Online library of USAID political economy documents
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) invested significantly in developing approaches, guidelines and tools to enable teams to work in ways that were more attuned to local realities (also known as "thinking and working politically", TWP). We have created this additional section of The Policy Practice online library to make accessible the most helpful USAID materials we have collected over the years. These documents and blogs used to be open access but are sadly no longer available since USAID was abolished.
If you have other documents you think should be added here, please email us at contact@thepolicypractice.com.
Policy and Practice Brief 21: Pathways of Change
Our new Policy and Practice Brief by TPP Directors Gareth Williams and Neil McCulloch sets out the Pathways of Change framework, a practical link between political economy analysis and action. Using examples from Ghana and Thailand, it shows how external partners can support change driven by domestic actors, based on a realistic analysis of how change might happen.
Can we still achieve peace?
On the day US troops formally withdrew from Iraq, TPP Principal Niki Palmer asks if we can still achieve peace and suggests how to improve peacebuilding interventions.
Podcast: Subsidies and Social Protection - Reforms for a Sustainable Transition
Why are subsidies so difficult to reform, even when more effective alternatives exist? In this podcast by Socialprotection.org, TPP Director Neil McCulloch examines the political, institutional and economic challenges that have made subsidy reform one of the most complex issues in social policy.