WHAT WE DO

Why The Legislative Centre

Our multi-disciplinary approach draws upon the collective knowledge and resources of each relevant practice area and different background of our partners and pool of experts, to achieve efficient, effective and practical results for our clients.

SOME FOCUS AREAS OF TLC INCLUDE...

Training On:

1. parliamentary practice & procedure

All legislative institutions need clearly recognized processes for the transaction of their business. For County Assemblies, embodying conflicting political elements, combating parties and competing individuals, agreed procedures are essential for the orderly conduct of proceedings.

TLC recognizes that good procedures and their consistent and correct application are essential for the protection of citizens against improper adoption of laws that affect them.

To achieve this end, TLC offers trainings on the following procedural areas: table office management, legislative processing of Bills, Motions, Statements, Communications; and proper and pragmatic management of Assembly committees (pragmatic clerks), Parliamentary administration and protocols, records management; Parliamentary diplomacy and National interests.

2. budget making & analysis

Through the Government budgets, the National/County Executive and National/County Assembly outline their policy intentions and the resources they intend to use to implement them.

Increasing demands for democracy and good governance and effective devolution require, inter alia, that Members of National/County Assembly play a more active role in the budgetary process.

TLC offers this training to County Assembly Service Boards (CASB) and senior leadership of County Assemblies. The training gives a thorough grounding in the processes by which organizations align their resources, systems and employees to strategic objectives and priorities.

TLC offers quality training on budget making and analysis mainly to National/County Assemblies and their members, as they are under obligation to ensure not only that the needs of their electorates are met, but also that public money has been equitably raised, well spent and can be properly accounted for.

The main areas of focus are: Medium Term Expenditure framework budgeting; Programme based budgeting; legislative processing of key budget documents; County Budget Cycle and stages, Public Participation in County Budgeting; Revenue Management; Debt management (Pending bills); and supplementary budgeting, public finance management

3. legislative drafting

A good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense’”.

The legislative drafter is tasked with transforming government policy into written law, but also to ensure that legislation is clearly understandable to those affected by it. Achieving both can be challenging as government policy often involves complex issues that are difficult to convey in everyday language.

TLC offers interactive trainings that equips participants with a range of recognized drafting tools used to create well written legislation. Participants of this training benefit through the following: Have the opportunity to gain a recognized professional qualification; Hear the latest insights, research and developments in legislative drafting efforts from leading experts; Enhance skills and knowledge in the field of drafting legislation

4. public policy making & analysis

Policy analysis is the process of assessing and deciding among, alternatives based on their usefulness in satisfying one or more goals or values.

Generally, the policy recommendation is made by one person, a decision is made by another entity, and enforcement of the policy actually chosen is left to yet a third person or group.

TLC understands that Legislation is a complex process that arises from policy proposal and therefore, there is need for legislatures to have researchers who are capable of competently analyzing such policy proposals to advise the legislation process.

The training is therefore tailored to enhance research capabilities of research officers working as legislative policy analysts, and it entails the following areas: Public Policy Making Stages and Cycle, Public Participation, Monitoring and Evaluation; and Formulation of briefs and sessional papers.

5. corporate governance

Corporate governance is the set of policies, processes and customs by which an institution is directed, is a topic of increasing importance in strategic management.

How an institution is governed influences rights and relationships among organizational stakeholders, and ultimately how an organization is managed.

This is about the fundamentals of Corporate Governance from a variety of angles – the board of directors, senior management, and other stakeholders – and focuses on assessing the effectiveness and execution of governance roles and responsibilities.

TLC offers this training to County Assembly Service Boards (CASB) and senior leadership of County Assemblies. The training gives a thorough grounding in the processes by which organizations align their resources, systems and employees to strategic objectives and priorities.

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IN ADDITION TO TRAINING, THE FIRM ALSO PROVIDES THE FOLLOWING...

Services:

a. research & publication services

TLC offers credible and stellar legislative and public policy research for our clients. We possess an enviable database on County governments and County Assemblies operation and output data.

We have solid contacts in all forty-seven County Governments.

TLC also prepares and produces strategic documents, such as: strategic plans, regulatory impact assessment reports, Staff audit and performance reports, Bill drafts.

TLC also offers quarterly publication on the management and governance of Counties, in relation to National Government.

b. governance advisory and audit

The law mandates the Ministry of Devolution to: assess the performance of a County Government with a view to determine its support requirements; conduct research or inquiries to determine the extent of its support requirements; and collect information on County performance and on best practices in resolving performance problems.

At the Legislative Centre, we undertake these audits, we evaluate the composition, policies and operations of the County Governments and measure them against the law, guidelines and international best practices to gauge the level of compliance. Governance audits provide a basis for us to advise our clients on how to ensure full compliance and strengthen efficient operation of their leadership.

In this respect, we do the following:

1.Undertake governance audits

2.Assist you to develop your Evaluation, and monitoring tools

3.Conduct regulatory impact assessment research

4.Facilitate public participation, and civic education

c. LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION

TLC effectively represents corporations, foundations, technologies, innovations, and institutions with the legislative and regulatory know-how needed to help those entities navigate a complex County Government network and an even more complex National government.

This kind of effective representation is achieved by defining an objective, and then creating a strategy or solution to reach that objective.

At TLC we utilize a combination of experience, relationship building, effective communication, and public relations, to provide the strategy and solution you need to attain your objective.

At TLC, we utilize a combination of tools to get results for our clients. Our strategies and solutions don’t end with just Government Relations.

TLC can also incorporate Communications, Media Affairs & Strategy, Public Relations, Marketing, Business Development, and Investor Relations into your specific needs.

d. LEGAL AUDITS &
COMPLIANCE

The Kenyan legal and regulatory regime is complex and comprises cross cutting and sector specific requirements.

This regime continues to grow, with new laws and regulations being passed each year. It is therefore easy for companies and state corporations to be at crossroads with compliance of these requirements, which may expose the entity’s officials to both civil and criminal liability.

In order to ensure consistent compliance with the legal regime, state corporations are required to undertake comprehensive legal audits every two years.

Companies undertake these audits for good measure. This is where we come in to assist our clients.

We intensively interrogate our clients’ systems, structures and documentation and advise on the nature and extent of compliance. Consequently, both firms advise on measures our clients adopt to mitigate non-compliance or the effects thereof.

In order to ensure sustainability of this exercise, we advise on systems the client could use to consistently monitor and self-evaluate their legal and regulatory compliance.

Summary of our services include:

1. Undertaking legal audits
2. Assisting you in establishment of legal compliance systems
3. Training your staff on legal compliance; and Preparing monitoring and evaluation tools for you

e. CIVIC TRAINING/ADVOCACY

The Legislative Centre promotes constructive leadership and engagement in legislative governance based on the Centre’s central role in meeting governance challenges.

The Centre provides an essential forum for navigating the dramatic economic and political changes facing the country by informing and galvanizing its influential network of public policy leaders.

The overall goal of the Centre is to promote civic engagement and support democratic and participatory governance.

The idea behind civic education is to promote the demand for good governance (i.e. an informed and engaged public), as a necessary complement to efforts to improve the practice of good governance and address a wide variety of political and governance issues (e.g. corruption, civic apathy or post-conflict reconciliation) as well as important social issues (e.g. domestic violence, drug abuse, and HIV/AIDS). Our Civic education is concerned with three different elements: civic knowledge, civic skills and civic disposition.

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