The Role of Think Tanks and Research Institutes for More National Ownership and Alignment of Evidence to Policy

This OGC discussion paper, written by Noha El-Mikawy, is the outcome report of the conference organized by UNDP OGC with support from IDRC Canada entitled: "Evidence on Governance into Policy: The Role of Research Institutes and Think Tanks, January 18 and 19 2009. The conference was organized as a side-event of the Information and Decision Support Center IDSC International Conference on "The role of think tanks in developing countries" in Cairo. The paper reports on the discussion that was informed by a series of six case studies that looked at Nepal, Peru, Serbia, China, Sudan and finally the APRM in Africa.