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ELECTIONS COMPONENT:

1.ELECTORAL ADMINISTRATION CAPACITY BUILDING

2.DOMESTIC OBSERVATION

3.-VOTERS’ AWARENESS RAISING

BRUSSELS, 6-7JUNE 2012

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1. CAPACITY BUILDING OF THE ELECTORAL ADMINISTRATION

First coordination meeting,

Vienna, 13 May 2011

Participants: chairpersons and other members of Central Election CommissionsAim: Initial exchange of ideas about the programme

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Two main themes identified:

Voters’ lists compilation and registers

Electoral disputes

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Seminar on “voters lists and electoral disputes”, Chisinau, 19-20 September

2011

Participants: CECs, OSCE/ODIHR, IDEA, UNDP, political parties, NGOs.

Aim: discussion of the two identified themes and organisation of futures activities

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Seminar on “voters lists and registers”, Kyiv, 26-27 March 2012

Aim: Exchanging views, in particular by learning from the Ukrainian recent experience of creating a State Voters register, identifying problems and defining possible solutions.Participants: CECs, political parties Content: “case-law” of Venice Commission on voters’ lists, implementation of the Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters

• Forthcoming seminars:

• Strasbourg - Autumn 2012

• Georgia – Spring 2013

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2. DOMESTIC ELECTION OBSERVATION

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19-20 May 2011, Strasbourg, launching workshop

This workshop was the launching activity of the sub-component designed to enhance the role of civil society organizations in the promotion of European election standards in Eastern Partnership countries notably through election observation.

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Standards, best practices and methodology for domestic observation: handbook and methodology

Capacity building of domestic observers: training of trainers regional pool or trainers

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Strengthening co-operation of domestic observers with international observers and national election administrations

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Autumn 2011 Assessment of best practices of domestic election

observation in Eastern Partnership countries and inquiry on training needs

December 2011 – May 2012 Drafting of the best practices part of the handbook Contracting of the expert for writing the draft

methodology

September-October 2012 Meeting to discuss the two texts

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3. VOTERS’ AWARENESS RAISING

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5-6 September 2011, Chisinau, workshop to discuss voters’ awareness

raising activities

This workshop addressed CEC and was a brainstorming session on needs and opportunities for regional activities aimed at raising voters’ awareness of the electoral process

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Development of a curriculum for secondary schools pupils

The improvement of participation of women

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13-14 February 2012: Meeting in Chisinau on young voters'

awareness raising about the role of the electoral process in a democratic system

Participants from NGOs and MoE Agreed point: To develop a 2-hour

curriculum on elections for the last two years of high school

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Greater participation of women:Creation of a network to improve women’s

participation in public lifeMeasures aimed at facilitating the work of

female parliamentarians

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Tbilisi, 7 and 8 February 2012

Meeting on participation of women in public life

Participants: women parliamentarians Agreed: trainings to support women

already elected and encourage participation of others (general training curriculum, media,

fundraising, E-newsletter)

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Complementary actions under CoE bilateral programmes to support free and fair elections

Underway in 2012: Georgia and UkraineExpected in 2013: Armenia and

Azerbaïjan

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Local partners are/will be:

domestic NGOs, governmental institutionsschools

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2013 Domestic observation: training of trainers for domestic

observers on the basis of the methodology to be adopted in the autumn

Young voters: implementation of the curriculum for schools

Women: development of trainings and evaluation two seminars for CEC on training of the members of the

election commissions, building trust in elections; observation of elections.

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