NDI-Women's and Youth Political Participation in the DRC Election
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Sida is of the opinion that NDI has submitted a well-thought-out project proposal for funding of 7 million SEK to carry out the “ Women and Youth political participation in the 2018 election in the DRC” during the period June 2018 to February 2019. The intervention aims at providing youth and women candidates with the skills and a supportive environment to ca...
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Sida is of the opinion that NDI has submitted a well-thought-out project proposal for funding of 7 million SEK to carry out the “ Women and Youth political participation in the 2018 election in the DRC” during the period June 2018 to February 2019. The intervention aims at providing youth and women candidates with the skills and a supportive environment to campaign successfully for national or provincial elected office The organisation implementing the intervention is NDI. The project is financed by Sweden. USAID and DFID also finances similar activities but in other provinces. It’s based upon NDI country program, but NDI itself allocates also internal resources for its implementation. Other donors such as Netherlands are also expressing interest to fund NDI work’s in DRC in similar areas. The budget contribution by donor is divided as: - 7 000 000 SEK for the Sweden The project will target women and youth in the political party and civil society leaders. Sweden is supporting NDI in other countries and this contribution is the first for NDI works in the DRC. An external evaluation of NDI previous support with USAID and DFID was undertaken in 2016 showing positive outcomes.
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With support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), NDI (National Democracy Institute) for yoth and women candidates in December 2018 Presidential elections in the DRC. The following are the outcomes : - NDI Provided a list of 415 pontiel youth and women candidates in the provinal and national legislative elections to the Political Parti; Only 20% of youth and 15% of women canditates were able to be selected by their political party and accepted in the Electoral Commission (CENI) official list to run for the elections; - NDI trained a total of 506 women candidates and 261 youth men candidates, for a total of 714 candidates trained to run for the provincial and national assembly in Kinshasa, North Kivu and Upper Katanga. - NDI developed a survey system to assess candidates pre-election period, the campaign, and the post-election period and these provided NDI with significant data and feedback. The results showed that 80.5 percent of women candidates and 91.5 percent of youth candidates surveyed were running for office for the first time; - NDI worked with radio stations that broadcasted 140 debates between two to six trained candidates each, in the five target provinces. A total of 452 women and youth candidates participated in the debates; - NDI trained “focal points” from 5 partner CSOs on online communications and security in order to both carry out the campaign effectively and mitigate the risk of online or other abuse to participants and candidates. An average of nearly 2,300 individuals engaged with partners’ facebook content every day, and in total, the social media campaigns generated 16,884 likes on Facebook.
The overall goal of the two-year proposed extension is to contribute to more inclusive political processes in the DRC, by: - supporting coordinated, strategic efforts by Congolese gender advocates and elected women to alleviate barriers to women’s political participation; - Selected CSO’s implement effective advocacy programmes on democracy targeting local, provincial and national politicians and other policy makers; - LYREC monitors the implementation of DRC’s democracy/Infrastructure obligations and publishes annual reports on the government’s performance - RSLF strengthen, mentor and coach women that are holding political positions in order for them to implement and promote non-discriminatory laws and public policies towards women
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