Laure-Hélène Piron, TPP Director, is collaborating with political scientist Cheickna Yaranangoré to undertake a context analysis of Burkina Faso to inform the 2026-2031 country plan of the Swiss cooperation agency. 

Laure-Hélène Piron, TPP Director, and Babacar Ndiaye, from the West African Think Tank WATHI, are undertaking a political economy analysis of democratic resilience in Senegal for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

As part of the UK Partnership for Accelerated Climate Transitions programme, TPP Principal Olly Owen and Ochuko Obido are leading a scoping study on nature in Nigeria to prepare a list of projects that the programme could invest in.

TPP Director Laure-Hélène Piron continues her collaboration with the Swiss Development Cooperation office in Burundi by conducting a political economy analysis of the potential for forensic medicine and scientific policing. The new Swiss programme could contribute to reducing impunity and improve responses to gender-based 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 together with TPP Associates Suwaiba Ahmad and Sa'eed Hussaini, the project provided 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, together with 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.