2007 Responsible Parliamentary Governance Course
The Responsible Parliamentary Governance (RPG) course is one of CDI’s major annual activities in the area of legislative strengthening. It is an intensive three-week program that examines the fundamental principles and doctrines underlying the practice of responsible parliamentary governance, and is designed for middle-level officials from CDI target countries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
The sixth annual RPG course took place at the Australian National University (ANU) from 3 to 21 September 2007. Using the Australian Commonwealth Parliament as the principal example, the course covers issues including constitutional foundations, the main activities of parliament, and related structures for accountability and scrutiny of administration.
A new development in 2007 was the involvement of the World Bank Institute (WBI) which supported the participation of a number of parliamentary officials from countries outside the usual scope of CDI activities, namely Laos, Sri Lanka and Thailand, who joined participants from East Timor, Fiji, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands in RPG this year.
In its six years of existence, the RPG course has now been undertaken by over 100 senior and middle-level parliamentary officials from the Asia-Pacific region. The course serves to strengthen parliamentary governance in the region by improving the skills, knowledge and capacity of parliamentary officials. As one of CDI’s flagship products, the RPG program continues to attract keen interest from parliaments in the region, and has become a core element of CDI’s training program.
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