Putting the ‘People’ in People’s Parliament project strides on

The newly trained activist monitors from CSOs working with Women and Democracy Initiative’s (WDI) Parliament Watch and Putting the ‘People’ in People’s Parliament projects entered Parliament and the Western Cape Provincial Parliament.

They were there to monitor committees against their constitutional mandates for openness, public access, independence, and oversight over the executive. 25 committee meetings were monitored in the period. At the same time WDI has improved our data collection and communication systems to strengthen our research outputs for this project which seeks to improve the functioning of legislatures in our democratic context.