TheParliamentarian Journal of the Parliaments of the Commonwealth 2021 | Volume 102 | Issue Two | Price £14 Established in 1920 | Over 100 years of publishing IN THIS ISSUE Obituary and parliamentary tributes to the late CPA Chairperson PAGES 122-125 HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and his legacy in the Commonwealth PAGE 126 Funding twelve years quality education for every Commonwealth child PAGE 142-147 How can Parliaments and MPs harness the benefits of social media? DELIVERING A COMMON PAGE 154 FUTURE: CONNECTING, Caribbean Youth Voices: engaging INNOVATING, TRANSFORMING young people in politics and debate The key challenges facing the Commonweath PAGES 168-179 PAGE 136 Register for the CPA Parliamentary Academy Now Free courses for CPA Members The CPA has designed a curriculum of online courses specifically for Parliamentarians and parliamentary officials. 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Please check www.cpahq.org or email [email protected]. 2021 June 30 June 2021 International Day of Parliamentarism (World Parliament Day) July 5-9 July 2021 CPA Virtual Conference: The 4th Industrial Revolution 16 July 2021 CWP Australia Regional Conference, Darwin, Northern Territory/virtual September 15 September 2021 International Day of Democracy 27-30 September 2021 CPA Executive Committee meeting - virtual TBC September 2021 50th CPA British Islands & Mediterranean Regional Conference, Northern Ireland TBC September 2021 51st CPA Africa Regional Conference, Nigeria November 1-12 November 2021 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26), Glasgow, UK 5-6 November 2021 International Legislators’ Summit on Climate Change, hosted by GLOBE International and the Scottish Parliament December 3 December 2021 International Day of Disabled Persons 2021 10 December 2021 UN Human Rights Day 2021 2022 20 to 26 August 2022 65th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada The CPA calendar fosters the exchange of events and activities between CPA Regions and Branches. 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CONTENTS THE PARLIAMENTARIAN: 2021 ISSUE TWO VIEWS & COMMENT Editor’s Note View from the Acting CPA Page 112 Small Branches Chairperson Promoting the diversity and View from the Acting recognition of languages in the CPA Chairperson PAGE 122 Commonwealth 110 years of delivering a Page 118 common future Page 114 View from the CPA Secretary-General View from the Delivering a Common Future: CWP Chairperson Connecting, Innovating, Commonwealth Women Transforming Parliamentarians and Delivering Page 120 a Common Future Page 116 EDITORIAL PAGE 154 Obituary and tributes to Prince Philip and the the late CPA Chairperson Commonwealth Hon. Emilia Monjowa Lifaka, HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of MP (1959-2021) Edinburgh (1921-2021) PAGE 162 Pages 122-125 Page 126 NEWS & PHOTOS CPA News Commonwealth Day 2021 News reports include: Reports from activities around • CPA Post-Election Seminars in the Commonwealth to mark this Belize and Trinidad and Tobago year's Commonwealth Day • CPA webinars on the rule of Pages 184-187 law, education financing and the impact of COVID-19 on Commonwealth Women health systems Parliamentarians News • Virtual CPA Executive and Events Committee Reports from CWP activities • Launch of the new CPA website around the Commonwealth PAGE 188 and podcasts including CWP Roundtables on • New CPA Parliamentary Gender Sensitive Parliaments Academy and women pioneers in Canada Pages 128-135 and Australia Pages 192-196 110 | The Parliamentarian | 2021: Issue Two | 100 years of publishing CONTENTS The Parliamentarian: Journal of the Parliaments of FEATURE ARTICLES PARLIAMENTARY the Commonwealth REPORTS Volume 102 | 2021: Issue Two India and the Greening the 100 years of Legislating in The Parliamentarian Commonwealth Humanitarian response Uganda ISSN 0031-2282 The Speaker of the Lok Sabha Utilising the power of trees for Reflections on this 100th Issued and published by the charts the relationship between sustainable refugee support anniversary Commonwealth Parliamentary India and the Commonwealth Page 162 Page 188 Association, CPA Headquarters Page 136 Secretariat, Richmond House, Equality for all in the Commonwealth Parliamentary Report and Houses of Parliament, London, 'Tobacco Free' SW1A 0AA, United Kingdom. Bangladesh by 2040 LGBTIQ+ Commonwealth Third Reading Progress on the health crisis in Parliamentarians shared their Featuring legislative reports from Canada, British Tel: +44 (0) 20 7799 1460 Bangladesh experiences for a CPA blog Email: [email protected] Columbia, Trinidad and Page 139 Page 166 www.cpahq.org Tobago, the United Kingdom, Twitter @CPA_Secretariat Galvanising the effort to New Zealand, Australia and Facebook.com/CPAHQ fund global education CARIBBEAN YOUTH India Twelve years quality education VOICES Pages 198-215 Stephen Twigg for every Commonwealth child CPA Secretary-General The role of youth in Page 142 guaranteeing equal opportunity and CPA DIRECTORY Mr Jeffrey Hyland Education Financing responsibility Editor, The Parliamentarian [email protected] Urging Commonwealth Page 168 CPA Organisational Parliamentarians to raise their Structure Main images: CPA Headquarters hands in support of education The road to 2030: Are CPA Executive Committee, we as SIDS where we Secretariat. Additional images: Page 145 need to be? CWP and CPA Small Branches CPA Branches and Shutterstock. Page 172 Steering Committees, CPwD Electoral reform in Jersey Regional Champions and CPA Annual subscription: Four issues A real ‘watershed moment’ for The Rule of Law and Regional Secretaries including supplements: UK: £44 democracy in Jersey governance in a Pages 216 inc. postage. | Worldwide: £46 Page 148 pandemic: Emergency surface post and £52 airmail Powers in the Valuing women in public Caribbean Price per issue: UK: £14 cover life is a sure way to a Page 174 price plus UK or worldwide more equal society: postage. Protecting them online is The participation of the first step Disclaimer: Opinions and Indigenous peoples in Preventing gender-based Caribbean governance comments expressed in articles violence Page 177 and reviews published in The Page 152 Parliamentarian are those of the individual contributors and Parliaments can harness Changes to the should not be attributed to the the benefits of social Constitution of Sri Lanka Secretariat of the Association. media What is the impact of the Contributors: Thank you to all Providing advice for Members Twentieth Amendment? contributors for this issue. on social media use Page 180 Page 154 Printed in: United Kingdom by Warners Midlands, PLC; and The Separation of Powers and the budget making Times Printers, Singapore. process Limited print run - contact The Supreme Court of The [email protected] for details of Gambia and the power of print copies for CPA Branches. Parliament Page 157 The Parliamentarian | 2021: Issue Two | 100 years of publishing | 111 EDITOR’S NOTE THE COMMONWEALTH'S 2021 THEME OF 'DELIVERING A COMMON FUTURE: CONNECTING, INNOVATING, TRANSFORMING' Mr Jeffrey Hyland, Editor The Parliamentarian, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Each year a theme is chosen for Commonwealth Day and the Monjowa Lifaka, MP, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of theme both informs events to mark the day and helps to guide Cameroon who sadly passed away in April 2021. We report on the activities by Commonwealth organisations throughout the year. many parliamentary tributes held in Cameroon and elsewhere in the The theme for the 2021 Commonwealth Heads of Government Commonwealth and feature tributes to her life and work. Meeting (CHOGM), for Commonwealth Day and for the work of the This issue of The Parliamentarian also pays tribute to HRH The Commonwealth more generally is: ‘Delivering a Common Future: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, whose recent death has also Connecting, Innovating, Transforming’. Although the CHOGM that shone new