[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 is...

One of the key indicators of policy influence is ‘framing debates’ (Jones and Villar, 2008) and there is no doubt that the narratives...

[Editor’s Note: This interview is part of a wider series of talks with current and former officials, politicians and researchers from...

For a decade and a half now, I have been exposed to what I call the 3Ps – politics, policymaking, and politicians.  Particularly, my work...

The challenges of integrating a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) system into policy research organizations are often greater...

By Denise Krebs under CC license In June 2014 the Think Tank Initiative (TTI) commissioned Politics&Ideas to undertake a ‘light touch...

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...

[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...

An Annual Report in today’s context has become an important communication material. Some organisations use it for fund raising...

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...

Fund raising and communications processes are extremely linked in the work of think tanks. Most of the time, we do both things at the...

The On Think Tanks Exchange is an initiative that aims to encourage and support exchanges between think tanks for the purpose of...

As part of the development of an online course at P&I, we have been reviewing a broad set of available resources (papers, toolkits,...

[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...

Development experiences from many Arab countries show that the achievement of development in different sectors depends on the practical...

Implementing an M&E system – a postcard from the trenches ‘Seriously?! As if we don’t have enough work already! Besides, we’re...

[Editor’s note: This post is the second of a series produced by Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt from Politics&Ideas to share what we...

Thanks to the support of Vayayiko Grants from INASP, at P&I we have recently started a new project to enhance current capacity of...

[Editor’s note: This post is part of a series devoted to tools and frameworks for researchers to plan better projects right from the...

[Editor’s note: This post originally appeared at Research to Action. It was written by Nicholas Benequista, a researcher with an interest...