1. 2. 3. 4. Became to know Politics is the affair of the country.5. Voter education is the most interesting subject for almost all the villages and they are making preparation for registration for voting. Challenges/ Difficulties1. Some trainees are very basic in their education and therefore it is a bit difficult to give training for those people.2. It is difficult to get full number of estimate people to come.3. It is hard to get the permission from the local authority.4. Communication was very limited there (e.g. phone).5. Some people were facing health problem (some trainers and trainees get sick).6. Unfortunately, it was a peak time for the local peoples work (e.g. plucking beans/fruits/rice)7. It had very hot weather.8. The permission letter had wrong dates written and so it was hard to get permission there.9. Some trainees are sacred of the word Politic.10. There were discrimination in religion, skins and ethnicity.Overcoming1. We got support from religious group (Church).2. We got support from local authority.3. Perseverance and courage help us to done the training.

Laputta

Achievements1. While giving training, the trainees were all catch up and could do discussion well.2. Trainees promise us to share what they learnt as they became to understand about Gender equality and knowing women and men had the same opportunity.3. All the Civil Society Organizations were participating the discussion in the meeting of the seminar. We were able to discuss and able to answer the questions they ask about our action plans to all attending Organizations.4. We got support from some organizations.

Challenges and Difficulties1. Transportation was very difficult as the traveling rout is very hard.2. Had difficulty in accommodation for the training.3. There were many difficulties while we were planning to meet with authority for the permission of seminar.4. The attending president of Women affair negatively criticized our seminar.5. When we are talking about Gender, there were misunderstanding and became as a challenge topic.Overcoming1. We were able to make our seminar on 18th day as we invited all the civil society organizations and government organizations. 2. We were able to accomplish the training as we tried to get interests from the local public and local authority.

Bogalay

Success1. Trainees actively participated in training.2. Meeting with local authority was successful.3. We are able to make the trainees understand about women have opportunity to be candidate in the election.

Challenges and difficulties1. Difficulties in giving input (e.g. trainees were holding their stereotypic ideas)2. Training places are very far.3. There were difficulties in calculations and lists.4. Training time was a peak time for the local people as they have to collect their plantation. 5. Hot weather

Overcoming1. We are able to overcome and success our training in 5 villages as we change our title from political affair as capacity building for the local people as we are working for the civil society.

Myaung Mya

Successa. We are able to share about Women Rights to young women who didnt heard about them.b. Women from villages (esp. young women) are interested in political affair.c. People living in the city are able to understand about voter education.Challenges and difficulties1. Local authority made a warning about the training as doing a politic.2. There were many difficulties to get permission for the training from the authority.Overcoming1. As we were giving perseverance and tried spirit, the local authority became to understand and the trainings were successful finally.