Guidelines for Understanding, Adjudicating, and Resolving Disputes in Elections complaints adjudication strengthen the TEPJF’s cooperative links while contributing to the development of electoral projects in other countries. They encourage the sharing and exchange of experience and knowledge with counterparts in areas of common interest, and thus the TEPJF benefits both from the development of democracy in the world and the increased harmonization of internal and international law in electoral complaints adjudication decisions. Meanwhile, electoral judges, arbiters or other election officials working to improve and/or update their electoral complaints adjudication system can indeed find great support and guidance in the Mexican experience itself, not just in the Electoral Court’s international work. ii. Other types of training required by electoral tribunals Although there is no doubt that an electoral tribunal first and foremost requires training in electoral justice and complaints adjudication, a strong institution serving a modern democracy requires knowledge of a variety of different areas. Under this premise, the Electoral Court of Mexico has provided assistance to several electoral institutions in areas of a supportive nature. The OAS and the TEPJF signed a Memorandum of Understanding in 2009,2 and have worked together on five technical assistance missions since then. Three of the missions have been in the field of communications strategies, one was devoted to information technology (IT) and one focused on auditing and challenging voter registration lists. The first two missions were conducted in February 2009 for the National Electoral Council and the Electoral Tribunal of Ecuador. Both institutions were reorganized and acquired new functions after a constitutional reform in 2008. This created a huge challenge in public recognition and confidence, and the first mission focused on producing a communications strategy to make the institutions more well-known and to increase public confidence. The second mission functioned to implement all of the IT requirements needed by the newly created institutions. The IT and Communications Directors of the Electoral Court of Mexico traveled to Ecuador, funded by The MOU was signed between the Electoral Court of the Federal Judiciary and the General Secretariat of the OAS on June 26, 2009. 2 170