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Brief Profiles of Countries, EMBs and Partner Organisations of A-WEB

VISION A-WEB holds its General Body Meetings on regular and
periodic basis. Election Commission of India hosted the
 ‘To foster efficiency and effectiveness 4 General Body Meeting of A-WEB at Bengaluru on 2-4
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in conducting free, fair, transparent and September, 2019 along with the Executive Board meet-
participative election worldwide.’ ing and an International Conference on ‘Initiatives and
Challenges of Social Media and Information Technol-
MISSION ogy in Elections’. Mr Sunil Arora, Hon’ble Chief Election

Commissioner of India, took over as Chairperson of the
 ‘To identify latest trends, challenges and A-WEB on this occasion.
developments in democratic electoral
management and electoral processes. INDIA A-WEB CENTRE AT ECI NEW DELHI

 To facilitate appropriate exchange of experience The Executive Board of the A-WEB, in its Extraordinary
and expertise among members with the Executive Board Meeting held on 2nd September, 2019,
object of strengthening electoral democracy inter alia approved ECI’s proposal of establishing an
worldwide.’ A-WEB Centre and the appointment of Mr Umesh Sinha,
Secretary General, ECI as Senior Adviser for the aforesaid
ACTIVITIES OF THE A-WEB A-WEB Centre. The Centre is envisaged to take up ‘Doc-
umentation, Research and Training’ for A-WEB Members
In pursuit of its vision and mission, A-WEB is engaged in for sharing best practices and capacity building among
a series of activities in the areas of International Coop- the members of A-WEB in election management.
eration, Training Program Election Management Capac-
ity Building Programs and Election Visitor Programs and
Election ICT country specific programs for its member
countries.

Mr Sunil Arora, Hon’ble Chief Election Commissioner of India takes Over as Chairperson of A-WEB

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