Season's Greetings across the Commonwealth!
Please note that the CPA Headquarters office will be closed for the holiday season from Friday 20 December 2024 and will reopen on Monday 6 January 2025. During this time, if you have an urgent enquiry, please email hq.sec@cpahq.org and one of the CPA Secretariat team will respond. You can also find a wide range of resources and information on this website. We look forward to working closely with CPA Branches, Members and partner organisations again in 2025!
The Parliamentarian - Journal of Commonwealth Parliaments
The Parliamentarian is the quarterly Journal of Commonwealth Parliaments published by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) and features articles, news and legislative reports written by Members of Parliament, parliamentary staff and international experts across the Commonwealth about a wide range of global issues.
Find out about the publication here, or to read this issue on ISSUU, our online reading platform, click here ->
CPA Small Branches
Established in 1981, the network represents Commonwealth jurisdictions with populations under 1,000,000 and operates within the framework of the CPA. The CPA Small Branches network seeks to "empower small parliaments to overcome national and global challenges through cooperation, advocacy and the strengthening of parliamentary democracy and good governance".
Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP)
The Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) was founded in 1989 to increase the number of female elected representatives in Parliaments and legislatures across the Commonwealth and to ensure that women’s issues are brought to the fore in parliamentary debate and legislation.The Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) network provides a means of building the capacity of women elected to parliament to be more effective in their roles; improving the awareness and ability of all Parliamentarians, male and female, and encouraging them to include a gender perspective in all aspects of their role - legislation, oversight and representation and helping parliaments to become gender-sensitive institutions.
Commonwealth Parliamentarians with Disabilities (CPwD)
Recognising the need to increase representation of persons with disabilities in political institutions, the Commonwealth Parliamentarians with Disabilities (CPwD) network has been established to facilitate activities and programmes to champion and increase representation of persons with disabilities in Commonwealth parliaments and to work towards the mainstreaming of disability considerations in all CPA activities and programmes.
Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference
The CPA's annual Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) brings together Parliamentarians from across the Commonwealth to discuss global political issues.