Laure-Hélène Piron, TPP Director, is undertaking a study for the OECD DAC Governance Network on donor assistance to public interest media, and the integrity of information ecosystems. It will contribute to formulate updated operational guidelines and interventions strategies for international assistance. 

The full report can be read here.

TPP’s work with SECO resulted in the design and delivery of a 2.5 day training course for programme managers in Bern. The course provided many opportunities for interactive exchange, used concrete examples from SECO’s work and had a particular focus on Adaptive Management and embedding PEA approaches in SECO’s work.

TPP Director, Dr. Neil McCulloch, and TPP Associate, Dr. Mashekwa Maboshe, undertook a study of the political economy of fuel supply in Zambia for the Ministry of Energy and the Energy Regulatory Board. 

Democracy and human rights have been under increased pressure globally. The Varieties of Democracy Institute’s latest report has found that advances in democracy over the last 35 years have been wiped out, and that 72% of the world’s population live in autocracies in 2022. In this challenging context, international development agencies have been adjusting how they support democracy and rights objectives. This webinar aimed to flip the global conversation.

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TPP designed and delivered a tailored two-day training course for the Development Policy and Finance team at BMGF to explore how PEA and TWP can help strengthen BMGF’s work in countries around the globe. The course helped participants identify challenges arising from the political economy features of the contexts in which they work and to draw well-grounded conclusions for policy, strategy, programme design and implementation.

TPP Director Neil McCulloch, and Principals Sam Bickersteth and Samantha Wade delivered a two-day training course for the Climate Compatible Growth programme researchers to gain a better understanding of political economy analysis.

Laure-Hélène Piron delivered an introductory training for the British Embassy in Brasilia based on the new FCDO Understanding political economy analysis and thinking and working politically guidance which she co-authored.

The Policy Practice has been assisting the World Bank Governance Practice pilot a training course and design clinics to support the roll-out of its new GovEnable approach since January 2023.  

Between January 2023 and the end of March 2023, TPP Director Neil McCulloch and TPP Principal Sam Bickersteth worked on a series of three rapid, Political Economy Analyses of the energy transition for the FCDO-funded Climate Compatible Growth programme in Ghana, Zambia and Vietnam.