The Election Commission of India has signed a MoU with the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), which is mainly a Washington-based company. The MoU HAS BEEN SIGNED AT New Delhi and the aim of it is to develop and strengthen democratic institutions and processes, which is needed to be done.
The main focus of
the MoU is making available the knowledge and experience of ECI to election
managers and practitioners around the world through the Commission’s India
International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM). IFES has
been involved in election assistance and democracy promotion in around 100
countries across the whole world, so they are simply the best in the business.
This proves that this will be a beneficiary move for the India.
Dr. S.Y.
Quraishi, Chief Election Commissioner and Mr. William Sweeney, President and
CEO, IFES signed the MoU. Eventually the foundation is already working with
IIIDEM for the development of curriculum for international participants.
The MoU also aims
to promote working partnership between ECI and IFES for joint initiatives,
exchange of information and experiences, training and research and assistance,
promoting exchanges, assignments and visits of practitioners and experts. So it
has a lot of positive out looks for sure and It will help to conduct all the
future elections quite easily and risk freely.
The Chief
Election Commissioner, Dr. S.Y. Quraishi offered India’s expertise in election
management and related democratic process to all democratic countries and hoped
that the outreach of IFES would facilitate IIIDEM to meet its goals. The role
of systematic training and capacity building in conduct of election worldwide
was underlined by the Election Commissioners, V S Sampath and H. S. Brahma.
William Sweeney
praised the strength of India’s electoral system and it management procedures
and said that countries across the world were looking to learn from the Indian
experience.
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