During the inception phase of the Resilience, Adaptation and Inclusion in Nepal programme, The Policy Practice supported its Technical Assistance and Strategic Learning Unit by delivering key inputs on Political Economy Analysis (PEA) and Thinking and Working Politically. This aligned with the British Embassy Kathmandu’s adaptive management approach and emphasis on co-creation.

Andrew Barnett has been contracted to be a member of the Technical Advisory Group of this five-year research programme on energy and gender. The TAG provides advice to the managing organization about the quality, feasibility and context of research across five themes, including the political economy of subsidy reform, and energy access in Odisha, India.

This is a comparative study donor of approaches to risk management in fragile and conflict affected states. The findings are based on evidence from four case study countries: Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Somalia and Nepal (and additional examples drawn from Myanmar, Afghanistan and Haiti). The study was commissioned by the OECD INCAF Task Team on Finance and Aid, who identified a need to complement ongoing policy level work on risk management with evidence from the field on how donors manage risk in practice.