Sustaining the Fight for Democracy: Lessons from Citizen Election Monitoring Organizations Around the World highlights trends, best practices, and common challenges faced by citizen election monitoring organizations as they sustain and fortify democracy in their countries. Findings in this study are based on interviews conducted with citizen monitoring organizations around the world, including from Armenia, Colombia, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Kosovo, Lebanon, Malaysia, Moldova, Philippines, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Ukraine, and Zambia. The papers in this series include:

• Trends in Strategic Approaches;

• Trends in Internal Governance and Feedback; 

• Trends in Responsiveness and Agility;

• Trends in Fundraising and Sustainability;

• Trends in Alternative Funding; and

• Lessons from NAMFREL and Gong.

This research was conducted by the National Democratic Institute’s Elections and Political Processes Team as part of their support to citizen election observation and the Global Network of Domestic Election Monitors (GNDEM).