Technical Assistance to the National Assembly
| PTP#: | | 111IC10310 | | | Start Date: | | 01 March 2010 | | End Date: | | 26 February 2010 | | Placement: | | Yerevan/Armenia | | Participant profile: | | MPs and relevant staff of the National Assembly. | | Status: | | Ongoing |
Objectives
The Program aims at providing assistance to Armenia to improve parliamentary processes. The Program focuses primarily on providing assistance on internal parliamentary functions and procedures. This requirement will be accomplished by providing (1) training for MPs and parliamentary staff; (2) help to establish more transparent and participatory Committee hearings and procedures; (3) further enhancing transparency mechanisms in the legislature; and (4) enhancing the capacity of the Parliament to effectively address civil society concerns.
The program goal is to improve skills and capacities of parliamentary staff and MPs to efficiently and competently address legislative issues, while generating an environment where significant public participation and meaningful separation of powers will occur with checks and balances becoming part of everyday reality.
Program description
This Project focuses on development issues with the RA National Assembly and specifically, within two select committees: Standing Committee on Territorial Management and Local Self-Government and Standing Committee on Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs. The project consists of three major components:
1) Developing and strengthening the skills and capacities of MPs and permanent parliamentary staff in select committees by exploring advanced international experience.
2) Promoting greater legislative and procedural transparency through the provision of technical assistance to facilitate more universal application of new rules of procedure with targeted Committees thereby increasing capacity for NA public outreach.
3) Enhancing the effectiveness of targeted committees of Parliament by providing technical assistance and training for the committee leadership on staff utilization, responding to civil society requests and issues, ethics programming, legislative procedure and process development, and comparative study tours.
Within the framework of this assistance several programs have been planned, initiated and organized. Among those organization of an observational study tour to France ( Study Tour to France to explore the National Assembly Structure and Procedures) to examine the structure and procedures of standing committees as well as roles of the latter in performing oversight functions was organized in early July 2010.
Study Tour for the RA National Assembly on Committee Operations and Legislative Drafting Process aims to strengthen the capacity of MPs and Committee secretariat as well Legal and Analysis Department to analyze, create and amend legislation. It will increase the capacity of NA MPs and staff involved in the drafting process to translate policy into precise and understandable laws in ways consistent with good governance.
Training on Policy Analysis for RA National Assembly Representatives is timed to encourage the adoption of measures to institutionalize best practices in analyzing the policy and performing legal research, and to strengthen the Committees role in National Assembly legislative and oversight function via quality changes and efficient committee work.
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