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DOT-COM Activity: Morocco - Information Technology in the Service of Women in Politics Project
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DOT: dot-ORG
Country: Morocco
Funder(s): USAID/Morocco, USAID/ANE, USAID/EGAT/IT
Short Description: This ICT training project aimed at enhancing the political participation of Moroccan women, as part of a national effort to increase the number of female political candidates in Morocco and to build their capacity to use ICT.
Phase/Type of Activity: Signed Award Status: Completed
Start date: May 01, 2002 End Date: September 01, 2002
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Person(s) to contact
Contact
Eric Rusten , Project Director
Programa para o futuro , Academy for Educational Development
Email:
Tel: (202) 884-8714
Full Description: This ICT training project aimed at enhancing the political participation of Moroccan women, as part of a national effort to increase the number of female political candidates in Morocco and to build their capacity to use ICT. The bilingual (French and Arabic) Information Technology in the Service of Women in Politics Project (les technologies de l'information au service de la femme politique), represented the first in a two-phase ICT training program to increase the political participation of Moroccan women.
To prepare for the ICT training and to build indigenous capacity, 10 Moroccan women participated in an intensive training-of-trainers (TOT) activity. The expert TOT trainers, Ms. Nadira Sansour, an American-Palestinian woman and Ms. Halima Abouid, an experienced Moroccan trainer, developed and implemented the TOT program with assistance from Morocco Trade and Development Services (MTDS), a dot-ORG resource partner organization. Under the supervision of the two TOT trainers, the 10 Moroccan trainers subsequently trained 46 women political candidates and NGO representatives in the use of ICT to enhance political campaigns, strengthen advocacy skills, carry out Internet research for informed decision-making, and better serve their communities. In addition to the formal training activities, the women participated in discussions around broad issues of ICTs, gender and policy making. The second phase of the program, to be conducted by MTDS, will train 100 women who are involved in community development and political activity outside Rabat and Casablanca, in basic computer and Internet skills.
Development Sector(s): Civil Society, Governance, Information Technology, Participant Training
ICT Intervention(s): Capacity Building, Public Administration, ICT and Women
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