This study conducted by the DAC Network on Governance explores innovative ways to improve support to accountability in developing countries. It highlights the need for a more holistic, comprehensive approach to accountability support and more deference to partners as they evolve their systems and as external actors facilitate relevant processes. It proposes a system-based approach where all accountability actors take part in the country’s own development script.
These Common Principles for Support to Parliaments were adopted by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Governing Council at its 195th session, in Geneva, 16 October 2014.
This helpdesk research report identifies reviews of parliamentary strengthening efforts and examines documents of a number of programmes explicitly termed as parliamentary strengthening programmes. .
This Study provides an overview of the players, methods, themes, strategies, reference frameworks, main activities and implementation modalities applied in the area of parliamentary strengthening.
The study provides an insight in the status and work of the Parliamentary research services in Belgrade, Pristina, Skopje and Tirana. The aim of the study is to inform how research feeds into existing parliamentary processes and to identify benefit to Members, Members' staff and Parliamentary staff from the use of the research services.
