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John Okidi, Senior Program Officer with the Think Tank Initiative, was interviewed by the BBC World Service in July 2011. Listen to him discuss the importance of supporting think tanks in Africa.
On October 26, 2010, IDRC President David Malone penned an opinion piece in The Hindu on the importance of supporting policy research and the Think tank Initiative. Read the article (in English only).
In 2010, the US-based Center for Global Development proposed 10 actionable ideas for a 21st-century Global Development Agenda. The Think Tank Initiative is one of the good ideas featured. Read the blog (in English only).
Think Tank Initiative program manager, Marie-Claude Martin, talks to Radio-Canada's Maude Rivard on her show Boreal Express about the Initiative's support to African think tanks.Listen to the broadcast (in French only).
Radio Canada International interviewed Martin Benavides, Executive Director of the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), a Think Tank Initiative (TTI) grantee, and TTI's María Urbina-Fauser about the Initiative. Listen to the interview...
The Think Tank Initiative’s support for 16 independent policy research institutions in South Asia will strengthen their role as influential players in national policy-making at a crucial time, development experts concluded at the October launch of...
In May 2009, the Think Tank Inititiave chose 24 promising institutions in East and West Africa to receive funding. Read the full press release below. To find out more about our African grantees, please visit the Institutions page.Press ReleaseDAKAR...
Ottawa, Canada, July 12, 2010 – The Think Tank Initiative has selected 28 think tanks, or independent policy research institutions, in Latin America and South Asia to receive a total of US$35 million to strengthen their roles as influential players...