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Women Candidates' School Women Candidates’ School - workshop report (Bizerte) 25th – 26th September 2014 Executive summary Two international trainers, Oscar Mercado Cassianovich (international journalist) and Charlemagne Sophia Gomez Darchez (international Political Party Advisor) were deployed to Bizerte, which is approximately 65 KMs from Tunis. Eighteen candidates attended this training representing three different constituencies, namely Bizerte, Béja and Jendouba. The trainers adopted their own approach and methodology and collaboratively ensured a harmonious and complimentary workshop. They developed their materials based on the agenda that was provided to them prior to their arrival in the country, and adapted this to the needs of the programme and the areas from where the candidates emanated from. The two-day workshop adopted a combined theoretical approach whereby each key module was accompanied by practical exercises and the trainers ensured that each candidate was able to articulate their ideas succinctly. The trainers’ methodology encouraged political neutrality, as well as ensuring that candidates did not highlight their ideological, social or religious differences. As a result candidates worked effectively well together and displayed mutual support and motivation for each other and encouraged all of their fellow candidates to perform to their best ability. Given the high intellectual level of all the women, although some of the concepts were somewhat alien at first, they were soon able to grasp why and what it means to develop a strategy and how to communicate efficiently in front of the media. More detailed information on the legal framework would have proven useful, and although all candidates assimilated a great deal of information during the two day workshop, an extra one or two days would have fined tuned the skills gained during the workshop and would have cemented even clearer ideas in their strategy and how to conduct a campaign. 1.0 Introduction The two international trainers, Oscar Mercado Cassianovich (international journalist) and Charlemagne Sophia Gomez Darchez (international Political Party Advisor) were deployed to Bizerte, which is approximately 65 KMs from Tunis. Eighteen candidates attended this training representing three different constituencies, namely Bizerte, Béja and Jendouba. None of the candidates ran in the 2011 elections, and six of them were placed in second position in the list (There was nobody who was the head of the list) (Please see annex I for full list). In total, the three districts represent a voting population of approximately 1,017,1371 voters. The three districts differ quite widely with regards to their respective economic resources, with Bizerte being more urban and touristic than the other two districts. Béja and Jendouba have an important number of persons working in the fields and the districts are predominantly rural. In 2011 elections, the three constituencies had one of the highest percentage of blank and invalid votes in the country.2 The principal leitmotif behind the Women’s candidates’ school is to reinforce democracy, and to promote an equal playing field amongst men and women. Tunisia is currently in transition to democracy; therefore it is essential that women are afforded access to resources to promote their effective participation in politics. To this end, the trainers ensured that the workshop was orientated towards providing the candidates with the most practical tools using the least amount of resources in order to structure their campaign in the most efficient and effective manner. The trainers adopted their own approach and methodology and collaboratively ensured a harmonious and complimentary workshop. This was especially difficult given the fact that the trainers did not have any previous knowledge of the candidates’ background or experience or the issues affecting the particular regions they emanated from. As highlighted above, the candidates came from three different governorates, which not only differed on a cultural level, but on an economic and social level as well. The two-day workshop therefore adopted a combined theoretical approach whereby each key module was accompanied by practical exercises. The trainers ensured that each candidate was able to articulate their ideas succinctly. The trainers’ methodology encouraged political neutrality, as well as ensuring that candidates did not highlight their ideological, social or religious differences. As a result candidates worked effectively well together and displayed mutual support and motivation for each other and encouraged all of their fellow candidates to perform to their best ability. The following report will outline how the trainers established and developed their methodology over the two days, it will also highlight the problems that arose and the solutions that were found to deal with any of the issues that ensued over the two day workshop. 1 This is the number of voters registered in 2011 2 See annex one 2.0 Aim and objectives of the women candidates school The overall aim of the workshop was to build the capacity of individual candidates to conduct an efficient and strategic campaign whereby they would be taught about key concepts for developing a campaign and provided with tools in order to ensure that they are able to communicate their messages efficiently and appropriately. Particular emphasis was placed on developing the candidates capacity to identify strategic means of campaigning using the resources that they had to hand. Day one: 25th September 2014: Your Road Map to Success Objectives day one of the Candidate School How to build a strategic campaign by targeting voters and individual messages Candidate School Methodology: Day one Active participation by the candidates; Sharing of information and experiences; Establishing working groups; and Presentation of work accomplished by individuals and working groups Time Topic Facilitator 8:00 - Registration 9:00 - Official opening and Overview 9:15 - Keynote Plenary: What Women Candidates Need to Know International political party trainer 10:15 – Coffee Break 10:30 10:30 – Your Road Map to Success: International political party trainer 11:15 Research and Goal Setting 11:15 – Targeting the Voters 12:15 12:15 Lunch 13:15 Developing the message and getting it out International political party trainer 14:15 Voter Contact Planning 15:15 Role play 16:15 Coffee break 16:30 Presentations International political party trainer 17:00 Re-Cap and Brainstorming 18:30 Evaluation and closing Day Two: interactive media training Objectives day two of the Candidate School To build capacity of individual candidates to present themselves via social and traditional media; To empower individual candidates to strategically plan an online campaign Candidate School Methodology: day two One-on-one exercises that include how to look poised and professional on camera, staying on message, and public speaking techniques one-on-one mock interviews and on-camera practice sessions Time Topic Facilitator 8:30 - Registration and coffee 9:00 - Official opening and Overview UNDP SEPT 9:15 - Create a social media campaign international journalist 10:15 Coffee Break 10:30 Design your message International journalist 11:15 - Developing your stump speech 12:15 Lunch 13:15 Dealing with media International journalist 14:15 Debate Simulation International Journalist and International Political Party Trainer 15:00 Coffee Break 15:15 Debate Simulation Contd International Journalist and International Political Party Trainer 16:00 Evaluation of the workshop UNDP/SEPT team 16:30 Official closing 3.0 Training methodology The programme anticipated the participation of two diverse trainers, an international political party trainer and an international journalist to provide capacity building to 18 female candidates emanating from the three constituencies, namely Bizerte, Béja and Jendouba. The two trainers developed their materials based on the agenda that was provided to them prior to their arrival in the country, and adapted this to the needs of the programme and the areas from where the candidates emanated from. Both trainers adopted a participatory approach, whereby the programme consisted of lectures with the use of flipcharts and power point presentations; hand-outs, role plays and exercises; the trainers emphasised and encouraged the active participation of all participants. The majority of the hand-outs were translated into Arabic in order to facilitate comprehension of the materials. Given that both trainers speak French, the participants were asked if they would prefer for the training to be delivered in French or English. The participants requested that the programme be delivered in French, as there were only two candidates who could not understand French, and thus required a direct translation into Arabic. These two participants used the headsets to follow the two-day programme. Nevertheless, during the discussions and all of the exercises, many of the participants preferred to speak in Arabic, and therefore questions were posed both in French and Arabic, there was also one candidate who spoke in English. Everything was simultaneously translated. The trainers agreed amongst themselves to adopt a theoretical and practical approach. In practice, this meant that the morning sessions were dedicated to the theory, and afternoon sessions were to recap the main concepts of the first modules and then followed by practical exercises to ensure that all participants not only understood the concepts but
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