Behavioural shifts in anti-trafficking programmes: how can aid agencies help policymakers?
On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, our Project Manager Abdal-Rahman Eltayeb outlines the stakes and challenges of our anti-trafficking project in Sudan, and makes a case for aid agencies to place greater...
Returning from Tashkent
Last month, alongside GPG's Head of Programmes Zafran Iqbal, GPG Associate Baroness Alison Suttie visited the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, just as the country hosted its presidential elections. Returned from the visit, she...
Women political participation in Lebanese politics: Can allyship make a difference?
Mia Marty is GPG's Project Coordination Assistant. Having worked, last year, on our project exploring the role of male allies in supporting women in politics, she discusses applying the project's findings and core values to...
Associate Profile Series – Margaret Curran
GPG delivers specialist technical advice through a core group of retained Associates who are former Ministers, Members of Parliament, senior civil servants or parliamentary staff, and academics. We have built long-lasting...
What outcome can we expect for Iraq’s elections?
GPG Associate Meg Munn is an independent governance consultant working internationally on parliamentary processes, political party development, gender mainstreaming, and women’s leadership. She was a Minister in the...
Associate Profile Series – Lord Jeremy Purvis
GPG delivers specialist technical advice through a core group of retained Associates, who are former Ministers, Members of Parliament, senior civil servants/parliamentary staff, and academics. We have built long-lasting...
Lebanon in crisis: Doomed with a shared future?
GPG MENA Manager Nayla Zein recently returned from a visit to Lebanon, her home country. Two years on since the October 2019 protests were ignited by what came to be known as the "Whatsapp tax" in response to an...
What role can Parliament hold in influencing youth political and civic engagement in Iraq?
Adlah Alkurdi is GPG's Head of Iraq Programme. Having recently returned to GPG, she initially joined us in 2013 and contributed to a wealth of projects in the MENA region. In this blog, she shares her memories and...
Associate Profile Series: Stephen Gethins
GPG delivers specialist technical advice through a core group of retained Associates, who are former Ministers, Members of Parliament, senior civil servants/parliamentary staff and academics. We have built long-lasting...
Afghanistan mini-series
Over the month of September 2021, GPG published a short series of blogs examining the context and impact of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. Read them here: Sadness and mounting alarm: some personal reflections on...