Result area 1. Production and Dissemination of base-line data, some with policy relevance

 

No

Activity

Location

Date

1

Electoral Security Threat Assessment (ESTA Study): stakeholder mapping of activity with the potential to monitor localized conflicts or external threats from border areas and more.

Addis Ababa and Mekelle

26 August – 9 September 2019

2

Electoral Political Economy Analyses producing base-line data for monitoring, flash reports for “quick gains” of reporting and long-term harvesting tool to capture drivers and sources of electoral conflicts and violence triggers in the run up to the 2020 elections.

Addis Ababa

Phase 1. 03 – 15 September

Phase 2. November-Dec 2019

3

EPEA visit to Hawassa- an environmental scan in view the pending SIDAMA referendum

Addis Ababa

25-26 September 2019

 

Result area 2. Establish an NSA-Coalition and capacitating the coalition, and a wider span of NSAs, in Election Observation

 

No

Activities

Location

Date

1

Pre-Strategic Planning & Election Strategy Meetings this entails meetings with CECOE/ECES, NDI & IRI to support and facilitate and put in place Coalition strategy draft documents.

 

Addis Ababa

 

September 2019

 

2

Strategic planning Drafting workshop with Interim Co-ordination committee with ECES, NDI, IRI providing technical support for 30 persons

Addis Ababa

26 and 30 September 2019

3

Strategic Plan Validation workshop for 80 participants with technical partners-ECES, NDI, IRI

Addis Ababa

03-04 October 2019

4

Coalition building Advisory and coaching for NSAs (following up on the CSOs network workshop).

Addis Ababa

Ongoing

5

NSA-membership mapping and adding more broad-based networks to have a national outlook in order to include more FBOs, youth, students, check regional gaps to be covered.

 

Addis Ababa

Ongoing

6

Civic & Voter Education Cluster Strategy-Strategic Planning

Addis Ababa

27 Nov 2019

7

Election Observation Cluster Strategy- Strategic Planning

Addis Ababa

28-29 Nov 2019

8

Advocacy and Stakeholders Engagement Cluster- Strategic Planning

Addis Ababa

17 December 2019

 

Result area 3. Skills enhancement in leadership and conflict management, media monitoring and journalist capacity building essentially but not only for the NSA coalition

 

No

Activities

Location

Date

1

Leadership and Conflict Management for Electoral Administrative Development (LEAD) training to Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)

Addis Ababa

25-28 June 2019

2

LEAD training to Law school students and instructors

Diredawa

07-09 August 2019

3

LEAD TOT targeting high level potential trainers from COCOE and NSA to build a pool of locally trainers

Bishoftu

12-17 August 2019

4

LEAD Training to Law Students and instructors mixed with CSOs from the region

 

Mekelle

 

03-06 September 2019

 

5

LEAD Cascade-for Coalition CECOE and NSA participants, Following the 1st Lead TOT workshop of CSOs aimed at accrediting local CSO trainers

 

Addis Ababa 

 

17-20 September 2019

6

LEAD training to Law Students and instructors in Haramaya University mixed with local CSOs

            Harar     

08-11 October

7

 

LEAD training Focusing on SIDAMA to Interfaith Religious Groups mixed with other elders. NSA participants based in Hawassa are also targeted.

 

Addis Ababa

 

 

16-18 October 2019

8

Two round Media LEAD training targeting media houses a mixed group of TV, Radio, print and online media

Addis Ababa

14-18 and 23-24 October 2019

9

LEAD training to Hawassa and Arbaminch Law School students and instructors mixed with CSOs

Addis Ababa

30 Oct-01 November 2019

10

LEAD training to CECOE in Amhara region

Bahirdar

06-09 November 2019

11

LEAD training to CECOE in Gambella

Addis Ababa

12-15 November 2019

12

Media Monitoring Preparations-this entails putting a strategy of how to implement it by the Expert as well as purchasing equipment

Addis Ababa

Nov-Dec 2019

13

LEAD training for CECOE in Tigray

Mekelle

3-6 December 2019

14

LEAD training to CECOE

Jigjiga

10-13 December 2019

 

Result area 4. NSA-led election conflict prevention, mitigation and management activities spanning from grassroots conflict coordinators to an informal, flexible mediation group of elders

 

No

Activity

Date

Location

1

Setting up an alternative election conflict resolution mechanism 

TBD

TBD

2

Forming and supporting of an informal Election Mediation Group of Elders

TBD

TBD

3

Monitoring of breaches of the Code of Conduct of political parties and media

 

TBD

TBD

 

 

Result area 5. Capitalising on existing early warning structures and capacitate with electoral conflict prevention capacities, while establishing a distinct election conflict early warning, led by the NSA-coalition, by merging into what already exists and fill the gaps 

 

No

Activity

Date

Location

1

Early Warning System-This entails developing TORs and recruiting the focal points as well as setting up implementation framework

October-December 2019

Addis Ababa

 

 

Result area 6. Election Situation room

 

No

Activity

Date

Location

1

SIDAMA Referendum Support-this entails coaching for trained stakeholders on how they support the event in terms of mediation, incidents identified, civic awareness and pro-peace messaging towards the Referendum and possible observation efforts

1-30 Nov 2019

Hawassa and Addis Ababa

2

Sidama Referendum Observation Support

16-22 November 2019

Addis Ababa and Hawassa

 

 

Result area 7. Civic and voter education outreach and NSA-led dialogue with traditional structures exploring the role of youth in pro-peace messaging

 

No

Activity

Date

Location

1

Support to CSO’s for Democracy/ Civic and Voter and Education

TBD

TBD

2

Dialogue sessions with religious leaders on nonviolence messaging led by women and youth

TBD

TBD

3

Dialogue sessions with Traditional leaders on non-violence messaging lens

TBD

TBD

4

Advisory support and development of communication campaigns through an election conflict prevention

TBD

TBD