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LESSON

Lesson Learned: Support for Elections in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

Training-of-trainers approaches are most effective when either the institution has a culture of internal learning, or where additional financial support is provided to support the internal roll-out.
Project Partner
Stakeholder Democracy Network
Project Description
Elections in Nigeria, and especially in its oil-producing Niger Delta states, have in the past been disputed and given rise to violence. One of these states, Bayelsa, is due to choose a new governor in 2020 in what is expected to be a hotly contested election. The project seeks to minimize the risk of dispute and help to ensure the election is free, fair, and credible. It will support the Independent Nigerian Electoral Commission to train staff engaged to oversee polling in at-risk areas in the procedures necessary to do so effectively. It will support the creation of a database to register party political agents in three areas, reducing the risk of unidentifiable persons engaging in illegal political activity. Activities will also include voter education across the target areas, aiming to reach 1,350 citizens in workshops and 170,000 via a public campaign, seeking to inform citizens on how to prevent votes from being stolen or manipulated.
Evaluation Date
August 2021
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Lesson Learned: Advocating for Community Radio in Zimbabwe

Human rights education remains a pertinent area for intervention in Zimbabwe, and community radio is a critical tool for pursuing this noble cause. The Zimbabwean government takes advantage of limited rights knowledge among marginalized communities for political expedience.
Project Partner
Amnesty International Zimbabwe
Project Description
The project will advocate for licensing community radio institutions in Zimbabwe. This will be achieved by means of: (a) coordinated civil society stakeholders and citizens advocacy and petitioning the Government and its related institutions through a united and strong effort; (b) policy and regulatory review and reform of community broadcasting and the process required for licensing; and (c) developing the capacity of 10 target community radio institutions (CRIs) for licensing.
Evaluation Date
December 2020
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Lesson Learned: Helping Teenagers to Transform their Communities in Ukraine

Consider offering an attractive prize in the form of a study abroad leadership tour in collaboration with an established leadership educational program.
Project Description
The project aims to foster civic participation of young people in Ukraine by training them to become responsible and pro-active citizens. The central activity of the project is a non-formal civic education training program in four stages that will train teenagers to become "Junior Agents of Change" in four pilot cities. Trained Junior Agents of Change will implement development projects aiming for the transformation of their social environment and the development of their communities.
Evaluation Date
September 2020
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Lesson Learned: Helping Teenagers to Transform their Communities in Ukraine

Explore incorporating “World’s Largest Lesson” and other UN resources available to support teenage civic education in future programming.
Project Description
The project aims to foster civic participation of young people in Ukraine by training them to become responsible and pro-active citizens. The central activity of the project is a non-formal civic education training program in four stages that will train teenagers to become "Junior Agents of Change" in four pilot cities. Trained Junior Agents of Change will implement development projects aiming for the transformation of their social environment and the development of their communities.
Evaluation Date
September 2020
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LESSON

Lesson Learned: Learning Democracy DemoLab in Hungary

Experimentation is an important element of innovative projects that necessarily brings risks. Both the project promoters (grantees) and the donor organisations should take these

into account. It is crucial to allow sufficient time for the preparation of certain experimental education activities, especially as capacity-building is often needed also for the ‘facilitators’ (e.g. teachers, artists), i.e. ‘train-the-trainers’ activities should be considered.
Project Partner
Foundation for Democratic Youth
Project Description
The project offers a unique opportunity for experiential learning for young people of all walks of life. It enables them to acquire basic personal, social and citizenship skills and experience a democratic and safe environment in which they are encouraged to take initiatives of their own. This will happen through regularly organized Demo Lab sessions in high schools, boot camps in the summer and assemblies at the beginning of the school year, to empower young Hungarians to take active part in shaping their communities and society, and to inspire others to follow suit.
Evaluation Date
September 2020
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Lesson Learned: Learning Democracy DemoLab in Hungary

