This blog is part of a showcase of exhibits from Latin American think tanks participating in the Think Tank Initiative’s Policy Engagement and Communications (PEC) programme. You may view other entries on the Latin America PEC Showcase Overview Page. 

Do you want to learn how peer organisations deal with the challenge of communicating more effectively with different stakeholders?

In order to help Asociación de Investigación y Estudios Sociales (ASIES) re-think their Marketing Strategy, Associate Researcher Vanesa Weyrauch produced a brief study on how other think tanks, mainly in developing countries, are currently reaching diverse audiences with a variety of tools.

Weyrauch’s study presents a series of findings that have emerged from interviewees´ reflections and shared practices on the different steps of strategic marketing, ranging from stakeholder analysis to exploring how to continuously re-engage with, and enhance communications to, different public audiences.

This study is a knowledge product which has been co-produced with southern practitioners through the collaboration of developing countries´ think tanks as well as through the comments and contributions from the Latin American and South Asian facilitators of the programme: Susan Koshy, Umar Sheraz and Anaité Vargas. The study was shared by a facilitator at an ASIES monthly meeting called “Aprendiendo juntos” so that researchers were able to reflect on how others currently deal with common challenges and opportunities in their strategic marketing. It was also presented in a webinar co-facilitated by Vanesa Weyrauch and Umar Sheraz, which targeted the South Asian and African think tanks.

View the Study on How think tanks communicate with diverse audiences (Spanish only)

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