TPP Associate appointed Education Minister in Nigeria
We are delighted to announce that our longstanding Associate Dr Suwaiba Ahmad who has been appointed by Nigeria's President as the new Federal Minister of State Education.
Suwaiba has been working in the field of education for nearly two decades. She is a gender advocate and the Director of Bayero University's Centre for Gender Studies in Kano, Northern Nigeria, where she was recently promoted to Professor. Her consultancy portfolio centres on governance and development, in the areas of political economy and institutional analysis, policy planning, development and strategy, capacity building and training.
Suwaiba has been working with TPP to provide advice to the UK's Partnership for Learning for All in Nigeria education programme. She also contributed to TPP's flagship report on 20 years of UK governance programming in Nigeria, in particular the case study of Jigawa state, where she was born.
We wish her all possible success. From our experience of working closely with her, we know that she will bring a combination of hard work, personal integrity, passion for education and political realism to her new role.
Policy and Practice Brief 21: Pathways of Change
Our new Policy and Practice Brief by TPP Directors Gareth Williams and Neil McCulloch sets out the Pathways of Change framework, a practical link between political economy analysis and action. Using examples from Ghana and Thailand, it shows how external partners can support change driven by domestic actors, based on a realistic analysis of how change might happen.
Can we still achieve peace?
On the day US troops formally withdrew from Iraq, TPP Principal Niki Palmer asks if we can still achieve peace and suggests how to improve peacebuilding interventions.
Podcast: Subsidies and Social Protection - Reforms for a Sustainable Transition
Why are subsidies so difficult to reform, even when more effective alternatives exist? In this podcast by Socialprotection.org, TPP Director Neil McCulloch examines the political, institutional and economic challenges that have made subsidy reform one of the most complex issues in social policy.