“Awaz Do, Hyderabad” is a community driven, non-partisan and Civic-engagement project to ensure the power of setting election agenda lies with public who caste votes, but not political parties that seek votes. The project provides a easily accessible platform that proactively involves public in highlighting their community issues and outlining their local issue agenda for upcoming GHMC Elections.
The project is designed and executed by “Pramanya Strategy” – a international political research and strategy organization as part of our not-for-profit community engagement program. This project will run for next 3 weeks (until the GHMC election day) with a goal of promoting higher voter turnout rates by way of civic-engagement in the election process.
Local elections have always seen a lower turnout than the voter turnout in general elections. Our research has found that following are the top three reasons:
1. Registered voters those who voted in General Elections perceive elections to local bodies like GHMC as “Insignificant” in the hierarchy of governance.
2. Voters those who vote consistently in general elections claim that the election agenda’s set by the political parties for local elections are not pertinent to their localities.
3. Many voters felt that their views on the in their locality were never taken seriously and their vote hardly makes any difference in this out-of-scope elections.
“Pramanya” has designed “Awaz Do, Hyderabad” – non-partisan voter turnout program that is aimed to promote higher turnout rates by way of civic-engagement in the election process. This project is inspired from Pramanya’s previous successful project in Akron City Council election in the USA.
The project uses Social Media and Tele-calling solutions along with one-on-one interactions to motivate the public to exercise their right to vote while encouraging them to voice their concerns about the community they live in and about issues that are relevant and critical to them in GHMC elections. The project is designed and executed by “Pramanya Strategy” – a international political research and strategy organization as part of their not-for-profit community engagement program.
Over the period of next 3 weeks, the program collects public agenda in a quantitative numbers with a qualitative detail. The public agenda generated by the program will be further popularized with the help of media organizations. Further, media organization can build the pressure on political parties and contestants to adopt public agenda.
Project details:
Campaign Phone Number: ph:8471055557
People can call in to leave voice message, send a SMS and give a missed call. Our agents follow up with them
Twitter handle: @awazdohyd
Facebook Page: @AwazDoHyderabad
Email: [email protected]
Team:
1. Hari Kasula – Chief Strategist
2. Dr. Rakesh Lattupalli – Lead Organizer – NRI and Concerned Hyderabadi
3. Ravi Kumar Badugu – Grassroots Organizer
4. Sharth Chandra – Digital Organizer – Masters student of Maharashtra Institute of Technology and School of Governance, Pune
5. Abhishek – Tele-Organizer – Public Policy Masters Student of Sri Sri university Bhuvaneshwar
6. Prof. Jerry Austin – Project Advisor – University of Akron OH.
Visit “Pramanya” at www.pramanyastrategy.com