Evaluating Parliament. A Self-Assessment Toolkit for Parliaments
ORGANISATION
Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
DESCRIPTION
The purpose of this toolkit is to assist parliaments in assessing how they perform against widely accepted criteria for democratic parliaments. Specifically the method assesses: (1) the representativeness of parliament; (2) parliamentary oversight over the executive; (3) parliament’s legislative capacity; (4) the transparency and accessibility of parliament; (5) the accountability of parliament; and (6) parliament’s involvement in international policy.
PURPOSE
Awareness-raising and policy dialogue
FOCUS
Anti-Corruption (In practice)
Anti-Corruption (In law)
Sector / Institution
Legislature / Parliament
LEVEL
National
FIRST USED
2008
METHODOLOGY
Qualitative
Quantitative
DATA COLLECTION METHOD
Self-assessment
Focus groups
Checklist/questionnaire
LANGUAGE
English