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As
#COP30
draws attention to
#IndigenousPeoples
& Amazon stewardship, violence against environmental defenders remains urgent. This paper shows how competing ideas of the Amazon combined with political and eco interestsâshape conflict & impunity.
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Reducing violence against defenders of the Amazon: a political economy approach
Written by TPP Associate Niki Palmer, this Working Paper explores why environmental defenders in Brazilâs Amazon face persistent violence. It shows how powerful economic interests and competing ideas ...
https://www.thepolicypractice.com/reducing-violence-against-defenders-amazon-political-economy-approach-0
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This paper from
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provides guidance on choosing analytical frameworks and approaches that are appropriate for understanding the contexts in which development partners and other international actors operate.
www.thepolicypractice.com/understandin...
#contextanalysis
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Understanding Options for Politically Informed Context Analysis - Piron (2025)
This guidance note, by TPP Director Laure-HÊlène Piron, sets out options for context analysis (political economy analysis, conflict analysis, institutional reviews, etc). It provides advice to make su...
https://www.thepolicypractice.com/understanding-options-politically-informed-context-analysis-piron-2025
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Aid is broken. This blog argues for a new model: ditch buying results, start backing locally-led transformation. Itâs cheaper, smarter, and rooted in political realities. A timely rethink for a shrinking aid world. đ Read:
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A New Paradigm for Aid: from buying results to supporting transformation - Activism Influence and Change
Neil McCulloch argues that the search for coalitions of change makers should underpin a refreshed aid and development sector. Since the deliberate and malicious destruction of USAID in early 2025, and...
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/activism-influence-change/2025/06/09/a-new-paradigm-for-aid-from-buying-results-to-supporting-transformation/
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đ Want to understand the forces shaping development outcomes? Our Political Economy Analysis in Action course is back in September â 12-week online training course that unpacks the political dynamics behind policy and reform. ⥠Early bird rate ends 13 June
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African Cities Research Consortium
7 months ago
Building on a recent report by Gareth Williams, director of
@thepolicypractice.bsky.social
, Diana notes that many of the building blocks of issue-based programming are well aligned to ACRC's approach â including the need for aid-financed interventions to be low cost, well-designed and locally led.
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Laure-HÊlène Piron
7 months ago
A great example of how ignoring politics affects your understanding of the economy⌠as applied to Yemen
@twpcommunity.org
@neilmcculloch.bsky.social
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Laure-HÊlène Piron
6 months ago
For
#governance
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#development
professionals: a short note from FCDO governance guru Alan Whaites on how to provide âsmartâ technical assistance
@duncangreenlse.bsky.social
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@twpcommunity.org
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Understanding and using smart technical assistance
This technical note is for people working in international co-operation including supporting the capacity-building aims of counterparts.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/understanding-and-using-smart-technical-assistance
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The Policy Practice Newsletter is now out đ New paper on Yemen's Economy by Richard Barltrop đ USAID publications on governance now in our library đ Report on Climate & Institutions by Verena Fritz & Rachel Ort đ Applications open for Sept 24 Political Economy course
mailchi.mp/0d0598fceb9c...
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Latest News from The Policy Practice - May 2025
https://mailchi.mp/0d0598fceb9c/latest-news-from-the-policy-practice-april-11039367?e=[UNIQID]
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Read the latest from TPP Associate Richard Barltrop on how the international community can improve its understanding of Yemenâs economy.
#Yemen
#politicaleconomy
#datagaps
#aidchallenges
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New Working Paper on Understanding Yemen's Economy
This working paper, authored by TPP Associate Richard Barltrop, explores how the prevailing picture of Yemenâs economy is incomplete and misleading, in particular when it fails to take into account th...
https://thepolicypractice.com/new-working-paper-understanding-yemens-economy
7 months ago
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Laure-HÊlène Piron
8 months ago
E-mail us at
[email protected]
if you have documents we should add - USAID material, lessons from USAID programmes etc
@twpcommunity.org
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Denise L. Baer
8 months ago
Kudos to the
@thepolicypractice.bsky.social
! It is important to preserve this
#library
and body of knowledge resource - hard to believe that this has been erased in the last 80 days of one U.S. administration.
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reposted by
Laure-HÊlène Piron
7 months ago
In-person context analysis trainings are the most energising. Already missing challenging questions from SDC, Particip & Dansom in Nairobi about rent seeking, patronage, collective action⌠and your tips for field research!
@neilmcculloch.bsky.social
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Laure-HÊlène Piron
8 months ago
Rogue political decisions call for unexpected responses: creating a new USAID page on our
@thepolicypractice.bsky.social
online library to make accessible their excellent material on
#politicaleconomy
and
#thinkingworkingpolitycally
thepolicypractice.com/6-usaid-docu...
