Welcome to GNDEM

Welcome to the inaugural website of the Global Network of Domestic Election Monitors (GNDEM)!

This site will develop over time based on participation of GNDEM’s more than 125 members. In addition to this public site, GNDEM maintains an electronic resource center of best practice documents for GNDEM members and conducts other interactive communications among the regional networks and individual nonpartisan election monitoring organizations that belong to GNDEM.

In more than 90 countries on five continents since 1986, millions of citizens have joined nonpartisan election monitoring efforts to safeguard electoral integrity, help create governmental and political accountability, contribute to mitigating potentials for politically motivated violence and promote the right of citizens to participate in public affairs. The widespread development of nonpartisan election monitoring around the world is tangible evidence of citizen desire for responsive, transparent, democratic governance.

The multiple accomplishments and longevity of nonpartisan election monitoring organizations, networks and coalitions attest to the sustainability and impact of nonpartisan domestic election monitoring, which in many instances has deterred fraud, exposed it, reduced tensions and – most often – helped to build public confidence in elections and the governments that result from them. Citizen participation through these organizations has contributed to electoral reform and related policy formulation, improved public administration, promoted better conduct of political parties and strengthened roles for civil society.

GNDEM encourages greater interaction and exchange among regional networks of nonpartisan domestic election monitoring organizations and individual nonpartisan organizations around the world. In addition to promoting knowledge sharing, GNDEM also supports efforts to ensure the integrity of nonpartisan election monitoring by citizens, including the process surrounding the Declaration of Global Principals for Nonpartisan Election Observation and Monitoring by Citizen Organizations and its code of conduct. GNDEM further seeks to advance the methodologies for systematic, fact-based election monitoring and to advance the capacities of nonpartisan election monitoring organizations.

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