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Developing a Disability Inclusion Policy: A Strategic Planning and Implementation Guide for Election Management Bodies

Developing disability-inclusive measures for elections can help ensure young leaders have access to political life.

December 22, 2022

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Report/Paper

Sudan Civic and Voter Education Baseline Study

In August 2008, IFES, through the support of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), fielded a team of experts to carry out a baseline study of civic and voter education in Sudan as a resource to the Canadian government and to the wider Electoral Donors Group (EDG) in Sudan.

October 27, 2008

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Report/Paper

Intersectionality Assessment of Political and Electoral Participation in Ukraine

Obstacles to full and equal political participation exist across Ukraine. A new IFES assessment identifies vulnerabilities that impact the political participation of Ukrainians with multiple social identities and opportunities for coalition-building.

July 31, 2020

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Report/Paper

New Report Highlights Barriers to Meaningful Participation of Armenian Women with Disabilities

The Agate Rights Defense Center for Women with Disabilities, with the support of IFES and the United States Agency for International Development, has published new research on the barriers to and opportunities for political participation of women with disabilities in Armenia.

August 15, 2018

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Book

Election Access Observation Toolkit

To ensure election observations account for the various barriers that women and men with disabilities encounter, IFES, along with disabled persons’ organization partners around the world, has developed an Election Access Observation Toolkit.

October 16, 2018

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Report/Paper

Timor-Leste Parliamentary Elections, July 2017: Disability Access Monitoring

For Timor-Leste's 2017 presidential and parliamentary elections, IFES supported local disabled people’s organization Ra’es Hadomi Timor Oan (RHTO) to conduct disability access monitoring. For the parliamentary elections, RHTO deployed access monitors in every municipality and deployed monitors in the capital city for the presidential election. RHTO detailed their observations in the report, "Timor-Leste Parliamentary Elections, July 2017: Disability Access Monitoring," 

December 12, 2017

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Report/Paper

Disability Rights and Election Observation: Increasing Access to the Political Process

IFES Senior Access and Inclusion Specialist Virginia Atkinson, Senior Inclusion Officer Rebecca Aaberg, and Senior Global Electoral Adviser Staffan Darnolf contributed an article on "Disability Rights and Election Observation: Increasing Access to the Political Process," to Volume 35 of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the Nordic Journal of Human Rights on December 15, 2017, available here.

December 21, 2017

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Survey

New Study Provides Insight into Electoral Access in Guatemala

Following Guatemala’s 2011 elections, IFES conducted focus groups with persons with disabilities, in-depth interviews with leaders of disabled persons organizations and a small-scale survey of electoral authorities to learn about the experience of persons with disabilities in the elections process. Assessment of Election Access Barriers in Guatemala presents key findings of these research activities. Together, the responses provide a snapshot of current practices in the Central American nation and serve as a powerful advocacy tool for promoting equal access.

December 03, 2012

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Book

Equal Access: How to Include Persons with Disabilities in Elections and Political Processes

A true democracy requires that the poorest and most marginalized citizens have a meaningful voice in decisions affecting their lives. However, persons with disabilities, often among the poorest of the poor and comprising approximately 15 percent of the global population, are rarely empowered to participate politically in their countries. 

This publication by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI), Equal Access: How to Include Persons with Disabilities in Elections and Political Processes, provides governments, civil society and the donor community the requisite tools and knowledge to promote the participation of persons with disabilities in elections and political processes.

November 21, 2014

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Report/Paper

Election Observation by People with Disabilities

Against a backdrop of remarkably public and visible elections, 77 Ghanaians with disabilities served their fellow citizens as fully trained election observers during the December 2000 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

November 30, 2000