The Central Election Commission (CEC) is carrying out educational projects on various fields to raise awareness of different election stakeholders regarding the early Elections to the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan, appointed to September 1, 2024.

Within the educational program, CEC started large-scale project for the whole country – trainings for lower election commission members. First of all, it should be informed that the foundation of the training project which was set in 2002 before 22 years within the cooperation with different international organizations and broadened in format and text by every year after 2008. The trainings focused on by CEC have been conducted in all elections of the country, so far, thereby contributing to the further improvement of professional skills of members of Constituency and Precinct Election Commissions (Con.ECs and PECs).

CEC has compiled a training project in two stages regarding the upcoming Elections to the Milli Majlis. The first stage of “Training of Trainers” started from 5 August, 2024 and is organized in the form of practical workshops by the Commission’s Training Group through using different visual aids and methodical materials. The "Training of Trainers” which is scheduled to be held for 5 days involves in total 250 local trainers, 2 persons from each of the 125 election constituencies. The participants obtain detailed and thorough information on preparations in PECs for the voting, the voting process, exceptional cases in the election process, vote counting, completion of official protocols on the voting results and all E-day procedures at the trainings.

Practical workshops are also focused on where E-day procedures, voting actions and exceptional cases to be encountered are displayed in roles to local trainers, therewith, in the different topics are broadly discussed and the emerged questions are responded to.

The second stage of the training project scheduled for all members of Precinct Election Commissions will start from August 12, 2024 and last for nearly, three-ten days according to the number of PECs of the election constituencies. This stage of the trainings are planned to be conducted in small groups with the participation of nearly 40 members of lower election commissions.

During the trainings of trainings, each of the participants will be provided with "Election Day Guide” compiled by CEC to participate in the trainings and be familiar with, as well as, a protocol sample on the voting results, as well as, other visual and methodical aids.

The training project embodies nearly, 40000 lower election commission members.