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<h2> Malawi: ERIS workshop provides training on developing effective civic education projects</h2>
<h3>February 2012</h3>
<div id="newstext"> <p style="BACKGROUND: white"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN"><font color="#4d4d4d">ERIS and the Malawi Electoral Support Network (MESN) have carried out a three-part training workshop series on various aspects of the electoral process since December 2011. <o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p style="BACKGROUND: white"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN"><font color="#4d4d4d">The third workshop in this series focused on the design, organisation and evaluation of effective issue-based civic education projects. It took place on 27-28 Feb 2012 in Lilongwe, Malawi. </font></span></p>
<p style="BACKGROUND: white"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN"><font color="#4d4d4d"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN"><font color="#4d4d4d"><img alt="" width="360" height="270" src="../images/userfiles/Image/Malawi6.JPG"/></font></span><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p style="BACKGROUND: white"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN"><font color="#4d4d4d">The workshop was conducted by Robert Silungwe, a local facilitator and specialist in civic education, and MESN’s facilitator Aloisious Nthenda, who has co-facilitated with ERIS experts throughout the series.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: "Helvetica", "sans-serif"; COLOR: #4d4d4d; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA" lang="EN">The workshop has been attended by participants drawn from civil society organisations participating in the MESN network, and included representatives of the Malawi Elections Commission.</span></p>
<p><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: "Helvetica", "sans-serif"; COLOR: #4d4d4d; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA" lang="EN">Read more about <a href="../news/index_id_540_year_2012.html"><strong>other workshops in this series. </strong></a></span></p></div>
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