge diversity of issues: from...

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