The Open Parliament Index (OPI) is a legislative transparency tool developed to assess the level of openness – transparency, accountability, and citizen inclusion – in African parliaments. In 2022, the maiden edition of the OPI was published, measuring 13 national parliaments in West Africa. What are the objectives of the OPI? There are three main […]
History and Background of APMON: The Africa Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Network (APMON) is a network of non-governmental organizations and coalitions of civil society organizations that monitors the work of and/or regularly engages national, subnational, and regional parliaments across Africa. APMON is committed to enhancing parliamentary transparency, accountability, and citizen inclusion in parliamentary work across the […]
In line with its capacity-building objective, the Parliamentary Network Africa (PNAfrica) organized capacity-building workshops to train PMOs in Africa on various topics relevant to the delivery of its mandate. As part of the training, PMOs in Africa were taken through various tools they could use to build their networks. They were also taken through the […]
Leaving no stone unturned in giving visibility to parliamentary-related issues, PN Africa has published content to promote open parliaments in the Parliamentary Newspaper over the years. another sector managed by the organization as a means of dissemination of information. The Parliamentary Newspaper began as an advocacy newspaper in 2015 intended to bridge the communication gap […]
In 2023, the Parliamentary Network Africa (PNAfrica), a Civil Society Organization championing Open Parliament in Africa, embarked on several projects to strengthen civil society capacity and networking for the advancement of civic participation, parliamentary transparency and accountability across national and regional legislatures. These activities were necessitated following some recommendations made in its maiden edition of […]
As part of the Gender Advocacy to Parliament (GAP) Project, the Parliamentary Network Africa (PNAfrica) collaborated with the Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of the Parliament of Ghana to deliberate on the Interstate Succession Bill on 29th May 2023. During the session, Mr. Sammy Obeng, the Executive Director of PNAfrica, addressed Members of Parliament […]
By Joana Oppong Anani In an attempt to fill the gender inequality gap in all spheres of national life including politics and governance, the Parliamentary Network Africa (PNAfrica) successfully saw through the implementation of the Gender Advocacy to Parliament (GAP) project with funding support from the French Embassy in Ghana. Female MPs in Ghana face […]
On 29th December 2020, our President assented to the first Private Members Bill (PMB) which is now known as the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 2020 (Act 1054). That piece of legislation, sponsored by the following MPs: Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, Haruna Iddrisu, Ras Mubarak and Ben Abdallah Banda, has its long title as “AN ACT to amend […]
LEGISLATIVE ALERT Edition: GH011 | November 20, 2023