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 brainstorming
2. 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.
The Challenge
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.
Primary Components of Knowledge Management Approach
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)
This is achieved through:
Information Technology
Parliamentary Knowledge Management
Telecommunications
Technology
Social Communication
Management, with the members &
government
Commencement of Execution
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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:
1. Parliamentary Content: In each content, defining the parliamentary
scientific methodologies to be used
Parliamentary Content for
Parliamentary Diplomacy
Political
analysis
approaches
Parliamentary
Description
Approaches
Supervisory Parliamentary
Content
Governmental
Policies
Analysis
Approaches
Problemsolving
Approach
Legislative Parliamentary
Content
Analytical
Approaches
of Laws
Legislative
Inductive
Approach
In the three contents, we have applied the operations research methodologies and in the
parliamentary knowledge management framework on several levels:
1. Theoretical training lectures
2. Scientific training programs
3. Holding intensive workshops
4. Taking into account the gradual learning principle
5. Generating a technical evaluation of researchers that begins with Assistant Researcher and ends
with Senior Researcher
6. Generating models to assess technical work by members
2. Technology
It 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:
Parliamentary Branches
Planning for Committees
Meetings
Pre-meeting
During &
Post-Meeting
Types of
reports: Detailed,
Objective,
Status
Planning for General Session
Meetings
Support
mechanisms
for holding
the meeting
After
adjournment
of meeting
Planning for Parliamentary
Diplomacy Works
Prior to
participation
During
participation
After
participation
4. Forming Advanced Parliamentary Knowledge
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
Basic Constituents of the Experience:
Reliance on Mechanism & Technique of Symbiotic Training:
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 FNC
4. 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
Experience Results
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.
Practical results achieved through the 14th Legislative Chapter
First: Committees research and studies
Second: General sessions research and studies
Third: Parliamentary Division research and studies
Fourth: Legal Studies
Fifth: Background information on FNC Information Center
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