BRIDGE Network Newsletter: February 2009

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BRIDGE Network Newsletter

09 February, 2009 / Issue 4

In this issue:

• latest news
• CEDP news
• calendar
• points of interest

Train the Facilitator in Egypt

For the first time in Egypt, BRIDGE (Building Resources in Democracy, Governance and Elections) Train the Facilitator's Workshop was held in Ain Sokhna, from November 23 - December 02, 2008. This workshop is considered as an important milestone in the "Support for BRIDGE training for electoral process stakeholders" project signed on April 02, 2008 between UNDP Egypt, the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) and IFES as technical implementer of the project. The project aims to Deliver BRIDGE trainings to major elections stakeholders in Egypt as well as to Strengthen election monitoring unit at the NCHR. To achieve the project objectives, there was a need to have a pool of Egyptian BRIDGE facilitators from the NCHR and other organizations. This "Train the Facilitators" (TtF) workshop is the first of two workshop to be held in Egypt as part of the above-mentioned project with the aim of establishing a pool of Egyptian BRIDGE facilitators

Building Mountains - BRIDGE at the top of the World

After a successful scoping mission conducted in August 2007 jointly by UNDP, IDEA and IFES, BRIDGE was recommended to the Electoral Commission of Nepal as a possible capacity development tool.

Election Adventures in warm and welcoming Darwin

The fifth of the planned BRIDGE modules with staff of Secretariado Tecnico Administracao Eleitoral (STAE) was to have been conducted in Dili in October as were the previous four BRIDGE Modules delivered in 2008. However, whenever an opportunity presents itself it is certainly part of BRIDGE philosophy to 'seize the day'!

Implementation Manual Progress Report

As you may be aware, the third V2 Implementation Manual meeting took place in Sydney, Australia from 10-13 November 2008 attended by over 20 lead facilitators and partner representatives.

Building Facilitator Friendships
The AEC International Services Section – Bridge Project Office was delighted to host BRIDGE V2 Implementation Workshop No 3 in Sydney Australia from 10 to 13 November 2008 followed by a BRIDGE Partner Meeting on 14 November.
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Bridging the Gap Between Partners!

Sounds like the promo for a marriage guidance counselling agency, doesn’t it? Not so, it’s the latest positive result to come out of BRIDGE.

Strengthening Partner Relationships

The BRIDGE Partner Meeting was attended by representatives of four of the five partners - IDEA, IFES, UNDP, AEC. UNEAD unfortunately were unable to attend and sent apologies. The attendees at the BRIDGE V2 Implementation Workshop No 3 were attended to attend the morning session of the BRIDGE Partner Meeting.

The first BRIDGE TtF in Colombia

The first BRIDGE TTF ever conducted in Colombia, and only the 3rd to take place in Latin America, took place in Bogota on 1-6 December with the support of International IDEA. The workshop was co-funded by the Registraduria and IDEA (through a regional BRIDGE project supported by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation in Development, AECID).

The first BRIDGE Training for the Egyptian Parliament

Introduction and Background

With the aim of contributing to the electoral reform process in Egypt, IFES and UNDP-Egypt in cooperation with the NCHR organized BRIDGE (Building Resources in Democracy, Governance, and Election) training in 2007. The workshop brought together selected participants representing various election stakeholders in Egypt to enhance their understanding of the principles that underpin the electoral process and share with them comparative experience from the region and other parts of the world as a framework in which to assess their own local experience and draw on best practices and lessons learned and was delivered by "IFES". IFES is one of the BRIDGE partners along with EAD, UNDP, IDEA and the Australian Election Commission (AEC).

CEDP NEWS

BRIDGE Civic Education Development Project (CEDP) – Update

The Democracy in Our Place foundation module within the CEDP has taken shape in the last couple of months. We now have a detailed module structure and several sample lessons already being edited. This follows an intense and productive writers meeting held in Melbourne in January 2009. There are now eight writers - in various parts of the globe - writing a series of activities to complete the module. If the first drafts are anything to go by, this module is going to be full of creative activities that will serve as inspiration for all BRIDGE facilitators, whatever modules they are delivering!

The project team can also confirm the location for the first trial workshop – Vanuatu. We have received some interest from local organisations in collaborating on the pilot, and will be consulting further with stakeholders in-country.

CALENDAR

2/23/2009	Planning Module Fiji, USP	Planning
2/26/2009	Focus On Newsletter
2/28/2009	BRIDGE Workshop	Management, Systems
3/1/2009	Cairo BRIDGE workshop	Management, Systems
3/23/2009	BRIDGE Training for West African CSOs working in electoral processes	Civic, Contestants, Information, Introduction, Legal, Observation, Planning, Technology, Training
4/5/2009	External Voting & Security Modules: Ramallah, Palestine	External, Security
5/4/2009	Network Newsletter
5/29/2009	BRIDGE Focus On Newletter
8/28/2009	Focus On Newsletter

POINTS OF INTEREST

The BRIDGE office would like to congratulate Rushdie Nackerdien on his appointment as a BRIDGE focal point with IDEA.
The final draft of the BRIDGE Implentation Manual is nearly completed and will soon be published to the website.

BRIDGE Network Newsletter: February 2009

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