Parliamentary Oversight & Legislative Drafting

Course Overview

This course provides parliamentarians and staff with practical tools for effective legislative drafting and oversight of government programmes.

Learning Objectives

– Draft clear and enforceable legislation
– Conduct effective parliamentary oversight
– Review and amend bills using best-practice techniques
– Engage stakeholders in the legislative process
– Monitor implementation of passed laws

– MPs and parliamentary staff
– Legislative drafting units
– Committee clerks and researchers

Hands-on drafting sessions, mock committee hearings and African parliamentary case studies.

Day 1: Legislative process and principles
Day 2: Drafting techniques and language
Day 3: Oversight tools and scrutiny methods
Day 4: Stakeholder engagement in law-making
Day 5: Bill review clinic and action planning

The course is offered as an intensive 5-day in-person workshops (Nairobi and selected African cities) and parallel 5-day live online cohorts. Custom in-house versions are available for governments, CSOs and organizations.

Training Duration: 5 days
Training Fee:
ONSITE: USD 1,600
ONLINE: USD 750
Group Discounts Apply

For more information on the programme,  

email us info@africapolicyinstitute.org