Bringing together stakeholders in ‘unexpected combinations’, creating the opportunity for joint working and ‘co-creation’ can have a high added value. For instance, bringing artists

into the traditional high school education and making teachers working directly with artists; and both working as equal partners with students can be seen as one of the most valuable

added values of the DemoLab project.
Project Partner
Foundation for Democratic Youth
Project Description
The project offers a unique opportunity for experiential learning for young people of all walks of life. It enables them to acquire basic personal, social and citizenship skills and experience a democratic and safe environment in which they are encouraged to take initiatives of their own. This will happen through regularly organized Demo Lab sessions in high schools, boot camps in the summer and assemblies at the beginning of the school year, to empower young Hungarians to take active part in shaping their communities and society, and to inspire others to follow suit.
Evaluation Date
September 2020
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LESSON

Lesson Learned: Learning Democracy DemoLab in Hungary

Secondary schools, teachers and students in Eastern European countries are often in a disadvantaged position, especially due to the unfavorable economic situation and very low

salaries; often hampered by a political climate that does not favor creative and democratic learning methodologies. Therefore, projects that try to break out from these constraining conditions and environment in secondary school education are much needed and should be highly supported.
Project Partner
Foundation for Democratic Youth
Project Description
The project offers a unique opportunity for experiential learning for young people of all walks of life. It enables them to acquire basic personal, social and citizenship skills and experience a democratic and safe environment in which they are encouraged to take initiatives of their own. This will happen through regularly organized Demo Lab sessions in high schools, boot camps in the summer and assemblies at the beginning of the school year, to empower young Hungarians to take active part in shaping their communities and society, and to inspire others to follow suit.
Evaluation Date
September 2020
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LESSON

Lesson Learned: Learning Democracy DemoLab in Hungary

The Hungarian and other Eastern European public education systems have been facing a series of challenges (many of which are also shared by their Western European counterparts),

such as the lack of experience-based experimental education practices. Projects that open new perspectives for young people - to obtain new inspiration, ideas and skills that help

them to adapt to the real trends and challenges of the 21st century - are much in need everywhere in Europe.
Project Partner
Foundation for Democratic Youth
Project Description
The project offers a unique opportunity for experiential learning for young people of all walks of life. It enables them to acquire basic personal, social and citizenship skills and experience a democratic and safe environment in which they are encouraged to take initiatives of their own. This will happen through regularly organized Demo Lab sessions in high schools, boot camps in the summer and assemblies at the beginning of the school year, to empower young Hungarians to take active part in shaping their communities and society, and to inspire others to follow suit.
Evaluation Date
September 2020
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Lesson Learned: Promoting Women's Participation in Local Budgetary Processes

An important indicator of the project’s relevance was its consistency with Niger’s health, education and water sanitation sector priorities, which frequently concern women first and of which they are barely consulted about.
Project Partner
Alternative Espaces Citoyens
Project Description
Working with women’s community-based organizations and municipal authorities the project aimed to enhance the social and economic rights of women in Niger by supporting Gender Responsive Budgeting. Integrating a gender perspective into all steps of the municipal budget process, the project focused on improving the capacity of women to advocate municipalities to shape local budgetary policies which consider their health, education and water sanitation concerns. The project’s strategy of working directly with women community based organization members and municipal officials brought activities closer to beneficiaries in the five targeted municipalities of Niger. This approach was highly relevant to women as a beneficiary group, which for most part, rarely has a voice in public affairs and limited access to political decision-making processes.
Evaluation Date
March 2016
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Lesson Learned: Representation and political participation of five urban indigenous populations in Santa Cruz de la Sierra

The attendees commented that it was symbolic that the university had participated in the process, since it normally did not get involved in this type of initiative. The professors were completely open and accessible, opening their classrooms on Sundays and assigning the instructors and researchers.
Project Partner
Apoyo Para el Campesino - indígena del Oriente Boliviano
Evaluation Date
June 2014
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