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IFES plays a key role in assisting emerging and established democracies throughout Asia.

Over the past decade, IFES has conducted pre-election and election technical assessments, sociological surveys, civic and voter education initiatives, civic education projects, governance strengthening, and technology/equipment needs in 10 countries.

IFES is integrally involved in several facets of Indonesia's transition to democracy, and it maintains an office in Indonesia to support media strengthening, civic and voter education, elections assistance, legislative reform, and administrative capacity building projects. IFES has also provided electoral technical assistance and conducted surveys in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Philippines, Thailand, India, Mongolia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Taiwan.

Current Projects

Afghanistan

IFES has worked in Afghanistan since 2002, supporting electoral law development, voter registration, election administration, poll worker training, capacity building, media monitoring, results reporting, elections logistics and civic education.
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Bangladesh

IFES began working in Bangladesh in 1997. Since that time, we have conducted a nationwide survey measuring voters’ opinions about social and political issues and have worked with Bangladesh’s Election Commission to enable them to better conduct free and fair elections. In 2006, IFES began to implement the EVER project, which aims to monitor and reduce electoral violence. IFES’ work in Bangladesh has been funded by USAID and the Asia Foundation.
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China

IFES' work in China focuses on promoting judicial transparency and independence at a critical time in the country’s development.
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India

IFES has worked in India since 2003, when it began an innovative program intended to increase Indian women's access to justice. The elements that became foci of the program were identified through consultations with stakeholders across the country.
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Indonesia

IFES has been working in Indonesia since 1998.
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Nepal

April 10, 2008, noted Nepal's historic Constituent Assembly election. Approximately 60% of the 17.6 million voters enthusiastically turned out to vote in 9,821 polling locations. Long queues of both men and women patiently lined up from early morning to cast their vote.
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Pakistan

Since 2002, IFES has been working to build Pakistan's democratic institutions. This included technical assistance and commodity support to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for pollworker training and voter registration,
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Philippines

The Philippines is a functioning democracy, though popular protests have forced out two presidents in the past 15 years: first, Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 for alleged electoral manipulation and seco…
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Sri Lanka

IFES has been providing assistance to Sri Lanka’s Department of Elections since 2005.
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Thailand

IFES is supporting Thailand’s return to democratic rule by helping the country prepare for elections.
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Past Projects

Asia - Regional Projects

IFES has worked to build the capacity of the CNE and provide research and analysis to the National Parliament's review of electoral laws.
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East Timor (Timor Leste)

IFES began work in Timor-Leste in 2001 by training and equipping the country’s first public defenders. Since then, IFES conducted assessments of the Constituent Assembly election, the presidential election and election management needs. IFES worked with the Technical Secretariat for Election Administration (STAE) to help develop a voter registry for the first suco (village-level) elections and assisted the National Elections Commission (CNE) in supervising, organization and budgeting, and election reporting.
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For more information, please contact us at europe.asia.programs@ifes.org.

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News and Materials

January 6, 2009
IFES.org Feature: Post-election Violence Follows Historic Bangladeshi Poll

October 28, 2008
IFES.org Feature: Afghan Election Education Center Opens

October 17, 2008
IFES News in Brief: Election Technology Exhibition

October 14, 2008
IFES.org Feature: National Media Briefing on Post-Election Dispute

September 12, 2008
IFES.org Feature: Nepal's Election Commission gets local feedback