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21 Eur. J.L. Reform 174 (2019)
Post-Legislative Scrutiny of the Law against Gender-Based Violence: The Successful Story of the Cabo Verde Parliament

handle is hein.journals/ejlr21 and id is 176 raw text is: Post-Legislative Scrutiny of the Law against Gender-Based Violence The Successful Story of the Cabo Verde Parliament Elisabete Azevedo-Harman & Ricardo Godinho Gomes* Abstract In 2011 Cabo Verde's parliament approved the Law Against Gender-Based Vio- lence (GBV). In 2014, 3 years later, the Women's Caucus (WC) of this parliament agreed to trace the implementation of the law and its impact. This decision was taken without a clear perception of how to conduct post-legislative scrutiny (PLS) and without suspecting the eventual troubling findings. Post-legislative scrutiny has not previously been done in Cabo Verde, partly because of the inexperience of this democratic parliament, partly because PLS is a rather recent and still underde- veloped legislative activity anchored in oversight and legislation functions. In 2014 and 2015, Women's Caucus conducted PLS of the GBV Law finding that the gov- ernment had not enacted the necessary implementation rules to enforce this law, which hampered budget allocations and funding. According to the country's legisla- tive process this should have taken place within 10 months of the law's approval. This study describes and discusses how the post-legislative scrutiny of the GBV Law was conducted and the lessons learned through this pioneering process in Cabo Verde's parliament. Keywords: oversight, post-legislative scrutiny, Cabo Verde, parliament. A Introduction In 2011, Cabo Verde's parliament approved the Law Against Gender-Based Vio- lence (GBV). The law approval resulted from a broad and enthusiastic consensus across political parties and civil society. Three years later, between 2013 and 2014, the Women's Caucus (WC) in the parliament agreed to trace the implementation of the law and its impact. This Elisabete Azevedo-Harman is Professor on legislative and political institutions in Angolan and Mozambican universities, political advisor, international expert on parliamentary and institutional development. Currently is a senior consultant of the National Assembly of Angola. Ricardo Godinho Gomes is a political scientist in the field of democratic governance since 2006 for UNDP, more specifically in electoral assistance, parliamentary strengthening and public finance management. He is a UNDP programme manager and he was the head of the management units of the project in support of electoral cycles in PALOP and Timor-Leste (2010-2013) and the Pro PALOP-TL SAI (2014-2017). 174 European Journal of Law Reform 2019 (21) 2 doi: 10.5553/EJLR/138723702019021002008

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