Working documents

WBI Parliamentary Programs in Asia, Saiful Bhuiyan, March 2011

Natural Resource Contract Transparency - Impact, Challenges, and Role for Parliamentarians, Patrick Heller, March 2011

Parliamentary Budget Offices: an instrument for effective budget oversight, Niall Johnston, Sept 2010

Corruption and Oversight in Latin America, Juan Manuel Galán Pachón, July 2010

Preventing Corruption: UNCAC Toolkit for Parliamentarians, May 2010

Preventing Corruption: UNCAC Toolkit for Parliamentarians - Summary Version, May 2010

Financial Oversight: A Handbook for Parliamentarians, GOPAC/World Bank Institute, June 2007

UN Convention Against Corruption, UNODC 2004
UNODC page that provides text of "United Nations Convention against Corruption" in six languages

Parliamentary Oversight and the UNCAC, Mitchell O’Brien, WBI, Bratislava, April 2009

Parliament, the Budget and Poverty in South Africa: A Shift in Power – IDASA

Effective and transparent government budgeting is vital to any democracy.   In South Africa where there exists massive poverty, inequality and unemployment in spite of the successful political transformation, citizens and Parliament have a particularly critical role to play in shaping budget policy and overseeing its implementation.   South Africa reached a crossroads in fiscal governance when it passed the Money Bills Amendment Act in 2009, a law which granted Parliament strong powers to amend the budget prepared by the executive. This publication explores the content of the new law as well as the challenges and opportunities arising from it.   It also discusses the role of Parliament in ensuring pro-poor budgeting.   Good fiscal governance is too important for the wellbeing of South Africans to not be a part of our public conversations. more...

http://www.idasa.org.za

Informing Democracy: Building Capacity to Meet Parliamentarian's Information and Knowledge Needs – IPU

In October 2008, the Conference on Informing Democracy was held with aim to enhance dialogue, mutual understanding and good practices among three segments of the parliamentary community – parliamentarians, secretaries general and parliamentary library and research offices. The report of the conference identifies some of the numerous information challenges faced by parliamentarians, and by parliamentary libraries and research services. It also points out ways in which parliaments are addressing these challenges, and sets out a path for greater international cooperation. more...

http://www.ipu.org/PDF/publications/inform_dem_en.pdf