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Haiti Training and Voter Education Report for the December 17 Presidential Election

Executive Summary

As required by the Agreement and its amendments, the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) worked in close cooperation with the Conseil Electoral Provisoire (CEP) Civic Education Division to design and implement a National Pollworker Training Program and a National Civic Education Campaign for the 17 December Presidential election; the IFES team also worked to establish a coordination mechanism for the civic education activities.

Procedures for the revision of the voters' registry were also drafted and a planning program to update the list of polling stations provided to each Bureau Electoral Departemental (BED).

The team, with the assistance of the BED, recruited and trained 10 coordinators, 29 Core trainers and 300 network trainers. These trainers then provided training for 55,765 pollworkers and the majority of the DeIegues des Sections Communales ( DEC). (Refer to the Attachment ''E'')

The manual for the revision of the registry was updated and 2500 copies were reproduced for the 800 revision stations. Similarly, a pollworker manual was designed and 35,000 copies were distributed to the BED to be used by the pollworkers during training and polling.

Material for voter education was designed and developed, including posters, jingles, banners and radio spots. A financial assistance program was conducted with the BED in which local initiatives for civic education were funded up to a maximum of$5000US.

Departmental and national round tables were organized to evaluate the 17 December election; all nine BEDs organized a round table and eight of them wrote a common report, the Round Table Report (See Attachment "T"). At the national round table, 61 individuals participated in the evaluation. Afterwards, a report was published and distributed to the participants and the political parties.

Therefore, under the terms of the Agreement and in support of the 17 December Presidential election, IFES assisted the CEP in training of trainers, pollworkers, delegates of the communal sections, and election officials. IFES also assisted the CEP in implementing the national voters education plan by designing, producing and distributing civic education material.

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