This latest course will equip advisers and programme managers with the tools and the confidence to undertake a political economy analysis, and to apply it to policy and programmes in a wide range of contexts. It will cover ten sessions over a seventeen-week period, requiring about 3-4 hours of study per week (with a mix of self-study, group work and webinars, supported by an inter-active platform).

Please email training@thepolicypractice.com for more information or see the flyer attached.

The SOAS-University of London Anti-Corruption Evidence Research Programme, together with The Policy Practice, has published a new report entitled: From dysfunctional to functional corruption: the politics of reform in Lebanon’s electricity sector. The study explores how it has been possible to establish Electricité de Zahlé’s functional, but problematic, electricity service provision within the complex sectarian political context of Lebanon.

The UK’s engagements in Nigeria are a showcase for the gradual integration of a thinking and working politically (TWP) approach into development practice. This new Working Paper from the Policy Practice provides an overview of these nearly two decades of TWP mainstreaming - both successes and failures.

New Policy Practice Policy Brief - The Political Economy of Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness in Africa. Using a political economy perspective the policy brief asks why the health security agenda has been neglected in Sub-Saharan Africa and what can be done. 

The blast in Beirut has exposed Lebanon’s corrupt energy sector and therefore should be the starting point for a wholesale reform of a crippled political system to rebuild trust and ease rising public agitation. This blog explore it further.

The Policy Practice’s Olly Owen and Laure-Hélène Piron convened a free session for early-career and global south researchers on ‘demystifying writing for policy audiences’ at the online Development Studies Association conference 2020

Listen to Sarah Vaughan, Policy Practice principal and expert on Ethiopia, sharing insights into the background of Dr Tedros, WHO Director General. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jfpf

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