IFES - Key Activities

• IFES Staffer Deployed to Nigeria to Support 2007 Vote
  IFES recently deployed McBean to Abuja to help Nigeria prepare for presidential elections in 2007. IFES aims to strengthen the ability of election administrators to run credible elections and respond to needs emerging from the 2003 electoral process, including reforms to the country's elections laws and the system by which election disputes are resolved. McBean's role on the IFES team is to establish a way to monitor the impact of IFES' programs in Nigeria -- a challenging task.
  
  
• Nigerian Election Support
  The Nigerian Election Support 2007 project represents a comprehensive approach to addressing the concerns and lessons learned outlined in the multitude of post-election assessments conducted following national elections in 2003. Some of the key recommendations emerging from those assessments included making the system of voter registration continuous, eliminating the multi-layered process for counting and tabulating election results, conducting a participatory review of the law pertaining to elections, and increasing civil society efforts to educate voters and monitor the polls.
  
  
• Voter Education
  In April 2004, IFES was awarded $188,000 by the Australian Government (AusAID) to support voter education efforts in Nigeria . IFES worked with the National Education Research and Development Council (NERDC) to produce a voter education handbook intended for use in school curricula and elsewhere. Through the DFID program, IFES plans to facilitate the widespread distribution of the handbook. IFES has also partnered with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) to produce a 30-minute voter education docudrama, intended for broadcast in the run-up to the 2007 elections.

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