The conference focused on the need for parliamentary cooperation with independent institutions to promote human rights, women's political participation during and outside of the electoral process, as well as post-legislative oversight as a mechanism to strengthen control. A meeting was held with representatives of the Austrian Parliament as part of the conference, on the prevention of human trafficking and the prevention of gender-based violence. Representatives of independent institutions also took part in the conference in addition to the members of Western Balkan parliaments.

The representatives of the Committee on Human and Minority Rights and Gender Equality informed the participants of the conference about the legislative activities the Republic of Serbia had undertaken to improve the laws concerning independent state bodies and gender equality. Namely, they pointed out that the National Assembly had passed a new Law on the Ombudsman, as well as amendments to the Law on Prohibition of Discrimination. They went on to say that a new Law on Gender Equality and new election laws were also adopted, and that the Government of the Republic of Serbia had adopted the Strategy for Preventing and Combating Gender-Based Violence against Women and Domestic Violence for the period 2021-2025. They drew special attention to the fact that the National Assembly has a large number of women - 99 out of a total of 250 MPs or 39.76%, highlighting the importance of the work of the Women's Parliamentary Network. MP Andrijana Avramov also spoke about violence against women in politics.

On day 2 of the conference the participants presented best practice examples in using post-legislative oversight as a parliamentary mechanism aimed at strengthening the control function of parliaments.

At the end of the conference, the participants agreed that cooperation between the committees dealing with human and minority rights and gender equality issues is vital because these issues are under constant challenge.