Contact

maszglos@batory.org.pl
Joanna Załuska,
Program Director
phone:|+48| 22 536 02 76
Olga Skarżyńska
phone:|+48| 22 536 02 62

See also

www.maszglos.pl

Your Vote, Your Choice

Program co-financed by the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe

The aim of the program is to get citizens interested in the problems of their local communities and encourage them to get involved in public life, including conscious and responsible participation in local elections. We want to contribute to stirring up public debate on local issues, with the involvement of residents and local authorities, as well as instill a feeling of shared responsibility – of both the authorities and residents – for the decisions made on election day. We would like also to increase the voters’ turnout and improve the quality of elections as well as secure honest and objective information on elections and candidates in information programs of public TV.

Your vote your choice campaign

As part of the program, in cooperation with the School of Leaders Association, we conduct a Your vote, your choice campaign in which each year several hundred organizations and informal groups form all over Poland carry out activities that stimulate citizen participation, build dialogue between residents and their local government representatives, and bring communities together to solve local problems.

Public awareness campaigns

Complementing and reinforcing the local activities of non-governmental organizations participating in the program is an annual nationwide civic campaign involving the media. In the election year these campaigns run in cooperation with other organizations and institutions focus on get-out-the vote actions. In the period between the elections – in the middle of the term of local governments – we encourage citizens to examine the achievements of local governments elected two years before and check how they solve local problems and fulfill election promises.

Advocacy efforts

We engage also – alone and in a coalition with other NGOs in advocacy efforts aiming to introduce changes in the electoral law that would make it easier for citizens to vote and would enable them to make conscious electoral choices.

Monitoring TV information programs

During electoral campaign we conduct monitoring of the public TV information programs examining time devoted to electoral campaign as well as the way of presentation of the candidates.


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