Customised BRIDGE workshop in the Philippines for COMELEC staff.  Customised from: Access, Gender, Legal, Planning, External, Financing.  Lead facilitator - Alistair Legge (Australia).  Co-facilitators: Sibongile Zimemo (South Africa) and Esmeralda Ladra (Philippines).  Funded and organised by IFES.

Kenya will be conducting a total of 11 ward and 1 parliamentary by-elections on 28 November 2011 - across the country. As part of the mentoring programme, I am with 5 of the TtF semi-accredited Kenya team doing their field work conducting training in preparation for these by-elections.  These will be the 1st by-elections conducted under the recently sworn in Commissioners of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) under the leadership of Mr. Ahmed Issack Hassan (Chairman), Ms. Lilian Bokeeye Mahiri- Zaja, Ms. Muthoni Wangai, Mr. Albert Bwire, Ms. Kule Galma Godana, Mr. Abdullahi Sharawe, Mr. Mohammed Alawi Hassan, Mr. Thomas Letangule and Amb. Yusuf Nzibo. 

IFES seeks to build South Sudan electoral decision making skills and administration capacity during the transitional period following independence. At the same time, IFES will build capacity of its internal national program team to provide additional advisory resources to national institutions and counterparts. IFES will accomplish these goals by conducting a series of training workshops targeting appropriate groups of electoral stakeholders. IFES recommends the BRIDGE (Building Resources in Democracy, Governance and Elections) program as a successful platform for delivering the relevant electoral training events. The training will consist of two back to back BRIDGE modular trainings of 5 days each. The primary training recipients shall be key members of the former Sothern Sudan Referendum Bureau (SSRB) staff. Additionally, representatives of the following groups will also be invited to participate: Previous electoral management body staff – central and state levels Southern Sudan Center for Census, Statistics and Evaluation (SSCCSE) personnel Political party members Law making representatives Civil Society Organization members This training funded by the United States Aid Agency (USAID) will be facilitated by the following BRIDGE facilitators: -Ibrahima A. Niang; -Emad Yousef; -Deryck Fritz

IFES seeks to build South Sudan electoral decision making skills and administration capacity during the transitional period following independence. At the same time, IFES will build capacity of its internal national program team to provide additional advisory resources to national institutions and counterparts. IFES will accomplish these goals by conducting a series of training workshops targeting appropriate groups of electoral stakeholders. IFES recommends the BRIDGE (Building Resources in Democracy, Governance and Elections) program as a successful platform for delivering the relevant electoral training events. The training will consist of two back to back BRIDGE modular trainings of 5 days each. The primary training recipients shall be key members of the former Sothern Sudan Referendum Bureau (SSRB) staff. Additionally, representatives of the following groups will also be invited to participate: Previous electoral management body staff – central and state levels Southern Sudan Center for Census, Statistics and Evaluation (SSCCSE) personnel Political party members Law making representatives Civil Society Organization members This training funded by the United States Aid Agency (USAID) will be facilitated by the following BRIDGE facilitators: -Ibrahima A. Niang; -Emad Yousef; -Deryck Fritz

The Electoral Assistance Unit of the ECOWAS Commission is organising a 4-days  professional capacity building training from June 24 -27, 2011 for members of the ECONEC - the Forum of ECOWAS National Electoral Commissions, with the technical assistance of International IDEA's West Africa Office.

International IDEA and ECONEC states (ECONEC is EMBs of ECOWAS states)

This workshop comes as part of the joint project between IFES, UNDP Egypt and NCHR which will be implemented over 2009-2010. The target audience for this workshop will researchers from People''s Assembly in Egypt. Facilitators - Ossama Kamel, Wael Al Farag and Hassan Hussein

AusAID funded BRIDGE Module: Legal Framework 4 day Workshop - 16 June to 19 June 2008 AEC Officers incountry 11 June to 20 June 2008 for STAE