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Supporting Meaningful Global Youth Engagement
To mark International Youth Day 2016, the Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) reaffirms its commitment to supporting inclusive and meaningful global youth engagement. CEPPS recognizes that young people around the world face incredible individual, socio-cultural, and institutional challenges as they navigate their transition from the dependence of childhood to active citizenship in adulthood.
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Feature
22 Years Since Violeta Chamorro: Women’s Political Participation in Latin America Today
Rafael Lopez-Pintor, former IFES Chief of Party in Nicaragua and special adviser on the electoral cycle, talks to us about recent developments in the path to increased female political participation in Latin America and tells us how it compares to Violeta Chamorro’s tenure as Nicaragua’s—and the Americas’—first female president back in 1990.
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Book
Manual del Registrador del Estado Civil de las Personas
IFES en colaboración con el Consejo Supremo Electoral de Nicaragua y la Dirección del Registro Civil Nacional desarrollo un nuevo manual oficial para los registradores civiles, el Manual del Registrador del Estado Civil de las Personas. El Manual compila de manera accesible y fácil todas las leyes, reglamentos, y otra clase de información que los registradores civiles y sus asistentes necesitan para administrar eficazmente sus registros.IFES assisted the Supreme Electoral Council of Nicaragua in developing a new official manual for civil registrars, Manual del Registrador del Estado Civil de las Personas. This manual can help civil registrars better understand all the laws, regulations, and other information that they need to effectively administer their registries.
May 31, 2007
News & Updates
Press Release
New IFES Book Documents Methods to Mobilize Disabled Voters
A new publication from IFES documents activities and lessons learned from the first-ever project that aimed to increase voting by Nicaraguans with disabilities and thereby make the country’s elections more inclusive.
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Report/Paper
Your Vote Counts, Your Vote Decides / Tu Voto Vale, Tu Voto Decide
This project report describes the first-ever experience in Nicaragua in support of voting for persons with a disability. It reflects the conclusions arrived at by means of a project evaluation process, as well as the lessons learned that might be useful to similar future activities, whether these take place in Nicaragua or in other countries of the region or world. He aquí un informe memoria sobre la primera experiencia en Nicaragua de apoyo al voto de las personas con alguna discapacidad. Esta publicación describe las actividades del proyecto e incluye lecciones aprendidas que puedan resultar beneficiosas para actuaciones en el futuro, ya en Nicaragua ya en otros países de la región o del mundo.
March 04, 2007
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Report/Paper
Proyecto de Estudio Comparado Sobre las Reformas al Sistema de Registro Civil e Identificación de las Personas en: Colombia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panamá
The report compiles and compares the different ways that Colombia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Panamá have reformed their civil registries and processes for collecting voter information. The original purpose of the report was to gather, summarize and distribute objective and comparative information to spark discussion and debate among government officials including civil registrars, civil society and all other stakeholders interested Civil Registry reform in Nicaragua. The report examines the different structures of civil registry bodies in the countries studied. In addition, it includes summaries that explain the repercussions of reforms enacted by individual countries and analyzes proposed reform efforts. In the case of Nicaragua, the document includes preliminary information about civil registry reforms that were in process when the report was written. El informe compila y compara diversas reformas efectuadas en los registros civiles en Colombia, El Salvador, Panamá y Nicaragua. Este reporte fue desarrollado con el esfuerzo de recopilar, resumir y proveer información objetiva y comparativa en lo que es el inicio de la discusión y el debate nacional entre funcionarios gubernamentales y registradores civiles, sociedad civil y todos aquellos entes involucrados en el proceso de reforma del registro civil de Nicaragua. El informe también considera diferencias entre los registros civiles de los países estudiados e incluye un resumen por cada país que indica las repercusiones de las reformas y otros temas no previstos durante el proceso. En el caso de Nicaragua, el documento incluye elementos contextuales que se han llevado a cabo al momento de realizar el estudio.
January 31, 2007
Election Material
Civic Education Material
Guia paso a paso
“Guide: Step by Step” is an electoral handbook, available in Spanish, issued in 2006 by the Supreme Electoral Council in Nicaragua in lead up to the November 5, 2006 Nicaraguan General Elections. The handbook is supposed to instruct the polling station officials about their responsibilities before and during the elections and to serve as guidance through the voting procedures. Additionally, the guide contains examples of the documents needed by the polling station officials when following the required voting procedures.
Election Material
Civic Education Material
Constitucion Politica de la Republica de Nicaragua
“The Political Constitution of the Republic of Nicaragua” is the official publication of the Constitution of the Republic of Nicaragua, available in Spanish, issued in 2003 by the Secretariat of Legal Affairs of the Presidency of Nicaragua. The text of the constitution embodies the approved reforms of 2000. The constitution consists of 11 articles, some of them incorporating matters of national defense, general principles, Nicaraguan nationality, Education and Culture, and the structure of the state institutions.
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Report/Paper
Informe de Evaluacion de Proyectos Presentados Por El Consejo Supremo Electoral a la Embajada de Suecia
October 14, 1998