With funds and partnership with USAID, DOFDAHR implemented civic education in six secondary schools in Al-Fasher city in the period from 8/3/2021 to 18/3/2021. The activity is part of the USAID project “Toward Enduring Peace in Sudan (TEPS)”. This activity was proposed by DOFDAHR after the February demonstrations in Al-Fasher that resulted in the damage of many public buildings by the demonstrators. The objectives of this activity are the awareness of the community of the importance of the protection of public buildings for the benefit of all community members and teaching for peaceful demonstration and peaceful demand of rights. Raising awareness of the community of their roles, rights, and duties under the context of civil rule country. Also, the awareness session in the six schools highlighted the issues of patriotism, citizenship, diversity management, the importance of peaceful co-existence between different ethnic groups. Volunteers from DOFDAHR health promotion sessions on keeping a healthy school environment and personal hygiene. The awareness sessions are accompanied by music bands from the students to display the different traditional cultures of different ethnic groups in Darfur. In all the schools reached, awareness sessions were conducted on COVID-19, and face masks and sanitizers were distributed to all the students in the six schools (4,900 students). The school reached for civic education awareness and COVID-19 sessions are: The closing ceremony for the civic education sessions: DIFDAHR conducted a closing ceremony at the end of the civic education training sessions. The ceremony was conducted at Al-Manar Secondary School for Girls. The closing ceremony was attended by the Manager of the project “Toward Enduring Peace in Sudan (TEPS) and attended by the State Director of Secondary School Education, the representative of the State Governor (Wali), the State Medea Director, the Director of the Graduates Employment Fund. The closing ceremony contained a lecture on patriotism and civic education for school students. Music bands from Al-Fasher Secondary School for Girls, Eastern Secondary School for Girls, Al-Manar Secondary School for Girls, and the music band of Darfur Secondary School for Boys. Also, the closing ceremony was attended by all headmasters of the secondary schools that participated in the civic education program and representatives of the neighboring schools such as Al-Mustagbal Secondary School in Al-Nasr block. 1,500 participants attended the closing ceremony including students, teachers, and guests. COVID-19 awareness was carried out, and 1,600 face masks and sanitizers were distributed to the participants.

On 20/2/2021, DOFDAHR organized a Civic Education forum for Community-Based Organizations, politicians, resistance committee members, and women and youth representatives. The forum discussed the concept of local government, its justification, and properties, as well as, a discussion of the Sudan laws on local government. The forum was the first of its type in the state and lasted from 12 PM to 4:30 PM.

On 19/2/2021, DOFDAHR organized a forum for the partners of civic education, participated by 26 civil society organizations and came out it the initiative of civic education and plan for 26 sessions of civic education. The forum discussed the role of woman in the democratic transition in Sudan. The forum was attended by the representative of The Carter Center.