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The Election Commission of India, successful collaboration with the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), is organising a five-day store successful the nationalist superior opening Monday (May 25, 2026), aimed astatine strengthening organization preparedness and resilience successful electoral processes.
The store besides aims to enactment Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs) successful processing and institutionalising structured electoral hazard absorption frameworks, policies and operational systems.
It is being organised arsenic portion of the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM)–International IDEA collaboration model connected “Risk Management and Electoral Resilience” nether India’s Chairship of the Council of Member States of the International IDEA for 2026.
The International IDEA is the lone planetary intergovernmental organisation with a mandate solely dedicated to supporting and strengthening sustainable ideology worldwide.
The store connected “Risk Management and Electoral Resilience” volition beryllium held astatine the IIIDEM, New Delhi, from May 25 to 29, the ECI said successful a statement.
On Monday (May 25, 2026), Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, on with Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, addressed the participants during the inaugural session.
“All Election Management Bodies (EMBs) successful the world, request to support identifying hazard areas and enactment towards mitigating them connected a continuous ground successful accordance with Law and support strengthening the antiauthoritarian systems by enhancing contention amongst the candidates/ parties and summation the elector participation,” Mr. Kumar said.
A full of 32 participants comprising Election Commissioners and elder officials of EMBs representing 12 countries, electoral managers, hazard absorption and exertion professionals, and officials engaged successful situation absorption and electoral integrity initiatives are participating successful the programme.
The participants discussed the request for proactive identification, appraisal and absorption of electoral risks to safeguard electoral integrity, continuity, legitimacy and nationalist spot successful an progressively analyzable hazard environment.
