Deepening Democracy and Election Support in Pakistan (DESP) was a 9-month project funded by the Department for International Development (DFID). TDEA implemented the program through its 32 member organizations from July 2016 to March 2017
TDEA-FAFEN raised the standards of citizens’ election observation in Pakistan during the General Elections process in 2013 through its project Long Term Election Observation and Oversight (LETOOP).
The Supporting Transparency, Accountability and Electoral Processes in Pakistan was a Department of For International Development (DFID)-funded project that was designed to enhance the effectiveness of the government in addressing the critical challenges it faced by increasing citizen participation, and ensuring transparency and accountability of elected representatives and public institutions.
The Election Violence Monitoring (EVM) project was a United States Institute of Peace (USIP) funded program that was focused on data collection from the media, as well as other sources, on incidents of electoral violence between January, and May 2013.
Legal identity is a critical and multifaceted issue situated at the intersection of human rights, demographic statistics, and administrative reform. Legal identity has wide-reaching implications. Access to resources, social services and economic opportunities are all linked directly or indirectly with the official proof of identity, i.e. computerized national identity cards (CNIC).
The Political and Electoral Violence, Education and Resolution Project worked to develop and test a methodological framework for political and electoral violence monitoring and verification through community-based investigation and other sources, including media.
Due to the delay in the local government (LG) elections originally scheduled after August 2009, FAFEN, modified the Women Voters Mobilization Project and carried out comprehensive observation of the pre-election process and assessing citizens’ perspectives on local issues and quality of service delivery being rendered by LG institutions.
The Trust for Democratic Education and Accountability (TDEA) developed a nationwide strategy to monitor local government (LG) elections in Pakistan. It included the development of observation methodology for both direct and indirect phases of LG elections, including possible clustering or sampling of polling stations on Union Council basis. A desk review of international and national best practices was also part of this exercise.
The Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) conducted domestic election monitoring as part of the “Supporting Free and Fair Elections in Pakistan” program (SFAFEP), funded The Asia Foundation, ahead of the 2008 General Election. FAFEN, a network of civil society organizations (CSO), consisted of more than 30 non-partisan, non-governmental organizations from all provinces of the country.