Calendar of Activities

The following CPA and Commonwealth activities are scheduled. However all activities are subject to last minute changes or cancelations. Please contact the CPA Headquarters Secretariat via hq.sec@cpahq.org for details of forthcoming conferences and events or alternatively head to our Events or News pages.

For a list of the timings for key International UN Days please visit the UN site.

To download our 2023 Forward Planner please click here.

Forthcoming Events and Activities

2023

MARCH

• CPA Post-Election Seminar for the Parliament of Tonga and other Pacific Parliaments, 21 to 24 March 2023

APRIL

• UK Overseas Territories Speakers Conference, Anguilla, 3 to 7 April 2023
• Mid-Year CPA Executive Committee meeting, Gibraltar, 17 to 20 April 2023
• 52nd CPA British Islands and Mediterranean Regional Conference, London, UK, 25 to 28 April 2023

MAY

• International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, 17 May 2023
• CPA Small Branches Workshop on Disaster Risk Management, London, UK, 24 to 26 May 2023

JUNE

• CPA Parliamentary Academy: Parliamentary Development Residency Course, Edmonton, Alberta, 11 to 17 June 2023
• National Legislators' Conference (NLC), Mumbai, India, 16 to 18 June 2023
• International Day of Parliamentarism / World Parliament Day (IPU initiative), 30 June 2023
• 53rd CPA Africa Regional Conference, Venue and dates TBC June 2023

JULY

• 52nd Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference (POCC) for the Pacific and Australia Regions, Solomon Islands, 2 to 6 July 2023
• 45th CPA Caribbean, Americas and the Atlantic Regional Conference, Turks and Caicos, dates TBC, July 2023
• 59th CPA Canada Regional Conference, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, 23 to 28 July 2023
• 6th CPA Asia Regional Conference, Venue and dates TBC, July 2023
  

AUGUST

• 2023 Parliamentarian of the Year Awards – nomination deadline closes, 1 August 2023
• International Youth Day, 12 August 2023
• National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Legislative Summit 2023, Indianapolis, USA, 14 to 16 August 2023

SEPTEMBER

• International Day of Democracy, 15 September 2023
• 66th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, Accra, Ghana (including 39th CPA Small Branches Conference; Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) and Commonwealth Parliamentarians with Disabilities (CPwD) meetings; 66th CPA General Assembly; CPA Executive Committee meetings; and the Society of Clerks at the Table (SoCATT) meetings), 30 September to 6 October 2023

OCTOBER

• 43rd CPA Canadian Parliamentary Regional Seminar, Ontario, Canada, 12 to 15 October 2023
• 147th IPU Assembly, Luanda, Angola, 23 to 27 October 2023
• UN Day, 24 October 2023
• CPA Australia and Pacific Regional Conference, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Dates TBC October 2023

NOVEMBER

• International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November 2023
• COP28 - 28th session of the Conference of Parties (COP 28) to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 30 November to 12 December 2023

DECEMBER

• International Day of Disabled Persons, 3 December 2023
• UN Human Rights Day, 10 December 2023

2024

JANUARY

• 27th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC), Kampala, Uganda, 3 to 6 January 2024

Updated 21/03/2023