The Kenya Tax Administration Project supports the Kenya Revenue Authority to deliver its 9th Corporate Plan and Medium-Term Revenue Strategy through organisational reform, digital transformation, improved micro, small and medium enterprises' taxation, and enhanced data and analytics systems.
TPP Directors Neil McCulloch and Laure-Hélène Piron are evaluating ENERGIA, an international network championing women as change agents in the energy transition.
The evaluation has (i) accountability and (ii) learning&strategy development objectives. TPP will assess the performance of ENERGIA Phase 7, in line with its commitments to Sida, against ENERGIA's 4 outcome areas:
New TPP Associate Wilf Mwamba has facilitated a political economy analysis process for the British High Commission in Kenya. This will help the High Commission base its interventions on regularly updated information.
As part of the project, Wilf tested different stakeholders' analysis and network mapping approaches which can be used in participatory processes, and which can be used for regular updates.
TPP Director Laure-Hélène Piron and TPP Assocate Nisar Majid are facilitating a political economy analysis (PEA) process for the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) regional Horn of Africa programme.
TPP Directors Laure-Hélène Piron and Neil McCulloch delivered an in-person training for the Kulmis Support Team, a third party monitoring project advising the Swiss Development Cooperation Horn of Africa programme.
TPP’s work with WRI started with an organisation-wide baseline assessment of Political Economy Analysis and Thinking and Working Politically and focused on PEA knowledge, application of PEA and barriers and opportunities of using PEA and TWP throughout the global WRI offices. This useful assessment helped inform the development and delivery of a three-day training course in Nairobi 2022 for the WRI India and WRI Africa teams, using bespoke case studies directly relevant to the clients’ work.
Sam Bickersteth and Neil McCulloch undertook a scoping study for the Climate Compatible Growth programme. It identified three counties in Kenya and rural areas in Zambia where there is both potential and demand for off-grid energy solutions, taking account of other current projects, local government capability and investment options.
The Policy Practice has been assisting the World Bank Governance Practice pilot clinics and a training course to support the roll-out of its new GovEnable approach since January 2023.
The Policy Practice facilitated a political economy analysis process for the Swiss Development Corporation (SDC) in the Horn of Africa (HoA), focused particularly on Somalia, southern/south-eastern Ethiopia, the arid and semi-arid lowlands of north-eastern Kenya and Djibouti. Simon Brook, TPP Principal and team leader, managed a complex process involving SDC teams in Kenya and Ethiopia, as well as TPP regional, sector and political economy experts.