GPECS: Global Component

Providing leadership, advocacy and capacity development in the field of electoral cycle support

The activities undertaken at the global level are intended to inform policy development in electoral support globally, based on country and regional level experience, but also to ensure that programming at the national and regional level is informed by developments in the larger community of practice. The GPECS will have a key role in positioning UNDP as leader in the area of electoral assistance by generating knowledge and tools based on country support; finding new policy solutions to existing key challenges to sustainable electoral assistance (such as high cost of electoral processes or lack of useful electoral indicators and assessment). The global component strategically incorporates existing global initiatives and partnerships—such as the ACE Electoral Knowledge Network, BRIDGE, and the EC-UNDP Partnership on Electoral Assistance—to build on existing networks, training curricula, and partnerships and use them for knowledge development and dissemination, empowerment of women, south-south cooperation, and capacity development. The global component of GPECS will also support the maintenance of the central partnership for UNDP electoral assistance: the relationship with the Electoral Assistance Division in the United Nations Department of Political Affairs (DPA).