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and the Africa All Party Parliamentary Group (AAPPG) are pleased
to announce a new series of four public meetings which will explore
the role that parliaments in developing countries can play in delivering
governance which is accountable and good for development.
Parliaments have an important role to play in delivering governance
which is effective in terms of reducing poverty and building democracy.
Parliaments can also play an important role in ensuring that aid
is spent effectively. In practice, in most developing countries
– not to mention a large number of developed countries –
parliaments are ineffective.
This joint ODI and Africa All Party Parliamentary Group series
will explore the role played by parliaments in developing countries,
and examine what donors and others might do to help such parliaments
perform more effectively.
If you would like to attend any of the meetings
in this series, please send an email with your name, organisation,
contact details and the titles(s) and date(s) of the meetings you
wish to attend to: meetings@odi.org.uk
Meeting one
Parliaments, governance
and accountability: What role for parliaments in poverty reduction?
Wednesday 18 April, 1.00-2.30PM
Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House, Victoria Embankment, London SW1A
2LW
The first meeting will examine the role that parliaments can play
in delivering governance which is good for poverty reduction and
democracy. It will ask how effective developing country parliaments
are in practice and examine the reasons for good and bad parliamentary
performance.
Speakers:
Alan Hudson, Research Fellow, Poverty and Public
Policy Group, ODI
Niall Johnston, Senior Parliamentary Consultant to the
World Bank Institute
Lisa von Trapp, Consultant, Parliamentary Strengthening
Program, World Bank Institute
Chair: Baroness Janet Whitaker, Member
of Africa APPG Executive
Meeting two
Parliamentary
strengthening: Strategies and successes
Tuesday 1 May, 1.00-2.30PM
Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House, Victoria Embankment, London SW1A
2LW
The second meeting will ask why donors have tended to neglect parliaments,
and, where donor support for parliaments is forthcoming, what forms
this takes. It will also seek to identify proven strategies for
parliamentary strengthening and ask how the effectiveness of such
strategies, as well the performance of parliaments themselves, can
be measured.
Speakers:
Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for International
Development
Scott Hubli, Parliamentary Development Policy Adviser,
Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP
Chair: Hugh Bayley MP, Chair, Africa APPG
Meeting three
Parliaments,
budgets and aid: Accountability and effectiveness
Wednesday 16 May, 1.00-2.30PM
Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House, Victoria Embankment, London SW1A
2LW
The third meeting will ask what role parliaments can and
should play in overseeing budgets and in enhancing aid effectiveness.
It will examine how relations with donors and international financial
institutions impact on the ability of parliaments to exercise effective
budget/aid oversight. It will also look at how civil society organisations
have worked with parliaments to help them to exercise such oversight.
Speakers:
Martin Powell, World Development Movement and International
Parliamentarians’ Petition
Joachim Wehner, Lecturer in public choice and public
policy, Government Department, London School of Economics
Discussant: Edward Leigh MP, Chair, Public
Accounts Committee
Chair: Sally Keeble MP, Secretary, Africa
APPG
Meeting four
Politics, parliamentarians
and the public: The politics of parliaments and constituency relations
Wednesday 23 May, 1.00-2.30PM
Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House, Victoria Embankment, London SW1A
2LW
The final meeting in the series will examine how the wider political
system – constitutions, electoral systems and political parties
– impact on the effectiveness of parliaments. It will also
explore the issue of how MPs engage with their citizen-voters, and
how this shapes the performance of both individual MPs and parliaments
as a whole.
Speakers:
Dr Rasheed Draman, Director of African Programmes, Canadian
Parliamentary Centre (Ghana)
Hon Dr Benjamin Kunbuor, Member of Parliament,
Ghana
Discussant: Dr William Shija, Secretary
General, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
Chair: Hugh Bayley MP, Chair, Africa APPG
If you would like to attend any of the meetings in this
series, please send an email with your name, organisation, contact
details and the titles(s) and date(s) of the meetings you wish to
attend to: meetings@odi.org.uk
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