Local Election Monitoring for Elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council



Contract partner: PCHR - Palestinian Center for Human Rights Country: Palästinensische Gebiete Funding amount: € 134.000,00 Project start: 01.11.2005 End: 30.06.2006

Short Description:

Overall goal


Elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) are scheduled for January 2006. These elections will consitute an important test for democracy in the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.


The elections will be observed by international and local monitors, who will be officially accredited as elections observers. This project is supporting the local election-monitoring process, which consitutes an important element in guaranteeing free and authentical elections, as well as the acceptance of the election results by the Palestinian population.


Core Activities of the Project are:

1. Monitoring all stages (campaigning process, polling day, counting of ballots and declaration of results) of the electoral process for the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) - this includes the training of election-monitors for the polling day;

2. Provide legal counsel and aid to both candidates and voters; and

3. Lobbying to ensure that the basic conditions are met to create an environment in which proper, free and fair elections can occur.

project number 2357-00/2005
source of funding OEZA
sector Staatsführung & Zivilgesellschaft, allgemein
tied
modality
marker
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
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  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.