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 Extraordinary meeting of the Executive Board of the A-WEB

CEC Shri Rajiv Kumar chaired Extraordinary meeting of the Executive Board of the Association of World Election Bodies at Capetown, South Africa on 18th October,2022

Release of the latest edition of A-WEB India Journal of Elections

The Commission released the latest edition of A-WEB India Journal of Elections. It’s a prestigious international publication containing researched articles, papers & contributions from across the A-WEB community

International Webinar on Enhancing Electoral Participation

International Webinar on “Enhancing Electoral Participation of Women, PwDs & Senior Citizens: Sharing Best Practices & New Initiatives” 

International Webinar on Enhancing Electoral Participation

International Webinar on “Enhancing Electoral Participation of Women, PwDs & Senior Citizens: Sharing Best Practices & New Initiatives” 

IEVP 2021

ECI hosts International Virtual Election Visitors Programme (IVEP) 2021 for Election Management Bodies (EMBs)/Organisations from 26 countries  and three International Organisations.

International Webinar

International Webinar on ‘Issues, Challenges and Protocols for Conducting Elections during COVID-19 : Sharing Country Experiences’ organised on 21st September 2020

IEVP 2020

ECI hosts International Election Visitors Programme 2020 for Bihar Legislative Assembly Elections  [05- 07 November 2020] 

India Chairs A-WEB

CEC, Sh Sunil Arora was elected as the new Chairman of Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB) for the term 2019-21 as India took over the Chair from Romania at the 4th General Assembly of A-WEB

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      The Election Commission of India organized a conference with the Chief Electoral Officers of poll-gone and poll-going States/UTs at India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management, New Delhi. CEOs from other States/UT joined the conference via video-conferencing. 
      On this occasion, the Commission also  released the latest edition of A-WEB India Journal of Elections. It’s a prestigious international publication containing researched articles, papers & contributions from across the A-WEB community. A-WEB is the largest association of World Election Management Bodies.
       
    • Chief Election Commissioner of India, Sunil Arora was elected as the new Chairman of Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB) for the term 2019-21 as India took over the Chair from Romania at the 4th General Assembly of A-WEB at Bengaluru on September 03, 2019.
      More than 110 delegates from 45 countries attended the meeting. On this occasion, Sunil Arora, CEC india, along with the two Election Commissioners of India namely, Ashok Lavasa and Sushil Chandra and Senior Deputy Election Commissioner of India, Umesh Sinha also launched ECI’s quarterly magazine – ‘VOICE International’ which shares best practices from more than 30 Countries.
      Sunil Arora cited Mahatma Gandhi’s writings, which says, ‘Democracy must in essence mean the art and science of mobilizing the entire physical, economic and spiritual resources of all the various sections of the people in the service of the common good of all’. Arora also noted that the very Preamble of A-WEB Charter spells out the vision of A-WEB wherein it mentions the need for strengthening cooperation between and among EMBs for the purpose of ensuring a credible electoral process in the world; committing to promote conditions conducive to free, fair, transparent and participative elections and to the development of a democratic culture in the world; promoting gender equality and the inclusion of People with Disabilities (PwDs) and other marginalized communities in the electoral process. “Moreover, more than two-third of global population now lives under democratic rule,” he added.
      Arora announced that an A-WEB Centre would be setup at the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM), New Delhi for documentation, research and training; for sharing best practices and capacity building among the members EMBs of the Association. The Institute has already conducted over 750 training programmes for over 27,000 election officials in India besides organising 62 International Capacity Building Programmes for over 1165 election officials from 96 countries. Standard training modules for National & International participants are developed by a renowned team of Indian and International experts. The members greatly appreciated the generous offer from India to support capacity building program for other countries.
      The General Assembly also ratified the appointment of the new Vice Chairman of A-WEB –Glen Vuma Mashinini, Chairperson of Election Commission of South Africa and the new Secretary General, Jonghyun Choe, from Republic of Korea. Bidding farewell to Outgoing Secretary General of A-WEB, Yong-Hi Kim, Arora complimented him for steering the Secretariat in a professional and efficient manner and expanding the activities of A-WEB. Arora placed on record deep gratitude to the Outgoing Chairman Constantin – Florin Mituletu – Buica, Hon’ble President of the Permanent Electoral Authority of Romania for having shouldered the responsibility as the Chairperson of AWEB for the last two years.

      Accepting the responsibility as Chairman of AWEB, Arora said “Election Commission of India looks forward to further strengthening its interaction and partnership with A-WEB Secretariat and member EMBs in promoting the activities of the Association as per its objectives and empowering the fellow EMBs through its capacity building programmes”. He thanked the Members for the trust and confidence reposed in the Election Commission of India.
    • The Association of World Election Bodies (A–WEB) is an alliance of Election Management Bodies (EMBs) of different countries, structured to work together and learn from the experiences and best practices from one another. At present, the constituents of A-WEB include 115 EMBs from 109 countries as Members and 20 international organizations as the Associate Members. By facilitating an active exchange of expertise among its members, A-WEB strives to strengthen the capabilities of EMBs and contribute to the improvement of election management in each country.
      The 4th General Assembly was organised during September 02-04, 2019 by the Election Commission of India in Bengaluru, India during which an International Conference on ‘Initiatives & Challenges of Social Media & Information Technology in Elections’ too was conducted. The conference witnessed the release of VoICE International, a quarterly global magazine for voter information, communication & education, which focuses on the global knowledge sharing among Election Management Bodies. VoICE International was declared as the magazine of the A-WEB.
      VoICE International serves as a repository of information, data, education tools, research papers, creatives and best practices on voter education. The released issue of the magazine was based on theme ‘Best Practices, Innovations and Initiatives for Enhancing Voter Participation’. The next issue of the Voice International would focus on ‘Innovative Methods for Registration of all Categories of Voters.’
      During the 4th General Assembly, Sunil Arora, Chief Election Commissioner of India was sworn in as the Chairman of the A-WEB. Election Commission of India has been very closely associated with the process of formation of A-WEB ever since its inception in 2011-12. ECI has been AWEB’s Executive Board Member since October 2013 when AWEB formally came into existence. India remained Executive Board member for two consecutive terms from 2013-15 and 2015-17. At the 2017 General Assembly held in Bucharest, India was unanimously elected as Vice-Chair of A-WEB for the term 2017-19 and now India has taken over as Chair for the 2019-21 term.

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