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1/6/2002
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The civil Society Election Monitoring Observatory agree with members of the Consultative Institute on the monitoring plan
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3/8/2005
Members of Civil Society Election Monitoring Observatory and its consultative group convened their first meeting in the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) headquarters. The meeting was attended by twenty members of the consultative group and some of the Observatory member groups. The meeting was chaired by Dr Mohamed el Sayyed Said, Secretary General of the consultative group and deputy director of the Al Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies.
Members of the consultative group unanimously agreed on the Observatory's founding statute and decided that the consultative group's tasks would be to make suggestions to the Observatory on working methods, train observers and produce a final report on the election monitoring. The report will be presented and discussed during a meeting attended by both the Observatory and the consultative group. The Observatory will, however be entirely independent of its member groups in the production of its final report.
The members decided on a plan for the training of election monitors and the qualifications required. A training supervisory committee will be formed composed of members of the consultative groups and other individuals agreed on by the consultative group and Observatory members. The election monitoring training programme will be discussed during the consultative group's next meeting.
It was agreed that Observatory members will evaluate the political and legislative environment in which elections will be held as well as monitoring the atmosphere in the run up to the elections (monitoring election funding and it sources, election propaganda and spending on it, forms of illegal and immoral propaganda, violations committed by the police and administrative bodies (particularly those concerning propaganda, conferences and conference permits, supporters' signatures, the media's coverage of candidates and its independence, monitoring and follow-up on the electoral process, receiving complaints relating to any stage of the elections - propaganda, voting, vote sorting, announcement of results - holding widespread media campaigns and workshops to increase awareness, encourage people to participate in the elections and provide them with all the information necessary for registration and voting.
Those taking part in the meeting were Mostafa Kamel el Sayyed (professor of political science at Cairo University, Hoda Badran (head of the League of Arab Women), Fatma Khafagy (member of the National Council for Women), Mohamed Nour (professor of law), journalists Samir Morqos and Hani Shoukrallah and Ekram Lamei.
The meeting was also attended by a group of experts from the Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Nabil Abdel Fatah, Hassan Abu Taleb and Omar el Shobki .
Another group of Civil Coalition members: Hafez abu Saeda (the coalition's public coordinator and EOHR's Secretary General), Dr Magdy Abdel Hamid (manager of Raising Social Participation Association) and Tarek Khater (manager of Human Rights Legal Aid Association).
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