Promoting Electoral Integrity
Donor: National Endowment for Democracy – NED
Project Title: Promoting Electoral Integrity
Project Duration: 01.06.2020-31.05.2021
Grant Amount: $ 106,979
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
The overall goal of the project is to strengthen electoral integrity during the 2020 Parliamentary elections in Georgia. More specifically, the project will evolve around three objectives:
- Countering sophisticated electoral violations by using experimental forensics research to uncover and expose the mechanisms and instruments used for intimidation, bribing voters, and abuse of state resources;
- Improving awareness of local self-government officials and media representatives on election-related regulations and responsibilities;
- Carrying out strategic communication outreach to European decision-makers with regard to election-related developments in Georgia through advocacy visits and effective information-exchange with diplomatic representations.
PROJECT ACTIVITIES
The project incorporates combination of activities to strengthen electoral integrity and contribute to improved electoral environment during the 2020 Parliamentary elections in Georgia. This includes:
- Investigative electoral forensics research into the sophisticated trends of violations as well as into practices of the election administration;
- Engagement with local self-governments to raise awareness on and prevent electoral violations such as abuse of state resources and intimidation;
- Increasing awareness of media representatives on election regulations and responsibilities;
- Engagement with international community along with advocacy visits to key European capitals (Berlin and Brussels) in order to support the watchdog activities and counter pressure from authorities.