Nepal Social Development and People Empowerment Center (NESPEC)

Constitution Assembly (CA) Election Campaign

Orientation Meeting:
A volunteer core group from NESPEC organized a month-long orientation program in which four political parties (Nepali Congress, CPN United, CPNM and CPNUML) were invited to conduct an orientation about the Constitution Assembly election and its process for the volunteers, members and staff of NESPEC. This program helped the entire human resource sector of NESPEC by informing them about the concept of different political institutions and about the Constitution Assembly. This in turn helped them to discuss the different issues in the community through the institutional viewpoint of the Constitution Assembly.

Sample CA Election:
A sample CA election was organized by the NESPEC volunteer core group on February 8th, 2008, to develop the knowledge and skill of NESPEC's human resources regarding the election process. This exercise helped all the volunteers, members and staff of NESPEC to facilitate discussions with the village community groups about the upcoming CA elections.

CA Election Awareness Campaign:
Group orientations were conducted in 25 different groups of several Village Development Committees (VDCs) including the villages of Jogidaha, Handiya, Sundarpur, Siddipur and the Triyuga Municipality. NESPEC also distributed CA election information pamphlets to them, with the support of COCAP and in cooperation with the District Election Commission. Street dramas also took place in six different locations of those VDCs through the assistance of various artists and NESPEC volunteers - the dramas were focused on land rights, the marginalized community's access to the CA election, and food security.