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The Friedrich Ebert Foundation Amman office is recruiting a program manager as of 1 April 2010 (or later). Candidates are invited to send their application with a CV and motivation letter. FES is offering a challenging work environment in a small and highly motivated team. It searches for a qualified new team member who likes working responsibly on political and societal issues, has an academic, NGO or equivalent work experience. If you are interested, click on the following link for more information.
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The Zarqa based Bushra Center for Women Studies has implemented a project entitled “Campaigning for Women in Zarqa Governorate”. The project, organized in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, is a continuation of Bushra Center’s and FES’ successful 2008 project. It is aiming at promoting women rights in the governorate of Zarqa by presenting arguments supporting women participation in political, social and economic life. more
With the publication of the study "The Professional Associations – the Challenges of Participation and Change", Al Badeel Center for Studies and Training, in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, has concluded the project on ways to reform Jordan’s professional Associations.
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After their successful partnership in developing an alternative elections law proposal, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Al-Badeel Center for Studies and Training continued their efforts in the field of legislation reform by working on the other two important laws that affect the political life in Jordan: The Political Parties Law and the Public Meetings law. more
As in the past, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) and the Iraqi Democratic Future Network (IDFN), in partnership with UNAMI and UNOPS, have trained and mobilized Iraqi election observers. Approximately 15,000 Iraqi volunteers are out on election day to monitor events and report how the third parliamentary elections after 2003 proceed. On 4 March 2010, the FES/IDFN observers monitored the special needs voting.
more1. Two incidents in Diyala province involving the same candidate brought a negative “highlight” to today’s parliamentary elections in Iraq. In the first incident, observers and representatives of political parties were asked to leave Al Arish Center (no. 150607). The center’s manager refused to provide the representatives of the political parties with the complaints forms. more
The Friedrich Ebert Foundation has supported a group of 55 observers who have been trained and mobilized by the Amman-based Identity Center in order to observe the Out of Country Voting (OCV) in Jordan. Jordan is one of 16 countries in which Iraqis living abroad can cast their votes. The OCV is organized by the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) of Iraq. Voters have been invited to choose their candidates over a period of three days which started on Friday, 5 March, and stretches until Sunday, 7 March 2010.
moreObservers have been refused entry into a number of centers under the pretext of non-validity of badges. It has to be underlined here that the badges’ validity started in August 2009 and extends until today.
Most of the polling centers were opened on time with the presence of IHEC staff and all electoral material, although the opening in some centers was slightly delayed (less than half hour).
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