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.
The politics of electric vehicles in Indonesia - latest blog from TPP Director Neil McCulloch
Photo credit: ANTARA / Mudaffar Fauzan
On Sunday 20 October, Prabowo Subianto was inaugurated as the President of Indonesia. This blog explores the implications for the drive for electric vehicles (EV). Indonesia has made bold strides in developing an EV value chain. But the sector now faces major constraints including: reputational damage due to the environmental harm of mining and processing; challenges in accessing major Western markets; fiscal constraints and competing priorities under the new government; and the active promotion of a different model by manufacturers. The blog suggests ways in which external partners could work with Indonesia to support the resolution of these issues.
Latest Political Economy Analysis in Action online training course launched
We are pleased to announce the launch of our next Political Economy Analysis in Action online training course, starting 3 February and running until 5 June 2025.
The course is designed to equip participants to identify the challenges arising from political economy features of the contexts in which they work, and to draw well-grounded conclusions for policy, strategy, or programme design and implementation.
If you or your colleagues are interested in participating in this course or a tailored one in the future, please see our course flyer or email training@thepolicypractice.com for further details.
New Sudan political economy case study out now
This paper examines the impact of Political Economy Analysis (PEA) training in Sudan, focusing on the Kullana Liltanmia Contextual Analysis course. It underscores three key lessons: the importance of deepening understanding of complex, unstable environments like Sudan for informed decision-making; the underutilised potential of PEA in supporting individuals and key political actors; and the need for adaptive, participant-driven PEA training, especially in fragile, conflict-affected settings, requiring creativity and courage from all involved.