TPP Director Laure-Hélène Piron provided advice on democratic resilience and peer reviewed the design of a new Australian programme of support to Indonesia. 

The Policy Practice will deliver a online Political Economy Analysis workshop for Research Ireland’s Sustainable Development Goals Challenge teams. Led by TPP Director Neil McCulloch and TPP Principal Samantha Wade, the interactive training will equip up to 24 researchers with tools to design politically smart research interventions to tackle hunger.

TPP Principal Wilfred Mwamba is supporting the British Embassy Manila to analyse post-election shifts in political alliances and power dynamics in the Philippines. The team will map key networks, assess influence and reform prospects, and co-develop an updated political analysis and engagement strategy to help advance UK priorities in the Philippines.

TPP Directors Neil McCulloch and Laure-Hélène Piron are evaluating ENERGIA, an international network championing women as change agents in the energy transition, with case studies in Kenya and Senegal, and a political economy review of ENERGIA's policy influencing. 

TPP Principal Niki Palmer and senior Ethiopian researcher Berhanu Lakew Guadie are undertaking a political economy analysis of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme. The study will inform donors in designing a politically grounded and effective sixth phase of the programme to better address food insecurity in Ethiopia.

The Policy Practice conducted a Political Economy Analysis to support the Embassy of Ireland’s new Mission Strategy in Ethiopia. The study examined governance, socio-economic dynamics, conflict, and regional linkages. It identified key trends and drivers of change to inform Ireland’s strategic and programming decisions in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa.

TPP Director Laure-Hélène Piron and TPP Principal Ben French are delivering an in-person training course for the British Embassy in Kosovo, covering political economy analysis as well well as strategies for policy influencing. 

New TPP Associate Wilf Mwamba has facilitated a participatory political economy analysis process for the British High Commission in Kenya. He developed stakeholder analysis and network mapping tools which can be easily updated. 

TPP Director Laure-Hélène Piron and TPP Assocate Nisar Majid are facilitating a political economy analysis process for the Swiss Development Cooperation regional Horn of Africa programme through a series of online workshops complemented by desk and field research.