As usual, the course was delivered by members of the EC-UNDP Joint Task Force on Electoral Assistance, staff of IDEA and senior electoral experts that regularly collaborate with the Task Force or with other international organisations participating to the training. All presentations were similtaneously translated into English-French and French-English.

The course followed the already developed five-days structure on how to provide an Effective Electoral Assistance mainly focusing on the issues presented in the “ACE Focus on…: Making Electoral Assistance Effective: From Formal Commitment to Actual Implementation ".

List of participants and resource persons
Summary of EC-UNDP-IDEA Joint Training on Effective Electoral Assistance, Brussels 2008

Below you can download the power point presentations used by the presenters during the training:

Day 1: Opening, EU/EC and UN/UNDP Framework, Lessons Learned and New Approach

• 1.3 Historical Background and Focus on Effective Electoral Assistance
• 1.4 International Committments for Democratic Elections
• 1.5 UN Policy and Strategic Framework
• 1.6 EU EC Policy and Strategic Framework
• 1.7a EU Election Observation Missions: Context, Planning and Implementation
• 1.7b Overview EU EOMs
• 1.8b Panel - Local Elections and Electoral Assistance in DRC
• 1.9 The Added Value of the Work of Regional Organisations in Electoral Assistance and Election Observation.

Day 2: Entry Points and Activities in Support of Stakeholders within the Electoral Cycle

• 2.1 Electoral Cycle Approach and Overview of Stakeholder
• 2.2 Legal Framework and Electoral System
• 2.3 Strategic Planning within EMBs and the Importance of Professional Development
• 2.3b EMB Exercise
• 2.4a Civic and Voter Education
• 2.4b Domestic Observation and Parallel Vote Tabulation
• 2.5 Media Regulations, Monitoring and Support to Media Sector
• 2.6 Management of Electoral Results
• 2.7 Promoting Electoral Justice

Day 3: Elections and Technology: Voter Registration and Electronic Voting

• 3.1 Embracing Appropriate Technology
  
• 3.3b IOM and Electoral Support - Out of country Voting and the Case of Bosnia
• 3.4 Monitoring and Auditing of the Voter Registration
• 3.5 Introduction to Electronic Voting Systems and the Cases of Brazil, India and Venezuela
• 3.6 Electronic Voting System - the Case of Belgium

Day 4: Linking the Electoral Cycle within Deepening of Democracy Programmes

• 4.2 Sustainability and Electoral Assistance
• 4.5 Parliamentary Support - Strategies, Instruments and Interventions
• 4.6 EP's Support to New and Emerging Democracies, EP's Office for Promotion of Parliamentary Democracy Promotion
• 4.8 Assistance to Political Parties
• 4.9 Money in Politics
• 4.10 Political Party and Campaign Financing in the Americas
• 4.11 Strengthening the Role of Parliament in the Reform of Political Party Legislation
• 4.12 Women's Political Participation and iKNOWPolitics
• 4.13 Promoting the Participation of Women in Political Life

Day 5: EC-UNDP Procedures for Programming, Identification, Formulation, Implementation and Evaluation

• 5.1 UN Resources and Services: Who does what
• 5.2 EC Resources and Services - Who does What
• 5.4 EC-UNDP-IDEA Training Activities: eLearning Course on Effective Electoral Assistance
• 5.5 EC UNDP Contractual Arrangments: Avoiding the Traps
• 5.6 UNDP Electoral Procurement: The Big Picture
• 5.7 Global Survey on cost of Registration and Electoral Budgeting
• 5.8 Commonly Procured Election Materials
• 5.9 Procurement of Biometric Voter Registration - Various Case Studies
• 5.10a Global Tools - BRIDGE
• 5.10b Global Tools - ACE