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Annual Results Report 2016 ANNUAL RESULTS REPORT 2016 INTERNATIONAL IDEA Strömsborg SE–103 34 Stockholm International IDEA Sweden Tel: +46 8 698 37 00 Fax: +46 8 20 24 22 Email: [email protected] Website: www.idea.int Facebook.com/InternationalIDEA Twitter@Int_IDEA International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance International IDEA © 2017 International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance This is an International IDEA publication. International IDEA publications are independent of specific national or political interests. Views expressed in this publication do not necessarily represent the views of International IDEA, its Board or its Council of Member States. International IDEA SE - 103 34 Stockholm Sweden Tel: +46 8 698 37 00 www.idea.int [email protected] Graphic design, illustrations and icons by kilometre design. Cover design and layout: KPR + Santángelo Diseño Printed by: Bulls Graphics, Sweden ISBN: 978-91-7671-102-6 Overview About this report TOC As per the statutes of International IDEA, the constituent assemblies, civil society, governments Secretary-General reports to the Council of or other stakeholders are progressing to build Member States on the overall implementation of stronger democracies. The reports also gives Overview the Institute’s activities. an account of International IDEA’s specific contributions to these processes and of the In April 2014, as part of the Mid-Term partnerships that made this possible. This Strategy Review, Member States recommended information, combined with information about that the organization continue to strengthen respective democracy contexts and milestones, its communication about results. This fifth should enable readers to appreciate the relevance Featured Results International IDEA Annual Results Report and effectiveness and, to a lesser degree, therefore presents improved qualitative reporting sustainability and impact of International of results, giving more information beyond the IDEA’s work. simple implementation of activities. Obstacles and challenges are included in the report Full accountability at outcome level for reasons of professional openness and integrity. Level Global It is intended to make the report a useful tool Part 1 of this report features a cross-section of enabling internal and external stakeholders to hold democracy events and processes world-wide International IDEA accountable. and International IDEA’s contributions to them throughout 2016. Acknowledgements Parts 2 and 3 of this report present progress The progress reports are built from structured Asia Africa and West reports towards each of the annual goals conversations held with country, regional and (programmatic outcomes in Part 2, institutional global teams at the end of 2016, complemented objectives in Part 3) that International IDEA set by regular monitoring information. Teams then for itself. These sections are meant for reference further developed the progress texts. and hence apply the planning framework as per the Programme and Budget 2016. Special thanks go to Lisa Hagman (Publications) Pacific and the Asia Raul Cordenillo (Communications) and Curtis Outcomes are goals that International IDEA Budden (consultant) for extensive writing and intends to contribute to through its activities editing work. Alistair Clark and Shana Kaiser (outputs). Embedded in larger processes, and (Africa West Asia Programme), Nyla Grace Prieto subject to other stakeholders’ actions, they are (Asia Pacific Programme), Flor Kinglow (Latin beyond the control of International IDEA. At America and the Caribbean Programme), and Latin America and the Caribbean and the America Latin country or regional level, International IDEA’s Midori Kosaka (Global Programme) coordinated annual goals refer to specific partners and team's feedback. Miguel Angel Santángelo stakeholders, as they move towards their own (consultant) was responsible for the layout. democracy-related goals, for instance regulating William Sjöstedt (Research Assistant) provided the use of state-owned media in elections. At invaluable assistance in editing and coordinating the global level, International IDEA’s annual team inputs. Thiyumi Senarathna (Budget and Wider Europe Wider goals typically relate to the availability of global Programme Performance) coordinated the staff comparative knowledge, and to setting democracy contributions and acted as the lead editor and the themes on global agendas, for example in the project manager for this report. context of the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Reading the results in parts 3 to 8 Appreciation of relevance and Strategic Objectives 2015-2017 Management Institutional effectiveness 1. Planned Outcomes 2016 From the progress reports, it is possible to learn Progress Reports how, globally (and in different continents, advanced delayed countries and contexts) electoral authorities, on track cancelled Annexes 3 Overview 4 International IDEA Annual Results Report 2016 Overview TOC Overview Featured Results Global Level Global Africa and West Asia Africa and West Overview Asia and the Pacific and the Asia Latin America and the Caribbean and the America Latin Wider Europe Wider Institutional Management Institutional Annexes 5 Overview Foreword H.E. Tsend Munkh-Orgil, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia As the Chair of International IDEA’s Council of International IDEA was a valuable partner for Member States in 2016, I am pleased to welcome Mongolia throughout the year. On 21–22 March the Annual Results Report for 2016, which Mongolia and International IDEA hosted a introduces the activities and results achieved by seminar called Democratic Transitions in Asia: the organization during the year. Mongolia, who Lessons Learned from Transitional Elections. joined International IDEA in 2011, selected the Participants came from 10 Asian countries, topic ‘Learning from Democratic Transitions’ for including Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cambodia, its chairship of the organization in 2016. We Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of our first Sri Lanka and Timor-Leste, and shared their democratic elections and chose this theme as a way experiences of key elements of their own of sharing the lessons learned from our democratic democratic transitions, such as the timing transition with countries undergoing transitions of elections, voter education and campaign in Asia and across the globe. In June, Mongolian conditions. Mongolia and International IDEA citizens exercised the power of the ballot box in a also organized the Institute’s Annual Democracy peaceful parliamentary election that resulted in the Forum on 25–26 August, titled Learning from formation of a new government. Democratic Transitions: An Inter-Generational Dialogue, which welcomed participants from Mongolia is gradually building its track record International IDEA Member States and of strengthening democratic institutions and neighbouring countries in the Asia–Pacific region. processes at home and abroad. In 2005 Mongolia At the global level, Mongolia, International set up and institutionalized Millennium IDEA and the International Development Development Goal 9 on democratic governance Law Organization held a side event at the UN and human rights. From 2011 to 2013 Mongolia High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable chaired the Community of Democracies, and Development on 15 July called Making the in 2016, the 71st session of the UN General People Count: Democratic Accountability and the Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution on 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The education for democracy at Mongolia’s initiative. event underlined the importance of democratic The theme of our chairship resonates with the accountability to achieving the entire range of spirit of these actions. Building the capacity of Sustainable Development Goals and targets. institutions and citizens to improve democracy, sharing lessons learned and promoting education International IDEA complemented these dialogue on democratic values are the common threads platforms with programmatic cooperation, such as that run through our approach to democracy the plans of the Governor’s Office of Ulaanbaatar cooperation. The Government of Mongolia and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences to use cannot achieve these tasks single-handedly. We citizen-centred democracy assessment tools. In need to work with citizens, political parties, Bhutan, International IDEA has worked for civil society, academia, the private sector and over four years to support the country’s new internationals organizations such as International democratic institutions. Following the same peer- IDEA and the United Nations. to-peer exchange model of spreading International IDEA’s comparative knowledge, the Elections 6 International IDEA Annual Results Report 2016 Overview TOC Overview Tech Tour of Asia featured Mongolia’s experiences In 2016 Mongolia and the organization’s of introducing technology in our electoral process other Member States began developing a new and helped increase the visibility of knowledge institutional strategy for International IDEA. We Featured Results tools related to electoral processes. I am pleased to look forward to setting an ambitious and realistic see International IDEA’s efforts last year to make vision for the organization and finalizing the its excellent comparative knowledge tools available strategy under the leadership of Peru as the Chair to the people for whom they matter the most, of International IDEA in 2017. We are confident
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