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Background Materials and Papers

Issue papers providing background context for each session will be posted very shortly.

Session II: Review of recent Evaluations and Reviews of Parliamentary Development

  1. Mid-Term Review of the Global Programme for Parliamentary Strengthening (UNDP, February 2007)
  2. Parliamentary Strengthening in Developing Countries (ODI for DFID, February 2007)
  3. Approaches to Parliamentary Strengthening: A Review of SIDA’s Support to Parliaments (SIDA, November 2005)

Session III: Developing Normative Frameworks for Parliamentary Development

  1. Issue Paper – Session III
  2. Parliament and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century: A Guide to Good Practice (IPU, 2006)
  3. Towards the Development of International Minimum Standards for Democratic Legislatures (NDI)
  4. Benchmarks for Democratic Legislatures: A Study Group Report (CPA, December 2006)

Session IV: Measuring Progress in Parliamentary Development

  1. Stronger Legislatures, Stronger Democracies (Steven Fish, Journal of Democracy, Volume 17, Number 1, January 2006)

Session V: Strengthening Parliament’s Role in Financial Governance

  1. Issue Paper – Session V
  2. The Role of African Parliaments in Budgetary Process (Economic Commission for Africa, April 2007)
  3. Strengthening Internal Accountability in the Context of Programme-Based Approaches in Sub-Saharan Africa (Germany Development Institute, April 2006)
  4. Understanding the Politics of the Budget, (DFID, Januray 2007)
  5. Strengthening Legisltaive Financial Scrutiny in Developing Countries (Report prepared for DFID, May 2007)
  6. Improving Fiscal Scrutiny through Legislative Strengthening (Report prepared for DFID, March 2007)

Session VI: Parliamentary Mechanisms of Budget Oversight and Financial Control

  1. Issue Paper - Session VI
  2. Scrutinizing Public Expenditures: Assessing the Performance of Public Accounts Committees (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3613, May 2005)
  3. Parliament, the Budget and Gender (IPU, UNDP,WBI, UNIFEM – 2004)
  4. Legislating Poverty in Africa, Draft Working Paper, WBI – Parliamentary Centre, May 2007

Session VII: Conclusions and Recommendations for Ways Forward

  1. Issue Paper - Session VI
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