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Dear [NAME],
Welcome to the June edition of the BRIDGE (Building Resources in Democracy, Governance and Elections) Network Newsletter.
The past six months have been a busy period for the BRIDGE project. Not only has the course been updated to Version 2 status but it has also been conducted in various locations such as Dili, Cario, Amman, Kabul, Melbourne, Washington and Ramallah to name a few.
Although the curriculum is now at Version 2 status, amendments to it are continuing to be made. To ensure version control over the curriculum these updates will be loaded to the website two times a year. This will happen on 31 March and 30 September and will coincide with the delivery of a BRIDGE newsletter to remind you that the resources have been updated.
The servers that host the BRIDGE site have only recently been upgraded. Hopefully this will mean that you notice faster load times. We are also presently in the process of upgrading the 'Content Management System' that the site uses as well as the interface for downloading course documents.
A New Batch of Level One Facilitators
This year has already been an exciting one with the launch of Version 2 in New York, but it is also pleasing to see that the Project is still accrediting high-quality facilitators. And even more pleasing is the fact that we have been able to add 3 more Level 1 Facilitators to our ranks.
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Signing of BRIDGE Project in Egypt
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Council for Human Rights and the United Nations yesterday signed a document for a new phase of the project on building resources for democracy and governance (Bridge) in Egypt.
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BRIDGE Training in Ramallah Report
In recent years, a number of Arab countries have undertaken significant steps to strengthen their institutional development, which allowed them to reach important structural reforms and procedural improvements in the administration of their electoral processes. Significant indicators of this progress include the rise of autonomous election management commissions, electoral law reforms to improve participation of women, and - in notable cases – the conduct of competitive and credible elections. However, thus far, these reforms have remained purely isolated domestic experiments, with a very limited exposure both within the Arab world itself and at wider international level, which in most cases have taken individual countries as far as their internal capacities, experiences and resources allowed.
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An IFES funded, BRIDGE course was conducted for the Ministries of Interior, Municipal Affairs and Political Development in Aqaba, Jordan 20 |
