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...
Jordan’s journey: elections, party assistance and the evolving political culture
This article was written by Baroness Alison Suttie, GPG Associate and Former Deputy Chief of Staff to the Deputy Prime Minister. She reflects on the political culture and context in Jordan and the work that GPG has been...
The puzzle of parliamentary assistance
At the end of September GPG Founder & CEO, Greg Power, addressed the inaugural meeting at the House of Commons of a new ‘Community of Practice’ on international assistance to parliaments. Greg introduced the...
‘The Politics of Parliamentary Strengthening’
This blog examines ‘The Politics of Parliamentary Strengthening’, an article from GPG director Greg Power featured in this quarter’s The Political Quarterly. Parliament’s International Development...
GPG endorses IPU’s Common Principles for Support to Parliaments
This first insight from GPG was written by CEO & Founder Greg Power and expresses our Associate RH Alistair Burt’s endorsement of IPU’s Common Principles. On behalf of GPG, Rt Hon Alistair Burt MP...