Report of FEFA joint meeting with IEC Commissioner, Maliha Hassan

FEFA held meetings with Ms. Maliha, commissioner of IEC on 10th April 2018. FEFA‘s both advocacy groups worked on joint proposal for voter registration process through individual Debates with WPRAG and YPRAG groups. The proposal has two chapter-first chapter is about women‘s strength, weakness, challenges and opportunities during the VR process and 2nd chapter group tried to identify youth‘s strength, weakness, opportunities and challenges during the VR process. Last chapter is set of recommendation which groups recommend as solution for IEC. Women Political Rights Advocacy Group - FEFA and Youth political rights advocacy group – FEFA held a joint meeting on April 10, 2018 where 10 members including representatives from the political parties, a representative from the High Peace Council and 3 representatives from the civil society organizations attended advocacy meeting with IEC (Maliha Hassun). At the beginning of the meeting, Mariam Arween, the women and outreach officer of FEFA present a short presentation of proposal with IEC representative, and she shared some views and concerns of women and youth during the VR process, she mentioned as No election has been held by use of the national ID cards yet so there are some challenges which women and youth will face during the election period such there are Some women lack national ID cards in the remote areas and villages. The IEC declared it hadn’t been able to assess and make decision about 1700 polling centers as a result of security challenges & threats; Impossibility of issuing ID cards in remote areas; Problems in providing security of polling centers; Receiving of more than 1 national ID cards.