A new policy brief by Andrew Barnett and Neil McCulloch Download here.

Alex Duncan, one of the Policy Practice Directors who founded the Company 15 years ago, is today stepping down as a Director.

This is the second blog post on what Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) can learn from market systems by David Jabobstein, from USAID's Democracy, Rights and Governance Policy, Learning and Integration Office. It explores what success means in market systems approaches, contrasts it with DRG approaches, and considers implications for DRG programming of borrowing more from this idea of success.

This is the first blog post on what Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) can learn from market systems by David Jabobstein. It reflect ways that the Thinking and Working Politically community can learn from practices used in market systems facilitation, highlighting interesting ideas around more rigorous market segmentation and a market system idea of success as a system that is itself evolving.

This is the final of four posts reflecting on the linkages between gender awareness and politically sensitive approaches to programming. It reflects on recent experience within USAID, and considers the path forward, including tools to more effectively merge considerations around gender and inclusion. 

This is the third of four posts reflecting on the linkages between gender awareness and politically sensitive approaches to programming known as Thinking and Working Politically (TWP). It reflects on the linkages between gender awareness and these politically sensitive approaches to programming,

This is the second of four posts reflecting on the linkages between gender awareness and politically sensitive approaches to programming known as Thinking and Working Politically. It addresses the integral nature of gender and inclusion to any effort to think and work politically.

This blog provides an introduction to a series of blogs on integrating gender and inclusion in USAID's thinking and working politically programming. It is accompanied by three other blogs, also on The Policy Practice's blog page. 

This is a review of literature to illustrate how issues of energy access and power sector reform have been addressed in the political economy literature and to identify lessons on how to reach energy access goals more effectively.