European Centre for Electoral Support (ECES)
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| Formation | 2010 |
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| Headquarters | 209A Avenue Louise, Brussels Belgium |
| Monica Fassoni, Fabio Bargiacchi, Eva Palmans, Andebrhan Giorgis, Lino Francescon, Paulo Marques | |
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Key people
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Monica Frassoni, President Fabio Bargiacchi, Director |
| Website | www.eces.eu |
Monica Frassoni, President
The European Centre for Electoral Support (ECES) is a not for profit private foundation, headquartered in Brussels (Belgium) and created in 2010.
ECES aims to promote sustainable democratic development through advisory services and operational support to electoral stakeholders, such as electoral management bodies, civil society organizations (active in the field of civic and voter education and election observation), political parties, parliaments, media, security forces and electoral dispute resolutions bodies.
Since its creation, ECES has implemented activities in around 35 countries predominantly in Africa and the Middle East, mostly through the funds of the EU and EU member states .
ECES’ President is Monica Frassoni, a former Member of the EU Parliament, presently the Co-Chair of the European Green Party and twice Chief Observer for the EU Election Observation Missions (Venezuela and Bolivia, both in 2006) appointed by the former EU Commissioner for External Relations, Ferrero-Waldner.
ECES is a member of the European Partnership for Democracy (EPD) and is part of its Board of Directors. EPD is a network of European civil and political society organisations working on democracy assistance. Composed of 14 members from 11 EU Member States, EPD is the largest Community of Practice on democracy assistance operating at the EU level advocating for a stronger presence of democracy support on the EU agenda.
ECES developed and copyrighted in collaboration with EPD members a joint strategy called “European Response to Electoral Cycle Support-EURECS” . EURECS is an aid delivery mechanism devised to implement electoral and democracy assistance activities in line with European values and policies and consistent with the recommendations formulated by EU Electoral Observation Missions.
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