Completed

• Monitoring the pre-election period of the 2014 local self-government elections through 73 long-term observers;

• Election Day observation of the local self-government elections through Parallel Vote Tabulation (PVT) methodology by over  1000 short-term observers, up to 80 mobile groups and 20 lawyers;

• Monitoring of the post-election period;

• Monitoring of the post-election appeals and adjudication process through supporting the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association;

• Recording the election period incidents and trends on the interactive maps of the Elections Portal;

• Participation in the local self-government, Constitutional and electoral reforms through engagement in the relevant working groups and commissions and provision of recommendations;

• Monitoring the work of the newly elected self-governments in the context of staff changes, access to information, openness of sessions, and citizen engagement in the local budget discussions;

• Monitoring the attestation and competition process in the self-governments;

• Assessment of the trends revealed by the local self-government monitoring and submission of recommendations for improvement;

• Strengthening ISFED institutional capacity.