Laure-Hélène Piron is the Team Leader of the Sahel Technical Support Project for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. The project provides actionable political economy analysis and flexible, demand-led technical assistance to enable adaptive, context-sensitive reforms in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.

TPP associate Steve Fraser is providing political economy expertise to the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Land Facility. Supporting the Strengthening Peace and Resilience in Nigeria programme, Steve is analysing why Kaduna State struggles to implement responsible agricultural investment frameworks, and what it would take to activate them.

TPP Director Neil McCulloch is leading a three-country political economy assessment of carbon pricing in Indonesia, the Philippines and Viet Nam for the International Institute for Sustainable Development, under the Emissions Ambition for Sustainable Economies initiative funded by Global Affairs Canada. Interviews, focus groups and in-country contextual clinics assess the political feasibility of carbon pricing options and what they mean for a just transition.

TPP  is conducting participatory political economy analyses of the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) locally led conservation work in Tanzania, Papua New Guinea and Tunisia, collaborating with locally embedded specialists. Findings will inform the initiative's second phase through a cross-country synthesis, public learning resource and dissemination webinar.

TPP Director Laure-Hélène Piron and TPP Associate Tobe Nneli are undertaking research on Nigeria's migration management system for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. 

TPP Director Neil McCulloch led a political economy analysis in Indonesia for Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade together with national experts. The study examined two contentious energy issues: reforming Indonesia's costly fossil fuel subsidies, and accelerating the shift from diesel to renewable power across remote communities.

TPP Director Neil McCulloch and Tim Kelsall (ODI) with TPP Principal Samantha Wade are delivering a six-session online political economy analysis workshop to staff from the International Institute for Sustainable Development.

Anna Paterson is leading an independent evaluation of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation’s support to the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, using Uganda as a country case study. The Institute undertakes applied research and innovation in water and sanitation (WASH) and waste management, including strengthening evidence-based WASH interventions in crisis settings.

The Policy Practice delivered an online political economy analysis training for UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office staff working towards accreditation in the Climate and Nature Diplomacy competency cluster.