Democratic Governance

Strengthening the Legislature: Challenges and Techniques' - October 2001 (Brussels)

UNDP Staff Training and Policy Conferences

General

• Agenda
• Participant Biographical Information
• Resource Persons Biographical Information
• Seminar Report

• A Concept Paper on Legislatures and Good Governance
• Strengthening Legislative Capacity in Legislative Executive Relations (NDI Paper)
• UNDP Legislative Assistance Retrospective
• Indicators for Legislative Development
• Guidebook on Strengthening the Representative Capacity of Legislatures

• An Overview of the Three Functions of a Legislature
  This is Dr. J. Johnson's introductory presentation. (Dr. Johnson is affiliated to SUNY and works a CTA with the Kenyan National Assembly).
• Trends in Gender and Political Participation
  Power point presentation of Socorro Reyes, Founder of the Center for Legislative Development and UNDP Senior Gender Adviser to the Government of Pakistan
• Methodologies for Improving Programme Design
  This is Shari Bryan's presentation on tools, techniques and considerations on legislative development programme design. (Ms. Bryan is Director for African programmes of NDI)
• UNDP's Legislative Retrospective Presentation
  Presentation of Jennifer Topping, Legislative Advisor of BDP/UNDP, on UNDP review of its legislative assistance over the last 5 years. You can find the whole UNDP Legislative Retrospective document above in the series of substantive background documents of the seminar.
• Legislative Oversight Presentation
  Presentation of Socorro Reyes, Centre for Legislative Development (Philippines)
• Evaluation and Monitoring Methods Presentation
  Presentation of Scot Hubli, NDI, on tools and techniques for monitoring and evaluation of legislative development projects.
• Knowledge Organization Presentation
  Andrea Papan, GGRN facilitator: Presentation on UNDP's knowledge management: Why? & How?