
TPP Associate appointed Education Minister in Nigeria
We are delighted to announce that our longstanding Associate Dr Suwaiba Ahmad who has been appointed by Nigeria's President as the new Federal Minister of State Education.
Suwaiba has been working in the field of education for nearly two decades. She is a gender advocate and the Director of Bayero University's Centre for Gender Studies in Kano, Northern Nigeria, where she was recently promoted to Professor. Her consultancy portfolio centres on governance and development, in the areas of political economy and institutional analysis, policy planning, development and strategy, capacity building and training.
Suwaiba has been working with TPP to provide advice to the UK's Partnership for Learning for All in Nigeria education programme. She also contributed to TPP's flagship report on 20 years of UK governance programming in Nigeria, in particular the case study of Jigawa state, where she was born.
We wish her all possible success. From our experience of working closely with her, we know that she will bring a combination of hard work, personal integrity, passion for education and political realism to her new role.
Latest News from The Policy Practice - February 2025
In this month’s newsletter we discuss:
🔹The launch of the next Political Economy Analysis for Climate Action training course starting in May
🔹 Issues-Based Programming (IBP): A fresh look at mobilising stakeholders for change, with insights from TPP Director Gareth Williams.
🔹 New Work in the Francophone Sahel: Addressing governance, conflict, and development challenges in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Senegal.
🔹 Political Economy of Disaster Management & Climate Adaptation: A new collaboration with UNDP to assess governance and institutional responses to climate disasters.
Launch of our next Political Economy Analysis for Climate Action training course
Our Political Economy Analysis for Climate Action training course is an interactive 8-session online course (two sessions per week) running from 19 May - 19 June 2025. It focuses on how political economy analysis can maximise the effectiveness of action on climate change. See our flyer to register.
Policy and Practice Brief 18 - Nine lessons from Issue-based programming
This Policy and Practice brief from TPP Director Gareth Williams discusses Issues-Based Programming (IBP), a development approach which mobilises stakeholders to drive change around locally defined issues. This paper examines its application in several countries through case studies of UK-funded projects and assesses IBP's effectiveness, highlighting successes and failures.