Staff
Course for Strengthening the Capacity of Parliamentary Staff to Serve Parliaments Effectively

Measuring Parliamentary Effectiveness: A Capacity Approach
Using the African Parliamentary Index, used by the Parliamentary Centre, the session introduces indicators used in the index, takes the participants through each of them and discusses the results of self –assessment by Members of Parliament in seven African countries in 2011.
Course Price
Course length
18 Min

Supporting Committees to Increase their Effectiveness
The session focuses on the critical roles of parliamentary committees and the challenges they face in their work. The importance of the chairs, clerks and support staff is examined in terms of their strategic importance in supporting each other to process, analyse and use information to defend the face and work of parliament as whole.
Course Price
Free
Course length
17Min

Efficient Parliamentary Services for Effective Parliaments
The session starts with a discussion of the concepts of efficiency and effectiveness from a socio-technical point view. It then introduces ways of measuring these concepts though results based management (RBM) and management for development results (MfDR) approaches.
Course Price
Free
Course length
15 Min

Customer Oriented Service to Parliament
The session introduces the organizational aspects of parliaments and implications of those aspects to the skills required to serve them. It touches upon some of the key roles staff play in parliament and the challenges involved.
Course Price
Free
Course length
12 Min