This week’s blog reports on the second GPGF “From Policy to Impact” webinar forum with the Uzbekistan Parliamentary Commission on Follow-up and Compliance with International… Read more »
Written by Aileen Walker•April 8, 2021
This week’s blog reports on the first session of a forum held between GPGF and the Oliy Majlis on the the role of parliaments in… Read more »
Written by Dalva Gerberon•April 1, 2021
This week’s blog outlines the 9th paper of our Guide to Parliament series, in which GPG’s Associate Aileen Walker reflects on good public engagement practice… Read more »
Written by Dalva Gerberon•March 25, 2021
Project Officer Elizabett Yashneva reflects on growing up in a Post-Soviet state and comments on the communist legacy and its contribution to women’s rights across… Read more »
Written by Elizabett Yashneva•March 18, 2021
GPG’s Deputy Director Rhiannon Hollis examines the International Development Committee’s forthcoming inquiry on the Philosophy and Culture of Aid, and how it relates to GPG’s… Read more »
Written by Rhiannon Hollis•March 11, 2021
This blog was written for GPG by Eva Barboni, Founder & CEO of Atalanta. She examines how the multiple crises Lebanon went through in the… Read more »
Written by Eva Barboni•March 4, 2021
This week’s blog was written by GPG’s MENA Project Manager Nayla Zein, who reflects on the recent parliamentary elections in Kuwait and what their results… Read more »
Written by Nayla Zein•February 25, 2021
This blog was written by GPG’s Senior Project Manager Batool Al-Refaai, who reports on the recent Jordanian general elections and the deterioration of the country’s… Read more »
Written by Batool Al-Refaai•February 18, 2021
Former MP and Scottish Government Minister Margaret Curran, who worked with the UNDP in Myanmar and conducted several visits in the country, writes this week’s… Read more »
Written by Margaret Curran•February 11, 2021
This blog was written for GPG by Claudia Sevillano, Lecturer of Economics and Law at PUCP (Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Peru). In this piece, she… Read more »
Written by Claudia Sevillano•February 4, 2021
In this blog, GPG’s Project Coordination Assistant Mia Marty recalls her impressions of a project she recently contributed to: our training course on building male allyship… Read more »
Written by Mia Marty•January 28, 2021
This blog is the second of two written on the theme of digital technologies and the pandemic by our Associate Matthew Taylor, who was Director… Read more »
Written by Matthew Taylor•January 21, 2021
This blog is the first of two written on the theme of digital technologies and the pandemic by our Associate Matthew Taylor, who was Director… Read more »
Written by Matthew Taylor•January 14, 2021
This week’s blog was written by Project Assistant Abdal-Rahman Eltayeb, who went back to his home country of Sudan after two years of absence to… Read more »
Written by Abdal-Rahman Eltayeb•January 7, 2021
This week’s blog reports on GPG’s virtual conference on the role of transitional parliaments in making political settlements work, which was held in December 2020…. Read more »
Written by Dalva Gerberon•December 17, 2020
This week’s blog reports on the meeting of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointment Committee in which the resilience of the Scottish Parliament’s practices and… Read more »
Written by Dalva Gerberon•December 10, 2020
New GPG Director Emily Death reflects on current and upcoming programmes and priorities for GPG on the occasion of our 15th anniversary. Happy 15th Birthday GPG. As my colleague recently… Read more »
Written by Emily Death•December 3, 2020
On the occasion of her collaboration with GPG on the creation of an online course for the Uzbek parliament, GPG’s Associate and Former Deputy Chief… Read more »
Written by Baroness Alison Suttie•November 19, 2020
This piece by Former FCO Minister and Minister for Women and Equality Meg Munn introduces the project she worked with GPG on the role of… Read more »
Written by Meg Munn•November 12, 2020
This week’s blog comes from GPG’s Head of Programmes Zafran Iqbal, who provides us with an insightful overview of the multi-factorial drivers of youth discontent… Read more »
Written by Zafran Iqbal•November 5, 2020
Чтобы прочитать Русскую версию, листайте ниже. In this week’s blog, GPG’s Project Officer Elizabett Yashneva explores the consequences of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s repressive policy towards young… Read more »
Written by Elizabett Yashneva•October 29, 2020
This week’s blog is a goodbye address from our departing Director Sue Griffiths, who leaves us a moving and important reminder of the crucial role MPs… Read more »
Written by Sue Griffiths•October 22, 2020
Continuing our series on the merger between DfID and the Foreign Office which led to the birth of the FCDO, GPG’s founder Greg Power warns… Read more »
Written by Greg Power•October 15, 2020
This is the second GPG online event on human trafficking related themes, this time focused on the ways in which states can counter the negative… Read more »
Written by Abdal-Rahman Eltayeb•October 8, 2020
Habiba Mohsen is a Research Assistant for the Centre for International Development and Training (CIDT), at the University of Wolverhampton. Habiba worked as a Project… Read more »
Written by Habiba Mohsen•October 1, 2020
Kevin Deveaux is a GPG Associate and a Canadian lawyer who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for the constituency of Cole Harbour-Eastern… Read more »
Written by Kevin Deveaux•September 24, 2020
Stephen Gethins is a GPG Associate. He is a former Member of Parliament having served as MP for North East Fife from 2015-2019 . This… Read more »
Written by Stephen Gethins•September 17, 2020
Nick Sigler is a GPG Associate, former head of International Department of UNISON -Britain’s largest public service union- and former International Secretary of the Labour… Read more »
Written by Nick Sigler•September 10, 2020
Sue Griffiths is GPG’s Executive Director. In the following article, Sue explains the challenges of the FCDO merger and how both departments will have to harmonize their… Read more »
Written by Sue Griffiths•September 3, 2020
