Strengthening policy-making skills of Ombudsman's Office staff

On August 8, the USAID RADA: Next Generation Program conducted a "Policy-making process and full cycle of legislative oversight" training for 20 staff members of the Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights.

The trainings are organized at the request of the Office and aim at strengthening the institutional capacity of the parliamentary oversight bodies.

During the interactive sessions, participants discussed:

• why the policy cycle approach is useful;
• features of a robust policy-making process;
• how to identify a social problem and develop policies to address it;
• why and how to conduct policy monitoring and evaluation;
• post-legislative scrutiny and its advantages.

Participants also analyzed in detail international experience in policy-making processes and practiced applying the policy cycle approach in problem modeling.

Photos of the event is available on our Facebook page.

It is the fives training in a series that the USAID RADA: Next Generation Program conducts for the staff of the Ombudsman's Office. The Program has already organized the "Public Participation in Parliament and the Legislative Process. Advocacy", "Committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine", "Parliamentary Oversight Function", and "Fundamentals of public policy analysis" trainings.