The TWP Community Podcast

Episode 7: Gareth Williams interviews Dr. Suwaiba Ahmad and Sunny Kulutuye on their experience of applying a TWP approach to policy and programming in Nigeria

This interview recorded on the eve of Nigeria’s Presidential election in February 2023 discusses the importance of a TWP approach for understanding Nigeria’s political economy context and designing/implementing effective development projects. The interview with two Associates of The Policy Practice, Dr Suwaiba Ahmad and Sunny Kulutuye, reflects on the two speakers’ professional experience of applying a TWP approach to policy and programming problems in this context.

Episode 6: Conversation with CAFOD’s Dadirai Chikwengo on her TWP journey

Dadirai is the Lead Governance Advisor for CAFOD. In the last 7 years Dadirai has been at the forefront of advocating for robust context analysis (PEA) to anchor programming decisions - developing an internal guidance and providing ongoing accompaniment of staff through the analysis. In this podcast, she tells us how she arrived to TWP, how she developed her context analysis guidance, and her experience of landing PEA and TWP principles with partners on the ground in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Episode 5: Heather Marquette on TWP and findings from the Serious Organised Crime & Anti-Corruption Evidence Programme

In this interview, Professor Heather Marquette tells us what lessons are emerging for 'Thinking and Working Politically' from research from the SOCACE programme. She talks about how SOCACE research offers new insights on what it means to TWP, how we can find different ways to work on SOC, illicit finance and corruption that are better able to meet the needs that emerge when working in different contexts and how TWP opens a space for identifying potential tensions and unintended consequences.

Episode 4: Interview with Duncan Green on the GELI programme ’Influencing for Senior Leaders’

In this episode, Alina Rocha Menocal interviews Duncan Green who tells us about the Global Executive Leadership Initiative (or GELI) training programme on influencing for senior leaders, and why it is all about TWP.

Episode 3: Lessons learned from the MUVA programme in Mozambique

In this interview, Kerry Selvester and Sam Sharp tell us about what is innovative in MUVA's approach to adaptive programming, and the factors which enabled and constrained this approach.

Episode 2: Interview with Idayat Hassan on what is needed for greater democracy support.

Alina Rocha Menocal interviews Idayat Hassan, Director of the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) in Abuja, Nigeria, on what is needed for greater democracy support.

Episode 1: Interview with Wilfred Mwamba on his thinking and working politically journey

TWP specialist Wilfred Mwamba gives great insights into how he uses TWP in practice.