Accessibility of Government Institutions.................................................................................... 60 Capacity-building of DPOs........................................................................................................... 60 Election Commissioner Selection Criteria................................................................................... 61 Inclusive Civic Education.............................................................................................................. 61 Section 5: Challenges.................................................................................................................. 63 Lack of Data................................................................................................................................. 63 Discrimination............................................................................................................................. 63 Operating Environment............................................................................................................... 64 Mandatory Voting....................................................................................................................... 64 Leadership................................................................................................................................... 64 Accessible Technology................................................................................................................. 65 Monitoring and Evaluation.......................................................................................................... 65 Sharing Lessons Learned............................................................................................................. 66 Section 6: Dominican Republic Case Study.................................................................................. 69 Overview..................................................................................................................................... 69 How Did the Project Include People with Disabilities in Elections and Political Life?.................. 69 Challenges and Lessons Learned................................................................................................. 72 Impact ........................................................................................................................................ 73 Recommendations....................................................................................................................... 73 Annex: Election Access Milestones............................................................................................. 75 December 1984 ‒ Universal Declaration of Human Rights ‒ Article 21...................................... 75 March 1976 ‒ International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ‒ Article 25.......................... 75 September 2001 ‒ Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities ‒ Article 3................................................................................ 76 May 2008 ‒ Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ‒ Article 29......................... 76 May 2010 ‒ European Court of Human Rights ‒ Kiss V. Hungary................................................ 77 November 2011 ‒ Bali Declaration on the Enhancement of the Role and Participation of Persons with Disabilities in the ASEAN Community.................................................................................. 78 November 2011 ‒ Council of Europe Recommendation CM/Rec(2011)14 of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on the Participation of Persons with Disabilities in Political and Public Life.................................................................................................................................... 78 December 2011 ‒ Revised Venice Commission Interpretative Declaration to the Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters on the Participation of People with Disabilities............................ 79 December 2011 ‒ UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ‒ Regional Stakeholder Consultation for the High-level Intergovernmental Meeting on the Final Review of the Implementation of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, 2003-2013 (Second Session)....................................................................................................................................... 81 December 2011 ‒ Thematic Study by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Participation in Political and Public Life by Persons with Disabilities.............. 82 November 2012 ‒ Bali Commitments on Equal Access to Elections........................................... 83 2 International Foundation for Electoral Systems and National Democratic Institute