Foreign Policy Crisis: Using Search

Current events in Ukraine draw much attention. Find Policy gives you a fast way of checking out what the main think tanks have to say. The more specific the search, the better the results. For example, if you try to understand the role of one of the opposition figures, Vitali Klitschko, you can see what a number of think tanks have to say about him. And as the search term is specific and events are unfolding fast, this is one of the cases where you may want to search by date first. 

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Results from a variety of institutions, giving you the kind of detail that you may want to find quickly. Let us know if you have questions. You find the foreign policy engine above, or here: http://www.findpolicy.org/foreign-policy/ 

Search for Donors: Who Does What?

Here is another practical use for Find Policy. Imagine you are a donor, and you want to find out how you have been interacting with think tanks in a particular region, or with institutions working on a particular theme. Now some donors have sophisticated internal databases, but not all do. Find Policy offers a quick alternative.  You can, for example, search South Asia to see where you turn up. And you can search where other donors turn up. To become more specific, you could add a particular topic, say maternal health. This should then take you to all relevant results. Conversely, you could take an issue-oriented search, and check those. 

Again, we are not saying the tool is perfect, since we do not cover all institutions, and websites may not record all interactions. Still, Find Policy gives you fast and focused results, and the type of orientation that often is useful to have when you are preparing a meeting, reviewing impact, or considering new initiatives. 

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