Presentation to the Secretariat of the Federal National Council

On its Experience in Parliamentary Research & Studies

(For the Inter-Parliamentary Union)

Oct. 20, 2011

The distinctive experience of the Federal National Council in the

development of parliamentary studies & research is based on a

specific scientific approach, namely the Parliamentary Knowledge

Management Approach, which means the utilization of technology

and human resources to collect, manage, disseminate and invest

knowledge, or manage the skills of the FNC researchers based on

parliamentary knowledge so that they assume their role in providing

technical support to members.

According to specific frameworks,

which are:1. Maximize the efficient use of human resources to researchers through

brainstorming2. Use the Parliamentary Knowledge Management to achieve the objectives

of creativity.3. Distribute and use parliamentary information to achieve the best possible

performance.4. Networking of skills in the Federal National Council.5. Employ and analyze information received by the Parliament.

How model application can achieve the parliamentary knowledge management

approach

The Arab parliamentarians were of the opinion that, to meet this challenge, it requires

that the Federal National Council adopts the concept of "learning organization".

That is, we have to seek continuously in the FNC to maximize the learning process of

researchers within gradual and integrated scientific methodologies, taking into

consideration that it is the only way to provide the researchers with significant models

and new ways of thinking.

The Challenge

1. Concepts (Teaching ideas - means - mechanisms used internationally in parliamentary research and studies and adapting same in line with the environment of the Federal National Council).

2. Competence (Developing the skills of researchers)3. Connections (with NGOs, the process being called Social Investment

and Creation of Social Value for the Parliamentary Knowledge)

Primary Components of Knowledge Management Approach

This is achieved through:

Social Communication Management, with the

members & government

Parliamentary Knowledge

Management

Telecommunications Technology

Information Technology

• After agreeing on all the previous frameworks.• An Arab parliamentarian expert was assigned with transforming

these concepts into working tools.• A program was produced, in addition to a plan of action, and

another operational, which can be summarized as follows:

Commencement of Execution

Legislative Inductive Approach

Analytical Approaches of Laws

Problem-solving

Approach

Governmental Policies

Analysis Approaches

Parliamentary

Description Approaches

Political analysis

approaches

Legislative Parliamentary Content

Supervisory Parliamentary Content

Parliamentary Content for Parliamentary Diplomacy

1. Parliamentary Content: In each content, defining the parliamentary scientific methodologies to be used

1. Parliamentary Content: In each content, defining the parliamentary scientific methodologies to be used

1. Parliamentary Content: In each content, defining the parliamentary scientific methodologies to be used

1. Parliamentary Content: In each content, defining the parliamentary scientific methodologies to be used

1. Parliamentary Content: In each content, defining the parliamentary scientific methodologies to be used

Legislative Parliamentary Content

1. Parliamentary Content: In each content, defining the parliamentary scientific methodologies to be used

Supervisory Parliamentary Content

Legislative Parliamentary Content

In the three contents, we have applied the operations research methodologies and in the parliamentary knowledge management framework on several levels:

1. Theoretical training lectures2. Scientific training programs3. Holding intensive workshops4. Taking into account the gradual learning principle5. Generating a technical evaluation of researchers that begins with

Assistant Researcher and ends with Senior Researcher6. Generating models to assess technical work by members

2. Technolog

yIt was important that this technical development be accompanied by the development of parliamentary technology. Therefore, the FNC Secretariat hastened to generate may many software such as:• Technological Information Cycle• Technical Support Program for FNC presidency during the meeting• Technical Support Program for FNC members during the meeting• Parliamentary thesaurus

3. Parliamentary Operations

This Plan has three primary branches:

Prior to participati

on

Planning for Committees Meetings

Planning for General Session Meetings

Planning for Parliamentary

Diplomacy Works

Parliamentary Branches

During & Post-

Meeting

Support mechanis

ms for holding

the meeting

After adjournm

ent of meeting

Types of reports: - Detailed, Objective,

Status

Pre-meeting

During participat

ion

After participati

on

This is achieved by undergoing scientifically-systematic stages for development in the field of parliamentary studies and research through a number of bases:1. The ability of researchers to actually use these papers and studies and to measure their comprehensive capacity.2. The ability to achieve the targeted results through the methodology of results-based management.3. Planning to reach further stages after succeeding in attaining a planned objective. 4. The peculiarity of the experience in terms of innovation, the ability for renovation, and most importantly, adaptation to internal and external environment of the FNC.5. Encourage the researcher morally and materially in the context of FNC circumstances and potentials considering that he is an intellectual capital

4. Forming Advanced Parliamentary Knowledge

1. i.e., association of the parliamentary expert with researchers on constant

basis

2. Establish the parliamentary information center

3. Establish a division of parliamentary research and studies in each

technical department of FNC4. Establish the technical office subsidiary to Secretary General

5. Establish the parliamentary leadership committee composed of the secretary

and assistant secretaries with the aim of reviewing results and discussing

difficulties and problems

Reliance on Mechanism & Technique of Symbiotic Training:

Basic Constituents of the Experience:

1. Improve the technical support service for members.2. Increase the efficiency of parliamentary operations. 3. Adopt the concept of research creativity.4. Activate the parliamentary knowledge and intellectual capital "researchers" to improve members’ access to technical support.5. Create a new generation of parliamentary researchers, capable of protecting the experience in the future.

Experience Results

First: Committees research and studiesSecond: General sessions research and studiesThird: Parliamentary Division research and studiesFourth: Legal StudiesFifth: Background information on FNC Information Center

Practical results achieved through the 14th Legislative Chapter

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