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web based learning platform and an online training course in electoral area Democracy Programme / Elections / Republic of Moldova

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e-learning This product was developed within the framework of the Program “Improving the Quality of Democracy in Moldova through Parliamentary and Electoral Support” implemented by UNDP Moldova, funded by the Government of Sweden and the Government of Norway. The views expressed in this product are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the funding institutions.”

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The e-learning platform is a modern solution with content elaborared by CICDE body of experts.

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The CICDE e-learning platform solution in the electoral area uses the most recent technology and software solutions in order to provide long term sustainability. The accessibility and editing of the content is easy and does not require a high level of IT expertise.

About Introduction

Who What is CCET?

How Reports and Statistics

What E-learning & evaluation

What Benefits of the e-learning

What User Dashboard

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The power of e-learning CICDE

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Implementation Project Steps

A modern and powerful solution. The implemented solution is adapted to the specific content of the electoral field.

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The access to information is facilitated.

It increases CICDE’s visibility. The high standard of content quality supports CICDE’s activity.

The solution was created to provide fast and

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intuitive access to information.

A compatible solution. The solution is developed to offer compatibility with other systems.

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Created to provide support. The platform sustains the continuous learning process offered by CICDE.

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Introduction web based learning platform and an online training course in electoral area UNDP Moldova Democracy Programme/Elections (further referred as Programme) is a multi-year institutional development project that aims to support the institutional consolidation of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) as well as the modernization of the Moldovan electoral process towards: - Improving the capacity of the CEC to meet European gender and human rights standards; - Improving the institutional environment for electoral management bodies that can deliver inclusive and modern electoral processes; - Improving the electoral and population registration process of the Republic of Moldova’s citizens; B ACKG RO U ND INFO R M AT IO N Planning and conducting elections is a complex and challenging task that places heavy legislative, political, social and logistical demands on all participants involved in elections. As failure is not an option when it comes to elections, it is essential that these people have the adequate skills, knowledge, and experience to successfully carry out their electoral responsibilities. Since 2008 CEC has been working to improve the design and implementation of training programs for

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temporary electoral officials. The CEC has moved from large group short briefings of District Electoral Commissions (DEC) and Precinct Electoral Bureaus (PEB) members to small group competency-based training sessions. In 2010, Moldovan electoral code was amended to allow PEB and DEC members to be certified by the CEC. Certification is seen as one way to better control the quality of PEB and DEC activities and to ensure citizens temporarily hired during the election period are able to carry out the duties of these electoral bodies. To meet the increasing need for effective trainings and further certification of electoral officials at all levels and other key stakeholders, in 2011 CEC created the Centre for Continuous Electoral Trainings (CCET). The main goal of the CCET is to provide trainings for various electoral officials, electoral bodies’ staff members, judges, NGOs representatives, electoral observers, mass-media, political parties representatives and voters. In order to meet the ambitious task of training and certifying all electoral officials in Moldova and out of country, the CCET requested UNDP’s assistance in developing a web based learning platform and an e-learning training course.



What is CCET? (CICDE) The Centre for Continuous Electoral Training (CCET) under the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of the Republic of Moldova is a public institution subordinated to CEC, established in line with art. 26¹ of the Electoral Code. The good organization and development of elections by complying with the legal provisions, depends, to a great extent on the level of professional education of the persons engaged in the electoral process. Before CCET was created, the process of electoral officials’ training had been held fragmentarily and had an occasional and unsystematic character. There was no certification mechanism of the electoral officials either, nor to assess their professional abilities. Through its activity, the Centre for Continuous Electoral Training (CCET) shall fill in these gaps contributing in such a way to the increasing of the number of persons who have professional experience in the field of elections and to a more qualitative organizing of the election process.

Team CCET consists of 2 departments: • Training and certification

The e-learning platform has different modules as follows: 1) “Electoral legal framework” 2) “District Electoral Councils” 3) “Precinct Electoral Bureaus” 4) “Ethics in elections” 5) “Electoral logistics” 6) “Election Day” 7) Communication with electoral stakeholders” 8) “Voter Lists and State Register of Voters” 9) “Electoral disputes resolution” 10) “Tabulation and transmission of the electoral results” 11) “Out of Country Voting” 12) “Gender and elections” 13) “Access to the electoral process” e-learning.cicde.md

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Reports and statistics.

Full Responsive

adapted to all types of desktop sau mobile browsers Secured solution

High speed processing

The solution integrates a proper security system in order to protect the information and the components of the system against any unauthorized usage or personal data of the beneficiaries.

The solution provides informational performances similar for small data processing and high data information processing during the course modules acces.

Reports and statistics The platform has the capacity to generate and display detailed reports and statistics regarding the activity of the students.

Generates detailed reports for:

Hosting: Locally provided on any other server

Administration: Protected access

Cache: In order to facilitate a fast process of uploading the information the solution offers the option to create cache

Versatile: High reporting and inter-change capacity of user accessibility

The solution has the capacity to restore in case of disasters (physical security of IT solution).

The solution provides advanced information recovery options published in the course content.

