Title: eAwareness Seminar Series for Asian Parliamentarians PARAGON Support for Asian Parliamentary Analysi
1e-Awareness Seminar Series for Asian
ParliamentariansPARAGON Support for Asian
Parliamentary Analysis Hanoi 14-15 July
andColombo 21-22 July
- Mr. Henrik Lindroth
- UNDP Programme Consultant for the PARAGON
Regional Governance Programme
2PARAGONS MISSION
To facilitate the creation of an enabling
environment to promote Human Security
Sustainable Human Development in Asia.
3PARAGONS PRIORITY OBJECTIVES AND ACTION AREAS
- OBJECTIVES
- Rights Based Development.
- Decentralization Community Empowerment.
- Peace Development.
- PRORITY ACTION AREAS
- Parliamentary Policy Analysis
- Transparency Media Governance
- Public Private Sector Accountability
4PARAGONS CROSS CUTTING THEMES
- CROSS-CUTTING THEMES
- Governance Poverty.
- Gender Governance.
- Citizen Voice Social Audits.
5TRANSPARENCY MEDIA AND GOVERNANCE
Access to information and the free flow of
information is essential to promote transparency,
strengthen accountability, protect human rights,
enhance service delivery and consequently reduce
poverty
6BURAUCRATIC AND SYNERGISTIC STRUCTURES AND
OPERATIONS
Highly Bureaucratic Structures. All information
secret unless explicitly made public. Informatio
n privatized. Information as power (for the
few) Synergistic Structures. All information
public unless explicitly made secret. Informatio
n publicized. Information as empowerment (for
the many)
7GOVERNANCE INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS
TECHNOLOGY (ICT)
- Governance, democratic governance, change
management and ICT. - Network of networks.
- Network of networks of change agents.
- Networks of networks of change agents and ICT.
8GOVERNANCE, DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE, CHANGE
MANAGEMENT ICT
Information and communications technology can
optimize access and the free flow of information
to strengthen governance, democratic governance
and change management from rule driven highly
bureaucratic structures to mission-driven
synergistic structures.
9 ICT AND PARLIAMENTARY FUNCTIONS
Oversight Role Monitoring process Level
of compliance Constituency related problem /
issues etc. Dissemination of information about
progress and development
10PARAGON RESULTS IN THE AREA OF PARLIAMENTARY
POLICY ANALYSIS
- Creation of an Independent Policy Analysis
Institute for the Mongolian Parliament (other
country requests pending) - Promotion and Institutionalisation of APPAN
- Conceptualisation and formation of APPAN sub
networks - - Trade Issues sub-network
- - Womens Caucuses sub-network
- - ICT Issues sub-network
11ASIA PARLIAMENTARY POLICY ANALYSIS NETWORK
(APPAN)
- Launched at the 3rd PARAGON Partners Meeting held
in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 28-31 August 2002 - Comprising select parliamentarians and
parliamentary think tank representatives from
Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR,
Malaysia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri
Lanka and Thailand
12SUGGESTED APPAN OBJECTIVES
- Enhancing parliamentarians access to research and
information services - Strengthening the availability and skills of
competent professional in house policy analysis
expertise - Evaluating the possibility of establishing a
self-sustaining network (with sub-networks) for
improved parliamentary policy analysis capacity - Identifying, documenting and disseminating
regional learning experiences on establishing
sustainable parliamentary policy analysis capacity
13SUGGESTED APPAN FOCUS AREAS
- Comparative models of decentralisation
experiences - Comparative counter-corruption mechanisms
- Parliaments role in capacity building for
vulnerable groups - Parliamentary capacity strengthening on trade
issues - ICT and parliamentary policy analysis
strengthening
14SUGGESTED APPAN OUTCOMES
- Strengthened parliamentary policy analysis
capacity - Increased understanding of parliamentary policy
analysis options and constraints - Establishment of parliamentary change agents that
will facilitate the formation of networks of
networks in priority areas - Improved legislation through strengthened policy
effectiveness - Strengthened legislative oversight of executive
branch policies
15APPAN ICT SUB-NETWORK
- Objective of APPAN ICT Network.
- Comprising parliamentarians from select Asian
countries - Mechanism for regular information sharing on
ICT advancements for parliamentary policy
analysis improvement - Sharing of experiences, needs and ideas on ICT
as a tool for improved policy formulation and
execution in the above mentioned areas (service
delivery systems) - Support and coordination from APDIP
16APPAN WEB SITE
- The Discussion Board
- News
- Documents
- APPAN workplan
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18Thank You