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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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Clara Richards
Nov 12, 20153 min read
What concerns think-tankers about their funding models?
As we close a new edition of the online course “Re-thinking your funding model”, we thought it would be interested to do a brief summary...
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Clara Richards
Aug 25, 20154 min read
Is your funding model a good friend to your research?
[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series that looks into think tank funding models. It is based on a course that Politics & Ideas...
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Clara Richards
Aug 20, 20154 min read
The Dollars and Sense of Ethical Practices in Think Tanks
[Editor’s Note: This post was written by Ruth Levine, Program Director, Global Development and Population Program, William and Flora...
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Clara Richards
May 26, 20153 min read
An active and sustainable organization to promote development
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Elena Polo, Research Analyst at AGENDA Institute, Albania. It is part of a series of...
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Clara Richards
May 14, 20153 min read
Teamwork: working with Management, Trustees and Donors to raise funds
[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series that looks into think tank funding models. It is based on a course that Politics & Ideas...
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Clara Richards
Jan 19, 20153 min read
Investing your funds…acknowledging your priorities
[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series that will look at think tank funding models. It is based on an online course that had been...
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Clara Richards
Sep 23, 20143 min read
What is a successful funding model?
[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series that will look at think tank funding models. It is based on a course that is currently...
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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
Aug 7, 20144 min read
Making Transparency Transparent: What We Learnt
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Hans Gutbrod, coordinator of Transparify, which advocates for greater think tank transparency.]...
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Clara Richards
Jul 3, 20141 min read
Re-thinking funding models: a short survey and an upcoming course
At Politics & Ideas, we are working to put together an online course focused on understanding funding models that think tanks employ...
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Clara Richards
Feb 10, 20143 min read
How to improve your capacity to write proposals: Grupo FARO’s Committee for Project Approval
[Editor’s note: This post has been written by Adriana Arellano, from Grupo FARO, who are participating of a mentoring project with ASIES...
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Clara Richards
Nov 22, 20134 min read
Why is changing donor-driven research agendas so hard?
Funding is one of the pillars of our research agenda, because it is a hassle both for the recipients as for the givers since matching the...
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Clara Richards
Oct 23, 20136 min read
Lesson #4: think about, agree and discuss widely to establish capacity building objectives
This reflection is part of the 20 lessons included in the paper Lessons learned on promoting better links between research and policy in...
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Clara Richards
Jun 4, 20133 min read
The Topic Guide on Politics and Ideas: Introduction
Evidence based policy has, as the Topic Guide states in its introduction, become a sort of holy grail for policymakers (in the North and...
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Clara Richards
Jun 3, 20132 min read
A new Topic Guide on Politics and Ideas
Our first product is a Topic Guide on Politics and Ideas. We have worked intensely to produce it but we know that we need your help to...
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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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