Continued.

• Advocacy visits to INEC and Political Parties offices in South West States: This came at the insistence of the female political aspirants tat the Project 300 Women should encourage their participation in politics by paying visits to their leaders in order to identify some of the constrains faced by tem. The crew also visited the Independence Electoral Commission (INEC) State offices in the states.
• Gender Awareness Training: the women political aspirants were brought together in ibadan, Oyo State, in order to train them on gender related issues. Part of the things taught was gender issues in the Nigerian 1999 Constitution.
• Gender Audit: this aspect was handled by one of the partnering organisations, Women Research and Development Centre (WARDC). This was done on three political parties in three states in the South West Nigeria. The aim of the research was to know the gender composition and mode of selection of the party executives both at the state and local government level, gender composition of party members and selection and gender composition of party members for elective and appointive positions among other areas of concern.
• Project 300 Newsletter: Apart from the workshops and the gender awareness training, the Project 300 women activities are also in publication to enable others that could not partake in the main activities benefit from the project.

Other Upcoming Events include:

• Workshops, which will definitely involve the six states in the South West Nigeria.
• Media Campaign: This will be done with the involvement of the media especially radio.
• The second part of gender audit.
• Media roundtable to access the work that has been done so far and how women faired during the elections.
• Production of Project 300 Women Newsletter: which will showcase the activities of the women politicians.
• Finally the production of a publication that will contain the activities of the project and the experience of the women politicians.

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