Guidelines for Understanding, Adjudicating, and Resolving Disputes in Elections all partnerships is that international training can only be carried out voluntarily. Neither a training center nor independent trainers should pressure an election commission or a tribunal to accept the assistance. Both sides should act as equal partners and must participate together in the design of the training program. The subjects taught in the training sessions should respond to the needs of each electoral institution, which is more a more useful approach than a general syllabus or handbook about election complaints adjudication processes. Some countries focus, for example, on voter registration and safeguarding Election Day, while other countries are facing problems with complaints adjudication, political campaign financing, and media law. These differing interests and issues give rise to the potential for narrowly targeted training programs that will ultimately prove to be more successful. Training of tribunals should not only focus on electoral law, justice or complaints adjudication, but should widen the scope of the agenda and include, for example, the organization of a communications strategy in order to promote transparency and build further social confidence in the electoral processes. Institutions must be well-trained in other areas that support the core activity of the tribunal. The new approach adopted by the CCJE’s work, following its restructuring, led to substantive changes in the performance of their training functions. First, it significantly changed the work philosophy in terms of the final objective on the implementation of functions. Effort is now clearly focused on the transmission of knowledge. This change implies a major effort and commitment on the quality of and methodology by which academic tasks are executed. The main improvement in the performance of the tasks of external and internal training of the Electoral Court is due to the attention given to three main elements: (1) clear definition of institutional objectives; (2) strategic planning; and (3) systematization of information and procedures. These elements are contained in each of the projects set out in the annual academic program of the CCJE, which can be accessed online.9 Centro de Capacitación Judicial Electoral, Programa Académico 2010 (2010), available at http://www.te.gob.mx/ccje/Archivos/programa_académico_anuaL.pdf 9 178