Five unexpected stories from the frontline of politics
Joe Power is GPG’s Marketing Coordinator. This blog gathers highlights from GPG’s podcast, Politics As Usual. Listen now! Highlights from GPG’s Politics, As Usual podcast. Despite widespread scepticism...
Style or Substance? Report from GPG Parliaments & Populism Event, 5 November 2019
Emily Death is GPG’s Executive Director. She reflects on GPG’s event on Parliaments and Populism which took place in November 2019. In this blog, you can read about Ukraine, the European Parliament and British...
Are Parliaments International Development Orphans?
Sue Griffiths, former Executive Director at GPG and current Managing Director at Social Development Direct wrote this piece for GPG. She comes back to the 2019 Wroxton Workshop of Parliamentarians and Parliamentary...
Public Trust in Politics
Aileen Walker is the Former Director of Public Engagement at House of Commons. In this paper, she interrogates public engagement and reflects on this question within the Sudan project. Who gets your vote? One of...
Why Parliaments Need Good Access to Information
This blog was written by Adrian Crompton, the Auditor General for Wales and Rob Clements and Former Head of House of Commons Research Service. He exposes why members of parliaments as individuals need access to...
Constituents Help MPs As Much As MPs Help Constituents
Roger Berry is a Former MP and Committee Chair. In this piece, he reflects on representativity and the interactions and engagement between MPs and their constituents. Both sides have essential roles which are...
Development and Diplomacy
Chloé Bailey looks back at GPG’s event on the interface between diplomacy and development. The discussion was chaired by GPG’s founder Greg Power and the speakers included GPG’s Associates Rt Hon Alistair...
Politics, As Usual: The London Recruits
Chloé Bailey contextualises our last podcast episode The London Recruits and summarises the impressive story of the men and women who were secretly recruited by the ANC to smuggle propaganda into South Africa during the...
Politics, As Usual
Chloé Bailey is GPG’s Knowledge, Research & Evaluation Officer. In this blog, she explains the rationale of GPG’s podcast Politics, as usual which seeks to grasp politicians’ drives and incentives through...
‘Sticky’ change: What international development can learn from adaptive management
GPG founder Greg Power writes about the benefits of adaptive programming and the KAPE methodology that we have been using. This article analyses how behavioural change is necessary to create change that lasts beyond a...