The Principles for Election Management, Monitoring, and Observation in the SADC region (PEMMO), adopted in 2003, has been widely used to date by EMBs, Civil Society organizations and other actors in the SADC Region. PEMMO has effectively contributed to the credibility of elections in the SADC region, for example both the EISA and the ECF-SADC Election Observer Missions refer to the PEMMO to assess electoral processes since 2004. Moreover, the PEMMO is also used as a reference document by practitioners and researchers. Despite its use and its detailed recommendations, given that several developments have taken place since 2003 including the development of other principles in addition to the PEMMO and the evolving context for holding elections (political, social, economic, technological) and other contexts, the EISA ECF-SADC has identified the need to jointly review the PEMMO to address the global environment for elections which have changed significantly.
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