New Working Paper from Olly Owen and Sa'eed Husaini
This latest Working Paper from TPP Principal Olly Owen and Associate Sa'eed Husaini looks at Nigeria’s forest policy and how it is shifting from donor-driven agendas to a growing domestic conservation movement. While the sector suffers from resource shortages, it benefits from committed professionals. Decentralized governance creates varied state-level policies, ranging from conservation to active deforestation. Challenges like attention and capacity deficits are easier to address than entrenched interests in other sectors. Effective solutions require collaboration across global, national, and local scales to balance environmental protection with socio-economic priorities, signaling opportunities for transformative change.
Governance in a new development paradigm: Reformer leadership and partnership humility
This Working Paper, written by TPP Principal Wilfred Mwamba, calls for a major shift in how international actors support governance. It shows reforms only endure when domestic reformers lead, urging partners to drop “performance theatre” and back genuine, locally led, politically grounded change.
Reducing violence against defenders of the Amazon: a political economy approach
This Working Paper by TPP Principal Niki Palmer explores why environmental defenders in Brazil’s Amazon face persistent violence. It shows how powerful economic interests and competing ideas about the Amazon fuel conflict and impunity. It outlines three realistic pathways to strengthen protections, shift incentives toward conservation and reduce violence.
New guidance on context analysis
In collaboration with the Thinking and Working Politically Community of Practice, and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, TPP Director Laure-Hélène Piron has prepared a guidance note setting out options for context analysis (political economy analysis, conflict analysis, institutional reviews, etc). It provides advice to make sure the analysis is politically informed and influential with decision makers.