History

IPG is a child of many parents:

• Political activists who struggled against the Marcos-led dictatorship and who seek to broaden the democratic process after the EDSA people's power uprising in 1986.
• Development practitioners engaged in projects for the empowerment of the poor people and communities and their sustainable development.
• Intellectuals and professionals campaigning for electoral reforms.
• Women committed to gender-fair and inclusive politics.

These five distinct social and political energies came together in 1992 to start the process that led to establishing IPG formally in February of 1994.