The African Parliamentary Strengthening Programme (APSP) for Budget Oversight is a five (5) year capacity strengthening Programme for seven partner Parliaments; namely, Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The African Parliamentary Index (API) has been designed by the Centre to provide a standard and simplified system for self assessment of the performance of Parliaments in Africa, especially the seven (7) APSP select Parliaments. The findings point to obvious capacity strengths as well as demonstrable weaknesses of participating Parliaments. It is hoped that partner Parliaments find this information useful in designing their strategic direction including capacity strengthening plans for their individual Parliaments.