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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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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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Building Intersectional Coalitions to Address Discrimination and Violence in Lebanon
IFES has partnered with the Lebanese Union for People with Physical Disabilities and ABAAD-Resource Center for Gender Equality to launch the “Identify, Interpret and Respond” project, which will empower civil society organizations to address political discrimination and violence through coordinated action.
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Libyan Election Staff Trained on Election Dispute Resolution and Voter Registry Database
Members of Libya’s High National Elections Commission recently participated in trainings led by IFES, with support from the United States Agency for International Development, on election dispute resolution and voter registration database management.
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International Day of Democracy: Celebrating Youth Achievements in Tunisia
In September 2018, IFES supported the celebration of the International Day of Democracy (IDD) in Tunisia. More than 180 Tunisian and international organizations organized their own IDD events, partnered with IFES or spread the word, and 2,430 people attended events throughout the country.
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Partnership with Libyan Ministry of Education to Promote Civic Education in Public Schools
On August 4, 2018, IFES and the Libyan Ministry of Education (MoE) celebrated the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at underpinning future cooperation in Libya. The MoU is the latest culmination of a fruitful cooperation between IFES and the MoE toward developing and introducing a broad curriculum of civic education in public schools in Libya.
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Haythem Srihi: From H4D Participant to Municipal Councilor
IFES launched an original initiative called Hack4Democracy (H4D), a combination of democracy camps and hackathons which uses technology to engage Tunisian youth in civic activism. At just 24 years old, Haythem Srihi is a member of the H4D finale’s winning team and a newly elected municipal councilor from the city of Jammel. Haythem’s success in both the H4D competition and in the May 6 municipal elections serves as a prime example of what Tunisian youth can achieve when they are given the tools to prosper and have the drive to overcome societal barriers.
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Bilel Mansouri: From H4D Participant to Change Maker
To address a growing lack of civic engagement among Tunisian youth, IFES launched an original initiative called Hack4Democracy (H4D) in Tunisia, a combination of democracy camps and hackathons. Bilel Mansouri used his experience in a H4D camp and applied what he had learned to create Detecti, a mobile and web application, and start Jeunes Actifs, a civil society organization.
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Libya Pilots New Civic Education Curriculum for Students
From March 1 to 4, IFES worked with Libya’s Ministry of Education to train more than 30 Libyan teachers across the country to use and implement a new civic education curriculum for students in grades 7-9. In April, the pilot was successfully launched in 25 schools in 14 cities across Libya, and a nation-wide rollout is anticipated for the 2018/9 school year.
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Technological Innovation at the Service of Youth Engagement
To address a growing lack of civic engagement among Tunisian youth, IFES launched an original initiative called Hack4Democracy (H4D) in Tunisia, a combination of democracy camps and hackathons, putting the latest technological advances at the service of youth engagement. H4D promotes civic engagement through the competitive creation of innovative tools using new technologies, and builds professional competencies for youth by providing networking opportunities, mentoring and incubation of the most promising projects.