Use Your Voice

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Project

Use Your Voice

Duration

November 2023

Partners

Refugee Work, Amer Alomari, Sait Faik Gulsen, Hanieh Ahaninpanjeh

Product

Translated election programs, videos and election event

Project description

Leading up to the 2023 elections, we are launching a campaign - in partnership with Refugee Council and Amer Alomari - to inform and activate newcomers who may vote for the first time to exercise their right to vote.

Culture-sensitive election information

Videos and social media posts were distributed through several newcomers with a wide reach to provide information about the election in a culturally sensitive way.

In addition, summaries of all parties' election programs were published in various languages. Finally, on Wednesday, November 22, an election event was held in the Voorkamer with politicians from D66, DENK, and BIJ1. Newcomers could also contact the OpenEmbassy if they had any questions about the elections.

Results & insights

In addition to visitors to the election event, questions to the Help Desk and election programs in various languages, the videos and posts through the three influencers reached a total of:

Via Facebook 43,000 people
Via Instagram 100,000 people
Via YouTube 3,600 people

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This project was supervised by:

project manager

Pepijn Tielens

Consultant and researcher