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6. USAID documents
https://thepolicypractice.com/6-usaid-documents
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ODI Global
8 months ago
In a climate of sweeping aid cuts, the humanitarian sector faces drastic changes. We're bringing together leaders in Washington, D.C. during the
#SpringMeetings
to discuss what a new humanitarian future could â and should â look like. Sign up to watch online on 23 April:
odi.org/en/events/th...
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Laure-HÊlène Piron
8 months ago
On đ´ world forest day đłâŚ have a look at one of our recent papers explaining the politics of forest policy in Nigeriađ
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Itâs
#InternationalDayofForests
! Our recent working Paper by Olly Owen and Sa'eed Husaini looks at one country's forest policy which is at a turning point, with a growing domestic push for conservation amidst environmental degradation:
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New Working Paper from Olly Owen and Sa'eed Husaini
Nigeriaâs forest policy is at a turning point, with a growing domestic push for conservation amidst environmental degradation. This working paper by TPP Principal Olly Owen and Associate Sa'eed Husain...
https://www.thepolicypractice.com/new-working-paper-olly-owen-and-saeed-husaini
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Rob Yates
9 months ago
Totally agree, when it comes to achieving universal health coverage, leveraging equitable domestic public financing is the answer not more charitable aid be that multilateral or bilateral
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Disruptive, locally led, & demonstrably effective: can focusing on single issues lead to broader systemic change? Read our latest Policy and Practice Brief by Gareth Williams to explore evidence on this. We'd love to hear your thoughts!
www.thepolicypractice.com/policy-and-p...
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Policy and Practice Brief 18 - Nine lessons from Issue-based programming
This Policy and Practice brief from TPP Director Gareth Williams discusses Issues-Based Programming (IBP), a development approach which mobilises stakeholders to drive change around locally defined is...
https://www.thepolicypractice.com/policy-and-practice-brief-18-nine-lessons-issue-based-programming-0
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The most worrying aspect of Trump's climate approach goes beyond the Paris Agreement says
@neilmcculloch.bsky.social
; it's that he has lit the touchpaper for a shift in the Zeitgeist about climate...
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9 months ago
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Duncan Green
9 months ago
Anatomy of a Fall: What the Rise and Fall of the UK Aid Budget tells us about Making Change Happen. Outgoing
@oxfamgb.bsky.social
advocacy director Katy Chakrabortty dissects the implosion, and the lessons for activists
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Anatomy of a Fall: What the Rise and Fall of the UK Aid Budget tells us about Making Change Happen - Activism Influence and Change
UK aid advocacy veteran Katy Chakrabortty unpacks the implosion of UK aid, and the lessons for activists Snapshot 1: Itâs a grey morning late in the winter of 2013. I am on the grass square outside the UK Houses of Parliament in an ill-fitting suit and wearing a plastic mask giving me the face of
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/activism-influence-change/2025/03/12/anatomy-of-a-fall-what-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-uk-aid-budget-tells-us-about-making-change-happen/
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Laure-HÊlène Piron
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Blavatnik School of Government
9 months ago
"Foreign aid is what great nations do." In his latest piece for
@the-independent.com
, Prof Stefan Dercon (
@gamblingondev.bsky.social
) argues that foreign aid is not only a reflection of a nationâs character - itâs a marker of global power.đ
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#ForeignAid
#Musk
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Musk is wrong â foreign aid is how countries show their character to the world
The evidence shows international aid â when spent correctly â can bring tremendous benefits and save millions of lives, writes expert and author Stefan Dercon. But if helping people cope with deprivat...
https://buff.ly/hqdJQGV
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Laure-HÊlène Piron
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How does Trumpâs rapid rollback of Bidenâs climate policiesâfrom lifting oil and gas restrictions to pulling out of the Paris Agreementâreshape the global fight against climate change? New blog from TPP Director Neil McCulloch - read here:
thepolicypractice.com/implications...
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The implications of Trump for climate action - latest blog from TPP Director Neil McCulloch
Trumpâs rapid reversal of Bidenâs climate agenda has shocked many. In one week, he dismantled decades of environmental progress by lifting oil and gas restrictions, scrapping decarbonization targets, ...
https://thepolicypractice.com/implications-trump-climate-action-latest-blog-tpp-director-neil-mcculloch
9 months ago
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How can development programming foster locally-led change and sustainable impact? Read our new Policy and Practice brief from TPP Director Gareth Williams on Issue-Based Programming and how the approach has been applied across multiple countries.
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