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Two-Day Training for Staff of Secretariats and Departments of Parliament, Marina Hotel, Dodowa, 29 November – 1 December, 2008 PDF Print E-mail
The Parliamentary Centre, under the CIDA funded Parliamentary Committee Support Project II organized a two-day training for selected parliamentary staff from four departments of the Ghana Parliament namely Parliamentary Relations, Majority and Minority Secretariats, and Clerk’s Secretariat of Parliament.  This workshop formed part of efforts aimed at increasing awareness, knowledge, and skills of a cross section of Parliamentary Staff to enable them carry out their work in an efficient and effective manner.  

The session was opened by Ms. Marilyn Aniwa, In-Country Coordinator of the GPCSP II. In her remarks she introduced the Parliamentary Centre and gave a brief history of the Centre.  The Centre which started 40 years ago as a capacity building for the Parliament of Canada extended its programs to other parliaments across the world including Africa.  She further gave the evolution of the Ghana Project which started in 1994.  She acknowledged the importance of building the capacity of parliamentary staff since they serve as the institutional memory for Parliament.

According to Mr. Richard Acheampong, Senior Assistant Clerk of the Parliamentary Affairs Department ,  Parliament in its quests to improve the capacity of staff to provide support to parliament found a dependable partner which is the Parliamentary Centre.   He urged all participants to take the training seriously and see it as an opportunity to build capacity for their work in parliament as well as develop individual skills for personal enhancement.   

The two-day workshop concluded with the parliamentary staff acknowledging the usefulness and relevance of the training to their work and their willingness to implement and share with their colleagues what they have learnt. The training, they emphasized will definitely change the way they do things from now on since they have enhanced their knowledge and skills. 

A total of twenty eight (28) participants took part in the workshop made up of twenty two (22) parliamentary staff, four (4) Staff of the Parliamentary Centre and two Resource Persons on Records Management and Communication Skills who were the trainers.