Subject: Celebrating a Year of #NotTheCost
From: "Ken Wollack" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 12:47:05 -0400

I thought you would be interested in the following message to NDI staff
about the Institute's  #Not the Cost initiative, which was launched a year
ago. If you have any questions, please let Sandra Pepera, our director for
Gender, Women and Democracy, or me know.

With best regards,

Ken

Kenneth Wollack
President
National Democratic Institute
455 Massachusetts Ave., NW, 8th Floor
Washington, DC 20001
202-728-5500 (Tel)
888-875-2887 (Fax)
email: [email-masked]
website: www.ndi.org

Dear colleagues,

Friday, March 17, marked one year since NDI launched the #NotTheCost
initiative <https://www.ndi.org/not-the-cost> and our global call to action
against the violence that women in politics face. The importance of this
work continues to be underscored by powerful testimonies from women around
the world and by new research.

Over the past year, we’ve worked to address violence against politically
active women in elections <http://voteswithoutviolence.org>, and
collaborated with the UN’s Special Rapporteur for Violence Against Women to
establish more systematic reporting of VAW-P and raise global awareness,
including through the Incident Report Form
<https://www.ndi.org/incident-report> (in four languages) now located on
NDI’s website. Please continue to raise the profile of this form with all
the politically-active women -- including community organizers and
activists, party members, candidates, elected officials at any level,
electoral officials, ministers -- you come across.

To mark the first anniversary of #NotTheCost, we are pleased to announce
new and exciting resources for NDI staff, partners and everyone committed
to this issue:

ONLINE PROGRAM GUIDANCE
<https://www.ndi.org/publications/notthecost-program-guidance-stopping-violence-against-women-politics>
for all practitioners seeking to incorporate

a focus on violence against women in politics in programming. Translations
to follow.

as well as

TRANSLATIONS
<https://contribute.ndi.org/not-the-cost-call-to-action-sign-up> of the
original Call to Action, now available in:

Arabic
<https://contribute.ndi.org/not-the-cost-call-to-action-sign-up-arabic> |
French
<https://contribute.ndi.org/not-the-cost-call-to-action-sign-up-french> |
Spanish
<https://contribute.ndi.org/not-the-cost-call-to-action-sign-up-spanish>

Thank you for your continued engagement and support on this important
initiative, including the NDI offices in Nigeria, Guatemala, Honduras,
Uganda, Myanmar, Tanzania, Tunisia, Côte d'Ivoire and Nicaragua, who have
implemented programming that addresses violence against women in politics.
We look forward to continuing to work with additional country offices to
ensure that violence is truly #NotTheCost of women’s political
participation.

Regards,

-- 

Sandra Pepera

Director

Gender, Women and Democracy

National Democratic Institute

Email: [email-masked]

Phone: (202) 728-5691

Skype: sandrapepera

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