Reporting risks
Q: Power and political economy issues can be very sensitive. Isn’t there a risk that my organization will get in trouble for reporting on such sensitive issues?
A.This is similar to the question above. Where the issues are so sensitive that reporting on them puts the communities you seek to serve – or your ability to serve them - at risk, then public reports may not be in the best interests of those communities or of the organization making the report, and at worst can be dangerous. More private approaches to dealing with the issues raised by political economy analysis should be considered, but ultimately the analysis of the problem does still need to be done.