Policy Practice Projects
We support positive change across low- and middle-income countries. We undertake political economy analysis, strategic and policy work, and operational research. We lead programme designs, reviews, and evaluations. We advise programmes and organisations how to ‘think and work politically’.
We also run a flagship training course on political economy analysis.
Afghanistan
Albania
Bangladesh
Benin
Bolivia
Brazil
Cameroon
Chad
Chile
Colombia
Ethiopia
Ghana
Guyana
Haiti
India
Indonesia
Kenya
Kyrgyzstan
Malawi
Malaysia
Mali
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Nepal
Nigeria
Pakistan
Philippines
Rwanda
Serbia
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Tanzania
Timor-Leste
Tunisia
Uganda
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Lebanon
Australia
Ukraine
Turkey
Peru
Switzerland
Niger
Saint Helena
Sri Lanka
Burundi
Libya
Turkmenistan
Palestine
Gareth Williams, TPP Director, facilitated a political economy analyses for the Support to the Jogorku Kenesh (parliament) project in Kyrgyzstan managed by Palladium.
The Policy Practice evaluated a project supporting a network of political parties across Southern Africa.
The Policy Practice designed and delivered two tailored online courses to meet the needs of Chemonics headquarter staff on applied political economy analysis and thinking & working politically.
The Policy Practice led a one year research project on anti-corruption innovations in the electricity sector in Lebanon as part of the SOAS Anti-Corruption Evidence research programme.
Listen to our podcast, Risk Reduction as Anti-Corruption To Power Up The Electricity Sector, co-written by Neil McCulloch and Muzna Al-Masri, and read our blog on the link between the 2020 Beirut explosion, corruption and electricity sector reforms.
The Policy Practice delivered a political economy analysis for the inception phase of the Lebanon Economic Reform and Infrastructure Investment, a UK-funded programme to contribute to the Government of Lebanon’s vision of growth and prosperity, economic opportunities and social cohesion for Lebanese citizens.
This political economy analysis, led by TPP Principal Olly Owen with TPP Associate Sa'eed Husaini, looked at the drivers of policy and factors affecting implementation around climate and environment issues in Nigeria.
The team, led by Gareth Williams, TPP Director, and lead researcher Theodore Trefon, undertook a political economy analysis (PEA) as part of the on-going Demographic Diagnostics Commission. The PEA built on DFID’s understanding of historical legacies, political interests and DFID’s room for manoeuvre in the contexts in which DFID is working.
While in Timor-Leste, Laure-Hélène Piron provided assistance to The Asia Foundation's Tourism Team to develop their own capacity to ‘think and work politically’. She facilitated a participative process for the team to undertake a political economy analysis of tourism opportunities at the international, national and local levels, and to adopt an adaptive management approach.
Laure-Hélène Piron, Policy Practice Director, is leading a scoping study for the British Embassy in Morocco of the criminal justice system. The project will analyse how Moroccans access justice, weak points in the criminal justice chain, and the incentives that are promoting or blocking reform.