Expanding from our base in Oxford, OPM has opened offices in India (New Delhi), Pakistan (Islamabad) and South Africa (Pretoria). OPM has access to and support from a large network of organisations and independent consultants across the globe for specific project needs. These country offices extend and improve our services in regions where we have significant experience, contribute to building national capacity, and strengthen the contact and support that we offer to local clients.

Oxford Policy Management has conducted the External Evaluation of the National Programme for Family Planning and Primary Healthcare, Pakistan, commonly called the Lady Health Worker (LHW) Programme. The 11 reports from this study include a financial and economic analysis, a management and system review, a qualitative survey to observe the socioeconomic benefits and experiences, and a large quantitative survey.

The OPM consortium, led by ECORYS Nederland and in collaboration with a local partner Co-PLAN, is now implementing a UNDP funded project for ‘Integrated Support to Decentralization’ in the Republic of Albania.  This project augments OPM regional development and local government work alongside the ‘Support to the Regional Development Agencies Project’ in Serbia and the ‘Cooperation in Regional Development Project’ in Moldova.

OPM’s recent work for the ICMM and World Gold Council employs an innovative life cycle approach to analyse the impacts that gold mining is likely to have in Tanzania. The challenge for stakeholders will be to leverage the contributions from gold mining through appropriate policies to enhance the positive socio-economic impacts at both the national and local level.

This Briefing Note explores the experience from two studies in the Maldives and Jamaica. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods was used, linked by a ‘scorecard’ approach whereby a set of questions is the same in the focus groups and the quantitative interviews. Using the results from the two case studies we find that the methods used broadly match, increasing confidence in the results, but identified that one method cannot substitute the other.

The Integrated Framework for Policy Analysis provides a tool for addressing complex reform scenarios encountered in political economy. This Working Paper introduces readers to the role of incentives and motivation in a process framework and invites the use of a checklist to record your own experiences. The best way to understand the importance of this tool is simply by using it.