5.4.
Informing and educating the public
Informing and educating the public should ensure that all election stakeholders and the general
public are well aware of their rights and duties originating from them.
Recommendation
Institution
Prioritization
Time
frame
# 1 Develop an annual training plan for election
administration at all levels - national, provincial,
local - and regularly conduct training sessions
aimed at increasing the capacity of electoral
commissions on determining circumstances and
adequate actions when decision-making on
complaints and appeals.
REC, local
electoral
commissions
H
S
#2 Create an annual training plan for political
parties and organisations at all levels - national,
provincial, local - and regularly conduct training
sessions aimed at increasing the capacity of
political parties and organisations on being
informed on mechanisms in the election dispute
resolution process and the way of using them.
Political parties
and
organisations,
civil society
H
S
# 3 Develop an annual training plan for the
representatives of the Administrative Court at all
levels - national, provincial, local - and regularly
conduct training sessions (annually or before the
elections) aimed at increasing the capacity on
determining circumstances and adequate actions
in decision-making on appeals.
Administrative
Court
M
M
# 4 Organise and conduct educational campaigns
for voters and inform the public about how to use
mechanisms in administration of justice and how
to access the decision-making process on appeals.
Civil society
H
S
# 5 Prepare forms for submitting complaints to
the election process and make them available at
polling stations in a sufficient number of copies.
These should contain all necessary information,
instructions on how to fill and submit them.
REC, local
electoral
commissions
H
S
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Medium
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