I have been working on the design and delivery of capacity building workshops targeted at southern researchers over the past three years....

In 2013, P&I published the paper Political-Knowledge Regimes. Developing a new concept from the study of three changes in public policy...

In 2013, P&I published the paper Defining problems or providing solutions? The role of ideas in policy debates, by Andrea Ordoñez. A...

In 2013 P&I, jointly with CIPPEC and Mendizabal Limited on behalf of GDNet, published Research and policy Global Development Network...

Policy must be based on evidence. That is the cornerstone of development and poverty studies, and a discourse adopted by almost all think...

Theory of Change has become a buzzword across the development industry. It is a new tool in the toolbox that consultants use for...

Two months ago, a group of UK based think tank communicators organised an event on the future of think tank communications. In response,...

This post was written by Ravi Murugesan, INASP  Associate,  as a response to Vanesa Weyrauch’s post titled “Is online training THE...

The sources from which think tanks get their funding from may present different challenges and scenarios. More often than not, these can...

Courtesy of thawats at www.freedigitalphoto.net This post was written by Nilakshi De Silva, Senior Research Professional at the Centre...

This post was written by Rebecca Pointer, Information and Communication Officer, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies...

Courtesy of cooldesign at www.freedigitalphotos.net Establishing objectives for capacity building initatives can become as challenging as...

However different policy processes might be around the world, including evidence in them seems generally desirable. The question is...

Under the “Spaces for engagement: using knowledge to improve public decisions” programme from GDNet and CIPPEC I recently co-facilitated...

According to the General Census of 2000 and the Population Count of 2005, a third of Mexico’s population has not completed primary...

To what extent do academics and policymakers interact with each other and what is the byproduct of this interaction has always been a...

I have participated in the past years in many projects and witnessed lots of discussions on how to monitor and evaluate whether research...

Editor’s note: This post was jointly written with Iliana Carrasco Díaz, Media and Public Relations Officer at CIES. The Economic and...

An important question for researchers to ask themselves is what factors affect how evidence is used in policy debates – in other words,...

Courtesy of artur84 at freedigitalphotos.net Even though opportunities to develop new capacities to better link research and policy are...