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?

PARLIAMENTARIAN NETWORK

The Parliamentarian Network is an opportunity for the over 400+ Green Members of Parliament from around the world to connect, support and celebrate with their colleagues globally!

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KEY PEOPLE

Elizabeth May

Convenor of Parliamentary Association. Canadian politician who served as leader of the Green Party of Canada from 2006 to 2019 and has been a Member of Parliament for Saanich—Gulf Islands since 2011.

Adam Bandt

Leader of the Australian Greens and Federal Member for Melbourne.

Frank Habineza

Leader of the Rwandan Greens and first Opposition Member to successfully contest elections in Rwanda.

KEY STATEMENTS

COP21 Paris 2015

GGPA Inaugural Meeting, December 2015

Urgent Action Must Follow Paris Agreement: Statement by Green Members of Parliament

The Paris Agreement must be followed immediately by urgent action in emission reductions if the world is to avert dangerous climate change, said Green members of parliament on the conclusion of the UN climate change today.

Paris Agreement 2016

Green parliamentarians around the world undertake to introduce in the national Parliaments, in which we are represented, domestic legislation to give practical effect to the Paris Agreement.

COP23 Bonn 2017

23rd Conference of the Parties (COP23) of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, November 2017.

green representation around the world

PURPOSE

The GGPA is composed of elected members of legislatures to work collaboratively together as one network in pursuit of the following objectives:

To be active, in a coordinated manner, in our parliaments on issues of identified global concern, in order to influence the governments of our countries, and the public whom we represent, to the goals specifically identified by the Global Greens;
To develop a mutually-reinforcing and mutually-supportive network of MPs, as individuals, to help us each to become most effective in our parliamentary action, and realise our potential as movers of positive global change;
To achieve positive change for Green goals at the global and regional levels through the strengthening of international institutions, including more parliamentarian representation and decision-making influence in those bodies.

Background

There are currently more than 400 Green parliamentarians in approximately 25 national level parliaments around the world. There are many more parliamentarians in local, regional and state level parliaments.

See here for more information about elected Greens.

The Global Greens Parliamentarian Association provides a simple and efficient way for these decision-makers to know about each other’s work and communicate about issues of interest.

Parliamentarians have a day-to-day need to stay in touch with Green colleagues about policy responses. There are also many issues where a multi-nation alliance of parliamentarians can bring attention and depth to an issue in a national parliament or an international institution.

Also, while Green parliamentarians are growing in number every year, there remain important parts of the world where there are few Green decision-makers. In order for the Global Greens family to win many of the big issues globally, we must see more Greens elected in the emerging economies of the world. A Green Parliamentarians Association provides support and guidance to Green candidates in emerging economies.