Local Party Twinning

Welcome to the Local Party Twinning programme

What is Twinning?

Twinning is when a Green parties at a local level (municipality, town or district) link with a Green party of an equivalent level in another country for the purposes of friendship, learning and support.

Why

Whenever and wherever in the world one joins a Green Party, one becomes part of a global network of fellow green members & supporters – and twinning is one way to reflect this in our local party activities and promotions.

Twinning enables the local level of Green parties to have a direct experience of the global dimension of Green politics. We do this through friendships and direct mutual support.

How

The decision to twin with another local Green party is entirely up to the parties themselves. The Global Greens organisation faciiltates the process.

Next Steps:

1

Look at the information about other parties currently present and pick out one that you’d like to Twin with.

2

Submit information about your local party in the form below.

3

The Global Greens secretariat will assist in setting up the twinning relationship between the parties

Recommendations:

Each party has its own Twinning Co-ordinator(s) to develop the twinning locally.
Organise several meet-ups per year, these can be online or in-person interactions determined by the twinning partners.
Local parties can twin with as many different local parties as they wish.
The Twinning Co-ordinators will be welcome to join a dedicated Facebook group to encourage feedback and sharing about the twinning programme.

Apply for a Twin

The application process is designed to make it easy and support local parties apply for a twinning partner. It isn’t an assessment on whether or not you will be accepted – every local party is welcome to become a twin.

Start the application below.

Current Twinning Partnerships include

Pinellas County Green Party (Florida, USA) with North Devon Green Party (England)
Baltimore City Green Party (Maryland, USA) with Manchester Green Party (England)

Questions?

Contact the Global Greens Secretariat at secretary@globalgreens.org

Contact Information

Name & Location of your Local Party *

Include country and town name

Party Website

Please give other party communications links such as for Twitter, facebook, Youtube, Instagram, etc

Name and email of your Twinning Co-Ordinator *

Make a donation

What do you want to experience?

What would your party like to do and get out of a Twinning partnership?

What kind of Green party do you want to Twin with?

List the characteristics of the Green party with whom you want to have a Twinning Partnership.

About your Local Party

Locality

(population, socio-economic, political, environmental situation)

Party Priorities & Campaigns

What are your Green party's political priorities and campaigns?

Do you have any elected representatives?

Please tell us the names and positions of Greens who have elected positions in your locality.

Membership

(number of members and supporters, interest groups, regular meetings)

How will you feedback to your local party members about your twinning activity?

(e.g. via agenda item for local meeting or AGM, email briefings)

Is your town/city twinned with anywhere?

(E.g civic/local authority twinning)

Communication with your Twinning Partner

We recommend regular communications with your Twinning Party involving a minimum of 2-3 of your local party members, including some remote face-face meetings. What communication methods will you be using with your Twinned party? (e.g. Skype, facebook group, etc)

Comments? Any other information?

Women's Network

Global Greens Women’s Network (GGWN) brings together Green women around the world working together for a better future for our planet. GGWN supports the participation of women in democratic political processes, by focusing on: (A) Capacity building and empowerment; (B) Governance and participation; and (C) Campaigning about major topics relevant to women.

KEY PEOPLE

Carla Piranda

Co-Convenor of Women's Network.

Melanie Vogel

Convenor of the Women's Network for the European Greens Party

Dorothy Nalubega

Convenor for the Women's Network of the African Greens Federation

Anne Marie Bihirabake

Global Greens Coordination and President of the East African Greens Federation.

Anita Nautiyal

Convenor for the Women's Network for the Asia-Pacific Greens Federation.

Gloria Polanco

Global Greens co-Convener

Background

Countries with a strong Greens presence in parliament often have more women parliamentarians. However, this is not always the case. Many Greens Parties continue to have under-representation of women in publicly and internally elected positions.

The GGWN facilitates better understanding and action to support women’s equal participation in political structures and activities. We want to fight any repressive dominant power relations, not only men’s power over women, but also humankind’s power over nature.

The GGWN does this by sharing skills, knowledge and resources. These can take the form of mentorships as well as training and education programs. We also participate in campaigns to raise awareness of gender equality on a socio-political level and are continually looking for opportunities to undertake research to better understand the challenges that limit women’s participation in politics.

The GGWN seeks to work with all Greens members across the world, including parliamentarians, other publicly elected office holders, internal office holders, and general members.

Activity Plan 2017 - 2022

The purpose of our Network is to support the participation of Green women worldwide in democratic political processes. Most importantly, our Network provides a forum to explore, learn and campaign on the issues that are critical to Green Women. These include, but are not limited to:

Women and religion
UN Women
Peace and Security
Racialized Women (who are marginalised by mainstream feminists)
Domestic and Gender based violence
Femicide
Climate change and women
Climate Justice
Ecofeminism
Economy and self-empowerment

Single mothers and their livelihood
Gender Wage Gap
Landless women
Evictions
Rural women
Citizen rights
Right to own property & land
Gender equality law
Ecology and health
Dangers of smoke / pollution in pregnancy
Sex workers’ rights
Trans rights & inclusiveness

Access to justice
Feminist economy
Woman and her body
Sexual Health & reproductive rights
Right to abortion
Intersectionality
Parity
World peace
Refugee rights
Women’s rights and culture,
Women in media

We discuss and advance the above issues through the following four key activities:

Raising awareness of GGWN

Capacity Building, training and Mentorship

Facilitating exchanges between green women

Campaigning on key themes

One of the most important activities we can undertake is to increase awareness and participation in this Network for women around the world. To achieve this we have a WhatsApp group, newsletter and share blogs & articles of interest.

A critical component of our work is using the power of our network to strengthen Green women around the world. We do this by providing training on key issues associated with women’s leadership such as: how to deal with internet ”trolls” and harassment, confidence building & mutual support, media training and opportunities political participation. We also offer a mentorship program and aim to “pair” up to 50 experienced and emerging Green leaders.

We facilitate bilateral exchanges / partnerships between Green parties, Green women’s networks and Green women. We exchange information of national situations regarding equality. We aim to connect all Green women’s groups from around the world. We exchange stories and ideas from each other’s countries and connect best practices on local level. We connect with social movements.

We decide on an annual theme or two and organise activities around it. Beyond the theme, we also aim to organise for International Women’s Day, International Safe Abortion Day and are organising to ensure representation at the United Nationals for GGWN.

NEws from the network

New Initiative for Empowering Women in Politics by the Asia Pacific Greens Federation Women’s Network — Get Involved!

November 30, 2017