Ahead of the GPG Online Conference Establishing a Regional Approach to Human Trafficking and Forced Labour, GPG Associate and Member of the UK House of… Read more »
Launch of a joint paper by The Asia Foundation and Global Partners Governance: Virtual Parliaments: Principles and Practices As a card-carrying parliamentary geek, I tuned… Read more »
This blog is released as part of our Parliamentary Response To Crisis series in collaboration with the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s Parliaments in a Time of Pandemic series… Read more »
Adapting to the situation we are left in due to the Covid-19 crisis is crucial for companies across the globe. GPG is intending to extend… Read more »
Modern human rights standards were born out of war, and can provide a ‘roadmap’ for times of crisis. Governments around the world responded to the… Read more »
Adapting to the situation we are left in due to the Covid-19 crisis is crucial for companies across the globe. GPG is intending to extend… Read more »
Adapting to the situation we are left in due to the Covid-19 crisis is crucial for companies across the globe. GPG is intending to extend… Read more »
Adapting to the situation we are left in due to the Covid-19 crisis is crucial for companies across the globe. GPG is intending to extend… Read more »
Adapting to the situation we are left in due to the Covid-19 crisis is crucial for companies across the globe. GPG is intending to extend… Read more »
Starting point “We don’t learn to understand why others think the way they do.” Member of Parliament, Finland, 2018 Writing about empathy in politics… Read more »
Adapting to the situation we are left in due to the Covid-19 crisis is crucial for companies across the globe. GPG is intending to extend… Read more »
In October 2015, I had just graduated from university and was able to secure a position as a project assistant at GPG, mainly working on… Read more »
Highlights from GPG’s Politics, As Usual podcast. Despite widespread scepticism about politics and politicians, in every country around the world there are men and women… Read more »
On Tuesday 5 November, GPG in association with the Study of Parliament Group (SPG), held an event on Parliaments & Populism. The date of the event itself was… Read more »
Lebanon, despite its many advantages, does not have to search for challenges. The increasing frustration of women at their exclusion from the political system is… Read more »
The team on GPG’s current Iraq project – on this occasion Meg Munn, Sue Griffiths, Zaf Iqbal and myself – visited Erbil in August. The… Read more »
The 2019 Wroxton Workshop of Parliamentarians and Parliamentary Scholars Are parliaments unfairly neglected in international development? This was the question posed during the opening session… Read more »
GPG last worked in Bahrain in 2007-8, but this year we are back to support the parliament following the 2018 elections. A lot has changed… Read more »
This blog post is based on lessons from GPG’s review of NIMD’s Dialogue for Stability programme conducted in partnership with Alina Rocha Menocal of ODI…. Read more »
The potential benefits of decentralisation to citizens and economic growth are well understood: more trusted, more immediately accountable and more fleet of foot than central… Read more »
Between 26-28 February 2019, the ‘EduGate’ Higher Education Fair in Cairo brought together Egyptian and international universities, parliamentarians, academics and students. This gathering provided an… Read more »
Sunday 17th February in Amman saw the culmination of a year’s collaborative work between local elected representatives in Governorate Councils in Jordan and GPG Associates,… Read more »
Who gets your vote? One of the most interesting findings of the Hansard Society’s recently published Audit of Political Engagement 15 (2018) was that 32%… Read more »
With decentralisation firmly on the development agenda it’s important women aren’t left behind as powers are devolved from central, to regional and local government in… Read more »
Women’s participation in parliaments is crucial to improving the representative nature, accountability and quality of democracies. It can have a profound impact on the way… Read more »
Members of Parliament need access to up-to-date and accurate information and expertise in order to perform their parliamentary duties, whether as individual representatives or as… Read more »
For the first time in history, it is arguable that most people today live under democratic governments. This is commonly referred to as the “triumph… Read more »
After this year’s general election, the UK government created dual Ministerial roles in the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development, combining diplomatic and… Read more »
When I was in Jordan recently, working with GPG on support for the decentralisation of government, an article appeared in the Times of Jordan about… Read more »
Driving in from Manas airport to central Bishkek very early in the morning you usually get the first glimpse of the beautiful high mountains to… Read more »
Decentralisation is increasingly recognised internationally as a key element of good governance. When implemented well, it can lead to greater participation, efficiency and diversity. By… Read more »
The latest episode of our Politics, As Usual podcast, rounding off the inaugural series of interviews delving into how political change happens, is a one-off… Read more »
Maria Peiró Mir Honduras has long battled with human trafficking within and across its borders. The past five years in particular have seen it transformed… Read more »
What drives politicians and political behaviour? What are the incentives and motivations that shape the effectiveness of political institutions? And how can we align individual… Read more »
Jacqui Smith and Kristen Sample Women account for half of the global population, yet represent less than a quarter of the world’s parliamentarians. The causes… Read more »
One of the most significant failings of international political assistance has been the tendency to focus too much on institutional structure and process, and not enough… Read more »
This article was taken from our September 2016 newsletter. For the full newsletter and to subscribe, click here. The civil wars and instability in Jordan’s… Read more »
At the end of September GPG Director, Greg Power, addressed the inaugural meeting at the House of Commons of a new ‘Community of Practice’ on… Read more »
‘The Politics of Parliamentary Strengthening’ is an article from GPG director Greg Power and is featured in this quarter’s The Political Quarterly. Greg writes: Parliament’s International Development… Read more »
On behalf of GPG, Rt Hon Alistair Burt MP endorses the Common Principles for Support to Parliaments formally adopted by IPU’s governing bodies on 16 October 2014… Read more »
