Technical Assistance Programmes

The CPA is providing skills support to design and implement prolonged strategies to restore stable and functional democracy.  An integrated Parliamentary Support Programme, working with partner organizations such as the UNDP, Commonwealth Secretariat and World Bank, channels Commonwealth parliamentary expertise in an intensive way to resolve a problem which otherwise would weaken or even completely undermine democratic governance.

Technical assistance programmes are helping:  the Solomon Islands to restore stable government after years of brutal inter-island conflict; Bougainville to develop internal self-government after a debilitating secessionist struggle with Papua New Guinea; The Maldives to move from non-party to multiparty politics; Trinidad and Tobago to restore its parliamentary committee system and the Parliaments of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States to operate under standing orders which meet the needs of today rather than of half a century ago and are common to them all so they can support each other in their application.