Dear OTT Community,
Since Quique is on a well-deserved holiday, he asked me to give you a sneak preview of our newsletter.
I'm excited to share the exclusive details about the School for Thinktankers 2025. Registrations opened on August 7, unveiling a range of new features that will turn your interest into a decision to attend: a new country, home, and programme! Fundació Bofill and OTT, after an unforgettable experience during the 2024 Annual Conference, decided to continue working together. Therefore, the warm city of Barcelona will host the ninth edition of our global school from February 3rd to the 7th (2025).
This time, we bring you an updated programme with topics, trainers, and methodologies that will significantly contribute to your leadership and performance, whether you are a policy entrepreneur or part of a think tank or foundation. Register and allow yourself to meet and interact with peers and experts worldwide. For more information, please visit the following link.
Now, let's turn our attention to the sustained reflection and exchange of ideas during the Evidence Week 2024. With more than 200 events in 21 countries, this is a crucial platform for generating discussions on the generation, communication, and use of evidence on public issues of interest for Latin America and the Caribbean. Your participation in these spaces or the creation of new ones is invaluable. This annual celebration around data and analysis, which began in 2016 at the initiative of OTT and a group of evidence-informed policy entrepreneurs from Peru, has sustained over time and continues to unite forces and allies. The Instituto Veredas from Brazil joined the initiative in 2020 through the HUB LAC and now co-leads the process.
We also have plenty of new ideas and resources to share and a few job offers, including a position to join my team as a Research and Learning Officer of the On Think Tanks Programme.
Also, I recommend Enrique's article about think tanks "Not influential but useful". You might disagree, but it will make you reflect on the so-demanded impact.
Please share this newsletter with your community.
Until next month, from the voice of a rested Quique,
Estefanía Téran
On Think Tanks Director
New content this month:
- Government research funding reform in West Africa: what to watch by Emily Hayter, Racheal Makokha
- Political philanthropy series as part of a learning partnership between the Open Society Foundations, OTT and INASP to jointly explore effective models for supporting government reformers in the Global South.
- My journey with OTT: professional growth in the think tank world by Annapoorna Ravichander
- Not influential but useful: rethinking how we assess and support think tanks by Enrique Mendizabal
- Are we ready to welcome ‘thorny issues’ in the evidence-informed policy field? by Enrique Mendizabal, Vanesa Weyrauch
- OTT Conference 2024: key takeaways of a student thinktanker by Eliska Hauferova
- The importance of a clear think tank theme and brand: takeaways from the OTT School for Thinktankers 2024 by Joel Moffat
- In conversation with V. Manjula: training and capacity-building in the Indian government by
Annapoorna Ravichander, V. Manjula
Applications are now open for the School for Thinktankers 2025.
Join us in Barcelona, at Fundació Bofill (3 - 7 February 2025)
Apply to join OTT as a Research and Learning Officer to work for the Evidence Generation and Communication Component, primarily in the On Think Tanks programme.
Semana de la Evidencia 2024 (co-organised by Hub de Evidencias para América Latina y el Caribe - Hub LAC) will take place from the 11th to the 16th of November 2o24.
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