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The National Centre for Civic Studies organized a training session for a number of women members of 10 political parties from the governorates of Greater Cairo who wish to run for the 2010 parliamentary elections. The training session was inaugurated by Dr. Mahmoud Sherif- Member of NCW and head of the Centre. Addressing the trainees, Dr. Farkhonda Hassan gave an account of her electoral experience. The training session included issues on the rise of the Parliament and the development of the parliamentary system, the situation of women under the new legislative amendments and training on effective communications skills during the electoral process. Other issues included how to prepare the operation room for the electoral campaign, the strategies of conducting electoral campaigns and the components of a good electoral platform. Among the other issues to be studied are methods of new electoral propaganda (applying the model of the 2005 parliamentary elections), the skill of outreaching to the public, winning over the voters and influencing them, in addition to developing the skills of confronting difficult situations and managing crises.   News...

 

The Political Participation Committee

• NCW Political Participation Committee, in its meeting held on Tuesday, March 28, 2010 and chaired by its Rapporteur Dr. Mahmoud Sherif, discussed preparing a statistical study indicating the rates of women’s enrolment in the electoral lists and ways of raising these rates. The aim is to make use of women’s enrolment rates and utilizing them in an effective way. The Committee also discussed cooperation with the National Council for Youth in organizing a number of symposiums which aim to motivate young people to participate in the political process and support women in the forthcoming elections.
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ICDL

• The NCW Women Business Development Center started implementing the first courses of International Computer Driving License (ICDL) on Sunday March, 21, 2010, and the course runs until May. The ICDL is an accredited certificate which qualifies its holders to obtain promising job opportunities. The training course included a theoretical aspect to acquaint trainees with the theoretical information on computer as well as a practical aspect, which includes getting acquainted with the basic concepts of information technology, file management, operations systems, table-making programs (Excel), word processing (Word), database (Access) and making presentations (Power-point), in addition to the basics of information technology and communications (Outlook & Internet).
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Program & Performance-based Budgeting

• The NCW Women Business Development Center organized a training session on March 21-24, 2010, entitled “ Program & Performance-based Budgeting”, which aimed at acquainting the trainees with the concept of this kind of budgets, its characteristics and applications, the system of financial management and the new methods of preparing public budgets as well as the new methods for monitoring the public funds.
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 NCW Branches

NCW held a meeting on Thursday January 15, 2009 with the rapporteurs of NCW branches in the governorates. During the meeting, Dr. Fakhonda Hassan, NCW Secretary General, reviewed the mandate of the branches and their roles in following up on the villages’ plans to promote women. She underscored the importance of the branches of the Ombudsman Office and the importance of filed work in the period ahead. A main area of interest, she noted, was issuing unable women with identity national cards and electoral cards in preparation for the coming elections in 2010.
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