AGORA eLearning Portal for Parliamentary Development

• Identify the key texts that outline gender sensitive parliamentary norms
• Identify, in their own parliamentary contexts, key decision makers and influencers that will support gender sensitive change
• Critically assess the merits and applicability to their own parliamentary context of gender sensitive changes that have been adopted elsewhere
• Design and defend a contextually-appropriate gender sensitive parliamentary change.

At the end of this course, learners should have developed

• Understanding of the key societal changes that have affected representation in recent decades;
• Understanding of the key role played by modern parliaments in representation;
• Knowledge and understanding of the five core processes of representation;
• Ability to identify and critically evaluate examples of best practice in representation; and
• Ability to critically reflect on their own practices of representation.

This course was written by Professor Cristina Leston-Bandeira, University of Leeds.

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At the end of this course, you will better understand: 

1. Why parliaments engage on climate change
2. The (international) legal framework
3. Parliamentary action on climate change
4. Climate budgeting and climate finance
5. Parliamentary practice on climate change

Throughout, you will be able to explore a wide range of case studies from across Europe and beyond.  

The course consists of 5 modules. Please click on the "Launch the learning module" in order to start the course

This course was written by former MP (New Zealand) Dr. Kennedy Graham.

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This course analyses procedures and practices of law-making in contemporary democracies.

• The first part places law-making among other parliamentary functions, underlining the close interrelationship and intertwining between the main features of the law-making process and the form of government.
• The second part is devoted to parliamentary procedures for law-making and is divided into two sections: (a1) a historical approach, exploring the main models adopted in the UK, France and US (respectively, the tThree rReadings in the UK; the “‘Bureaux System”’ in France; and the Permanent Specialized Committees in the US), and (b2) a section focusing on a key driver of the transformation of law-making procedures: the growing complexity of legislation (‘complexification’), a key factor that is transforming contemporary law-making procedures.
• The third and final part explores specific law-making practices through a comparative study of different jurisdictions.

This course was written by Professor Nicola Lupo, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali.

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• Contexto Pro PALOP-TL ISC
• Fases do ciclo orçamental e kit
• Como aplicar critério PFC
• Monitoria OGE pelas OSC

As tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TIC) estão a transformar não só a forma de comunicação interpessoal, mas também a partilha de informação, o funcionamento dos locais de trabalho e as formas de mobilização política a nível mundial. As TIC são um fator despoletador da abertura, acessibilidade e responsabilização dos parlamentos. Estas tecnologias agem como um canal bidirecional de interação entre o parlamento e os cidadãos.

O curso baseia-se no conteúdo dos seminários do projeto, incluindo uma conferência sobre “Seguimento e Fiscalização dos ODS e Ajuda Externa: O Papel dos Parlamentos”, organizada na Guiné-Bissau em agosto de 2017.

O curso oferece a capacitaçao necessaria  quer a parlamentares quer a cidadaos para que tenham a oportunidade de participar no processo orçamental e permite aos Executivos poder responder atraves de um processo orçamental aberto às diferentes solicitaçoes e pressoes, e permite tambem que se verifique a efectiva implementaçao e execuçao orçamental.

Disponivel em: English, Português

This course is a new version of the 'Parliaments in Practice: an Introduction' course with special focus on Myanmar