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Key Activities for National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE)

  • Provide IT support to NEBE, including internal communication and integrated electoral management and HR/payroll system with GIS component and inventory system, as well as decentralized observers and party agent accreditation system, including to support encoding and mapping of polling stations.
  • Support the creation and set-up of NEBE regional offices including existing regional offices
  • Capacity Building: deliver leadership and management training to the NEBE board and executive officers, ToT and cascade trainings for regional offices; customised trainings for NEBE and electoral stakeholders, Training of judges and others stakeholders on electoral dispute resolution (EDR) and alternative dispute resolutions (ADR) mechanisms; and training the Civil Society Organisations on EADR
  • Organise peer-to-peer exchange with members of other regional EMB’s
  • Organise peer-to-peer exchange between regional, zonal and constituencies offices
  • Support poll workers training
  • Provide support to NEBE to establish media and social media monitoring
  • Support to electoral dispute settlement and framework of the legal dispute resolution
  • Establish a sustainable civic and voter education framework for NEBE.

 

Key Activities for Coalition of Ethiopian Civil Society Organisations for Elections (CECOE)

  • Training of CSO observers and support CSOs in deploying long and short-term observers for the General and local Elections (500 Short term/5 000 Long term)
  • LEAD trainings for CSO representatives tailored to the Ethiopian context including the use of national and international trainers, regional languages, and Ethiopian designs
  • Setting up the election situation room and a media monitoring unit
  • Promoting the European Union election observation mission (EU EOM); and promoting dialogue between international and national election observation missions
  • Support civic education and voter information tailored and targeted to youth, vulnerable groups and first-time voters
  • Creation of a platform of exchange for youth, women, and IDPs.
  • Implementation of voter education trainings for youth organisations