In order to make Parliament productive and effective in its Parliamentary procedures, on Wednesday 25th September 2024, at Committee Room One, Parliament Building, during its usual Parliamentary Learning and Shearing series, with the support of The European Union Governance Team, launched four Corporate Governance Manuals that will help Members of Parliament and parliamentary staff enhance their skills and knowledge on parliamentary issues.
The four manuals include: Public Financial Management, Gender, Enhancing Parliamentary Legislative Capacity, and Corporate Governance.
While officially Launching the manuals, the Acting Deputy Clerk, Gilbert Nhabay, stated that they were prepared for the use of the four manuals for better equip in the training of parliamentarians and parliamentary staff.
The Acting Deputy Clerk said good things have come out of the Sierra Leone Parliament and noted that the manuals would be a testament.
He expressed thanks and appreciation to the soldiers of the process, like the governance team of the EU and the Sierra Leone Center for Strategy and Parliamentary Studies, among others. He said these manuals are going to be very useful, and he wants everyone to note that they are not going to keep them under their shelves.
โTrust me; we are going to do anything possible to ensure that these manuals are utilized because these manuals are going to be valuable to us, and we are going to be part of the implementation of these manuals in order for us to succeed,โ he said.
Also, Parliament has ended a two-day training program on its strategic plan for 2021- 2025.During the mid-term reflection of the strategic plan training at Committee Room One Parliament Building, the Director of CSPS, Mohamed Jalloh, outlined the objectives of the training. He emphasized that the training would focus on the Implementation progress of the strategic plan 2021-2025 and address the significant challenges faced during the implementation.
He said the objective also outlines best practices that could be adopted in implementing phase 2 of the plan within the current Parliamentary context. The objective is also to develop actionable plans for successfully implementing the revised strategies and the key priorities and pillars for the next planning phase.
The two-day program focused on setting the stage for the strategic plan (2021-2025) progress review and reviewing the challenges and obstacles to implementing the plan.