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Vanesa Weyrauch
Apr 4, 20184 min read
Putting peer learning into real practice: the case of ILAIPP in Latin America
[This blog post was developed by Vanesa Weyrauch and was originally published at The Think Tank Initiative´s blog section. We share here...
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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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Clara Richards
Oct 9, 20175 min read
Organisational change and innovation in the public sector
[This article is part of a series to share insights on a pilot to apply our framework on how context affects the use of knowledge in...
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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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Clara Richards
Aug 14, 20174 min read
‘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,...
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Vanesa Weyrauch
Aug 2, 20173 min read
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...
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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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Fiona Blyth and Carmen Huckel
Jul 13, 20173 min read
A more interdisciplinary approach can help us understand why research evidence does or doesn’t make
Researchers keen to see their findings impact on policy and practice are often told that better communication is the magic key to opening...
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Clara Richards
May 22, 20171 min read
Communications in policy making: making it professional for policy success
Think tanks need to communicate well, to succeed. Much of the emphasis is often on the website, or on high-gloss publications. At the...
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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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Annapoorna Ravichander
Apr 11, 20175 min read
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...
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Agnes Titriku
Mar 9, 20174 min read
Promoting the use of evidence in parliaments
Staff members from three parliaments (Ghana, Uganda and Zimbabwe) are participating in a Learning Exchange programme coordinated by the...
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Leandro Echt
Nov 17, 20164 min read
Learning and reflecting on Evidence Informed Policy Making
Courtesy of Alan Levine, under CC at flickr.com After three years, 11 countries, 1, 164 people trained and 26 public engagement events...
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Katrin Prager
Nov 8, 20164 min read
A co-creation challenge: Aligning research and policy processes
[Editor’s Note: This piece was written by Katrin Prager, senior social scientist at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland,...
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Annapoorna Ravichander
Oct 27, 20163 min read
Policy Impact: A Think Tank’s Perspective
[Editor’s note: This post was written by Dr. Annapoorna Ravichander, Head of the Communication and Policy Engagement Team, and Deeksha M...
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Leandro Echt and Vanesa Weyrauch
Oct 18, 20164 min read
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...
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Leandro Echt and Vanesa Weyrauch
Sep 20, 20164 min read
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...
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Clara Richards
Sep 14, 20164 min read
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...
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Clara Richards
Sep 6, 20163 min read
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...
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Clara Richards
Aug 23, 20164 min read
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...
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