Awareness & Advocacy

Empowering women activists through voter education – Anuradhapura District Programme

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Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) initiated a voter education programme called ‘Provincial Council Elections Voter Education and Outreach Programme’ with the support of USAID-DAI (SDGAP). The main focus is to invoke awareness for women candidates who are willing to contest in the next provincial councils elections to be held island-wide. CMEV is planning to …

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Report of the Civil Society Committee to Review the Provincial Council Election System & the Provincial Council (Amendment) Election Act

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A Civil Society Committee was brought together by the Centre for Motioning Election Violence (CMEV) and the People’s Action for Free and Fair Elections (PAFFREL) to review the Provincial Council Election System and to make appropriate recommendations. The committee commenced reviewing the Provincial Council (Amendment) Election Act on the 1st of June 2018 and the released their report with recommendations within 2 months of …

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Empowering women activists through voter education

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A debate has commenced regarding an appropriate system that could be adopted at the next round of provincial councils elections. There are 3 provincial councils are already dissolved (Eastern, North Central and Sabaragamuwa) and another 3 councils are yet to be dissolved since their terms have been completed before the end of December in this year.  …

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Civil Society Review Committee on Provincial Councils Election System

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A critical social dialogue on the Local Government Elections system has emerged after the release of the results of the February 10th polls, held under the Mixed Member Proportional Representation. This dialogue has become more essential as the fundamental basis of the same electoral system is scheduled to be used for the forth coming Provincial Councils …

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Local Authorities Elections: Observations on the Post-Election Results Period, Lessons Learned and Ways Forward

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A critical dialogue on ‘the new provincial council’s election system” organized by the Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) in partnership with People’s Action for Free & Fair Elections (PAFFREL) with the participation of all key stakeholders including  Election Commission of Sri Lanka, Ministry of Provincial Councils and Local Government, political parties and Academia as well …

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Stakeholder Meeting on New Provincial Council Election System

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A critical dialogue on the new provincial council’s election system, organized by People’s Action for Free & Fair Elections (PAFFREL) in partnership with Centre for  Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) was held at the Water’s Edge Hotel on 25th April 2018. Key stakeholders including the Election Commission of Sri Lanka, Ministry of Provincial Councils and Local Government, political parties and …

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Limitations on Campaign Finance and Disclosure of Assets and Liabilities: University Discussion Series – Second Event

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The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence is critically engaging with the election observation process in Sri Lanka while simultaneously contributing to the electoral reform process in the country. As part of all these functions, CMEV has initiated a series of discussions with the intention of enhancing an island wide public discourse on “Limitations on Campaign …

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​Limitations on Campaign Finance and Disclosure of Assets and Liabilities : University Discussion Series

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The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence critically engages with the election observation processes in Sri Lanka and has been simultaneously contributing to the electoral reform process in the country. As part of all these functions, CMEV has initiated a series of discussions with the intention of enhancing an island wide public discourse on “Limitations on …

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CMEV Supports the Campaign of Youth Organizations requesting more Youth Involvement in Nomination Lists.

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Though there are many positive features of the newly introduced election system for the local government election through the Local Government Election (Amendment) Act No.22 of 2012, one of the prominent concerns in the principal Act was abolishing the youth quota which was introduced in 1990 by Local Authorities Elections (Amendment) Act No.25 of 1990 …

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Training for election officials – Anuradhapura District

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As a part of the strategic plan 2017-2020 adopted by Election Commission of Sri Lanka, numerous training programmes and awareness sessions are being conducted by district level election offices to enable their EMB officials to strengthen the electoral process of the country while shaping the strategic directions identified by the strategic plan adopted for the …

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‘Let us grant her the power, for a clean political culture’

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With the introduction of the 25% quota for women in the Local Government Elections, the electoral demography of the country is set to change dramatically. This will be seen especially at local government level because of any of the local councils to be set up after the election should appoint a minimum of 4/1 elected …

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Enforcement of punishments for government officials responsible for misuse of State property is a tremendous victory for Sri Lankan citizens

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The most recent presidential election held on the 8th of January 2015 was regarded as controversial due to various reasons. One of the frequently discussed aspects among them was the rampant misuse of state property by the previous regime. One instance of such misuse was the distribution of “Sil Redi” (Cloths warn in order to observe …

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A discussion on the need to systematically observe and report the political activism of women during the period of elections

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Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) in partnership with International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) organised a workshop on violence against women in elections (VAWIE) for election observer groups and women’s rights advocates on 27th of July at Global Towers Hotel, Colombo. This discussion which was held based on the common issues arising  in relation to VAWIE …

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