Resources

Implementing and Overseeing Electronic Voting and Counting Technologies

This manual, published jointly by NDI and IFES, addresses the challenges, opportunities and risks to adopting and monitoring electronic voting and counting technologies. The manual is designed as a resource for democracy and governance specialists, election management bodies, election observers and political parties.

Ambassador Catherine Russell to Address Opportunities for Women's Political Participation Globally in Thursday Remarks

WASHINGTON — The challenges and opportunity facing women around the world seeking to enter the political arena in 2014 will be the topic of a discussion on Thursday with Catherine Russell, U.S. ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues. The event is co-hosted by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI).

The event will stream live at www.ndi.org/live.

WHEN: Thursday, Dec. 12, at 9:30 a.m.

NDI Assessment Mission Finds Guarded Optimism about 2014 Afghanistan Elections Despite Serious Challenges

KABUL – Key reforms enacted since widespread fraud marred Afghanistan’s 2009 and 2010 polls have brought about a guarded optimism among political and civic leaders that next year’s presidential and provincial council elections will be better, according to the findings of a pre-election assessment mission fielded by the National Democratic Institute (NDI).

Statement of the NDI Pre-Election Delegation to Afghanistan

NDI Election Reform Mission Arrives in Cote d'Ivoire

ABIDJAN – The National Democratic Institute (NDI) is fielding an international delegation at the invitation of the Ivorian government to assess preparations for Cote d’Ivoire’s 2015 presidential election. The group, which will arrive Dec. 8 and is being welcomed by all Ivorian political parties, includes political and civic leaders, and election and regional experts from North America, Europe and Africa.