The Global Policy Community is a knowledge platform built to connect, inform and inspire
The world faces significant challenges which are common across borders. The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted this, but our common challenges reach far beyond. How do countries educate their citizens, care for the homeless, protect their oceans and forests and adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change? These common challenges result in a diverse array of policy-responses, with valuable lessons that can transfer from one national context to another.
The question is, how can policy makers access these learnings? Currently, it is challenging to easily access policy best-practice from around the world, with information often scattered or unstructured. The Global Policy Community brings together diverse sources of information on interesting environmental and social policies into one place, in the form of easily digestible, actionable case studies, which bring these transferable lessons to the forefront.
What is our mission?
To be the first port of call for policymakers looking to inform potential policy with international best practice
GPC was founded out of a passion for better policy, and a belief that governments must be at the forefront of driving a more sustainable and just future. The policy library is designed to be a tool to inform and inspire policy-makers at the outset of a policymaking process. In addition to the policy library, the GPC also provides research and consultancy services to policymakers wishing to deepen their understanding of policy best practice and policy transfer.
Raise public awareness of the transformational environmental and social change that can be achieved through policy
Scepticism of governments around the world is on the rise. While often understandable, it is crucial to recognise not only where governments fail, but also where they are taking meaningful steps to serve their populations and protect the environment. Seeing the positive steps taken elsewhere can also provide examples with which to demand better of their politicians and policymakers. Knowing what is possible provides hope and a language for further change.
Redress the balance of north-south knowledge sharing to a global model.
Historically, the direction of travel for knowledge and best-practice on how to address different policy issues has had a distinct north-south bias. This overlooks the fact that no country can claim to have perfected any particular area of policy. Innovative solutions to common problems abound in the Global South, sometimes to a greater extent than the Global North, for example in the context of climate change adaptation and mitigation, where the disproportionate severity of its impact necessitates innovative solutions which can provide key learnings around the world. Therefore, the GPC starts from the foundational assumption that innovative policy with global relevance can stem from anywhere.