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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.
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The Political Participation Committee
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• 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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• 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
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• 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
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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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