eAwareness Seminar Series for Asian Parliamentarians PARAGON Support for Asian Parliamentary Analysi

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e-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

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PARAGONS MISSION
To facilitate the creation of an enabling
environment to promote Human Security
Sustainable Human Development in Asia.
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PARAGONS 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

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PARAGONS CROSS CUTTING THEMES

• CROSS-CUTTING THEMES
• Governance Poverty.
• Gender Governance.
• Citizen Voice Social Audits.

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TRANSPARENCY 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
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BURAUCRATIC 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)
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GOVERNANCE 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.

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GOVERNANCE, 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.
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ICT AND PARLIAMENTARY FUNCTIONS
Oversight Role Monitoring process Level
of compliance Constituency related problem /
issues etc. Dissemination of information about
progress and development
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PARAGON 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

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ASIA 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

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SUGGESTED 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

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SUGGESTED 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

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SUGGESTED 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

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APPAN 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

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APPAN WEB SITE

• The Discussion Board
• News
• Documents
• APPAN workplan

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