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