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Election Commission signs MoU with IFES to become global hub for election management expertise | | The Election Commission of India (ECI) signed
a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Washington-based International
Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) here on Thursday for developing and strengthening
democratic institutions and processes. The focus of the MoU is making available
the knowledge and experience of ECI to election managers and practitioners around
the world through the Commission's India International Institute of Democracy
and Election Management, IIIDEM. IFES has been involved in election assistance
and democracy promotion in around 100 countries across the world. Chief Election
Commissioner Dr S Y Quraishi and IFES CEO William Sweeney signed this MoU. The
foundation is already working with IIIDEM for development of curriculum for international
participants. The MoU aims to promote working partnership between ECI and IFES
for joint initiatives, exchange of information and experiences, training and research
and assistance. It also aims at promoting exchanges, assignments and visits of
practitioners and experts. Signing the MOU, the Chief Election Commissioner, Dr.
Quraishi offered India 's expertise in election management and related democratic
processes to all democratic countries and hoped that the outreach of IFES would
facilitate IIIDEM to meet its goals. Election Commissioners V.S. Sampath and H.S.
Brahma underlined the role of systematic training and capacity building in conduct
of elections worldwide. William Sweeney applauded the strength of India 's electoral
system and its management and said that countries across the World were looking
to learn from the Indian experience. He observed that the recently shown willingness
of the Election Commission of India to share its skill and knowledge resources
has generated demand from several countries, who are in actual need of it. IIIDEM,
which was launched in the middle of June last year, is already offering courses
to international election practitioners and managers at their request, besides
training domestic election officials at regular intervals. It proposes to hold
special courses for SAARC Election Commissions and make global offer of election
management courses under the ITEC programme of Ministry of External Affairs.
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