A presentation that was made for Gender Center for Research and Training on their work on Sudan Elections 2010. It was part of a report submitted for their partners. I MADE IT USING OFFICE

1. Gender Center for Research & Training
ELECTION PROJECT OVERVIEW

2. WORK PHASES

3. PHASES ACTIVITIES
Pre-elections
Phase
PHASE

4. PHASES ACTIVITIES
Pre-elections
Phase
PHASE

5. PHASES ACTIVITIES
Pre-elections
Phase
PHASE

6. PHASES ACTIVITIES
Pre-elections
Phase
PHASE

7. PHASES ACTIVITIES
Pre-elections
Phase
PHASE

8. PHASES ACTIVITIES
Pre-elections
Phase
PHASE

9. PHASES ACTIVITIES
Pre-elections
Phase
PHASE

10. PHASES ACTIVITIES
Pre-elections
Phase
PHASE

11. PHASES ACTIVITIES
Elections
Process Phase
PHASE

12. PHASES ACTIVITIES
Main Theme for 2010
Post Elections
Phase Enhancing Woman's Human
Rights
 Conducting a comprehensive
PHASE assessment on Women’s rights agenda
in Political Parties Programs
 Preparing a conceptual framework
on Women’s Human Rights & Election
 Preparation of a simplified advocacy
manual on Women’s rights

13. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Samples of different activities carried out by the
center during the project phases.

14. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
1
Quota System
Forum:
Supporting Sudanese
Women Political
Participation
Researches and Development Studies
Inst. Hall
GCRT in partnership with
4th Jan. 2007
NED

15. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Quota System Forum:
Supporting Sudanese Women Political
Participation
1
 Objectives:
 To define different election methods and the
ways that women can participate in.
 To Define Quota System.
 To reach a common ground on the best method
to use for enabling women political participation.

16. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Quota System Forum:
Supporting Sudanese Women Political
Participation
1
 Target Groups:
 PoliticalParties.
 Women organizations
 Civil Society Organizations.

17. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Quota System Forum:
Supporting Sudanese Women Political
Participation
1
 Forum Outputs and Recommendations:
 Women Alliances is a must, and should be
established.
 Women must be part of NEC.
 Women Advocacy Groups must be created to
push hard for inclusion of clear explicit articles
in elections law on how women can participate
in the elections.

18. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
2
Elections
Campaign
Workshop:
A Training on How To
Manage an Election
Campaign
GCRT GCRT Hall
in partnership with NED
4 th Jan. 2007 Afief
Presented by: Dr. Albagir

19. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Elections Campaign Workshop:
A Training on How To Manage an Election
Campaign
2
 Target Groups:
 Women leaders in political parties.

20. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Elections Campaign Workshop:
A Training on How To Manage an Election
Campaign
2
 Objectives:
 To train women leaders on general concepts of
campaigns.
 To train them on specific features and
management of electoral campaign.
 Scientific approaches in Campaign
management.

21. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
3
Quota System
Workshop:
Quota as a mechanism
of enabling women
political participation
Grand Holiday Villa Hotel
9th May 2007
GCRT in partnership with FEF

22. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Quota System Workshop :
Quota as a mechanism of enabling women political
participation
3
 Papers Presented:
 Sudanese Women and Elections: The
Experience and Results. (By: Dr. Mohamed
Ahmed Salim)
 Sudanese Women and Elections: Why is the
Quota? (By: Dr. Balgis Badri)

23. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Quota System Workshop:
Quota as a mechanism of enabling women political
participation
3
 Strategies & Future Guides
Extracted from papers and what has been verbally said by the
presenters:
 More workshops are needed to reach an
agreement on the technical details to fulfill the
objectives of women representation through
Quota system.
 Women must bypass the political parties
differences to present a common view for NEC.

24. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Quota System Workshop:
Quota as a mechanism of enabling women political
participation
3
 Strategies & Future Guides
Extracted from papers and what has been verbally said by the
presenters:
 Civic education is a must.
 Woman must be stated in a clear and explicit
text in the elections law.
 There is a need to make a forum in the
parliament on the issue

25. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Quota System Workshop:
Quota as a mechanism of enabling women political
participation
3
 Strategies & Future Guides
Extracted from papers and what has been verbally said by the
presenters:
 Campaigns must be worked out in concentrated
rates.
 More work is needed inside political parties in
different states.
 Close meetings are needed with different parties
and civil society organization to make a draft for the
elections law. FEF should sponsor these meetings.

26. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Quota System Workshop:
Quota as a mechanism of enabling women political
participation
3
 Strategies & Future Guides
Extracted from papers and what has been verbally said by the
presenters:
 Workshops are needed to enable women facing the
election process.
 Women must be represented in NEC.
 A campaign must be done by women in political
parties and civil society organizations. It might be
promotional, educational, advocacy and public with
a slogan: Quota is Justice NOT Separation!

27. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Quota System Workshop:
Quota as a mechanism of enabling women political
participation
3
 Strategies & Future Guides
Extracted from papers and what has been verbally said by the
presenters:
 Parties are to be committed to a definite action
plan and schedule matching with different
elections phases regarding the issue.
 All women sectors (agricultural, workers, etc)
must be aware and enabled.

28. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
4
Elections;
Brainstorming
Forum:
A forum to collect food
for thoughts after the
issuance of elections law
GCRT in partnership 2008 and
5th Aug. with FEF
UNIFEM

29. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Elections; Brainstorming Forum:
A forum to collect food for thoughts after the issuance of
elections law
4
 Objectives:
To reach a definite recommendations and action
plan for the following period of time

30. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Elections; Brainstorming Forum:
A forum to collect food for thoughts after the issuance of
elections law
4
 Papers presented:
 Lightson Elections Law (By: Maria Abbas)
 Smart Alliances: The Opportunities ( By: Sara
Nogdalla)

31. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Elections; Brainstorming Forum:
A forum to collect food for thoughts after the issuance of
elections law
4
 Outputs:
 Forum is agreed to be periodical on monthly
basis
 FEF, UNIFEM and GCRT are to coordinate the
forum.
 An urgent meeting was agreed upon to set the
priorities and strategies that organize the work
and set the following steps.

32. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Elections; Brainstorming Forum:
A forum to collect food for thoughts after the issuance of
elections law
4
 Outputs:
 As a consequence the following forum was held
on Oct. 2008 in Meridian Hotel
 Papers presented were:
 Women and Elections: Challenges and
Opportunities (by: Siddieg Yousif)
 Elections: A Gender View (by: Zainab Abbas)