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Parliament and Accountability: Oversight in Small Parliaments

Parliament and Accountability: Oversight in Small Parliaments. Mitchell O’Brien Governance Specialist Team Lead – Parliament Program World Bank Institute mobrien@worldbank.org. Outline. What is the World Bank Institute? Capacity Development Development Challenge Objectives of WBI’s PSP

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Parliament and Accountability: Oversight in Small Parliaments

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  1. Parliament and Accountability: Oversight in Small Parliaments Mitchell O’Brien Governance Specialist Team Lead – Parliament Program World Bank Institute mobrien@worldbank.org

  2. Outline What is the World Bank Institute? Capacity Development Development Challenge Objectives of WBI’s PSP WBI Model for Parliamentary Strengthening Focus Areas and Cross-Cutting Initiatives Case-study – Parliamentary Staff Training Conclusion

  3. World Bank Institute (WBI) WBI seeks to enhance the capacity of parliaments to effectively perform their functions (oversight, representation and lawmaking) in order to better contribute to open and collaborative development. Good governance is essential to achieving inclusive and sustainable development. Governance is the manner in which state power is exercised and is based on four pillars – accountability, transparency, participation and the rule of law. Open and collaborative governance reinforces the need to include supply side and demand side actors in the governance process in order to achieve these four pillars. Parliaments are key to this approach

  4. Capacity Development • Capacity development is a complex, multi-faceted process aimed at creating an environment conducive to improved performance • The components of governance capacity development include: • Institutional capacity • Organizational capacity • Information capacity • Resource capacity

  5. Development Challenge WBI identified a number of challenges to providing support to parliaments globally. They include: • Mobilization of appropriate technical skill to inform parliamentary reform processes • The natural election cycle process eroding capacity efforts when Members of Parliament (MPs) are not returned • Scalability of projects to meet burgeoning global demand • The complexity of the budget process and major cross-sectoral issues parliaments now face; and • Complexity of parliaments

  6. Objectives of WBI’s Parliamentary Strengthening Program Identify innovative approaches to reform (supplemented by applied research); Foster and strengthen parliamentary networks/ communities of practice to act as platforms for south-south learning; and Deliver targeted training to MPs and staff, including facilitating demand-driven action planning processes, in order to bolster the effectiveness of specific oversight committees

  7. WBI Model for Parliamentary Strengthening • Translate regional & global parliamentary knowledge into country-level action • Act as a connector to form Parliamentary Networks Applied research and captured practitioner experience shared with networks

  8. Focus Areas and Cross-Cutting Initiatives The three focus areas are: • Open Budgeting • Extractive Industries • Climate Change Cross-Cutting Initiatives: • Parliaments in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries • Parliamentary Staff Training

  9. Case-Study: Parliamentary Staff Training Staff Training Project consists of two pillars: • Broadening accessto training for junior parliamentary staff through the WBI’s e*Learning catalogue; and • Deepening accessfor mid-career parliamentary professionals through the development of a University Certified WBI Executive Training Course for Parliamentary Staff (to be piloted Summer 2012).

  10. Conclusion • Capacity development is a complex, multi-faceted process aimed at creating an environment conducive to improved performance • WBI’s approach to capacity strengthening combines all three approaches to parliamentary capacity building (individual, institutional, and networking) in a five stage change process aimed at translating global and regional parliamentary knowledge into country-level action • The change model used is adaptive and adopts participatory and adult learning techniques in order to achieve better capacity yields • WBI’s programming focuses on three focus areas (Open Budgeting, Extractive Industries, and Climate Change) and has two cross-cutting initiatives (Engagement in fragile and conflict-affected countries and Parliamentary Staff Training)

  11. Contact Mitchell O’Brien Governance Specialist Team Lead – Parliamentary Strengthening Program World Bank Institute Email: mobrien@worldbank.org Tel: +1 202 473 0972 Web: http://wbi.worldbank.org

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