Written by TPP Associate Niki Palmer, this Working Paper explores why environmental defenders in Brazil’s Amazon face persistent violence. It shows how powerful economic interests and competing ideas ...

This guidance note, by TPP Director Laure-Hélène Piron, sets out options for context analysis (political economy analysis, conflict analysis, institutional reviews, etc). It provides advice to make su...

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...

This technical note is for people working in international co-operation including supporting the capacity-building aims of counterparts.

This working paper, authored by TPP Associate Richard Barltrop, explores how the prevailing picture of Yemen’s economy is incomplete and misleading, in particular when it fails to take into account th...

Nigeria’s 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...

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...

UK aid advocacy veteran Katy Chakrabortty unpacks the implosion of UK aid, and the lessons for activists Snapshot 1: It’s 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

The evidence shows international aid – when spent correctly – can bring tremendous benefits and save millions of lives, writes expert and author Stefan Dercon. But if helping people cope with deprivat...

Trump’s rapid reversal of Biden’s climate agenda has shocked many. In one week, he dismantled decades of environmental progress by lifting oil and gas restrictions, scrapping decarbonization targets, ...