CDI Sponsors 3rd Residential Summer School for Parliamentary Public Accounts Committees
The Public Sector Governance and Accountability Research Centre at La Trobe University in Melbourne recently held its 3rd annual Summer School for Parliamentary Public Accounts Committees. The course ran from 3 - 13 February 2008 and was sponsored by the World Bank Institute (WBI), the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) and CDI.
The Program focussed on building effective Public Accounts Committees as the Parliament's primary means of financial scrutiny of the Executive. It combined both the theoretical and the practical, with a six-day retreat style, training course at La Trobe University's Beechworth Campus, along with visits to a number of Australian Parliaments.
The Summer School is aimed at Chairs and Members of Public Accounts Committees, Auditors-General and Audit Office staff, and Public Accounts Committees staff. Participants from Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Liberia, Ethiopia and Bangladesh participated in 2008.
In addition to sponsoring the Summer School, CDI has taken the opportunity provided by having a large number of Parliamentary Committee staff present in Australia to inaugurate a new training course - CDI Effective Parliamentary Committee Inquiries Training Course - that follows on directly from the 2008 La Trobe Summer School. Click on the links below for details:
