Initially lacking parliamentary constituent offices, citizens and members of parliament had little opportunity to engage directly.  Through its “Mobile Parliament” program, established in 2003, MOST successfully brought three-thousand citizens together with more than two-hundred members of parliament and forty-eight representatives of local government in ninety-three public forums held in local communities across the country.   This innovation and the value of regular citizen engagement it demonstrated, led parliament to establish permanent constituent offices in 2007.

In 2004 MOST took the intiative to improve contact between civil society organizations and parliament, by entering into an official agreement to establish and run a NGO Contact Office in Parliament.   From 2004 to 2010, more than three hundred meetings were organized at the request of one-hundred and seventy-three CSOs, eighty-two citizens, sixteen members of parliament and nine departments of parliament.   As a result of the office’s work, six resolutions and amendments were introduced and deliberated and numerous public hearings and forums were organized on a range of topics including “Participation of the citizens and civil organizations in the policy and decision making processes” “Parliament lobbying and policy creating on the HIV/ AIDS” and “Law on Association and Foundations”.

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