New Working Paper from Olly Owen and Sa'eed Husaini
This latest Working Paper from TPP Principal Olly Owen and Associate Sa'eed Husaini looks at Nigeria’s forest policy and how it is shifting from donor-driven agendas to a growing domestic conservation movement. While the sector suffers from resource shortages, it benefits from committed professionals. Decentralized governance creates varied state-level policies, ranging from conservation to active deforestation. Challenges like attention and capacity deficits are easier to address than entrenched interests in other sectors. Effective solutions require collaboration across global, national, and local scales to balance environmental protection with socio-economic priorities, signaling opportunities for transformative change.
Two decades of Thinking and Working Politically in Nigeria
This blog sets out how our team of Nigeria experts helps development partners navigate Nigeria's political economy, from shaping programme design to providing just-in-time analysis during implementation. Read about our work across governance, education, climate, agriculture and conflict, and why our grounded, advisory approach matters more than ever as development budgets tighten.
New guidance on stakeholder analysis and network mapping
In collaboration with the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and the Thinking and Working Politically Community of Practice, TPP Director Laure-Hélène Piron and TPP Principal Wilfred Mwamba have prepared a guidance note on how to undertake a dynamic stakeholder analysis and political network mapping, both of which can be used to support international cooperation and development partnerships.
Why energy security starts in the kitchen
With global energy markets reeling from geopolitical chaos, Indonesia’s USD 4.7 billion liquid petroleum gas subsidy is no longer just a fiscal burden but a severe economic vulnerability. In this blog (which was published as an Op-Ed for Jakarta Post), TPP Director Neil McCulloch argues that the government must finally grasp the nettle of subsidy reform.