Best Practices in Electoral Security: A Guide for Democracy, Human Rights and Governance Programming
Source: USAID | Year: 2013
The purpose of this Electoral Security Best Practices Guide (Guide) is to provide USAID’s development professionals, as well as electoral assistance and conflict prevention policy-makers and practitioners, with a global over view of best practices in programming to prevent, manage, or mediate electoral conflict and violence.
A “best practice” can be defined as a process, program, or method that produces results superior to others as measured by a set of objectives. Within the context of electoral security, a “best practice” can be defined as a policy, practice, or program intervention that has demonstrated measurable results in achieving electoral conflict prevention, management, or mediation. For the purposes of this Guide, best practices are organized as follows: 1) electoral phase; 2) thematic area; and 3) policy, practice, or program activity by state and non-state stakeholder. In order to inform the preparation of this Guide, electoral security assessments were conducted in Guatemala, Afghanistan, the Philippines, and Burundi, employing the methodology described in USAID’s Electoral Security Framework – Technical Guidance Handbook for Democracy and Governance Officers (Framework). These countr y cases present a diversity of electoral conflict profiles in perpetrators, victims, motives, tactics, locations, timing, and intensity.
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