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Africa Parliamentary Strengthening Program (APSP) for Budget Oversight Baseline Study and Capacity Building Assessment of Partner Parliaments (November 2009 to February 2010)

The baseline study and capacity-building assessment of the seven partner parliaments of the APSP (Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia) aim to provide key information to the APSP stakeholders on the current state of: parliaments’ responsiveness to citizens’ needs in the budget process; parliaments’ authority and involvement in the entire budget process; and parliaments’ capacity to fulfil their pro-poor budget oversight roles and responsibilities. More ...

APSP PSC Meeting Sept. 2009

The Project Steering Committee meeting was the first for the Africa Parliamentary Strengthening program (APSP) for Budget Oversight which commenced on the 1st of April 2009 following the signing of the Contribution Agreement between CIDA and the Parliamentary Centre (PC). More ...

State Reconstruction

Rebuilding Haiti will take more than just bricks and mortar. It will also mean restoring good governance.

By Amelita Armit President and CEO of the Parliamentary Centre.

The Parliamentary Centre develops training material on HIV/AIDS

The Parliamentary Centre has recently developed a complete training material for Members of Parliament and parliamentary staff for the World Bank Institute called Parliaments and HIV/AIDS. This material is now available on WBI's special on-line training site.

Please visit www.parliamentarystrengthening.org/HIVmodule/index.html
for more information

Some 100 participants at Plenary Meeting in Ottawa

Ottawa, September 15, 2009. Some 100 participants from 22 countries of the Americas participated in the Sixth Plenary Meeting of FIPA which ended today with the approval of several recommendations and the re-election of Brazilian Congressman Luiz Carlos Hauly as president of FIPA for another two years. OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza acted as keynote speaker during the opening ceremony. For the first time, delegations from China and Russia participated as observers. More ...

Declaration of The Parliamentary Centre President on the Haiti Earthquake

January 13th, 2010

On behalf of the Parliamentary Centre, I would like to personally express my most sincere sympathy to the people of Haiti following the earthquake that seriously affected the country. We particularly want to express our condolences to the parliamentarians and the Chamber's personnel in this terrible tragedy.

The Parliamentary Centre remains committed to doing everything it can to support the Haitian people during this humanitarian crisis and the reconstruction period.

Truly,

Amelita Armit
President and CEO

Robert Miller
Former President and CEO
Parliamentary centre

Governor General of Canada Extends Vice-Regal Patronage to the Parliamentary Centre

Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, C.C., C.M.M., C.O.M., C.D., Governor General of Canada, has extended vice-regal patronage to the Parliamentary Centre for the duration of her mandate. The Governor General actively endorses the objectives of select organizations by formally granting them patronage, thereby providing them with the name and prestige of the vice-regal office.