Team members from the implementing partner organizations of the Global Affairs Canada / Affaires mondiales Canada-funded Inclusive Legislatures for Gender Responsive Policies (ILGRP) project, Dr. Rasheed Draman, the Executive Director for African Centre for Parliamentary Affairs- ACEPA, Mr. Peter Hadwen, the Program Director of Africa & MENA, Parliamentary Centre in Canada, and the Project Officer of the […]
The Inclusive Legislatures for Gender-Responsive Policies (ILGRP) project team in Kenya organised working sessions with the Kenya National Assembly staff from the Directorate of Legal Services. The sessions focused on the law-making process, parliamentary practices, and experiences in formulation and/or amendment and scrutiny of draft laws to make them more inclusive and gender-responsive. They also included a[…]
Hon. Adama Bictogo, Speaker of the National Assembly of Côte d’Ivoire on the 23rd of September 2024, opened the 10th Annual Conference and General Assembly of the West Africa Association of Public Accounts Committees (WAAPAC). The week-long conference which was being hosted by the National Assembly of Côte d’Ivoire was on the theme “Domestic revenue mobilisation for[…]
From August 12th to 15th, 2024, a Delocalized Meeting of the Joint Committee on Administration, Finance and Budget; Public Accounts; and Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Research of the ECOWAS Parliament took place in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. The meeting’s theme was “The Role of ECOWAS Parliament in Community Budget Formulation and Monitoring”. Dr. Rasheed Draman, our Executive Director,[…]
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JulThe Fanteakwa North District was carved out of the East Akim District in 1988 by Legislative Instrument (L.I) 1411 of 1988 and the Local Government Act, Act 462 of 1993 with Begoro as the capital. In recent years, the literacy rate in the Fanteakwa North District has shown steady progress, particularly considering it is a farming community.[…]
The African Centre for Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA) is looking for a consultant in Kenya to enhance the capacity of legislatures to initiate, debate, amend and pass inclusive and gender responsive laws, including gender responsive budgets and legislation through conducting an economic and gender analysis and present results to parliamentary committees and caucuses to initiate draft laws and[…]
The African Center for Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA) has described as unfortunate the spat between the Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin and the Member of Parliament for Sefwi-Wiawso, Dr Kwaku Afriyie. On July 22, Alban Bagbin asked the Marshal to walk the Member of Parliament for Sefwi-Wiawso, out of the house over a comment deemed disrespectful. This action followed[…]
The Executive Director of the African Center for Parliamentary Affairs, Dr. Rasheed Draman has called on Parliament to initiate strict sanctions to address the issue of absenteeism in the House. Dr. Rasheed’s concern follows complaints by the Minority that most members of the Majority have abandoned parliamentary business for campaign tours with the flagbearer of the New[…]
The African Centre for Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA) is seeking a consultant for our Kenya team as part of the Inclusive Legislatures for Gender Responsive Policies (ILGRP) project. The consultant will help conduct a gender analysis and inform the review and/or development (where appropriate) of parliamentary tools, manuals, and methodology on practices and processes used in initiating, scrutinizing,[…]
A group picture of the Delegation. We are happy to have hosted a delegation from the Parliament of Uganda from the 13th to the 18th of May 2024. Led by the Leader of Opposition, Hon. Joel Senyonyi, the delegation took part in a course on Strengthening the Role of the Opposition in Parliament for Effective Governance and[…]