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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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Doing Development Differently in practice from the Philippines

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Jaime Faustino of The Asia Foundation in the Philippines features with two policy local activists in a 10 minutes video documentary produced by ODI\’s Politics and Governance programme. This very well made video documentary describes their development entrepreneurship approach and how they decided to do something about the fact that 12ml Filipino do not have a land title that proves that they own the land where they have built their homes.

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Doing Development Differently, 30 years ago

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I was sixteen when the excerpts I post below were published. For thirty-two years (and probably longer than that)  development practitioners, researchers, academics, experts, technocrats, civil servants, elected officials have tackled the uncertainty of development processes. The answer thirty-two years ago as well as today seems to be the same: embrace uncertainty, make the most out of it.

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Media and politics: what is the space for research evidence?

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  Lately I have been thinking that when one works, like I do, in the area of policy processes and how they can be better informed by knowledge and research evidence it is easy to think that the demand for evidence comes mainly (or only) from one side: government institutions. Government institutions at national and

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ROMA: A guide to policy engagement and influence is available in Bahasa Indonesia

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ROMA, the RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach, has been providing for several years ideas and suggestions to policy researchers for structuring a policy influence process which is based on the production, communication and uptake of research evidence. ROMA does not describe (or prescribe) an A to Z series of steps that will guarantee the policy influence of a policy research project. There are no

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Networks are everywhere. We are all part of networks

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Last Saturday morning I travelled to a hotel in central Jakarta to participate in the opening of the annual meeting of the Alumni Reference Group (ARG) organized by Australia Awards. There were about 150 people attending the meeting. These 150 people represent more than 6500 Indonesian alumni who received a scholarship to pursue a postgraduate degree in

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