Lima, 9 de octubre de 2014

- However, only 2.3% of Scientific Research is produced in Latin America

- 9% of World´s population is concentrated in Latin America

- 40% of the water reserves is in Latin America

The challenge of producing knowledge in Latin America

Water map

Scientific research map

IDRC – TTI / Latin American Think Thanks / ILAIPP members

In order to:

Generate Knowledge

Build a space of exchange

Promote strengthening

actions

Prompted by IDRC since 200912 centers 7 countries

Diversity: Challenge and opportunity

ILAIPP members are diverse in years of institutionalization, some created in the decade of the 60s and others since

2000

ILAIPP members have different numbers of researchers, from 7 up to 33 researchers

on a diversity of fields of study

The diversity of ILAIPP members

enrich the capacity to conduct relevant

research with potential to influence policies in different

contexts

Knowledge generation and propose to enrich the

debate on public policy and the development of

Latin America

Generate comparative research to bear on the public policy

debate

Increase the capacity of the centers to do

research

Construction of a space for exchange, discussion and learning among think tanks in the region, with

proposals and experiences to influence

public policy.

Visualize ILAIPP as a regional leader for Public Policy

Research of common interest of

members

Promote exchange of best practices

for incidence among the

institutions from the Think Net

Promote actions to strengthen the

institutional capacities of the centers that comprise

Strengthen the organizational capabilities of

ILAIPP and Think Thanks members

Establish an internal

communication system

Courses of Action

Strategic Objectives

Strategic Map

Associate Members

Full Members

General Assembly

Executive Secretary

Research

CoordinatorStrengthening

Coordinator

Communications

Coordinator

Governance Structure

Executive secretariat

Executive Committee

Advisory Committee

Fund´s Administrator

ILAIPP First Regional Conference2013

Criteria for Research Agenda

ILAIPP Comparative

Research Agenda on

Public Policies

Interests of ILAIPP

members

Capacity of ILAIPP members

National agendas a public policy debates

Funding opportunities

for research on Public Policiess

Endogenous Factors

Exogenous Factors

Research Agenda

Economic policies of poverty and equity (public budget, poverty reduction)

Democracy , decentralization, civil rights and political culture

Natural resources , environment and climate change

Education, human capital and knowledge generation

AXIS

2015 Regional conference

• Quality and Innovation in Education

Following Steps

Organizational capacity development

• Identify organizational needs in research, communication and advocacy dimension

• Design and implement courses both face-to-face and virtual modalities

• Evaluate sustainability of ILAIPP – Think Thankers School

Following Steps

Implementing the Research Agenda

• Promote collaborative comparative research projects • Develop the Second Regional Conference on Innovation and

Quality in Education. Lima, 2015 • Conduct research and regional policy proposals related to

climate change

Following Steps

Deepening skills in communication and advocacy

• Forming group of communicators (members ILAIPP centers)

• Learned from experiences that have influenced supranational policies to design ILAIPP strategy to contribute with Latin American public policies

Lessons learned and future challenges

Thanks…