Guidelines for Understanding, Adjudicating, and Resolving Disputes in Elections Technical Assistance for the Supreme Electoral Court of Guatemala (March 2009) The TEPJF provided technical assistance to the Supreme Electoral Court of Guatemala (Tribunal Supremo Electoral, TSE) and developed a training mission on a wide range of topics, including funding and procurement of political parties and campaigns, integration and updating of voter registration lists, regulation of pre-campaigns and electoral campaigns, civic education and training strategies of electoral officials and members of polling stations. Technical Assistance for electoral agents from the Ministry of Information of Lebanon (March – April 2009) The workshop was taught to seven experts that collaborate with the Ministry of Information of Lebanon. Themes included international perspectives on methods of increasing objectivity of live media coverage of electoral processes, mechanisms to ensure fair and equivalent representation of individual candidates in the media as well as the distinctions between propaganda and information and between news and opinion during electoral coverage. These workshops were tailored to the specific interests of the Lebanese electoral institutions. the project is to strengthen democratic institutions around the world by providing the information and the “know-how” that are required to manage successful electoral bodies. Following a successful start, the TEPJF regularly receives requests for assistance from a variety of election stakeholders. Sometimes these requests come through the UNDP, the Organization of American States (OAS), or the Association of European Election Officials (ACEEEO). TEPJF has a Memorandum of Understanding with all of the aforementioned organizations. In other cases, TEPJF receives direct requests from electoral tribunals, ministries of the interior or electoral commissions through either its internal Office of International Affairs or Mexico’s Foreign Office. TEPJF works on training programs by request only; it does not choose a country based on geopolitical or economic considerations. 166