INTER PARES courses

INTER PARES | Parliaments in Partnership is the EU’s Global Programme to Strengthen the Capacity of Parliaments. INTER PARES will complement its in-person peer-to-peer exchange activities with online learning opportunities, hosted on the AGORA Portal.

The INTER PARES e-learning package comprises of six core courses (oversight; legislative drafting; comparative law-making; representation; budgeting and committee work) as well as a set of specialised courses, including gender and environmental protection and climate change.

Course list

Climate Change and Environmental Protection
Comparative Law-making
Human Rights
Legislative Drafting
Open Parliaments
Parliamentary Oversight
Parliaments in Practice
Representation
Técnica Legislativa
The Role of Parliament in Achieving Gender Equality
The Role of Parliament in the Budgeting Process
The Role of Parliamentary Committees
Youth Participation: Pathways for Parliaments
NEW: Effective Human Rights Engagement for Parliaments
Open Parliaments
Parliamentary Oversight

Building on the IDEA Inter pares toolkit,https://www.idea.int/sites/default/files/publications/effective-human-rights-engagement-for-parliamentary-bodies.pdf this course aims to provide those elected to or working in parliaments with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively engage with human rights issues and promote active human rights engagement by their parliaments. Participants will learn about the role of parliament in promoting and protecting human rights, as well as the strategies, procedures and practices that promote effective human rights engagement.

This course was written by Professor Kirsten Roberts Lyer, Central European University .

NEW: Open Parliaments
Open Parliaments

At the end of this course, you will:

  • Have a good grasp of the core ideas behind transparency, accountability and participation in an open parliament context;
  • Have an overview of the evidence base and our evolving understanding of these issues;
  • Have a roadmap of possible actions you could take in your parliament, drawn from a wide range of insights and examples.

This course was written by Lotte Geunis, Senior Parliamentary Advisor, International IDEA

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Parliaments in Practice: an Introduction
Parliamentary Oversight
Parliaments in Practice

This 'Parliaments in Practice: an Introduction' course is designed for legislators who are new to parliament, and for parliamentary staff, practitioners, donors, civil society organisations and others who want to learn about how parliament works.

Available in: es fr ru pt
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The Role of Parliament in Achieving Gender Equality
Human Rights
The Role of Parliament in Achieving Gender Equality

Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to:

  • Identify the key texts that outline gender sensitive parliamentary norms
  • Identify, in their own parliamentary contexts, key decision makers and influencers that will support gender sensitive change
  • Critically assess the merits and applicability to their own parliamentary context of gender sensitive changes that have been adopted elsewhere
  • Design and defend a contextually-appropriate gender sensitive parliamentary change.
Available in: EN