The document outlines phases of a gender research project focused on enhancing women's political participation in Sudan during the election process. Key activities included forums and workshops aimed at assessing women's rights, defining election methods, and training women leaders in political parties, with the overarching goal of creating a supportive environment for women's inclusion in elections. Recommendations emphasized the need for women alliances, advocacy for explicit legislative representation, and greater civic education on women's rights and participation in politics.

1. Gender Center for Research & Training
ELECTION PROJECT OVERVIEW

2. WORK PHASES

3. PHASES ACTIVITIES
Pre-elections
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4. PHASES ACTIVITIES
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11. PHASES ACTIVITIES
Elections
Process Phase
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12. PHASES ACTIVITIES
Main Theme for 2010
Post Elections
Phase Enhancing Woman's Human
Rights
 Conducting a comprehensive
PHASE assessment on Women’s rights agenda
in Political Parties Programs
 Preparing a conceptual framework
on Women’s Human Rights & Election
 Preparation of a simplified advocacy
manual on Women’s rights

13. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Samples of different activities carried out by the
center during the project phases.

14. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
1
Quota System
Forum:
Supporting Sudanese
Women Political
Participation
Researches and Development Studies
Inst. Hall
GCRT in partnership with
4th Jan. 2007
NED

15. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Quota System Forum:
Supporting Sudanese Women Political
Participation
1
 Objectives:
 To define different election methods and the
ways that women can participate in.
 To Define Quota System.
 To reach a common ground on the best method
to use for enabling women political participation.

16. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Quota System Forum:
Supporting Sudanese Women Political
Participation
1
 Target Groups:
 PoliticalParties.
 Women organizations
 Civil Society Organizations.

17. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Quota System Forum:
Supporting Sudanese Women Political
Participation
1
 Forum Outputs and Recommendations:
 Women Alliances is a must, and should be
established.
 Women must be part of NEC.
 Women Advocacy Groups must be created to
push hard for inclusion of clear explicit articles
in elections law on how women can participate
in the elections.

18. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
2
Elections
Campaign
Workshop:
A Training on How To
Manage an Election
Campaign
GCRT GCRT Hall
in partnership with NED
4 th Jan. 2007 Afief
Presented by: Dr. Albagir

19. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Elections Campaign Workshop:
A Training on How To Manage an Election
Campaign
2
 Target Groups:
 Women leaders in political parties.

20. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Elections Campaign Workshop:
A Training on How To Manage an Election
Campaign
2
 Objectives:
 To train women leaders on general concepts of
campaigns.
 To train them on specific features and
management of electoral campaign.
 Scientific approaches in Campaign
management.

21. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
3
Quota System
Workshop:
Quota as a mechanism
of enabling women
political participation
Grand Holiday Villa Hotel
9th May 2007
GCRT in partnership with FEF

22. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Quota System Workshop :
Quota as a mechanism of enabling women political
participation
3
 Papers Presented:
 Sudanese Women and Elections: The
Experience and Results. (By: Dr. Mohamed
Ahmed Salim)
 Sudanese Women and Elections: Why is the
Quota? (By: Dr. Balgis Badri)

23. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Quota System Workshop:
Quota as a mechanism of enabling women political
participation
3
 Strategies & Future Guides
Extracted from papers and what has been verbally said by the
presenters:
 More workshops are needed to reach an
agreement on the technical details to fulfill the
objectives of women representation through
Quota system.
 Women must bypass the political parties
differences to present a common view for NEC.

24. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Quota System Workshop:
Quota as a mechanism of enabling women political
participation
3
 Strategies & Future Guides
Extracted from papers and what has been verbally said by the
presenters:
 Civic education is a must.
 Woman must be stated in a clear and explicit
text in the elections law.
 There is a need to make a forum in the
parliament on the issue

25. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Quota System Workshop:
Quota as a mechanism of enabling women political
participation
3
 Strategies & Future Guides
Extracted from papers and what has been verbally said by the
presenters:
 Campaigns must be worked out in concentrated
rates.
 More work is needed inside political parties in
different states.
 Close meetings are needed with different parties
and civil society organization to make a draft for the
elections law. FEF should sponsor these meetings.

26. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Quota System Workshop:
Quota as a mechanism of enabling women political
participation
3
 Strategies & Future Guides
Extracted from papers and what has been verbally said by the
presenters:
 Workshops are needed to enable women facing the
election process.
 Women must be represented in NEC.
 A campaign must be done by women in political
parties and civil society organizations. It might be
promotional, educational, advocacy and public with
a slogan: Quota is Justice NOT Separation!

27. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Quota System Workshop:
Quota as a mechanism of enabling women political
participation
3
 Strategies & Future Guides
Extracted from papers and what has been verbally said by the
presenters:
 Parties are to be committed to a definite action
plan and schedule matching with different
elections phases regarding the issue.
 All women sectors (agricultural, workers, etc)
must be aware and enabled.

28. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
4
Elections;
Brainstorming
Forum:
A forum to collect food
for thoughts after the
issuance of elections law
GCRT in partnership 2008 and
5th Aug. with FEF
UNIFEM

29. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Elections; Brainstorming Forum:
A forum to collect food for thoughts after the issuance of
elections law
4
 Objectives:
To reach a definite recommendations and action
plan for the following period of time

30. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Elections; Brainstorming Forum:
A forum to collect food for thoughts after the issuance of
elections law
4
 Papers presented:
 Lightson Elections Law (By: Maria Abbas)
 Smart Alliances: The Opportunities ( By: Sara
Nogdalla)

31. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Elections; Brainstorming Forum:
A forum to collect food for thoughts after the issuance of
elections law
4
 Outputs:
 Forum is agreed to be periodical on monthly
basis
 FEF, UNIFEM and GCRT are to coordinate the
forum.
 An urgent meeting was agreed upon to set the
priorities and strategies that organize the work
and set the following steps.

32. SOME ACTIVITIES DETAILED
Elections; Brainstorming Forum:
A forum to collect food for thoughts after the issuance of
elections law
4
 Outputs:
 As a consequence the following forum was held
on Oct. 2008 in Meridian Hotel
 Papers presented were:
 Women and Elections: Challenges and
Opportunities (by: Siddieg Yousif)
 Elections: A Gender View (by: Zainab Abbas)