Canada will provide an additional $1.2 million to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to improve the capacity of Ukraine’s Central Elections Commission (CEC) to administer and coordinate elections across the country. This is in addition to the $1.2 million Canada provided in 2012.
The additional funding to this project will continue to help the CEC implement an effective and comprehensive training program for all elections staff across the country. This will include the launching of an online platform for delivering training to elections staff working outside Kyiv at the regional, district or precinct levels. The project will also continue to promote cooperation between the CEC and civil society groups, with the aim of increasing voter rights awareness and disseminating information on legal elections procedures.
Canada will provide $3 million to the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, the CEC and civil society organizations working on elections to strengthen reform on transparency and anti-corruption issues in the Ukrainian political process.
The project will help build the capacity of a range of actors, in particular the CEC and civil society groups, to achieve elections at the local and national levels that are more transparent and inclusive, particularly of women and persons with disabilities.
Canada will provide $2.9 million to the National Democratic Institute to train emerging democratic movements that are engaged and respond to the views of citizens, that practise transparent financing and that promote women’s leadership.
