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A training course on Basic Parliamentary Communications for parliamentary staff was organised by the Parliamentary Centre of Asia from 12 to 16 September 2022. Participants who are staff from the parliamentary Commissions, and Secretariats to Senator Groups to the eight regions – representing the Senate and the National Assembly play key roles in supporting communications between parliamentary commissions, senator groups to regions and relevant authorities at different levels, various stakeholders, and in the organisation of workshops and public consultation forums. The 28 trainees (12 female and 16 male) – 19 from the Senate and nine from the National Assembly –...

13 parliamentary staff received certificates award for their dedicated commitment in completion of Training on Public Policy Communication The Parliamentary Centre of Asia (PCAsia) hosted the ceremony to handover certificates to the 13 parliamentary  staff of the Cambodian Parliament on 2 September. Joining them in the virtual event was His Excellency LOK Chhay, Acting Secretary General of the Senate on behalf of His Excellency the Secretary General of the Senate, His Excellency KAY Ketninn, Director General of Legislation and Research of the National Assembly, on behalf of His Excellency the Secretary General of the National Assembly, and Ms Susan FONG,...

Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR, August 29, 2022 During 24-25 August 2022, the third intake of the Workshop on Parliamentary Committee Work was organized at the National Assembly of Lao PDR with 42 participating parliamentary committee staff, including 19 from Cambodia, 19 from Laos, two from the Philippines and two from Thailand. It is the first joint programme between the National Assembly of Lao PDR and the Parliamentary Centre of Asia, and the first time PCAsia has delivered its training physically in Laos. Opening remarks were presented by Dr. Bounthanh Bounvilay, Deputy Secretary General, and Head of the International Cooperation and...

Phnom Penh, August 19, 2022:  After a three-month training, August 19 marked the end of the 8th intake of the PCAsia capacity development Programme on Parliamentary Research. Upon the successful completion of the online training by the 10 participants who joined the program from the parliaments of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Thailand, a certificate ceremony was held in recognition of their efforts, active engagement, and commitment. The event was attended by distinguished guests and representatives from the Parliaments of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Thailand, along with the Director of the Capacity Development Department of PCAsia, and PCAsia instructors. The Programme...

The methodical and effective drafting of legislation is an essential part of parliamentary work, as noted by the Director of the Capacity Development Department of the Parliamentary Centre of Asia (PCAsia) at the opening of the seminar on “Legislative Drafting Techniques and Procedures: an Overview of Legislative Drafting Work”, held on 17-18 August 2022. PCAsia organised the seminar to contribute to the improvement in knowledge of parliamentary staff of the participating AIPA Member Parliaments on legislative theory, principles, standards, and methods used to design legislation, as well as the techniques for drafting and revising legislation. The training was delivered in...

Phnom Penh, 13 July 2022: After eight weeks of training, from 2 May to 8 July 2022, today marks the end of the fourth intake of the Programme on Parliamentary Diplomacy (PPD) and the successful completion of the training by the 19 participants who joined the programme from AIPA Member Parliaments and the AIPA Secretariat, a certificate ceremony was held in recognition of their efforts, commitment, active engagement, strong solidarity and networking. It was attended by distinguished guests and representatives from the AIPA Secretariat, the Parliaments of Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, and Professor Michel Foucher and PCAsia. Consistently,...

The aim of the PCAsia Programme on Parliamentary Diplomacy (PCAsia-PPD) is to strengthen capacity of parliamentary staff to better support the diplomacy work of their respective Parliaments. This training, now in its fourth year as a regional programme unique for the Southeast Asia region, officially opened on 2 May 2022 from the PCAsia Representative Office inside the Cambodian Senate compound. The opening sessions was introduced by PCAsia Executive Director Mr Dararith KIM YEAT, Professor Michel FOUCHER, former French Ambassador and Director of the Programme on Parliamentary Diplomacy, and Mr Xavier NUTTIN, former official of the European Parliament, currently a Senior...

This year is the third time that the Cambodian Parliament is serving as Chair of AIPA. To support the Parliament prepare for what will be the 43rd AIPA General Assembly, PCAsia organised a training on Drafting Techniques for staff from key departments of the General Secretariats of the Senate and National Assembly. The training took place from 21 January to 18 March 2022 with the participation of 17 trainees, including 9 women). During the training, Dr CHHEANG Vannarith, an expert instructor whose expertise is in policy communication helped guide trainees in the methods to draft resolutions, meeting scenarios, meeting reports...

After three weeks, from 24 November to 14 December 2021, the 5th series of the training seminar on “An Overview of the Parliamentary Responsibilities: Strengthening the Institutions” has come to an end. Despite being delivered virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which limited physical interaction among participants and resource persons, the 32 attendees from AIPA Member Parliaments and KPI showed their commitment and interest in learning and sharing experiences about the similarities and diversity of parliamentary practices of various parliaments, including from the French Senate and National Assembly, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada, the Swedish Parliament, the European Institute...

The 2021 Training Seminar on “An Overview of Parliamentary Responsibilities: Strengthening the Institutions” will be run for four weeks from 24 November to 14 December, hosted by the Parliamentary Centre of Asia (PCAsia) after its successful evolution from the Parliamentary Institute of Cambodia (PIC) earlier this year. On the afternoon of 24 November 2021, the official opening of this training seminar was delivered by H.E. Mrs NGUYEN Tuong Van, Secretary General of the ASEAN Inter Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA). During the first session, there were 32 attendees from participating AIPA Member Parliaments and from King Prajadhipok’s Institute (KPI), with resource persons...

