TPP Director Gareth Williams is developing an analytical framework covering the political economy dimensions of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. It will improve the understanding of how contextual factors affect a country’s capacity to formulate and implement effective policies in these areas.

TPP Director Laure-Hélène Piron is preparing training modules on adaptive management and thinking and working politically for a new course on Accountable and Inclusive Politics for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

This project, led by TPP Associate Theodore Trefon, provided USAID's Local Health System Sustainability Project with strategic recommendations to enhance the management of human resources for health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Policy Practice Principals Sam Bickersteth and Niki Palmer supported Mott MacDonald during the inception of the Resilience, Adaptation and Inclusion in Nepal programme, funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. They delivered political economy analysis, training, and strategy inputs. 

TPP Director Neil McCulloch and Associate Mashekwa Maboshe are examining how Zambia's petroleum needs might be incorporated into the country’s Integrated Resource Plan for energy in a way that is consistent with the country’s needs as well as its climate commitments.

Laure-Hélène Piron, TPP Director, is collaborating with political scientist Cheickna Yaranangoré to undertake a context analysis of Burkina Faso to inform the 2026-2031 country plan of the Swiss cooperation agency. 

Laure-Hélène Piron, TPP Director, and Babacar Ndiaye, from the West African Think Tank WATHI, are undertaking a political economy analysis of democratic resilience in Senegal for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

TPP Director Neil McCulloch and Associate Sarah Logan have been working with the International Growth Centre’s State Fragility initiative to support the Executive Bureau for the Acceleration of Aid Absorption and Support for Policy Reforms in Yemen, exploring alternative models for electricity provision.

As part of the UK Partnership for Accelerated Climate Transitions programme, TPP Principal Olly Owen and Ochuko Obido are leading a scoping study on nature in Nigeria to prepare a list of projects that the programme could invest in.