By DOH JAMES SONKEY
The Annual Capacity Building Programme of senior administrative staff of the Lower House of Cameroon’s Parliament has been launched.
The official launching ceremony of the programme placed under the high patronage of the President of the National Assembly, Rt. Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril was chaired last May 26, 2020 at the Hemicycle of the Ngoa Ekelle Glass House, by the Senior Vice President of the National Assembly, Hon. Hilarion Etong, in the presence of the Secretary General of the National Assembly, Gaston Komba.
In his welcome note, the Secretary General, Gaston Komba expressed the wish for the experts invited to give sound knowledge to the 150 senior administrative staff of the National Assembly attending the 10 days capacity building workshop. He said the programme falls in line with the challenge given him upon his installation, to modernise and upgrade the skills of staff placed under his coordination.
In his opening speech, the Senior Vice President of the National Assembly, Hon. Hilarion Etong underlined that quality training of the moment to suit services rendered by the National Assembly staff to Parliamentarians in particular and the nation in general is an absolute necessity.
He stressed that better regulation of national life can be efficient if and only if those animating parliamentary administrations are upgraded on a permanent base.
Hon. Hilarion Etong instructed the staff to pay particular attention to the four modules making up the first sequence training; understanding and mastering the Standing Orders which is the legal framework governing the functioning of the National Assembly, Ethics in the parliamentary professional milieu, Techniques for note-taking and drafting reports and summaries and, Research techniques in Comparative Law.
The two weeks training that ends this Friday, June 5, 2020, exactly five days before the official opening ceremony of the June Parliamentary Ordinary Session slated for June 10, 2020, is holding on the theme “A performant and modern parliamentary administration at the service of the people’s representatives.”