The "Partners for Transparency" initiative PFT concluded the training workshop for members of the committees to evaluate electoral financing and spending in the governorates yesterday evening. This comes within the framework of its implementation of the initiative to monitor electoral financing and spending, "Our Voices Against Your Money".

“15” members of the committees formed by Partners for Transparency in PFT in 5 governorates participated in the workshop to take over the task of collecting and analyzing information related to electoral financing and spending for the candidates in the targeted constituencies, including monitoring and documenting the violations related to this. Al-Sharif is the President of Promising Voices Foundation, and Dr. Walaa Jad al-Karim, Director of Partners for Transparency.

The workshop aimed to provide participants with knowledge and skills related to monitoring the electoral financing and spending of candidates based on the controls established in the Law on Exercising Political Rights and relevant legislation. The workshop also included an explanation of the tools that will be used by committee members to evaluate the funding and electoral spending for each candidate separately, through a form Developed specifically for this purpose, so that the process of arranging and classifying information and drawing conclusions that are close to accuracy goes through.

Partners for Transparency had announced its implementation of an initiative that is the first of its kind to monitor electoral financing and spending, defining its main purpose as providing tools and coming up with practical recommendations that benefit civil society organizations and bodies supervising electoral processes to cover the severe deficiency in this important aspect of verifying integrity The electoral process and equal opportunities for the candidates and parties involved in it. The initiative is implemented in five governorates at the rate of one district in each governorate, which are: Cairo, Port Said, Alexandria, Dakahlia, and Fayoum.

Starting today, September 29, 2015, the monitoring team will start monitoring the electoral financing and spending of the candidates in the constituencies of the first phase of the electoral process until the end of the electoral campaigning period, and then they will continue working during the prescribed period for legal advertising in the run-off round, and the same is the case in the second phase, in its first and run-off rounds The Foundation will issue two initial reports on the results of each phase's follow-up, then a final report that includes an evaluation of the results of the process as a whole, and the proposed tools and recommendations.