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78. Mr. Morel specified that UNDP intervenes at: The global level through AGORA (a virtual platform for global exchanges on parliamentarydevelopment); The sub-regional level (in West Africa, Central America and the Arab region) by supportingregional parliamentary working groups, sub-regional organizations, development ofknowledge tools; At the national level by supporting parliamentary committees and parliamentarians,knowledge development and management.In the two next years, UNDP plans to launch regional working groups, produce fact sheets andcountry case studies, launch national workshops, and pilot the self-assessment tool / providetechnical support to two parliaments in each region.79. Ms. Sheinberg, on her part, highlighted the different tools developed by UNDP to better engagewith parliaments and parliamentarians in crisis prevention and recovery. She referred to “UNDP’sGuidelines for the International Community on Parliaments and Crisis Prevention and Recovery”,published in 2006. She also mentioned the programming guide UNDP is currently working on whichincludes core guidelines to help UNDP practitioners develop parliamentary programming, as well asa self-assessment tool to assist practitioners in assessing, understanding and identifying theweaknesses and needs of parliaments so they may in return improve their support and enableparliaments to better address crisis prevention and recovery issues. This tool will serve as a needsassessment mechanism and will help practitioners and parliamentarians identify the appropriatesupport/response to adopt depending on the type of conflict they are facing (coup d’état, electoralviolence, political violence, etc.). Ms. Sheinberg further indicated that the tool will be piloted in 2countries in West Africa which will serve as national case studies and welcomed participants toinform the UNDP team should they be interested in having their respective parliament take part inthe exercise.36