CIP Elections monitor 2022-2025 CIP Elections monitor 2022-2025 The goal of the contribution is to contribute to greater transparency and greater political participation, especially by young people in the provinces, in the 2023 and 2024 elections. fact-checked and edited in Maputo and published on social media. It also aims to combat the spread of rumors and falsehoods in connection with the elections. Insatsens målsättning är att bidra till ökad transparens och ökat politiskt deltagande, framförallt bland unga i provinserna, i valen 2023 och 2024. Detta genom närvaro på lokal nivå med korrespondenter som producerar information om lokalpolitiken och valprocessen som faktagranskas och redigeras i Maputo och sprids i sociala nätverk. Det ämnar även att  motverka spridning av rykten och osanningar i samband med valen. 3.1 Goals 
The Goals are to:
1. Increase the political involvement of citizens in all process of municipal and general elections.
2. To especially involve young people in the political process and as agents of change, and
3. To ensure transparency as a way to reduce levels of misconduct. 
3.2 Objectives & Targets - upgrade of existing programme
1. Reporting of the entire 2023 and 2024 electoral process in all districts, including voter registration, selection of 
the candidates and parties, voting process, results announcement and post-election follow up. This will involve 
200 correspondents in 2023 and 600 in 2024. Al least 100 newsletters per year will be published, with no unverified reports and no fake news. Trust and integrity will be maintained, with more complete reporting than any 
other media.
2. Special attention to gender and age. At least half of correspondents and half of the Maputo team must be women; 
most presenters on social media must be women. Many correspondents will be under 35 years. A special effort 
will be made to find physically disabled correspondents. 
3. Training for all correspondents on reporting, accuracy, and use of social media. Recognising that women, young 
people, and physically disabled people may have less education and experience, additional training and support 
will be provided if needed.
4. Expand use of community radio and podcasts and increase reporting in local languages.
5. Upgrade the fraud investigating team by increasing early checks and making informal links with university statisticians and elections researchers.
3.3 Objectives & Targets - innovations
1. Stress on municipal elections.
2. Use social media as a way to engage, inform, and promote advocacy and action. Train staff and correspondents 
to use social media. Use external training and support as needed.
3. Make young voters aware that municipal elections are the ideal field for them to come together and create 
groups of common interest as citizens, inclduing to stand for Municipal Assemblies. Show that local problems 
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can be better resolved by local citizens and not wait for solutions from national political parties. Raise the 
confidence of young voters as agents for change.
4. Remind local communities that to be politically active, they do not need to join established political parties and 
can stand for elections as citizens lists.
5. Create a programme extending beyond elections to support the young activists who are mobilised. This 
programme must be shaped by local activists themselves and be different in each municipality. This progamme 
will be based in part on previous work developed by CIP to monitor municipalities.
6. Support parties to make better use of the electoral court system. Assist magistrates with information on their 
powers.
7. Double parallel count in selected municipalities - watching the count and accuracy of ticks put on the blackboard 
and recording both the blackboard count and the official results sheet (edital).