Bristol's Counting Women In Initiative works to increase women's representation in politics. Since 2012, they have published reports on elections to raise awareness of women's issues and candidates' stances. They compiled data on the 21 female out of 70 city councillors and 4 MPs, 2 Labour and 1 each Conservative and Lib Dem. Their vision is for collaborative, empowering leadership that recognizes women as over half the population. They collaborate with other women's groups and politicians to compile data, advise candidates, and inform voters in Bristol.
Women in Pennsylvania are severely underrepresented in the political and legislative process, and this hurts everyone. With women comprising only 15% of the General Assembly, there is vast progress that can be made, creating a legislative system that benefits from the diverse talents that women bring to the table.
This session + you = action! The Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities conducts the Take Your Legislator to Work Campaign to show legislators how everyone benefits when people with disabilities have community-integrated jobs at a competitive wage. During the campaign, legislators visit people at their place of work and see these benefits firsthand. In this session, we describe the campaign, how it works, and the many ways people can participate in it. People who attend this session will be motivated to get involved with the campaign and show legislators why community-integrated employment is important!
This PPT was created for Rwanda, and is meant for Implementing Organizations at the community level to use during an orientation of the EOI3 approach for all levels of stakeholders.
Brian Wheeler, executive editor at Charlottesville Tomorrow, spoke about the Web as a tool for multimedia election reporting and citizen engagement at RJI's "Down-home Democracy: Empowering Citizens With Outstanding Coverage of Local Elections" on Friday, Jan. 31, 2014.
Women in Pennsylvania are severely underrepresented in the political and legislative process, and this hurts everyone. With women comprising only 15% of the General Assembly, there is vast progress that can be made, creating a legislative system that benefits from the diverse talents that women bring to the table.
This session + you = action! The Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities conducts the Take Your Legislator to Work Campaign to show legislators how everyone benefits when people with disabilities have community-integrated jobs at a competitive wage. During the campaign, legislators visit people at their place of work and see these benefits firsthand. In this session, we describe the campaign, how it works, and the many ways people can participate in it. People who attend this session will be motivated to get involved with the campaign and show legislators why community-integrated employment is important!
This PPT was created for Rwanda, and is meant for Implementing Organizations at the community level to use during an orientation of the EOI3 approach for all levels of stakeholders.
Brian Wheeler, executive editor at Charlottesville Tomorrow, spoke about the Web as a tool for multimedia election reporting and citizen engagement at RJI's "Down-home Democracy: Empowering Citizens With Outstanding Coverage of Local Elections" on Friday, Jan. 31, 2014.
Understanding Elections and Civic Responsibility.Obia Mboni Bryan
Elections can be an important entry point to fellow citizens to influence politics and change in their country. The right to vote is inseparable from the right to participate in public life. Through voting, one can choose the candidate who will work on the issues they care most about.
In India women taking part in the politics will be a positive mark, as the male politicians are found to be more corrupted and their contribution to the development of India found to be inadequate. Traditionally Indian women are passionate, caring, good homemakers intelligent, and known to keep the family united even the family goes through rough spots. Their entrance into the Indian political process will assist the country to a brilliant hereafter..
Spent 20 hours shadowing the work done at the Lawrence County Historical Society in New Castle, PA.
This presentation is based on observations for a policy that could be implemented by the society.
Understanding Elections and Civic Responsibility.Obia Mboni Bryan
Elections can be an important entry point to fellow citizens to influence politics and change in their country. The right to vote is inseparable from the right to participate in public life. Through voting, one can choose the candidate who will work on the issues they care most about.
In India women taking part in the politics will be a positive mark, as the male politicians are found to be more corrupted and their contribution to the development of India found to be inadequate. Traditionally Indian women are passionate, caring, good homemakers intelligent, and known to keep the family united even the family goes through rough spots. Their entrance into the Indian political process will assist the country to a brilliant hereafter..
Spent 20 hours shadowing the work done at the Lawrence County Historical Society in New Castle, PA.
