This report is submitted as course work for Policy Workshop on Building Legislatures in Fragile States, a course at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University. It has been written under the guidance of Dr. Joel D. Barkan of the University of Iowa and Ludovic Hood of the U.S. Department of State (formerly of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)), in collaboration with two partner agencies, UNDP and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).