Training for IPU programme staff on social and behavioural change

at  InterParliamentary Union

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) is the global organization of national parliaments, established in 1889. Over the years, it has grown into a global organization with 180 Members and 15 Associate Members. The IPU facilitates parliamentary diplomacy and empowers parliaments and parliamentarians to promote peace, democracy and sustainable development around the world.
For more than 50 years, the IPU has implemented programmes of support to parliaments. These aim to accompany parliaments in their work and support them as institutions, though their members and staff, to strengthen their action and impact. Programmatic work carried out by the IPU focuses on the core constitutional functions of parliament as well as providing assistance in delivering on key policy areas including human rights, gender equality, youth empowerment, sustainable development, and peace and security. In so doing, IPU programmatic work complements the political platforms and initiatives led by the Organization, which facilitate parliamentary diplomacy and multilateralism.
The programmatic work of the IPU is demand-driven and builds primarily on the wealth of experience and knowledge of IPU Member Parliaments. The IPU offers tailored support at national level and facilitates exchanges of experience, good practices, knowledge and information at the regional and global level. The IPU also develops standards, as well as research, tools and online platforms, to support parliamentary work.
In providing support to parliaments, the IPU abides by the Common Principles for Support to Parliaments, which set out the fundamental principles for planning and implementing programmes to strengthen parliaments. The Common Principles were first developed in 2014 by a group of parliaments and partners brought together by the IPU and have since been widely endorsed around the world.
The impact of the IPU’s programmatic work depends on numerous factors. Parliaments are complex institutions evolving in ever more challenging and multi-dimensional environments that influence ways in which change happens, both at individual and societal levels. That notwithstanding, at the heart of its impact is the IPU’s capacity to trigger and accompany change not only in institutions but also in people, i.e. Members of Parliament and parliamentary staff.
The IPU believes in continuous learning to enhance its skills and effectiveness. To that end, it organizes capacity-building initiatives for its staff to enhance their way of delivering support to IPU Member Parliaments and achieving the key objectives set. Bearing in mind the target audience of IPU work, and the very sensitive political environment in which it delivers its programmes, the IPU is looking to enhance its understanding of and its capacity to integrate further social and behavioural change approaches and methodologies into its work.

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