Practical Guides
Member of Parliament’s Working Guide 2019
This guide provides the necessary information for MPs to perform their duties effectively by explaining their roles and responsibilities. The first part of this guide focuses mostly on practical information about the National Assembly of Burkina Faso in order to locate the deputy, especially those newly elected. The second part describes parliamentary work and discusses the various stages of the law-making process government oversight.
Topics of Focus:
- Good governance;
- Parliaments, oversight and accountability;
- Role of Members of Parliament
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Audit Methodological Guide 2019
This guide explains the methodology to follow during hearings conducted by standing committees of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso. It also provides a basic framework for writing committee reports.
Topics of Focus:
- Parliaments, oversight and accountability;
- Committee reports
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Legislation Drafting Guide 2019
This guide consists of two parts preceded by a preliminary chapter. The first part explains how to draft legislations, while the second one focuses with the procedure for adopting them.
Topics of Focus:
- Legislative drafting;
- Legislative amendment and analysis
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Gender Sensitive Research Guide 2019
This guide provides tools to researchers to help them find gender-sensitive results. It begins with a description of the research methodology by demonstrating the process of parliamentary research. The second part presents the exploitation of the results of parliamentary research through specific cases of research.
Topics of Focus:
- Legislative research and analysis;
- Parliaments and gender;
- Gender sensitivity
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Gender-Sensitive Amendment and Analysis of Legislation Guide 2019
This guide is intended as a practical, technical and scientific manual for MPs and parliamentary support staff to enable them to methodically and sensitively consider the bills introduced to them. It is simple and practical, and allows any user to easily analyze the legal qualities, substance, form, gender sensitivity of a draft law, as well as the draft budget law. With this guide, any MP wishing to analyze a draft legislative text knows how to.
Topics of Focus:
- Legislative amendment and analysis;
- Parliaments and gender;
- Gender sensitivity
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A Short Guide To Parliamentary Oversight Of The Oil & Gas Sector For The Parliament Of Ghana 2011
This short guide provides some basic information for parliamentarians exercising oversight of the emerging oil and gas sector in Ghana to ensure that good governance prevails in the sector. It provides information about the petroleum industry, the current oil and gas endowment in Ghana, and how to extract revenues from these industries.
Topics of Focus:
- Good governance;
- Parliaments and the extractive sector