The Joint Committee of the ECOWAS Parliament, comprising committees on Administration, Finance, Budget, Public Accounts, Macroeconomic Policy, and Economic Research, has expressed the need to send a parliamentary diplomatic mission to notable parliaments with similar competences to understudy their processes.
Some of the parliaments recommended include the European Union and the East African Legislative Assembly, with a view to understudying and analysing their achievements in the areas of budget development, execution, and control.
This followed the adoption of the Community’s budget report by members of the Joint Committee at the end of the three-day technical session of its delocalized meeting held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Wednesday. The report contained recommendations for further consultations and studies of other similar parliaments across the globe.
The meeting focused on the role of parliament…
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