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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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Myanmar Youth Innovate to Engage First-Time Voters
An estimated 5 million young people will be eligible to vote for the first time in Myanmar’s 2020 elections. On August 15, IFES brought together young leaders from across Myanmar to participate in the 2020 Elections Youth Innovation Summit.
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Celebrating International Youth Day 2019 in Myanmar
On August 10, 280 young people gathered in Mandalay, Myanmar, to celebrate International Youth Day. In line with this year’s global theme of “Transforming Education,” the event kicked off IFES’ national civic and voter education program, which will engage voters from across Myanmar to take part in the electoral process ahead of the pivotal 2020 elections.
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Your Voice, Your Vote, Your Future: A Youth Civic Education Program in Myanmar
Your Voice, Your Vote, Your Future is a youth civic education training program designed and supported by IFES. By supporting Myanmar’s youth to develop civic knowledge and critical thinking skills, IFES and its local partners are empowering first-time voters to make informed decisions in the 2020 elections and beyond and empowering young people to become future leaders in their communities.
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Sharing Democratic Principles and Civic Knowledge with Myanmar’s Citizens
IFES partnered with seven civil society organizations in Myanmar to conduct a widespread civic education program entitled Naing Ngan Thar Kaung, or Model Citizen.
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Transparency Maldives and IFES Host Democracy Camp for Youth
The current Maldivian education system does not include civic education as part of the school curriculum, resulting in limited knowledge and understanding among young people of human rights and democratic principles, as well as the role of democratic institutions, elections and political parties. In order to introduce civic education and increase civic participation among youth, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems works closely with local partner Transparency Maldives to host civic education camps for young people, ages 14-16, from around the country.
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Nurturing Democracy in the Maldives
In June, The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) held a “Democracy Camp” for 40 youths, aged 14-16, from around the country.The primary goal of the camp is to enhance the participants’ knowledge on civic education, rights and responsibilities of a citizen, democracy, human rights and other pressing social issues. For this episode we hear the voices of Nihaya Ahmed, a camp participant, and IFES Chief of Party Dan Malinovich.
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La Democracia es responsabilidad de todos
“Democracy is Everyone’s Responsibility” is a Civic Education Booklet, available in Spanish, issued in 1992 by PARTICIPA, Chile. The booklet describes democracy and informs citizens of how they may participate in building a democratic society. By teaching the values of democracy to the readers and its importance, the booklet is meant to serve as an incentive for people to participate in creating a democratic Chile. The guide includes a list of the required conducts in a democracy.
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Manual de Educacion Civica
“Handbook of Civic Education” is an educative manual, available in Spanish, and published in 1991 by the PARTICIPA Corporation of private law in Chile. The manual is intended to serve as a source of information, for students, on the theory of democracy and the historic analysis of the Chilean institutional system. The book consists of 2 parts divided in 12 chapters, the first part being the theoretical part based on the chapter dedicated to the Human Being and the Human Rights, the Person and the Society, the Political Regimes and so on, while the second part focuses on chapters focused on the historical analysis of the Chilean institutional system. Some of the chapters focus on the following themes: the Constitutional Rights and Guarantees, the Regional Electoral Tribunals, and the Constitutional Reform. Additionally, it includes educational exercise samples after each chapter.