African Parliaments Volume 2

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• Publisher: Sun Press
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN:
  9781991201539
• Edition: 0

The role parliaments play in governance is fundamentally political, and as a result, the institutional side of parliamentary organisations is often overlooked. This volume, together with the theoretical volume African Parliaments: Evidence systems for governance and development, takes a practical look at African parliaments as institutions, and explores the ways in which their structures and processes influence the use of evidence for decision making. A comparative approach helps the reader get a practical view of how this governance interplay is enacted within portfolio committees, on chamber floors, and on the campaign trail. This volume looks at various models parliaments have used to institutionalise evidence use, and considers the implications this has for governance.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Contributing Authors
• List of Tables and Figures
• List of Acronyms
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Reflections from Parliamentarians and Practitioners
• Introduction to the Volume
• 1: Strenghtening Parliamentary Capacity: What Works and Why?
• 1.1: Capacity-building Case Study: Regional Peer Learning
• 1.2: Capacity-building Case Study: Caka Yiko - Building Capacity to use Research Evidence
• 1.3: Capacity-building Case Study: The Malawi Parliamentary Support Initiative
• 1.4: Capacity-building Case Study: Standing Orders and Evidence-based Scrutiny at the National Assembly of The Gambia
• 2: The East Africna Legislative Assembly: Parliamentary Institutions and Implications for Evidence use
• 3: Ghana: Parliamentary Institutions and Implications for Evidence use
• 3.1: Case Study: Representation Systems and the Effect of the Electoral Cycle in Ghana
• 4: Parliaments and the National Statistics System in Ghana: A Critical RElationship for Evidence use
• 5: Kenya: Parliamentary Institutions and Implications for Evidence use
• 5.1: Notes from Practice: Parliamentary Coordination with the Evaluation Society of Kenya
• 6: South Africa: Parliamentary Institutions and Implications for Evidence use
• 7: Uganda: Parliamentary Institutions and Implications for Evidence use
• 7.1: Notes from Practice: Lessons on Citizen Engagement from the Uganda Parliament week
• 7.2: Notes from Practice: The Role of Pariamentary Budget Offices (PBOs) in Parliamentary Budget Oversight
• 8: Zambia: Parliamentary Institutions and Implications for Evidence use
• 9: Zimbabwe: Parliamentary Institutions and Implications for Evidence use
• 10: A Synthesis of Parliamentary Institutions and Evidence use