South Africa

INTER PARES Partnership with the Parliament of South Africa

Peer-to-peer partnership

South Africa

Priority 1 Strengthened Oversight

Priority 2 Enhancing Impactful Lawmaking

Priority 3 Enhancing Parliament’s Administration Function

PRIORITY 1

Enhance Members of Parliament, committees and knowledge understanding of oversight, especially under coalition governments to ensure that the Executive responds to Parliament’s oversight.
Developing effective, concrete mechanisms to ensure that resolutions are actionable, monitored and tracked, have consequences and are followed up on, including use of an IT based tracking system to spur analytics, automated follow up methods and early warnings.
Developing operating procedures to strengthen meaningful public consultation, parliament’s use of public inputs in oversight activities
Enhancing gender analysis in budgeting and oversight

PRIORITY 2

Developing legislative drafting and review capacity and operationalizing processes to ensure that bills are effective in their intent and enforceable.
Operationalizing more effective public participation mechanisms to ensure engagement is meaningful and used throughout the legislative process.
Generating methods for incorporating gender analysis in lawmaking

PRIORITY 3

Identify methods to adapt parliamentary procedures and processes in situations of changing composition of parliament’s membership, while maintaining integrity of parliamentary processes
Identify processes to render plenary sessions more effective, such as mini-plenaries, procedures for interpellations, questions to ministers and others.
Identify ways to enhance parliamentary research and training, including the organization and functions of parliamentary institutes, and how external expertise and knowledge of civil society organizations, community-based organizations, and local groups can be accessed and used.