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Leveraging New Technologies to Make Civic and Electoral Information Accessible to All Tunisians
IFES developed the New Tech Inclusive Democracy Exhibit to teach visitors about democracy and elections in an accessible manner.
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IFES Holds Its First Voter Education Film Festival
IFES held a Voter Education Film Festival to share best practices, gather examples from around the world and create a video repository for IFES teams to use and refer back to.
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Democratic Stakeholders Adapting in MENA
With governments across the Middle East and North Africa imposing a variety of emergency restrictions to combat COVID-19, IFES is adapting its support to ensure the critical work of promoting and protecting democracy continues.
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Selma Votes in Tunisia
As part of an effort to enfranchise illiterate women residing in rural areas to hold their government accountable, IFES partnered with USAID and the Tunisian Mediterranean Center to train and deploy women ambassadors in governorates with the highest illiteracy rates. These civic education ambassadors then encouraged women like Selma Sbissi, featured in a USAID video, to register and vote in the 2018 municipal elections.
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Advancing Inclusive Democracy in Tunisia Through New Technologies
To make electoral information available to Tunisians who are deaf or hard-of-hearing in the runup to the 2019 national elections, IFES developed a sign language lexicon of nearly 200 electoral concepts and a companion smartphone application.
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Project Promoting Leadership of Dominican Youth with Disabilities Recognized by National Council on Disability
In recognition of their efforts to increase the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the Dominican Republic, IFES and the Disability Alliance for Our Rights were awarded the 2019 Seal for Good Inclusive Practices for Persons with Disabilities by the National Council on Disability.
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Photo Gallery: Awakening the Next Generation of Tunisian Voters
To address a lack of civic education in Tunisian schools and create an informed and civic-minded future generation, IFES developed the Democratic Awakening Toolkit. IFES produced 1,500 toolkits, which are comprised of a teaching manual, pedagogical resources and reusable materials to simulate voting in classrooms, for a pilot program in September 2018.
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Mobilizing Rural Women for Tunisia's Municipal Elections
IFES partnered with the Tunisian Mediterranean Center to train and deploy women ambassadors in Tunisians governorates with the highest illiteracy rates to encourage women to register and vote in the May 6, 2018, municipal elections and provided them with information on registration and voting procedures.
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Tunisian Theater Troupe Takes to the Streets to Engage Voters on Democracy and Elections
IFES organized a street theater tour across Tunisia to encourage civic participation among marginalized populations who, living in remote, hard-to-access communities, lack access to information on elections, democracy, and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
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Preventing and Mitigating Electoral Violence in Guatemala
The ability for people to participate in elections free from the fear of harm is essential to inclusive, credible elections and protected by the right to human security and universal suffrage. In Central America, and more particularly in Guatemala, this freedom of fear has not been a reality for many citizens. To help address this problem, IFES has been providing technical support to the Guatemalan Supreme Electoral Tribunal on electoral violence prevention and response coordination since 2011.