Project profile — Election Observation Missions: Ukraine 2019 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections

• Ukraine (100.00%)

• Government And Civil Society, General: Elections (15151) (100.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (principal objective)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

The project aims to set up and deploy two election observation missions: one for the presidential election process, and one for the parliamentary election process in Ukraine, both to be held in 2019. The purpose of the project is to support more transparent, accountable, inclusive and gender-responsive electoral processes in Ukraine. These two missions are composed of up to 100 Canadian long-term election observers (LTOs), with a gender and regional balance. The missions are managed by a core team located in Kyiv and are deployed to all regions of Ukraine. The activities of the LTO missions include: (1) observe and report on both electoral processes for up to three months prior to and following Election Day; (2) establish working relationships with stakeholders, including the Central Election Commission of Ukraine, regional and local authorities, civil society groups such as organizations promoting women and minority rights, international organizations and other electoral observation missions; and (3) liaise with the media in Canada and Ukraine to ensure visibility of the electoral observation process. The project seeks to screen and recruit up to 500 Canadian short-term election observers (STOs) ensuring gender and geographical balance; and deploy them to the presidential and parliamentary electoral observation missions of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and contribute to the final reports.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) recommendations and suggested corrective measures on the electoral process acknowledged and accepted by Ukrainian authorities and the international community, especially concerning gender equality issues; and (2) increased confidence of women and men, including vulnerable groups, in the legitimacy of the 2019 election results by both the people of Ukraine and the international community.

Results achieved as of March 2021 include: CANADEM submitted a final report with recommendations and suggested corrective measures on the electoral process. It was acknowledged and accepted by Ukrainian authorities and the international community, especially concerning gender equality issues. Canada deployed Long-term and short term election observers to three recent elections in Ukraine as follows: (1) deployed 50 long-term observers and 214 short-term observers (108 for the first round and 106 for the second round) to the 2019 Presidential elections as part of the Canada Bilateral Election Observation Mission; (2) deployed eight long-term observers and 112 short-term observers (64 for the first round and 48 for the second round) to the 2019 Presidential elections as part of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe - Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE-ODIHR) Election Observation Mission; (3) deployed 50 long-term observers and 128 short-term observers to the 2019 Parliamentary elections as part of the Canada Bilateral Election Observation Mission; (4) deployed 15 long-term observers and 110 short-term observers to the 2019 Parliamentary elections as part of the OSCE-ODIHR Election Observation Mission; and (5) deployed 12 long-term observersas part of the OSCE-ODIHR Limited Electoral Observation Mission for the 2020 local elections.

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