"Trainings for Trainers” started within the education program of lower election commission members regarding the Elections to the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan on November 1, 2015.

It is worth noting that the foundation of the training project was set in 2002 which was aiming at further increase of professional training of members of Constituency and Precinct Election Commissions and improve their skills, knowledge and business practice in the field of elections and which was implemented through cooperation with different international organizations.

In current year a training project is planned in two stages regarding the Elections to the Milli Majlis. In the first stage that has already started, trainings are scheduled to be held with the participation of 2 persons from each of the election constituencies for 4 days. During "Trainings for Trainers” held through using visual aids the participants are informed thoroughly on E-day procedures including the voting process, exceptional cases in the election process, vote counting, and completion of protocols. The experts of CEC Training Group, inter alia, hold practical workshops on different procedures implemented on E-day, make presentations on the subjects "Roles and duties of Precinct Election Commissions on Election Day”, "Election Day processes and exceptional cases”, "Preparations towards vote counting, classification of ballot papers, vote counting and completing final protocol” and "Practice of previous trainings, form and arrangement of trainings on election constituencies”, discussions are held and the emerged questions are replied to at the event.

The second stage of trainings for lower election commission members will start on October 12, 2015 at the administrative premises of the existing Constituency Election Commissions. CEC Training Group has compiled a table of the trainings to be held in the areas to increase the efficiency of trainings considered for lower election commission members and the trainings are planned to be conducted in small groups with the participation of nearly 36 commission members in each training session. The stage will last for some weeks according to the number of Precinct Election Commissions on the election constituencies and during trainings every lower election commission member will be provided with "Election Day Guide”, a protocol sample on the voting results and some other necessary draft documents prepared by CEC.

Broad educational activities -trainings cover generally, more than 30000 lower election commission members.

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