Resources

How Citizen Organizations Can Monitor Abuse of States Resources in Elections: An NDI Guidance Document

Political corruption and the abuse of state resources can undermine the core principles of electoral integrity, subverting equal electoral competition and the will of voters. Through systematic monitoring of the abuse of state resources, citizen monitors can promote accountability for such abuses and seek to prevent them altogether.

Win With Integrity: Earning Citizen Trust in Political Parties

Political parties should play key roles in democratic governance by representing citizens and aggregating their concerns into policy, and by vetting, selecting and influencing political leaders. However, corruption, state capture, populism and opaque party organizations undermine public confidence in parties around the world, fueling political instability.

PROMOTING YOUTH VOICES IN LOCAL DECISION-MAKING: GLOBAL YOUTH COUNCIL GUIDE

PROMOTING YOUTH VOICES IN LOCAL DECISION-MAKING

GLOBAL YOUTH COUNCIL GUIDE

Supporting Social Accountability Campaigns with Sample-Based Observation

The National Democratic Institute’s (NDI’s) guide on Supporting Social Accountability Campaigns with Sample-Based Observation is a resource for social accountability advocates to determine when and how to utilize sample-based observation (SBO) to strengthen their advocacy campaigns where processes can be independently observed, objectively measured and are large enough in scale to be sampled.

#NotTheCost - Stopping Violence Against Women in Politics: A Renewed Call to Action.

In 2016 at the launch of the #NotTheCost campaign, NDI presented a list of strategies to address and prevent violence against women in politics, focusing on a wide range of potential changemakers, from the global to the grassroots levels. While a deeper understanding of the issue has emerged, new problems have arisen. The world is grappling with a global pandemic. Many countries have seen their democratic institutions severely weakened.