The presence and competence of parliamentary assistants are crucial for the efficiency of parliamentary work. Many countries have parliamentary assistants to aid MPs in performing their legislative duties, especially considering MPs represent the entire population and must address diverse, complex issues. The need for parliamentary assistants has emerged due to the difficulty of MPs familiarizing themselves with the details of all the issues they are working on. This could be due to both their limited time and the complexity of those issues, which require various technical expertise in each issue separately.

This guide focuses on the practical role of parliamentary assistants in advocating for gender equality through two main tasks: preparing fact sheets or background papers for MPs and drafting legislation with a gender-sensitive approach. It also provides a general framework on gender equality, power relations, gender-based discrimination and violence, and reproductive and sexual rights, alongside essential parliamentary concepts and tools. It further introduces the concept of reproductive and sexual rights, in addition to the basic concepts of parliamentary work, the formation of the House of Representatives, its monitoring and legislative tools, and its various roles.

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