Feb, 2015: As part of its participation in IDRC’s Think Tank Initiative SDPI was part of a group of five Southern think tanks, that prepared self-reported case studies on using an action research approach to identify how the organizations had changed their own capacity over the previous 5-6 years.

This period coincided with funding support from IDRC to these think tanks to improve their capacity. I worked with my colleagues, Mome Saleem and Dua Sayed, on this case study for SDPI.

A compendium of the five case studies focusing on think tanks in South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America was published by Sang-e-Meel publishers (out of Lahore, Pakistan). The publication was reviewed and edited by colleagues at IDRC (Ottawa, Canada) and the Center for Poverty Analysis (CEPA) in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

A link to the book can be found here.