Resources

Speech to the Kosovo Assembly on the Occasion of the International Day of Democracy

Afghanistan 2010 Parliamentary Elections Polling Agents Manual

NDI Handbook: How Domestic Organizations Monitor Elections: an A to Z Guide

This handbook serves as a basic toolkit for domestic civic organizations conducting election monitoring programs. Drawing on the experiences of NDI partner organizations around the world, it lays out the key elements involved in observation of the entire election process.

Media Monitoring to Promote Democratic Elections: An NDI Handbook for Citizen Organizations

This handbook takes a step-by-step approach to media monitoring. It covers:

• The importance of determining who controls the media and the difference between state-controlled versus private and broadcast versus print media;

• Issues to address in deciding what media and what subjects to monitor;

• Planning and organization of a media monitoring project;

The Quick Count and Election Observation: An NDI Guide for Civic Organizations and Political Parties

This handbook to conducting a Quick Count (also known as Parallel Vote Tabulation, or PVT) addresses the importance of developing systematic observation of vital election day processes, including the quality of voting, ballot counting and tabulation of election results, as well as the projection of electoral results with extremely narrow margins of error and high degrees of statistical confidence. It covers:

• Planning and organizational issues;