The Parliamentary Centre supports parliaments to establish networks that promote mutual learning and exchanges on good practices for democratic governance. It does this through the documentation of benchmarks and the establishment of strong networks between participants who come from a wide variety of legislatures from around the world.
What We Do
Parliamentary Networks
Parliamentarians represent their legislatures at home and abroad by participating in parliamentary Networks. Formal parliamentary networks operating on a multilateral level promote shared interests and good practices.
Partners
Parliamentarians
Parliamentary Staff
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)
Parliamentary Development Organizations
Government Officials
Related Programs
African Parliamentary Poverty Reduction Network Support Initiative (APRN, 2006-2011)
The African Parliamentary Poverty Reduction Network (APRN) Support Initiative supported a network of parliamentary committees engaged in the design, implementation and oversight of poverty reduction policies. The network promoted great cross-African dialogue among committees and contributed to the effective implementation of poverty reduction programs, particularly through
local level monitoring with community-based civil society groups. This initiative was supported by the Austrian Development Agency.
African Parliamentarians’ Network Against Corruption (APNAC)
Parliamentary Centre has worked closely with the African Parliamentarians Network Against Corruption (APNAC) to strengthen the capacities of African parliamentarians to fight corruption in their respective countries to ensure higher standards of integrity. The Centre has hosted the offices of APNAC offices in, both Ottawa, and Nairobi, Kenya. The Centre also hosted APNAC’s Secretariat in its
regional office in Accra, Ghana, to coordinate activities and work towards building the network’s long-term sustainability together.
African Network For the Promotion of Women Parliamentarians (ANPWP)
The ANPWP evolved from the Women’s Working Group on Gender (WWGG), which emanated from a consultative process of the Africa-Canada Parliamentary Strengthening Program (ACPSP) funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Two years into operation, the Gender Equality Network initiated a self-assessment process to reflect on the accomplishments to date as well as on the future orientation of the network. It was decided that, while network activities will continue to involve male parliamentarians, the mandate of the network will focus on improving the contribution of women parliamentarians in decision-making positions.