Project: Monitoring of parliamentary committees
Partner: Parliamentary Monitoring Group
Duration: 8.11.2012 – 7.11.2017
Budget: 200.000 euro
With the support of the Parliamentary Monitoring Group, Flanders wants to help monitor the government policy on employment and agriculture and promote the participation of civil society around these themes in the relevant government policies. In this way attention is devoted to good governance in South Africa and the accountability towards citizens is increased.
The Parliament of the Republic of South Africa consists of 52 parliamentary committees. There is no accessible and public registration of what goes on during parliamentary sessions. It is very difficult to know what was presented and discussed during a session, unless one actually participated in it. As a result, the Parliament is not encouraged to render account and it is difficult for civil society to ask the Parliament questions.
The Parliamentary Monitoring Group was established to support the activities of the parliamentary committees and to disseminate objective information.
Flanders wants to assist the activities of the PMG and more specifically with regard to:
- monitoring the activities of parliamentary committees that are relevant in the framework of the thematic focus of development cooperation between Flanders and South Africa;
- making information from the parliamentary committees available to public bodies and civil society organisations.