AKIPRESS.COM - A two-day regional inter-parliamentary meeting on monitoring and evaluation mechanisms that brought together 20 parliamentarians from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia and Tajikistan concluded in Bishkek on June 15. High-level government officials, independent experts, representatives of civil society, international organizations, academia and mass media also attended the event.
The meeting, co-organized by the OSCE Center in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Parliament and the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), aimed at increasing the work efficiency of parliamentarians and facilitated the creation of a regional forum of parliamentarians to support parliamentary monitoring and evaluation.
“The OSCE Center in Bishkek remains committed to support the Parliament and the institutions of the Kyrgyz Republic by facilitating continuous internal and external parliamentary monitoring,” said Diana Digol, Institution-Building Officer at the OSCE Center in Bishkek.
The OSCE Centre will also support a one-day intensive follow-up training course for a selected group of parliamentary staff who will be actively involved in carrying out the parliamentary monitoring and evaluation.