TPP Director Laure-Hélène Piron continues her collaboration with the Swiss Development Cooperation office in Burundi by conducting a political economy analysis of the forensic medicine sector. The new Swiss programme could contribute to improved responses to gender-based and domestic violence.

Samantha Wade (TPP Principal) and Neil McCulloch (TPP Director) are working with The Elders staff to deliver three bespoke workshops and ongoing mentoring between August and October 2024. The aim is to develop a flexible, light-touch set of Political Economy Analysis guiding questions and to create space to discuss embedding politically-smart ways of thinking and working with the team.

Led by TPP Principal Olly Owen, the project provides advice to the Children's Investment Fund Foundation's sexual reproduction and health rights team’s around the future direction of their funding linked to data and advocacy in Nigeria.

This political economy analysis focuses on the industrial and artisanal timber sectors in Central Africa. It was undertaken by TPP Principal Olly Owen and new TPP Associate Theodore Trefon, as well as a local team.

TPP Director Neil McCulloch worked with the international climate change think tank E3G and the Indonesian think thank the Institute for Essential Services Reform to explore the political economy of the electric vehicle sector in Indonesia.

Andrii Biletskyi (TPP Associate) and Laure-Hélène Piron (TPP Director) are assessing the current state of judicial reforms in Ukraine in order to advise the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Laure-Hélène Piron (TPP Director) is helping the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation review their approach to decentralisation and local governance in Mali.

This bespoke workshop, run by TPP Director Neil McCulloch and Alex Duncan, was designed for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) staff to gain a better understanding of Political Economy Analysis and how it might help them to identify the challenges arising from political economy features of the contexts in which they work.

Gareth Williams (TPP Director) led a political economy analysis of the coffee sector in Burundi for Swiss Development Cooperation as part of the preparation of its new public-private partnership with coffee trading companies.