The Policy Practice supports the UK government-funded Partnership for Agile Governance & Climate Engagement programme in Nigeria with independent research, evidence and learning.
Olly Owen is leading a TPP team working on the Strengthening Peace and Resilience in Nigeria (SPRiNG) programme. This is a four-year programme funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and managed by Tetra Tech International Development.
SPRiNG supports a more stable and peaceful Nigeria, so that citizens benefits from reduced violence and increased resilience to climate change. Working with Nigerian stakeholders, SPRiNG aims to:
Nigeria’s forest policy is shifting from donor-driven agendas to a growing domestic conservation movement led by scientists, urban advocates, faith groups, and rural communities facing environmental degradation. While the sector suffers from resource shortages, it benefits from committed professionals. Decentralized governance creates varied state-level policies, ranging from conservation to active deforestation. Challenges like attention and capacity deficits are easier to address than entrenched interests in other sectors.
As part of the UK Partnership for Accelerated Climate Transitions programme (UK PACT), TPP Principal Olly Owen and TPP Associate Ochuko Obido are leading a scoping study on nature in Nigeria.
This study was commissioned by the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) and led by TPP Principal Olly Owen working with TPP Associates Suwaiba Ahmad and Sa'eed Hussaini, as well as Prof Akkani Akinyemi.
The overall objective was to support CIFF’s sexual reproduction and health rights work around the future direction of their funding linked to data and advocacy in Nigeria.
Sam Gibson, TPP Associate, and Laure-Hélène Piron, TPP Director, tested and finalised a toolkit on women's political empowerment for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD).
The quality of debt management in Nigeria has been transformed over the fifteen years under review, from a situation where debt was out of control and there was no debt management to speak of, to one where debt management is professional, the country has a reasonably well-functioning domestic government bond market, its bonds are included in major bond indexes of emerging markets, and the yield on its bonds in the Eurobond market is lower than that of a number of developed countries.
The Policy Practice is collaborating with Propcom+, a seven year Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office-funded project and delivered by The Palladium Group. This aim is to promote market systems development for climate-smart agriculture in Nigeria.
The Policy Practice was commissioned by the World Bank to support the preparation of a Program for Results (P4R) operation in Nigeria promoting state fiscal transparency, accountability and sustainability. The Policy Practice analysed how the political economy of Nigerian states affected the prospects for financial management reforms targeted by the proposed operation. The analysis informed the design of the P4R operation, in particular the selection of the Disbursement Linked Indicators that determined financial allocations to states.
The team, led by Gareth Williams and Olly Owen, completed a political economy analysis on the demographic transition in Nigeria. Based on detailed fieldwork in 11 locations, the study addresses the question of what are the political, economic and socio-cultural factors influencing population policy and outcomes. It identified six potential pathways of change towards a more rapid demographic transition and makes recommendations on how development partners can support these pathways.