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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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Bangladeshi Youth Leading Through COVID-19
Continuing their response efforts to COVID-19 in Bangladesh, IFES and Dhaka University’s Microgovernance Research Initiative organized 11 webinars for the Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) network.
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Civic Education for Youth in Georgia
In Georgia, IFES has partnered with 27 institutions of higher learning to implement a fully accredited university-level civic education course; there are more than 7,000 course alumni throughout the country.
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Youth Engagement and Disability Rights
Matcharashvili, who has a physical disability, distinguished himself as an active and impressive student throughout the course. He participated in the curriculum’s semester-long buildup of civics knowledge and skills development, which culminated in the design and implementation of group student action projects on local community issues.
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Local Solutions for Sustainable Civic Education at Georgian Universities
April 2015 marked the one-year anniversary of the formation of the Civic Education Lecturers Association (CELA) – a formal network of over 50 university-level civic educators who teach the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)-developed, semester-long and fully accredited civic education course, Democracy and Citizenship.
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Empowering Tomorrow through Youth Engagement
IFES works to empower youth around the world by hosting democracy-focused camps, events, and activities. By educating young people about democracy, we enable them to express themselves and have a voice in their communities.
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IFES Civics Course Alum Serves as Precinct Election Commissioner
Prior to participating in IFES’ Democracy and Citizenship course, Nika Markozashvili possessed only basic knowledge about citizenship and the responsibilities of citizens in a democracy. The course content had a profound impact on Markozashvili’s understanding of his role in public life. “As I passed the course, [in] time I realized my role in building democratic society,” he said.
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Televised Candidate Debate in Tbilisi, Georgia
In anticipation of local elections at the end of the month, IFES organized and sponsored live, televised candidate debates for the post of mayor of Tbilisi, Georgia, together with Georgian Public Broadcasting. These debates represent a first in Georgian democracy – live debates featuring candidates running for office have never been produced before.
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Odhikar and IFES Final Report on Election Violence
This report details the findings from the Election Violence Education and Resolution (EVER) program, designed by IFES and implemented by Odhikar
February 15, 2009
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Post-election Violence Follows Historic Bangladeshi Poll
The December 29 elections in Bangladesh have been reported as free, fair and peaceful by international and domestic observer groups including the Asian Network for Free and Fair Elections (ANFREL) and the European Union.
January 05, 2009