Modernizing the Parliament for Democratic Governance
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Under the project, the Parliament envisages using ICT tools to enhance capabilities in its key functional areas and empower the average citizen with knowledge and information on important issues of the country and of parliamentary decisions that impact their daily life, and thereby enable them to become active partners in the country’s developmental process. In summary, the project seeks to assist in the modernization of parliament by increasing its capability to exercise its basic legislative, oversight and representational functions.
Contact Person(s): Mr. Shane Sheils, Assistant Resident Representative shane.sheils@undp.org
Project Period: March 2005 – February 2007
Partner(s): Parliament of Sri Lanka
Outputs/Outcomes
- Committee system strengthened and reorganized as required by parliamentarians, for improved performance of legislative and oversight functions.
- Structure and organization of Secretariat revamped, providing clear differentiation of administrative, legislative and technical support areas, and sufficient human, technical and material resources in place for improved, continuing operation.
- Human resources plan approved and implemented. Human resources upgraded in quantity and quality, fully capable of providing required backstopping to Members, Committees, legislative authorities and Secretariat, in all operative units of parliament.
- State-of-the-art parliamentary ICT services to assist Members, staff, the media and civil society, based on a long-term ICT strategy and including library, archives, research, Hansard, web and Cyber Café.
- Public knowledge of parliament’s activity improved; increased awareness of the role of parliament in the consolidation of democratic governance; enhanced role of parliament as a representative institution through dynamic engagement in national reconciliation, involvement of and interaction with all sectors of society, including the media and civil society in the parliament’s work and taking into account gender issues in parliamentary processes; more prominent role for parliament as a forum for debate on major issues of national and international concern.
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