Videos of the PRSP Seminar - Cape Town, South Africa

Opening Session
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Alain Destexhe, Senator, Belgium
Jean-Christophe Bas, Development Policy Dialogue Manager, World Bank

Session 1:
Learning from experience: What helps or hinders MPs’ contribution to the PRSP process?
What are the principal constraints to parliamentary involvement in the process?
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Chair: Jari Vilén, Member of Parliament, Chair of European Affairs Committee, Finland

Program experience: the "Parliamentarians in the field" program. Review of past achievements and discussions on how to make the program more effective: Alain Destexhe, Senator, Belgium

The PRSP experience at the African Development Bank: Amani Abou-Zeid, Lead Expert, African Development Bank

Country experiences:
Moses Asaga, Member of Parliament, Parliament of Ghana
Anne Makinda, Member of Parliament, Deputy Speaker, Tanzania

Session 2:
From wish-list to implementation: Where is the gap? How to ensure coherence between PRSPs and development programs?
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Chair: Saumura Tioulong, Member of Parliament, National Assembly of Cambodia, Cambodia

Donor harmonization & coordination and PRSP: The Case of Budget Support, with particular reference to Tanzania.

A bilateral perspective: Max von Bonsdorff, Economic Advisor, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

What role for parliaments in monitoring consistency between PRSP and country development strategy?

Billow Kerrow, Member of Parliament, Parliament of Kenya

Session 3:
The second generation of PRSP: an opportunity for better parliamentary participation?
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Chair: Ben Turok, Member of Parliament, Parliament of South Africa

Presentation of findings of the PRSP Review 2005, and of the concrete implications for the second generation of PRSP: Vinay Bhargava, Senior Advisor, World Bank

A pre-requisite: building the capacity of MPs to better contribute. What does this imply concretely?

Habeeb Fasinro, Member of Parliament, Parliament of Nigeria

Marie Rose Nguini Effa, Member of Parliament, Parliament of Cameroon

The "Parliamentary Strengthening Program" of the World Bank Institute, Luiza Nora, World Bank

A civil-society perspective: Martin Powell, World Development Movement

Closing Session:
The Way Ahead- What implications for the program of field visits? How to make it even more effective in the future?
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Chair: Alain Destexhe, Senator, Belgium; Jean-Christophe Bas, World Bank

Presentation of key points discussed during the seminar:

Pierre Girardier, World Bank
Hugh Bayley , Member of Parliament, Parliament of United Kingdom