Recent research undertake by the Think Tank
Initiative (TTI) (2014) suggests the demand for the services of policy
research organizations is growing. “Both national and international
think tanks are seen as high quality sources of information, with
quality staff and a good knowledge of the policy-making process. Across
all regions (surveyed), think tanks are among the top-rated
organizations for providing quality research, along with international
agencies and international university-based research institutes”

In
this book, the five participating think tanks organization describe in
their own words how they went about building their organizational
capacity. In addition to taking action, they reflected, documented and
collected evidence on how OCB was actually experienced. Having learned
so much from  the OCB action research process themselves, the
authors very much hope that this publication will be of interest and a
valuable resource for a diverse readership.

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