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Stronger Together: Women and Men Unite for Gender Equality in Ecuador’s Political Parties
Explore how people in Ecuador combat gender inequality with the support of USAID, IFES, and Fundación Esquel Ecuador.
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Enhancing Indigenous Women’s Political Leadership in Ecuador
In May 2022, IFES and Fundación Esquel Ecuador launched a training process with Indigenous women from Movimiento de Unidad Plurinacional Pachakutik – Nuevo País (Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement, or Pachakutik) on gender parity and political leadership.
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IFES Introduces its Healthy Masculinities Methodology to Ecuador’s Consejo Nacional Electoral
On June 21, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) and the Consejo Nacional Electoral (National Electoral Council, CNE) of Ecuador held an online session on the topic of "Healthy Masculinities."
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IFES Ecuador and Fundación Esquel Launch Program for Gender Parity in Ecuador
The International Foundation for Electoral Systems and its local partner Fundación Esquel Ecuador officially launched their project, “Democracy, political organizations and gender: From legal parity to substantive parity.”
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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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Highlighting Successes of Women with Disabilities in Georgia
IFES launched the A-Spire Speakers Series in July 2019 to provide a platform for Georgian women with disabilities to share their unique stories and successes with the disability rights community, local and international stakeholders and government representatives. This series builds on IFES’ more than 10 years supporting the political participation and inclusion of traditionally underrepresented groups.
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Women of IFES: Q&A with Keti Maisuradze
IFES’ leadership in the field is comprised of a cadre of women professionals with firsthand experience administering elections in every region of the world. In this Q&A, Keti Maisuradze reflects on her first assignment with IFES, discusses democratic development in Georgia and offers advice for women working in democracy, rights and governance.
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India’s 37 Million “Missing Women”
As part of its U.S. Agency for International Development-funded Women’s Legal Rights Initiative in India, IFES launched the “Dignity of the Girl Child” campaign to address sex selection, infanticide and neglect of the girl-child. IFES’ campaign combined research and advocacy with targeted community-based interventions to sensitize and mobilize district and local administrators, the legal community, civil society, and the public on the need to value the life of the girl-child. It also engaged men as program allies and key decision makers.
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Election Administrator and 2017 Joe C. Baxter Award Recipient
The Central Election Commission (CEC) has been a critical partner in IFES’ work in Georgia. In this Q&A, CEC Chair Tamar Zhvania discusses IFES’ work with the Georgian election management body and efforts to ensure electoral access for persons with disabilities and promote gender equality.
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First Universal Democratic Elections in Independent Georgia
First Universal Democratic Elections in Independent Georgia offers a detailed overview of the first national democratic elections conducted in the Republic of Georgia in 1918.
February 27, 2017