II MODULE: TRAINING SEMINAR FOR

INTERNATIONAL ELECTORAL OBSERVERS

16-18 April 2015
Thursday 16 April
09.00
09.30
09.30
10.00

Friday 17 April

EIUC
Monastery of San Nicol
Riviera San Nicol 26
I 30126 Venice Lido

Saturday 18 April

REGISTRATION
Demetrio LAZAGNA
Introductory remarks

09.00
10.00

Information-Gathering and Analysis

FREE

Interviewing techniques, relation with local

stakeholders

Presentation of the course and trainers

10.00
11.00

Living the Field, Coordination of STOs

10.00
11.00

Challenges ahead of the forthcoming electoral process

10.00
11.00

Information-Gathering and Analysis

11.00
11.30

BREAK

11.00
11.30

BREAK

11.00
11.30

BREAK

11.30
12.30

Electoral Dispute Resolutions

11.30
12.30

The concept of Security in election environment

12.30
13.30

Electoral Dispute Resolutions

12:30
13.00

Debriefing and closing

Role play

13.00
13.30

Distribution of certificates

13.30
14.30

LUNCH

13.30
14.30

LUNCH

11.30
12.30

12.30
13.30
13.30
14.30
14.30
15.30
15.30
16.30
16.30
17.00

Living the field

Cooperation between international organizations,
operations in the field

Coordinating the Observation

Working relationship between Core Team, LTOs and STOs;
Observers coordination
LUNCH
Media and Elections
The media in elections environment and the media
monitoring
Media and Elections
The observation of the process
Observing the pre- and post-election phases
Brainstorming session

14.30
15.30

Simulation

Reporting
Weekly Reports, Spot Reports, Incident Reports

15.30
16.30

simulation

16.30
17.00

Brainstorming session

Team-building; assessing the environment,

deployment; local staff duty of care; security; safety