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Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services (PIPS) in collaboration with Pakistan Peace Collective (PPC) organized a two-day National Capacity Building Workshop on Counter Terrorism: Strategic Communication and Media Management on February 19-20, 2018. The participants of the workshop included honourable members from the Senate, National Assembly, four Provincial Assemblies and Legislative Assemblies of Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The workshop aimed to assist the parliamentarians in devising a holistic narrative ...

The Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services in collaboration with the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP), the Parliamentary Taskforce on Sustainable Development Goals and the European Union, held a three-day workshop on Sustainable Development Goals for the Honourable Members of the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly (GBLA) from January 10- 12, 2018. A fifteen member delegation from GBLA headed by the Honourable Speaker of the GBLA, Mr. Fida Muhammad Nashad, participated in the ...

Free and fair Election is a key to strong and representative democracy. To bring this to reality, a Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reforms (PCER) was constituted, with the mandate to consolidate all the previous electoral laws in one comprehensive Elections Act. The Committee was represented by all the political parties in the National Assembly and the Senate of Pakistan. Based on 1200 proposals from various stakeholders and deliberations in almost 100 ...

Islamabad, September 25^th, 2017. Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services (PIPS) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) organized a two-day long capacity building event for the Honourable Chairpersons and Officers of the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan. The objective of the event was to share best parliamentary practices of the Committees’ system and to create awareness about the challenges faced by political leadership in the backdrop of ...

The Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services held an interactive session on “Data and Analytics for Policy Success,” on Wednesday, 12th July 2017 under the auspices of Professor Dr. Asim Ijaz Khwaja. The session was attended by researchers from both National Assembly and the Senate, along with joint secretaries, debate editors as well as several members of the PIPS team. Dr. Asim Ijaz Khwaja is a Professor at the Harvard Kennedy ...

The institute organized a 3 day long National workshop for the honourable members and senior Secretariat officers from the National Parliament, four Provincial Assemblies as well as Legislative Assemblies of Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu & Kashmir from May 10-12,2017.  On day one, Former Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan, Honourable Syed Fakhar Imam made a keynote speech about the significance, evolution, and best practices of Public Accounts Committees ...

PIPS in collaboration with DRI organized an inter-parliament exchange visit to the Federal Parliament of Pakistan for 12 honorable members from the four provincial assemblies of the Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Sindh. The trip was spread over two days i.e. 16th – 17th March 2017. During the trip honorable members visited the Parliament and had productive meetings with the Chairman Senate-Honorable Mian Raza Rabbani, The Leader of Opposition – Honorable Syed ...

An exchange trip was organized in collaboration with Democracy Reporting International for Parliamentarians and Members of Provincial Assemblies to Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from January 30-31, 2017. The agenda was to watch the proceedings of the Punjab Assembly, learn about their best practices and exchange information about the rules of procedure for effective working of the Committees.  This intervention helped the participants identify common challenges where ...

A workshop was held for 23 honourable Members of Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly, from January 23rd till 27th, 2017 at Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services, Islamabad. Some of the key themes covered during the workshop included the overview and significance of legislative process, conducting non-legislative business effectively for parliamentary oversight, functions and rules of procedure for the working of parliamentary committees and overseeing Budgetary processes in the Assembly. As the Members of ...

An interactive session was held at the Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services on constitutionalism and human rights for select group of MPs and parliamentary researchers working for individual MPs and parliamentary committees. Dr. Paula Newberg, an international expert on human rights and democracy, was the guest speaker, who conducted an absorbing session. Honourable Senator Rubina Khalid and Honourable MNA Aasiya Nasir, Professor at Western Michigan University Mahendra Lawoti, researchers ...