The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provides assistance to election management bodies (EMBs) as a core component of its electoral assistance and broader Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) programming. This guide provides a brief overview of election management assistance and offers strategic considerations and programming options for USAID and other donor agencies. While the primary audience of this guide is USAID staff, its content may be useful to other donors and other audiences.

This EA3 review methodology provides a standardized methodology for post-election assessments to ensure consistency and improve learning from the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) worldwide support of elections and political processes. This manual provides guidance to assessment teams conducting in-country reviews after an electoral process, outlining key areas of inquiry and research questions.

USAID’s Guiding Principles for Electoral Assistance are intended to enhance USAID’s support for democratic elections and political processes globally.

This briefing paper was developed for the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance Center (DRG Center) to inform a broad audience, including USAID personnel, USAID implementing partners, and local electoral stakeholders, on cybersecurity issues and program development recommendations.

A central purpose of political party assistance is to help parties become more representative and to reflect the interests of all social groups and citizens, not only a narrow elite.

The Electoral Assessment Framework is intended to assist USAID DRG ofcers and other relevant United States Government (USG) personnel frst and foremost in assessing and prioritizing the challenges in the sector, and then developing a strategy to identify the best program options to promote credible elections. The guide helps prioritize investment of US taxpayer dollars and align assistance strategies with diplomatic strategies. Integral to this guide is USAID’s philosophy that technical assistance should continually build a country’s capacity to address its own development challenges, advancing it along its Journey to Self-Reliance.

This document contains a compilation of tools and illustrative assessment questions from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Electoral Assessment Framework: A Tool to Assess Needs, Define Objectives, and Identify Program Options.

This guide provides USAID Democracy, Human Rights and Governance (DRG) officers, donors, and other development stakeholders with information about activities designed to analyze, verify, or otherwise assess the credibility and legitimacy of election results.

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.

The Framework is a diagnostic instrument that profiles electoral conflict for the development of program strategies and activities to prevent, manage or mediate this conflict.

In the fast-paced environment of reconstruction and stabilization (R&S) operations, it is particularly challenging for U.S. officials to apply best practices and lessons from the past to the unique and sometimes centuries-old country conflicts they encounter. Faced with the high costs of sustaining peacekeeping operations and with the pressure to recognize a legitimate government for development resources to flow, this guide is intended to help USG planners to adapt their decisions intelligently to country circumstances, informed at the outset by several decades of USG best practices.