Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) led GTF programme

GTF Number 394

Strengthening Human Resources Development in Southern Parliaments

Key Facts

  • Start date: 22 September 2008
  • End date: 21 September 2013
  • Amount of DFID funding £5,000,000

Develop a South-led, sustainable model for building the capacity of the Parliaments of Georgia, Lebanon, Mozambique, Uganda, Ukraine and Yemen. The project will address ongoing capacity issues resulting from the lack of skills and knowledge among parliamentary staff across southern parliaments around the key areas of representation, legislation and oversight. The project aims to create the conditions to establish self-sustaining Parliamentary Studies Centres (PSC) in each participating country by building capacity to deliver effective parliamentary training within local institutions.

Experience in the five programme countries is expected to provide the elements of a training model that will be transferable to other countries where parliamentary effectiveness and oversight needs to be strengthened.

Last updated: 03 Oct 2011