This presentation is based on observations for a policy that could be implemented by the society.
RV 2014: Predicting the Future: Sustainable Support for TransitRail~Volution
Predicting the Future: Sustainable Support for Transit AICP CM 1.5
How do you build and maintain support for future transit investment? How do you rally business leaders, riders, policymakers and opinion leaders behind your cause? Explore three approaches from three areas: Minneapolis-St. Paul's Corridors of Opportunity Innovative Engagement Models, created by a grassroots coalition; Washington state's Transportation Choices Coalition's successful proactive campaigns; and TriMet Portland's regional transit agency's use of field organizing strategies to engage riders and opinion leaders.
Moderator: Jennifer Harmening Thiede, Communications Associate & Member Engagement Manager, Transit for Livable Communities, St. Paul, Minnesota
Repa Mekha, President and Chief Executive Officer, Nexus Community Partners, St. Paul, Minnesota
Diane Goodwin, Manager of Public Affairs, TriMet, Portland, Oregon
Andrew Austin, Policy Director, Transportation Choices, Seattle, Washington
Loksabha Election 2019: 90 Plus Voting CampaignBanda is a district of 1.8 million people in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Unfortunately, in recent years, Banda has become known for water scarcity, unemployment, farmer distress, underdeveloped agriculture, and corruption. These issues have spurred significant political rivalry; as a result, the Election Commission has identified 195 of the 1,454 polling booths in the Baberu, Banda, Naraini, and Tindwari constituencies as “critical”.
Motivated by these challenges, I set out to increase voter turnout and improve the sense of civic engagement in Banda, and involved the whole district administration towards this goal. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, 53 percent of registered electors in Banda voted. For the 2019 elections, I set an ambitious target of 90 percent turnout. To achieve this, I led my team to devise the “90 Plus” strategy, which leveraged a plethora of initiatives and communication channels from the Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) programme. A total of 825,907 people voted in Banda District in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, out of 1,314,368 registered electors (62.8%). In 2014, the average total turnout was 53.38%. The 10-percentage point increase is remarkable given the ground-level challenges that confronted the ambitious project target. The significance of this scheme was acknowledged by the Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, in a rally that he addressed here in the district.
Laadli, A campaign to help save the girl child and prevent gender selection a...Population First - Laadli
Laadli, A girl child campaign is Population First's campaign against sex selection and falling sex ratio.Join us by making your pledge against female feticide
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4a political messaging AO community conferenceJess Day
Organisations strive to maximize the impact of each supporter message when it arrives in the politician’s inbox. Jo Shaw of sponsor agency PublicZone will look specifically at the impact of more targeted and strategic messaging, including statistics from MP surveys in the UK and Canada, and cover how to use the tools in e-activist that relate to message targeting: message menu, message and subject line rotation, re-direct and filter (form content, contact validation, contact biographical data, and question response), inserting basic dynamic content into your default message, and using reference data in your message templates. Lizzie Cook, Public Engagement Officer at Breakthrough Breast Cancer will showcase Breakthrough's pre-election campaign action..
Previous Reynolds Fellow Scott Swafford addressed attendees at the 2014 Missouri Press Association meeting about how small newspapers can better cover local elections.
As part of Local Democracy Week 2017, we shared some of the learning from our "Growing a stronger local democracy" report in a Policy Cafe event in Huddersfield, organised by the LGiU.
Increasing Voter Knowledge with Pre-Election Interventions on FacebookMIT GOV/LAB
As part of our Data Science to Solve Social Problems series, Facebook Data Scientist Winter Mason presented on efforts to increase online civic engagement.
