Policy Dialogue on Legislative Development
November 20-22, 2002 Organised by UNDP in cooperation with the Government of Belgium
I. Conference report, agenda,
participants and bios.
1. Conference
Report
2. Conference
Agenda
3. Biographies
of Resources and Speakers
4. List
of Participants
II. A Decade of Legislative
Development Experiences - Global Issues and Regional Trends
5. Opening
Presentation by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
6.
Regional trends in Arab States- El Sawi presentation
7. Regional
trends in Asia - Espine Presentation
III. Strengthening Parliaments'
Capacity through the Budget Process, including Engendering the Budget
8.
Issue
Paper on Budget Process
9. Budget
Process in Benin - Soumare Presentation
10. Engendering
the budget- Byanyima Presentation
11. The
Budget Process and Good Governance - AWEPA
12. The
role of Parliaments in the Budget - IDESA
13. Budget: The Political Bottom Line - UNDP
14. A guide to budget work with NGOs - International Budget
Project
IV. Strengthening Parliaments
Capacity Through the Poverty Reduction Strategy Process
15. Issue
Paper on PRSP
16. NDI
Outline of S. Hubli presentation on PRSP
17. Parliaments
and Poverty : Building capacity to tackle problems - WBI
18. Parliaments
and the PRSP Process - NDI
19. Handbook
on Parliamentarians and Policies to reduce poverty - Canadian Parliamentary
Center
V. Strengthening Political
Parties in Parliament
20.
Issue paper on Political Parties
21. Democracy
out of balance: Civil Society can't replace political parties - NDI
22.
Guidelines on the rights and duties of the opposition in
parliaments
23. Political
Institutions: Elections, political parties and parliaments
24. Women
in parliament -beyond numbers
25. Women's
representation in Parliament- Role of political parties
VI. Parliaments Role in Conflict
Mediation/Resolution
26. Issue
paper on Parliaments in (post) conflict societies
27. SADC
presentation Dr. Mutukwa
28. Parliament
as an instrument of peace - AWEPA
29. Legislatures
for Post-Conflict Societies
VII. Summary of Donor Evaluation
Results and Lessons Learned
30. UNDP
Lessons Learned in Parliamentary Development
31. SIDA-NDI
Evaluation Presentation
32. DFID
Lessons Learned paper
VIII. Closing session:
33. Closing
session presentation M. Martinez-Soliman