Review of Commonwealth Electoral Network Activities

Examination of the Commonwealth Electoral Network's vision, purpose, activities, and governance structure in a review conducted by Kate Sullivan in June 2016. The review emphasizes the need for adjustments to reflect a deeper role in identifying good practices, improved assessment of conference relevance, innovative working groups, resource management changes, and a call for more core resources to maintain the network between conferences.

• Commonwealth Electoral Network
• Review
• Activities
• Governance
• Kate Sullivan

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1. REVIEW OF THE COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL NETWORK Kate Sullivan June 2016

2. THE REVIEW Examination of CEN documents and materials Interviews with selected EMB leaders Interviews with and information from Commonwealth Secretariat staff Interviews with international organisations and other networks Survey of CEN members

3. CEN VISION AND PURPOSE Still relevant and comprehensive Could be adjusted to reflect deeper CEN role in the identification and documentation of good practice

4. ACTIVITIES Conference is appreciated but not well assessed as to relevance in terms of vision and purpose: need to reflect on this for 2016 Working Groups are innovative and useful: see results this week in the later sessions Online workspace (hosted on Huddle) has potential but requires both attention from the Secretariat and more engagement from members Professional development should be expanded from JEP to include other classes of electoral professionals

5. GOVERNANCE Found a lack of clarity on ownership and direction of CEN activities between the Steering Committee and Commonwealth Secretariat Recommended a series of changes to the governance structure to reflect the reality of resources and management Found strong need for more core resource to maintain the network between conferences Not recommend membership fees at this stage