So-so-so Solidarity With the youth against corruption in the World Alpha

Incident reporting and election monitoring Voices Against Corruption, Nairobi 2011 Argentina, Azerbaijan, Colombia, Guatemala, Guinea, Lebanon, Liberia, Moldova, Pakistan, Phillipines, Sierra Leone, Tanzania,Togo, Zimbabwe

Discussion Elections are already monitored Monitoring vs Participation Focus on grassroots level Identify stakeholders: political parties, electoral commission, general public, NGOs, media, security forces, religious groups Time for reporting: before-during-after Elections are a process Protection of human rights Capacity issues for youth: coalitions Emanuel

Election process (before) Establishment of electoral commission Civic electoral education Political financing Campaign Registry of voters Mapping hotspots Nominations Legitimacy of candidates Emanuel

Election process (during) Voting process Citizen participation (conduct) Counting Incidents Certification Emanuel

Election process (after) Centralization of results and info (local and national level) Publishing the official results Emanuel

What we need… BeforeDuringAfter Volunteers Communication means - fast reporting system Media Network of Local Contacts Managers Emanuel

Challenges Youth women participation as observers (Guinea) Media bias Security issues Access to information Location of registration sites Post-election work (follow-up) Voter apathy Culture of impunity Non independent electoral commission Certainty in process (timeframes) Fairplay Understanding of the law Accreditation of civil society Access to resources Deployment Ezekiel

Strategies 1.Build a platform (national coalition for civil society): ICT, capacity building, coverage, equipment 2.Education and training of volunteers 3.Reporting (enhance the system): sms, radio, etc. 4.Networking: for security (red cross, lawyers), international observers 5.Local government involvement 6.Advocating for electoral law reform Khurram