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"The Al-Hayat Center for Civil Society Development, in partnership with the NDI, has launched a campaign to mobilize young voters for Jordan's November parliamentary elections. As part of the campaign, they have published the findings of recent survey designed to measure Jordanian youths' political apathy and behavior during the previous election."
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"In an effort to 'uncover young people's attitudes toward political involvement and specifically their experiences in the previous election in 2007,' the Al-Hayat Center for Civil Society Development and the National Democratic Institute have 'launched a campaign focused on engaging and registering young voters for [the] Nov. 9 parliamentary elections.'
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For young people in East Africa seeking to have a political voice, the two-year-old Regional Youth Leadership Academy (RYPLA) has helped show the way. One of its graduates, Daniel Taabu, has become executive director of the National Rainbow Coalition-Kenya (NARC-K), a political party with a seat in parliament. In Uganda, 14 graduates started Uganda Youth Stand Up, a nonprofit organization whose goal is to increase civic participation by registering one million young Ugandans to vote ahead of the February 2011 elections.
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The 34 young leaders who graduated on Friday from the Youth Leadership Political Academy in Rwanda were urged to be the leaders of tomorrow by Anicet Kayigema, the Executive Secretary of FFPP (Forum For Political Parties). Kayigema officiated at the graduation ceremony.
NDI Resident Director Gaston Ain Bilbao said that the young political leaders were given high quality intensive training in political related issues.
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"A meeting between students and politicians was held Tuesday at Tbilisi State University. The meeting was brokered by the Center for Geopolitical Surveys and was held within the framework of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) meetings.
With women becoming increasingly prominent in North African politics, NDI brought together more than 60 women from across the region who are both established and emerging as political and civic leaders to discuss the importance of women's political engagement. The group, from Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia, met in Casablanca, Morocco, March 13–14, a site that was chosen in part because of the record 3,406 new women councilors who were voted into office during last year’s municipal elections.
Young people age 35 and under make up more than half of Algeria's population, but they are largely absent from political life. Broad confidence in the government is lacking, with youth seeing no clear benefit to getting involved at even the most basic level in their communities. The political system provides few openings for young people to participate in a constructive manner. Their mounting frustration is sometimes taken out through street protests, which can turn violent.
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