OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports Parliament in drafting Human Resources Strategy

With the support of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, the Montenegrin Parliament developed a gender-sensitive Human Resources Strategy 2021–2023 with a three-year action plan.

At the invitation of Parliament’s Human Resources Management Bureau, the Mission engaged two experts to work alongside the Bureau to develop its strategy and action plan based on a needs assessment conducted with Mission’s support in 2020. The assessment recommended developing a human resources strategy that reflects organizational goals and articulates human resources practices for staff recruitment, performance appraisal, and learning and development.  

Lilit Hakobyan, HR expert and Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) associate, said that with this process, the Parliamentary Service has realized that employees need to be encouraged to take on more responsibilities and maintain high standards of effective performance and service delivery. “I am hopeful that the strategy will help the staff of the Parliamentary Service focus on what really matters with respect to people, programmes and initiatives, while providing professional support to the work of Parliament,” said Hakobyan.

Gender expert Aleksandra Gligorović said that an important aspect of human resource management is ensuring equal opportunities for staff, regardless of gender identity. “Gender equality in the workplace is not only desirable from the human rights perspective, but it is good business. Gender balanced staff has proven to improve creativity, innovation and problem solving,” said Gligorović.

The Mission will continue to provide support to Parliament as it implements its human resource strategy.