National Assembly - Training beefs up capacity of public accounts committee
05-April-2014
The Seychelles National Assembly is hosting a three-day training for members of the Finance and Public Accounts Committee (FPAC) and its technical officials.
The April 3-5 meeting is being held at the Berjaya Beau Vallon Bay Resort & Casino.
Financed and led by the South Africa Development Community Organisation of Public Accounts Committees (Sadcopac), the training is aimed at getting a greater understanding of the fundamental principles underlying the work of the FPAC; to understand good practice guide, audit and budget processes.
It was the Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr Patrick Herminie, who officially opened the training on Thursday in the presence of the leader of government business in the National Assembly, Marie-Antoinette Rose; leader of the opposition in the National Assembly and chairperson of the FPAC, David Pierre; Sadcopac deputy secretary general Nehemiah Modubule; members of the National Assembly and other distinguished guests.
“FPAC is ineffective if it lacks the knowhow and the necessary resources to carry out its roles and functions in an ever changing environment; hence the need for a proper capacity development programme,” said Dr Herminie.
“Training, like the one being held today, will provide our finance and public accounts committee with the opportunity to share best practices and experiences, harmonisation and standardisation, and to strengthen oversight and accountability,” Dr Herminie said.
“Allow me to express my sincere appreciation to the Sadcopac and the association of the public accounts committee of South Africa for facilitating this training for the FPAC. I have no doubt that the training will provide the members of the committee with the necessary tools to more effectively carry out their oversight role,” Dr Herminie added.
“One very important thing that we are going to learn in this training is the practice guide that is provided by Sadcopac that we here in the FPAC we need to be able to work according to its standard,” Mr Pierre said.
Addressing those present, Mr Modubule said “Sadcopac will continue to organise various in-country training seminars/workshops for FPAC members as well as individual members at country level depending on the need of the individual FPAC requirements from time to time. This will depend on the availability of financial support from development partners and other stakeholders”.
“It is our wish that our respective parliaments should realise the importance of FPAC and therefore be in a position to fund them adequately so that we do not rely too much on donors. We should be self sustainable,” Mr Modubule added.
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