The Thinking and Working Politically Community of Practice has commissioned TPP Director Laure-Hélène Piron to prepare two guidance documents. The first note provides advice on selecting the most appropriate analytical framework for a politically informed context analysis. The second note sets out the steps to undertake and use stakeholder analysis and network mapping.

Olly Owen, TPP Principal, is leading a TPP team working on the UK funded Strengthening Peace and Resilience in Nigeria (SPRiNG) programme. TPP undertakes or quality assures regular political economy and conflict analyses to update the programme's knowledge of the dynamic context in which operates.

TPP Director Laure-Hélène Piron continues her collaboration with the Swiss Development Cooperation office in Burundi by conducting a political economy analysis of the potential for forensic medicine and scientific policing. The new Swiss programme could contribute to reducing impunity and improve responses to gender-based violence.

Samantha Wade (TPP Principal) and Neil McCulloch (TPP Director) are working with The Elders staff to deliver three bespoke workshops and ongoing mentoring between August and October 2024. The aim is to develop a flexible, light-touch set of Political Economy Analysis guiding questions and to create space to discuss embedding politically-smart ways of thinking and working with the team.

The Policy Practice supports FCDO’s PACE programme in Nigeria by providing political economy analysis, strategic advice, and MERL expertise to strengthen whole-of-society coalitions tackling governance, climate, and growth challenges. Led by Gareth Williams, the team includes Steve Fraser, Olly Owen, Sunny Kulutuye, and Wilf Mwamba.

Led by TPP Principal Olly Owen together with TPP Associates Suwaiba Ahmad and Sa'eed Hussaini, the project provided advice to the Children's Investment Fund Foundation's sexual reproduction and health rights team’s around the future direction of their funding linked to data and advocacy in Nigeria.

TPP Director Neil McCulloch worked with the international climate change think tank E3G and the Indonesian think thank the Institute for Essential Services Reform to explore the political economy of the electric vehicle sector in Indonesia.

This political economy analysis focuses on the industrial and artisanal timber sectors in Central Africa. It was undertaken by TPP Principal Olly Owen and new TPP Associate Theodore Trefon, together with a local team.

Andrii Biletskyi (TPP Associate) and Laure-Hélène Piron (TPP Director) are assessing the current state of judicial reforms in Ukraine in order to advise the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.