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Tunisia Adopts Amended Legal Framework for Local Elections

Following a lengthy review period, Tunisia’s Assembly of the Representatives of the People adopted amendments to the country’s legal framework for local elections. Following the law’s adoption, IFES conducted a review and analysis of the adopted amendments. Read this post to learn more about the amendments and IFES’ analysis.
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Survey Reveals Illiterate Tunisians Plan to Participate in Upcoming Elections

An IFES quantitative survey, conducted from December 2016 to January 2017, aimed to gain a better understanding of illiterate Tunisians’ levels of political participation and civic engagement and identify obstacles preventing or discouraging them from voting. This information will inform the design of outreach campaigns aimed at increasing illiterate Tunisians’ understanding of political and electoral processes, as well as more targeted voter information campaigns to encourage illiterate Tunisians to register and participate in elections.
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Media Centers, Election Transparency

In this Q&A, Sansour discusses IFES’ efforts in assisting the ISIE establish the Media Center. He has extensive experience with Media Centers and has worked with election commissions on such projects in Libya, Palestine and Yemen. Sansour began working with ISIE on Media Center projects in 2011.
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Hack4Democracy Supports Tunisian Youth Civic Engagement

Tunisian youth played a significant role in the lead up to the 2011 revolution. Despite being at the forefront, many young Tunisians now feel that the gains of the revolution were stolen from them, with the older generation benefitting while youth remain politically and economically marginalized. IFES and the Tunisian Youth Forum are working to transform Tunisian youth’s online engagement into active civic engagement through an innovative new initiative called Hack4Democracy camps.
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Tunisia's Election Commission Organizes Global Campaign Finance Conference

On March 28, Tunisia’s High Independent Authority for Elections (ISIE) organized an international conference on the financing of political life during electoral periods with support from the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), the United Nations Development Programme, the Council of Europe and the Venice Commission.  The conference provided an opportunity to examine key issues related to campaign finance through the lens of the French, Mexican, Canadian and Tunisian campaign finance systems.
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IFES Trains Tunisian Journalists Ahead of Key Local Elections

IFES is currently organizing a series of trainings for Tunisian community radio and print journalists.  The goal of these training sessions is to build the capacity of Tunisian journalists – including journalists working in the marginalized interior regions – to provide accurate, analytical and impartial coverage of the upcoming municipal elections and the decentralization process.
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Launch of IFES White Paper on IDPs and Electoral Participation in Ukrainian

On Dec. 10, 2016, IFES Senior Global Electoral Adviser and Ukraine Country Director Peter Erben unveiled the recently translated Ukrainian and Russian editions of IFES’ newly published global white paper, “Internally Displaced Persons and Electoral Participation: A Brief Overview.”
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IFES Honors Tunisia’s Chafik Sarsar with 2016 Joe C. Baxter Award

On Tuesday, November 8, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) honored Chafik Sarsar, President of Tunisia’s Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE), with its 2016 Joe C. Baxter Award at a reception ceremony held during the 2016 U.S. Election Program.