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Just published: Establishing Government Think Tanks

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I contributed with Widya Sutiyo to this review written  by Jessica Mackenzie of different models of government think tanks. Key points from the paper: Government think tanks have several benefits over external think tanks, including their strong understanding of government programs and priorities (which helps them to tailor advice to actual needs) and an ability to coordinate across government departments. There is […]

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Knowledge and power in South East Asia

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Knowledge and power in South East Asia East Asia Forum Arnaldo Pellini, Ajoy Datta and harry Jones of RAPID discuss their findings on the use of knowledge in policy-making in Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines. Read more  

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Evidence can wait. Can’t it?

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I woke up this morning thinking about the political situation in Italy. Yesterday, President Napolitano, began meetings with the various parties represented in the parliament to understand if and to whom give the task of trying to establish a government which will also need to be voted by the majority of parliamentarians in the two

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Just Published – Communicating research: A beginner\’s guide for researchers at the Vietnamese Academy of Social Science

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Communicating research: A beginner\’s guide for researchers at the Vietnamese Academy of Social Science Arnaldo Pellini and Ajoy Datta Manual/Toolkit, July 2011 The guide was developed by the Overseas Development Institute’s (ODI) Research and Policy in Development (RAPID) programme under the guidance of VASS and input from VASS researchers. This guide is a key output

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Personal Kanban and two simple rules to manage knowledge work

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1) Limit your work-in-progress; 2) Visualize your work. These are the two simple rules that are suggested in a very enjoyable book I read by Jim Benson and Tonianne De Maria Barry titled Personal Kanban. Mapping Work, Navigating Life. When I first came across the book, I found the second part of the title a

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