The world’s shared challenges require collective responses, and Parliaments have a decisive role to play. This became evident to all those involved in four-months of online training starting from 05 July to 28 October 2021, the third intake of the PCAsia Programme on Parliamentary Diplomacy (PCAsia-PPD). Fittingly, the main objective of the PCAsia-PPD is to provide trainees with knowledge, skillsets and techniques that will enable them to better support their Parliamentarians in their increasing role in international/foreign affairs. Thirty trainees from AIPA Member Parliaments, including from the AIPA Secretariat, attended the two main parts of the programme. The first part...

The thoughtful and methodical drafting of legislation is crucial to support parliamentary functions, especially the legislation function. This was the key message expressed by the Executive Director of the Parliamentary Centre of Asia (PCAsia) on the afternoon of 22 October 2021. Thus, to contribute to improving the knowledge of parliamentary staff from AIPA Member Parliaments on legislative theory, principles, standards and methods on how to design good legislation and techniques for drafting and reviewing legislation, the Parliamentary Centre of Asia (PCAsia) organized a two-afternoon seminar on “Legislative Drafting Techniques and Procedures: An Overview of Legislative Drafting Work” held on 21...

The Cambodian Parliament will host the 11th Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership Meeting (ASEP 11) meeting on 16 November 2021. The Parliament has much work to prepare the necessary documents to support an international meeting of this scale. In response to the Parliament request, the Parliamentary Centre of Asia (PCAsia) has initiated a training on “Drafting techniques to support the 11th ASEP meeting”. Parliamentary staff, who are directly involved in helping to draft the documents to support this meeting were nominated to participate. The training has been conducted once a week from 13 August to 17 September 2021, delivered online. Adopting the...

Parliamentary committees are a vital part of the work of Parliament. They investigate issues and proposed laws in detail so that lawmakers can make well-informed decisions. They play an instrumental role in debating complex issues and scrutinizing the executive, therefore ensuring proper checks and balances. In particular, they examine bills and conduct subject matter studies, review government policies, and analyze how government uses budget funds. Parliamentary staff plays a vital role in the work of parliamentary committees by providing analytical, administrative and technical support to committee members. To contribute to improving the effective support of parliamentary committees, the second version...

PCAsia is honored to be invited as an AIPA Partner to participate in the 42nd General Assembly of AIPA under the presidency of the Legislative Council of Brunei Darussalam. The theme of the 42nd AIPA General Assembly focuses on the contribution of AIPA Member Parliaments to the realisation of ASEAN Community 2025 by improving parliamentary partnership through digital inclusion. Three delegates from PCAsia were registered to join the General Assembly taking place from 23 to 25 August 2021 virtually. Those delegates are Mr. Dararith KIM YEAT, Executive Director; Mrs. Kunthea KONG, Manager of Institutional Development Department; and Mr. Sonya HENG,...

On the morning of 16 July 2021, the signing ceremony for the Memorandum of Understanding between the General Secretariats of the Senate and of the National Assembly of Cambodia and the Parliamentary Centre of Asia (PCAsia) was organized via videoconference and presided over by H.E. Mr OUM Sarith, Secretary General of the Senate, H.E. Mr LENG Penglong, Secretary General of the National Assembly, and Mr KIM-YEAT Dararith, Executive Director of PCAsia. The signing of this MoU builds an official cooperation framework for partnership between the Cambodian Parliament and PCAsia in jointly organising capacity strengthening programmes for Cambodian parliamentary staff on...

The Parliamentary Centre of Asia (PCAsia) organised a regional programme on “Fiscal Analysis Capacity Training (FACT)”, from 12 July 2021 to December 2022.  Sixteen parliamentary staff have been selected to participate in this training programme. The program is funded by Sida and the EU under the Partnership for Accountability and Transparency Programme (PAT). The objectives of the programme are to increase the capacity of parliamentary staff to perform fiscal analysis related tasks, and to increase transparency of public funds in pursuit of the democratic principle of the parliamentary oversight function.  The training programme consists of three training modules, starting from...

The Parliamentary Centre of Asia (PCAsia) has just begun an online Programme on Parliamentary Diplomacy that will run for ten weeks, from 5 July through 10 September, followed by a one-week simulation session in late October 2021. Involved are 30 trainees from AIPA Member Parliaments including staff from the AIPA Secretariat. The programme is being offered by PCAsia, established in early 2021 as the successor of the Parliamentary Institute of Cambodia, founded in 2011, a transition that reflects an expansion of activities with parliaments across ASEAN region and encouraged through a MoU with the ASEAN Inter-parliamentary Assembly (AIPA). PCAsia-PPD’s aim...

The virtual Training Seminar on Parliamentary Responsibilities held its last day and closing ceremony on 6 November 2020. The ceremony was attended by H.E. Mr Srun Dara, Deputy Secretary General of the National Assembly of Cambodia and Her Excellency Mrs Nguyen Tuong Van, AIPA Secretary General. Also participating were resource persons and moderators, along with representatives from ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) Member Parliaments, including Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, AIPA and King Prajadhipok’s Institute. Among the 54 participants attending the five-week training seminar, 48 participants have been awarded a certificate of completion and participation....

This marks a great occasion as the General Secretariat of the Cambodian Senate, in collaboration with the Parliamentary Institute of Cambodia, has launched a two day training seminar on “Management and Leadership”. The workshop was conducted online on 12 and 13 November 2020 and attended by 36 senior management officers of the Senate, among which 10 are women. The objectives of this training workshop are to provide opportunities for the participants to learn and exchange experiences with parliamentary practitioners from the French Senate about experiences and best practices on French institutional reform and on the management of resources. Former Secretary...