Our Response to Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic is affecting all our families, businesses, communities and ways of life. First and foremost, our hearts go out to anyone who's been impacted by the virus, either directly or indirectly. The Policy Practice is working hard with our clients to ensure we can deliver, by turning to desk-based research and using our online communication tools. Our April online course is still open to new applications and we will run more courses to meet demand. We are still here to support you, so do stay in touch.
Policy and Practice Brief 21: Pathways of Change
Our new Policy and Practice Brief by TPP Directors Gareth Williams and Neil McCulloch sets out the Pathways of Change framework, a practical link between political economy analysis and action. Using examples from Ghana and Thailand, it shows how external partners can support change driven by domestic actors, based on a realistic analysis of how change might happen.
Can we still achieve peace?
On the day US troops formally withdrew from Iraq, TPP Principal Niki Palmer asks if we can still achieve peace and suggests how to improve peacebuilding interventions.
Podcast: Subsidies and Social Protection - Reforms for a Sustainable Transition
Why are subsidies so difficult to reform, even when more effective alternatives exist? In this podcast by Socialprotection.org, TPP Director Neil McCulloch examines the political, institutional and economic challenges that have made subsidy reform one of the most complex issues in social policy.