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e-learning & evaluation. web based learning platform and an online training course in electoral area THE CONTENT THE E VALUATION Each course has a number of Some questions are automatic modules containing information evaluated. Open questions are as text, interactive animation evaluated by CCET experts. and video. In order to register for the Each course module is course, each learner will fill independently accessible by in and submit a standardized specific individuals, not all personal data sheet. Personal modules being relevant to all information are filled in through target groups. a secured system. CCET will use the provided data during Inside of each module, learners the stage of certification for are able to take brief tests successful learners. to evaluate the assimilated information and knowledge At the end of the course there from the specific module. will be issued “certificates for successful completion of At the end of the course, the the course” for learners who participants, based on their successfully passed the final profile, will take the final web tests. test consisting of 10 to 15 questions. The multiple choice Each test can be repeated untill questions and open questions the participant may have the are randomly chosen by the best results. The participants platform. The total timing for the can submit the completed info course final test is 30 minutes. receiving an unique certificate. 10

At the end of the course there will be issued “certificates for successful completion of the course” for learners who successfully passed the final tests. The platform solution is well documented and it is easy to be updated by the CCET experts directly through the frontend. All the interactivities of the content are easy to be administrated and are build using open source solutions.

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benefits of the e-learning solution Provide web-based access to the training course and final exam to learners Score the tests and the final exam for individual learners and provide solutions with explanations Quality content elaborated and validated by CICDE’s experts

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The power of e-learning CICDE Some topics from the content of the e-learning platform The topic Moldovan Electoral system contains information about the Moldovan electoral system, seats distribution for Parliament and local councils. Also, the curricula will cover the topic of the thresholds for political parties and electoral blocks used to access the parliament. Basic information about the fundamental constitutional rights to elect and be elected, additionally restrictions to the electoral rights and principles of Europe’s electoral heritage, as well as conditions for implementing the principles, as it is stated in the Code of good practice adopted by Venice Commission.

The Dashboard of the platform is individual space where users can get a general image of the interaction with the content: they have a statistic of the participation, the relation with other members of the platform, compare the results with the averege results of the platfom, a to do list and a lot of resources as useful links and information.

The module Ethics in elections presents details about the Profile of a competent electoral official. In this context the participants learn that the main purpose of the CCET is to create a pool of skilled and professional electoral officials. This involves not just the good knowledge of Electoral code and electoral procedures but also the ethical behavior of the CEC, DEC and PEB members. It includes non-partisanship, equal treatment, fairness etc. and cover principles of the Code of conduct for electoral officials elaborated by the CEC. The module Elections Day presents the Voting procedure that describe the common balloting procedure (Article 53, Electoral code), but also the voting with mobile box, the voting of elderly persons and other special categories (imprisoned, disabled etc). It will list the persons authorized to assist in all election operations and the identification documents that permits to vote. During the E-day a continuous flow of information should be ensured: each 3 hours voter turnout is communicated to the upper level electoral bodies. Any other information about problems occurred is also transmitted.

The topics related to the District Electoral Councils present the procedure of establishment of DEC and its structure; the election of a DEC chairperson, vice-chairperson and secretary; various cases of incompatibilities. It includes references on working with election calendar, logistical and financial issues. It will present information about calling the DEC meetings, the quorum for holding a meeting, decision making process, the do’s and don’ts of the PEB members behaviour.

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The topics about the Precinct Electoral Bureaus (PEB) will let participants know when and by whom a PEB is formed, cases of excluding a PEB member from the PEB and what are the incompatibilities with this function. At this stage there are includeded references on how to work with the election calendar, some logistical and financial issues. It will present how are the meetings called, the quorum for holding a meeting, decision making process, the do’s and don’ts of PEB members, preparation to the Election Day.

The topics from Gender and elections module address info about the right to elect and to be elected. It will analyze whether the national legislation meet the conditions for ensuring gender equality in Moldovan elections. It will provide an EMB perspective on gender in election. This topic is focusing on describing the good practices in gender mainstreaming in elections stated in European conventions and other international documents. 15


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1. Modern Design

The platform is based on a modern template, attractive, based on the most recent recommendations in design, including Google. The modern design ensures a greater attractiveness for specific target groups, as youngsters.

2. Easier to access the content information

The platform presents the menus in a simplified manner which ensures a higher speed in accessing the requested information.

3. Quality in displaying the information

The way the information is structured ensures a high visibility of content without decreasing the visibility of other functions.

4. High interactive structure

The animations and functions of the platforms, as well as the video files, ensures dynamics and interactivity during the learning process.

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The solution used in the development of the e-learning platform implies the most recent technology, based on open source software in order to operate in a sustainable manner.

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IMPLEMENTATION The platform was developed according to The Terms of Reference of the Project and based on the decisions taken during the expert’s meetings.

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ANALYZE The project started with an initial analyze of the Terms of Reference and information analyzes received from the experts of the project.

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Additionally, expert’s team meetings took place in order to discuss and agree on specific details.

E VALUATION

All these information were fundamental during the design process and the source for the development of specific functions of the platform.

Following the finalizing of the implementation phase the platform functionalities and content were verified in order to be validated.

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DESIGN

LIVE VERSION

All these information were fundamental during the design process and the source for the development of specific functions of the platform.

The platform is live and can be viewed by experts and the large public.

Finally, during this phase the decision was made in favour of a powerful and modern design, attractive for the experts but also for the large public.

The present platform will be also available through mobile applications.

The general design applies to all the courses.

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This product was developed within the framework of the Program “Improving the Quality of Democracy in Moldova through Parliamentary and Electoral Support” implemented by UNDP Moldova, funded by the Government of Sweden and the Government of Norway. The views expressed in this product are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the funding institutions.”