(HEPE) College And Youth Activism On Health Disparities And Social Determinan...antz505
Many youth leaders are compelled to do work with community based non-profit and local public health agencies as both a service learning and philanthropic component in their development as young professionals. However, despite invaluable experiential learning, students often don\'t comprehend key overarching issues such as health disparities, social determinants of health, health policy and community organizing. To address this gap and optimize their community based work, the Health Disparities Student Collaborative (HDSC), a Boston-based student group under Critical MASS for eliminating health disparities and the Center for Community Health Education Research and Service Inc. (CCHERS), developed a curriculum for students designed to broaden their perspectives while working with local public health, non-profit/community organizations and to develop their interest and ability to visualize the power of their collective voice as students and contributors to social justice work. The curriculum utilizes peer education and webinar software and covers three main topics: Current State of Health Disparities, Social Determinants of Health, and Youth Activism on Health Disparities/Social Determinants of Health. HDSC has collaborated with local partners CCHERS/Critical MASS and the Community Based Public Health Caucus (CBPHC) Youth Council to develop this comprehensive “Health Equality Peer Education” training.
2. Overview
1. Background information
2. Our activities since 2012:
Mayoral election 2012
Local Council elections 2014
General election 2015
3. Collaboration/who we work with
4. What we have achieved
5. Lessons learned
3. Background Information
Who are Bristol Fawcett?
Local statistics:
21 out of 70 councillors are women.
4 MPs – 2 Labour, 1 Conservative, 1 Lib Dem.
What we want to achieve:
“Our vision for a feminist politics is one that recognises women as over 50% of the
population, that recognises the strengths and benefits of collaborative decision-
making and that conceptualises leadership as power to enable rather than the
exercise of power over others.”
How we work:
Compile and report data, work with/advise politicians, inform voters, and work to
increase turnout.
4. Our Main Activities Since 2012
Mayoral elections 2012: Published a report, “The Right Man for Bristol?” and
helped organise a Bristol Women’s Question Time with Mayoral Candidates.
Local council elections 2014: Compiled and published a report rating
candidates’ engagement with women’s issues in Bristol.
General election 2015: Write briefings for candidates on transport,
childcare, women’s representation in politics, health and the economy. We
will meet personally with them to discuss the briefings before the hustings in
April.
8. Local Council Elections 2014
Created three
questions and
scoring system
Contacted
council
candidates
through Bristol
Women’s Voice
Analysed and
scored their
answers
Compiled report
and shared
online
(See handout for finished report)
9. General Election 2015
Write briefings for MP candidates on Health, Transport, Political
Representation, Childcare, Violence Against Women, and the Economy.
Meet up with key candidates to present briefings, talk about women’s issues,
and network/create relationship.
Collaborate with Bristol Women’s Voice on hustings before the general
election and send a representative.
Compiling data of MP voting behaviour to inform public.
Starting a new webpage to use in the run-up to the general election.
10. Collaborations
Bristol Women’s Voice
Pros: Use data/reports, takes off pressure of ‘doing everything’.
Cons: Work to a different schedule, had some issues with local elections.
Bristol Women’s Commission
Pros: Invited to events, sharing platform.
Bristol Feminist Network
Pros: Join in with campaigns eg. Reclaim the night.
University of Bristol
Pros: Expertise, a platform to speak from, students.
Cons: In and out of touch.
Local councillors, the Mayor, and MPs.
Pros: Having influence, staying informed.
Cons: Maintaining impartiality.
11. What We Have Achieved
Creating and sharing numerous reports: Cutting Women Out 2014, Views of
Local Council Candidates on Women’s Issues, PPC Briefings, “The Right Man
for Bristol?” etc.
Attending events and speaking on behalf of Bristol Fawcett, encouraging new
members to join.
Positive relationships with MP candidates and councillors.
3000 visitors per month to the website, 188 facebook members, over 1000
twitter followers.
12. Lessons Learned
Campaign plan, minutes, and agendas keep us organised. Need to take into
account minor details and how they effect strategy.
Sometimes we just don’t have the resources, have to agree to leave issues
because we don’t have the time.
Our group meets once a month which means that we have to plan in advance,
difficult to be spontaneous, more about long term strategy.
Using social media to spread word/reports works well.