UNDP Libya and Tripoli University are organizing a 3-month training course for 30 Libyan university graduates and NGO workers to become the country's first civic education instructors. The programme consists in two training phases (Workshop 1: Basic concepts of democracy & governance, Workshop 2: Civic education methodologies +Training of Facilitators), homebased assignments and supervised practice period. Successful trainees will receive, at the end of the 3 month period, a certificate jointly issues by UNDP & Tripoli University of BRIDGE facilitators in civic education and will continue providing civic education classes to university undergraduates as well as NGO staff and civic education volunteers in youth organizations. The course is facilitated by three BRIDGE facilitators from Jordan & Tunisia.

UNDP/ESP finded Gender and Elections module in Surkhet, Nepal. Target audience: DEOs - 15, Political parties reps - 5, Media reps - 2, CSO - 3

The workshop is funded by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and the Elections MDP Project of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and hosted by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) and UNDP. The goal of DG BRIDGE,  is to promote and support democracy and governance through facilitating dialogue, learning, resources and networks in the Asia Pacific region and is targeted at a wide range of stakeholders including government representatives and officials at all levels, community organisers and leaders, policy makers and thinkers, civil society organisation leaders, staff of international agencies, business leaders, civic education professionals, emerging young leaders and so on.

The purpose of the Customising workshop is for the facilitation team of a national workshop to get together and customise the curriculum for the national workshop. To do this, experienced DG BRIDGE facilitators will be paired with semi-accredited facilitators in a mutual learning process.

International IDEA Workshop  #2 on Participatory Democracy: Mapping Engagement, Jordan (Amman) 22-26 February 2010 – Incorporating 2-day showcase of CEDP (Civic Education Development Project) Democracy in Our Place (4 & 5 December) – Facilitators: Yvonne Goudie (CEDP Coordinator) and Paul Guerin (International IDEA)

Democracy in Our Place (DiOP) Workshop for Government and Civil Societ in Bhutan. This is the second trial of this module and will be facilitated by both local and intern