YCBS 287 - Special Topics in Governance
16811182
Language of Delivery
English
Delivery Format(s)
Online learning (or online course)
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Official Description
3.0 Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
Selected topics in governance based on current trends, contemporary issues, and emerging research in the field.
Supplementary Information
24 synchronous web contact hours plus approximately 6 hours of assignments.
Topics Covered
Substantive parliamentary work
- Women’s rights, inclusion and intersectionality
- Parliamentary functions & international human rights law, political commitments, and follow up mechanisms
- Relationship between parliaments & independent national human rights institutions (NHRIs)
Parliamentary institutional framework & environment
- Human rights of women parliamentarians
- Women, parliamentary workforce, policies & procedures | Systemic inclusion: challenges & opportunities
- Empowering women. Building skills: Negotiation & Influence | Impactful public speaking | Inclusive leadership
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, learners should be able to:
- Identify key components of international legal and institutional frameworks that are relevant to mainstreaming human rights and inclusion in the work of parliaments at the national level – in particular for the advancement of gender equality and women’s empowerment.
- Describe and explain the role of parliaments and women’s leadership in implementing UN recommendations and global commitments at the national level and in engaging with related UN mechanisms.
- Analyze and integrate relevant UN recommendations in lawmaking, representation, oversight and strategic foresight initiatives of the learner’s national parliament.
- Assess and provide a critical view on current challenges, effective practices and the way forward in mainstreaming gender equality and women’s empowerment both in the work and in the institutional development of parliaments – from the perspective of the learner’s specific national context.
- Formulate an action plan* aiming to advance national parliamentary practices in implementing UN human rights recommendations and global commitments and in engaging with related UN mechanisms contributing to mainstreaming gender equality and inclusion – while addressing intersectionality.
*Actions plans are individual. However, in the case of participants related to the same parliamentary context at the national level, they would be invited to consult each other to coordinate their action plans and to seek complementarity.
Applies Towards the Following Programs
- Professional Development Certificate in Parliamentary Governance : Complementary Courses
- Professional Development Certificate in Parliamentary Management : Complementary Courses
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