Peer-to-peer partnership
South Africa
Priority 1
Strengthened Oversight
Priority 2
Enhancing Impactful Lawmaking
Priority 3
Enhancing Parliament’s Administration Function
EU Member States Parliaments
EU Member States Parliaments
Programme Timeline: September 2025 - August 31, 2026
PRIORITY 1
Oversight
- Evidence-Based Public Policy Implementation and Oversight (March 31, 2026): Members and staff of the Parliament of Sierra Leone participated in a webinar on evidence-based policymaking, exploring practical tools and approaches for using evidence to support policy implementation, oversight, and informed decision-making.
PRIORITY 2
Enhancing Lawmaking
- Post-Legislative Scrutiny Learning Exchange (March 30–31, 2026): Members and staff of the Parliament of South Africa participated in a learning exchange on post-legislative scrutiny, drawing on comparative experiences and good practices from several European parliaments to strengthen legislative oversight and evaluation.
PRIORITY 3
Enhancing Parliament’s Administration Function
- 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.