Huda is a Research Intern at GPG currently based in London office. She joined GPG last year and is working on the Sudan Parliamentary project…. Read more »
Written by Huda Abu-Kassem•August 27, 2020
Emily Death is Deputy Director at GPG. In this blog, she reflects on GPG’s work on women’s political participation in Lebanon, and how recent international… Read more »
Written by Emily Death•August 20, 2020
Batool Al-Refaai is a Senior Project Manager at GPG currently based in our Jordan office and working on the Iraq project. In this post, Batool… Read more »
Written by Batool Al-Refaai•August 13, 2020
Peter Millett was the British Ambassador to Libya from July 2015 until January 2018. He has served in a number of positions in the British… Read more »
Written by Peter Millett•August 6, 2020
Edward Wood is the Director of Research at the House of Commons Library in the UK Parliament. He covers how the institution responded and adapted… Read more »
Written by Edward Wood•July 30, 2020
Rt Hon Alistair Burt was formerly Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East and North Africa, covering Egypt and Libya in the years following the… Read more »
Written by Alistair Burt & Greg Power•July 23, 2020
As part of our Parliamentary Responses to Crisis series, this is the third and last part of our articles about perspectives from each of the… Read more »
Written by Denis Oag•July 16, 2020
As part of our Parliamentary Responses to Crisis series, this is the second part of our articles about perspectives from each of the UK’s devolved… Read more »
Written by Sir Paul Silk•July 10, 2020
As part of our Parliamentary Responses to Crisis series, over the next few weeks, we will be bringing you perspectives from each of the UK’s… Read more »
Written by Gareth McGrath•July 3, 2020
Alex Brazier is an Associate at Global Partners Governance. He was formerly Director of the Parliament and Government Programme, Hansard Society and previously a Committee… Read more »
Written by Alex Brazier•June 26, 2020
Maria Peiró Mir is a Senior Project Manager at GPG currently working on UK Home Office funded project tackling human trafficking in Sudan. We landed… Read more »
Written by Maria Peiro Mir•June 19, 2020
Events in the time of lockdown may bring a whole trail of uncertainty with them. GPG’s first online conference proved that adaptability to fast-changing circumstances… Read more »
Written by Abdal-Rahman Eltayeb•June 12, 2020
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 »
Written by Jeremy, Lord Purvis of Tweed•June 5, 2020
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 »
Written by Sue Griffiths•May 29, 2020
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 »
Written by Inter-Parliamentary Union•May 22, 2020
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 »
Written by Margaret Curran•May 15, 2020
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 »
Written by Hannah Johnson•May 8, 2020
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 »
Written by Alistair Burt•May 1, 2020
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 »
Written by Greg Power•April 22, 2020
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 »
Written by Sir Paul Silk•April 17, 2020
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 »
Written by Alex Brazier•April 10, 2020
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 »
Written by Enni-Kukka Tuomala•April 3, 2020
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 »
Written by Nick Walker•March 25, 2020
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 »
Written by Nur Saleh•February 14, 2020
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 »
Written by Joe Power•January 20, 2020
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 »
Written by Emily Death•November 8, 2019
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 »
Written by Margaret Curran•October 16, 2019
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 »
Written by Sir Bill Jeffrey•September 6, 2019
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 »
Written by Sue Griffiths•August 5, 2019
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 »
Written by Nusieba Ahdash•July 22, 2019
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 »
Written by Olivia Kaye•June 21, 2019
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 »
Written by Sarah Hayward•May 10, 2019
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 »
Written by Adam Cygan•March 12, 2019
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 »
Written by Dame Stella Manzie•February 26, 2019
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 »
Written by Aileen Walker•May 8, 2018
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 »
Written by Sarah Hayward•April 18, 2018
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 »
Written by Meg Munn•March 8, 2018
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 »
Written by Adrian Crompton and Rob Clements•January 16, 2018
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 »
Written by Roger Berry•November 27, 2017
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 »
Written by Chloe Bailey•November 13, 2017
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 »
Written by Dianne Bevan•October 30, 2017
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 »
Written by Baroness Alison Suttie•September 28, 2017
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 »
Written by Chloe Bailey•September 5, 2017
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 »
Written by Chloe Bailey•August 10, 2017
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 »
Written by Maria Peiro Mir•August 1, 2017
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 »
Written by Chloe Bailey•July 28, 2017
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 »
Written by Kristen Sample and Jacqui Smith•March 22, 2017
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 »
Written by Greg Power•January 15, 2017
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 »
Written by Baroness Alison Suttie•September 20, 2016
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 »
Written by Greg Power•October 27, 2015
‘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 »
Written by Greg Power•August 26, 2015
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 »
Written by Greg Power•May 5, 2015