{"id":3432,"date":"2023-11-02T10:59:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T10:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2023-11-02T10:59:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T10:59:43","slug":"plac-event-capacity-development-workshop-for-clerks-of-the-house-of-representatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/plac-event-capacity-development-workshop-for-clerks-of-the-house-of-representatives\/","title":{"rendered":"PLAC Event: Capacity Development Workshop for Clerks of the House of Representatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) organised a Capacity Development workshop on Effective Work Planning for clerks of the 10<sup>th<\/sup> House of Representatives, with support from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). The workshop held in two batches &#8211;\u00a0 on 13<sup>th<\/sup> and 14 October for the first batch, and\u00a0 20<sup>th<\/sup> and 21<sup>st<\/sup> October for the second batch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the workshop, Executive Director of PLAC, Clement Nwankwo delivered\nthe welcome remarks and underscored the importance of the National Assembly to\nNigeria\u2019s democracy and the key roles that clerks play in strengthening the\ninstitution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The workshop featured various sessions facilitated by seasoned\nprofessionals. Some of these sessions include a presentation on \u2018Reporting\nCommittee Procedure\u2019 delivered by a former Clerk of the National Assembly, Niyi\nAjiboye; \u2018The Fundamentals of Effective Report Writing and Minutes Taking\u2019\ndelivered by the Deputy Director of the Legal Drafting Department of the\nFederal Ministry of Justice, Godwin Iheabunike. Others include \u2018General\nManagement of Committee Activities\u2019 by Dr. Rahila Ahmadu; \u2018Developing Workplan\nfor Effective Committee Work\u2019 by Dr. Aminu Umar of the National Open\nUniversity; \u2018Effective Engagement with Stakeholders for Committee Programming\nand Public Hearing\u2019 by National Team Leader, PERL\/ECP, among other sessions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The clerks also had breakout sessions where they engaged in deep dive\ndiscussions on issues such as the current realities of the National Assmebly\nCommittees and recommended ways to improve communications and co-ordination. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) organised a Capacity Development workshop on Effective Work Planning for clerks of the 10th House of Representatives, with support from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). The workshop held in two batches &#8211;\u00a0 on 13th and 14 October for the first batch, and\u00a0 20th and 21st October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3438,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions\/3438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}