{"id":287,"date":"2016-02-04T15:53:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T20:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/dome\/?page_id=287"},"modified":"2016-02-19T13:33:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T18:33:58","slug":"african-parliamentary-knowledge-network","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/dome\/resources\/african-parliamentary-knowledge-network\/","title":{"rendered":"African Parliamentary Knowledge Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The African Parliamentary Knowledge Network\u2019s mission is to increase the capacity and effectiveness of Parliaments by improving the skills of the parliamentarians and their staff.\u00a0 The APKN provides both a platform for sharing information between legislative bodies and by developing tools aimed at improving the quality of legislation.\u00a0 A significant accomplishment of the APKN to date has been the creation of the <em>Drafting Guidelines<\/em>, which offer instruction on the technical aspects of legislative drafting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/dome\/files\/2016\/02\/APKN-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"54\" height=\"33\" class=\"  wp-image-292 alignleft\" alt=\"APKN 2\" src=\"\/dome\/files\/2016\/02\/APKN-2.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/dome\/files\/2016\/02\/Legislative-Drafting-Guidelines-for-Africa.pdf\">Legislative Drafting Guidelines for Africa<\/a>\u00a0 These Guidelines offer uniform rules for legislative drafting along with examples.\u00a0 The Guidelines were developed and refined with the help of many practicing legislative drafters from around Africa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/dome\/files\/2016\/02\/APKN-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"54\" height=\"33\" class=\"  wp-image-292 alignleft\" alt=\"APKN 2\" src=\"\/dome\/files\/2016\/02\/APKN-2.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/dome\/files\/2016\/02\/APKN-Legislative-Handbook-5.pdf\">APKN Legislative Handbook<\/a>\u00a0 This Handbook was designed to assist legislative drafters when designing legislation.\u00a0 It covers several important issues to consider when drafting legislation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/dome\/files\/2016\/02\/APKN-2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Parliamentary Knowledge Network\u2019s mission is to increase the capacity and effectiveness of Parliaments by improving the skills of the parliamentarians and their staff.\u00a0 The APKN provides both a platform for sharing information between legislative bodies and by developing tools aimed at improving the quality of legislation.\u00a0 A significant accomplishment of the APKN to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10087,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/dome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/dome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/dome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/dome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/dome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/dome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/dome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287\/revisions\/294"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/dome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/dome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}