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 |