Central Election Commission started trainings of lower election commissions within the education program
The Central Election Commission (CEC) is carrying on
successive and systematic projects to raise awareness of different election
stakeholders regarding the Presidential elections of the Republic of Azerbaijan
to be held on April 11, 2018.
The next stage - "Trainings of Trainers” within the education
program of lower election commission members started from March 5, 2018. It is
worth noting that the foundation of the training project which was set in 2002 within
the cooperation with different international organizations and broadened by
every year after 2008, targeted the further increase of professional training
of members of Constituency and Precinct Election Commissions (Con.ECs and PECs)
and improve their skills, knowledge and business practice in the field of
elections.
The current year CEC has also compiled a training project in
two stages. In the first stage started from 5 March, trainings are scheduled to
be held with the participation of 2 persons from each of the election
constituencies for 4 days on 6, 7, 9 March, 2018. During "Trainings of
Trainers” held through using visual aids the participants are informed
thoroughly on E-day procedures including presentation skills, preparations in
PECs for the voting, 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 many tangible issues, present
different voting procedures on E-day in roles, conduct discussions and reply to
the questions.
The second stage of trainings for lower election commission
members will start from March 12, 2018 and last for nearly, ten days according
to the number of PECs of the election constituencies. CEC Training Group has
compiled a schedule of the trainings to be held in the areas, as well as,
slides on basic election actions on E-day to increase the efficiency of
trainings considered for lower election commission members. The trainings are
planned to be conducted in small groups with the participation of nearly 35-40
commission members in each training session. During the trainings which will be
organized for members of lower election commissions regarding the same topics
with the first stage of trainings, the E-day procedures will be thoroughly
informed on.
Each of lower election commission member will be provided
with "Election Day Guide”, a protocol sample on the voting results and some
other document samples at the trainings.
The trainings that are broad educational activities are
scheduled to encompass generally, more than 32000 election commission members.
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