The Municipal Development Council (CDM) of Tecoluca

Civic Education Project

SHARE’s supported CDM Tecoluca in a civic education project in 2006 to encourage participation, organization and voter education for the local elections of March. Through door-to-door knocking and holding local assemblies, CDM worked to raise consciousness on the right to vote and analysis of local and national socio-political awareness. Accomplishments and outcomes included a high voter turnout of eighty percent of registered voters and the victory of the CDM supported Mayoral Candidate, Simon Amaya, who received sixty-four percent of the votes.

Regional Training Exchange Program

SHARE also supported an exchange program to strengthen coordination between the CDM of Tecoluca and an NGO from the Eastern Zone of Usulutan called Inter-institutional Foundation (FLAZO). Mayors and council members coordinated training workshops on local development, emergency prevention and alert systems, community organizing against domestic violence and risk awareness on emigration to the US. CDM then brought these workshops to various Tecoluca local communities.

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