Overall Objective

The overall objective of this programme is to enhance citizen participation in issues of governance and democracy focusing on electoral participation.

Specific Objectives

The programme’s specific objectives are:

• To inform citizens to vote from an informed basis.
• To increase citizens’ knowledge about democracy and electoral processes.
• To provide active citizenship participation in democratic processes and elections.
• And to facilitate the participation of youth and other marginalized groups in political processes.

Target Groups

Our CVE program targets a broad spectrum of stakeholders including the electorate, youth, students, women’s groups, political parties, influential community leaders, the disabled and other marginalized groups.

Activities

• Mapping members’ work and geographical coverage.
• Strategic partners
• Public campaigns /Outreach
• Social media campaigns /Messages
• Conduct studies to identify gaps in knowledge, information and skills in civic, political; human rights among citizens
• Conduct studies to identify gaps in knowledge, information and skills in civic, political & human rights among citizens
• Review and develop materials to address the dynamic nature of the election landscape. 
• Build capacity for the various target groups.
• Create synergies among various civic and voter education providers to provide an effective multi-agency approach to capacity building in governance and democracy. Building capacity of trainers drawn from various agencies and mount cascade training model.
• Advocate and lobby for early electoral boundaries delimitation that meets best international practices.
• Conduct a census projection to establish the validity of the delimitation process. 
• Advocate and lobby for affirmative actions and inclusive policies to increase the participation of women, youth and PWDs in electoral and political processes 
• Audit political parties’ manifestos to instil culture of transparency and accountability to citizens. 
• Strengthen the capacity of media to appreciate impartiality and conflict-sensitive reporting.
• Partnerships and collaborations as a strategy to reach out to broad rural and urban communities and reach to special interest groups.