The IEBC has advertised for a biometric voter registration solution (BVR) and the artistic creation of poster for voter education. While the BVR solution, which includes kits, is intended for both local and international bidding, the six categories of posters is a competition and targets local graphics designers and artists. The dead line for BVR tender is 28th February, 2012 while the poster competition closes on 9th March, 2012.
Details of the BVR solution and Poster Competition are posted on this website.

Nairobi 9th February, 2012

The IEBC Chairman has called on the two coalition principals, President Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga to announce when they will dissolve the coalition so as to give certainty to the election date. He said the suspense was creating unnecessary suspense and anxiety in the country. "It is necessary for the two to declare the election date early so that preparations for the polls could start in earnest", added the Chairman.
The IEBC Chairman made the remarks after he and Commissioners submitted the revised preliminary report on the proposed boundaries for constituencies and wards to the Parliamentary Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs (CPCJLA). The report factors public views, both verbal and written, that were presented to the Commission during the 21 days it held public forums countrywide and ended on 30th January 2012.

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) in partnership with Electoral Reforms International Services (ERIS) has organized a training workshop to train Constituency Election Coordinators (CEC) who will in turn train other election coordinators in different regions on matters of dialogue, mediation and facilitation.
The training workshop which runs 6th-9th February is the second one the first having been held late last year and aims to enhance the skills of Regional and Constituency Election Coordinators in preventing election-related conflicts.

The workshop also hopes to assist the Regional and Constituency Election Coordinators in planning and coordinating efforts towards preventing election-related conflicts. IEBC is working on modalities of taming electoral related violence by training representatives on how to mitigate conflict and “cut the tree by the roots”.

NairobI, 27th January 2012,

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has received a major financial boost after several development partners, signed a funding agreement at the treasury. The signing between the treasury, IEBC, UNDP representatives and other development partners brings the total amount of donor funds in support of electoral reforms and management to approximately Ksh 2 billion.
The treasury permanent secretary Joseph Kinyua said that negotiations were still ongoing to ensure that all planned programmes by IEBC are fully funded. IEBC has a budget of Ksh. 14 billion but the government of Kenya has only been able to fund Ksh. 11.4 billion leaving a gap of Ksh. 2.5 billion.

Nairobi 20th January, 2012

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is working towards the demarcation of electoral boundaries and not administrative or other boundaries. The Commission's mandate, for example, does not include the delimitation of boundaries between counties; a request which has featured in the on-going countrywide public hearings on the First Review on delimitation of wards and constituencies.

The countrywide public hearings on the recently released report by IEBC, has drawn immense public interest. The hearings have generated mixed reactions with members of some counties approving the Commission’s proposal while others demand that they be allocated more constituencies and wards.