The Policy Practice applies a political economy lens to understand how power is distributed and used across politics, economics and society. We examine how governments, central administrations, local authorities, politicians, civil society organisations or economic actors operate and how they could be incentivised to reform and better serve their communities.
Our governance, conflict and fragility expertise covers:
- politics, accountability and civil society
- institutional development
- public sector reform
- public financial management
- governance of service delivery
- security, justice and human rights
- conflict and stability analysis
- state-building and peace-building
We have a particular track record in fragile and conflict-affected countries where politically-informed approaches are essential, for example across the Horn of Africa.
TPP Director Gareth Williams led a team to help the British Embassy in Bishkek to update its country strategy.
Led by TPP Principal Ben French, this project supports the British High Commission in Pakistan to embed politically informed, adaptive approaches across policy and programming. Working with the growth, climate and human capital teams, it strengthens strategic thinking, portfolio coherence and learning to improve the UK’s development impact.
The Policy Practice has been assisting the World Bank Governance Practice pilot a training course and design clinics to support the roll-out of its new GovEnable approach since January 2023.