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What the “Year of Elections” Reveals About The World in 2025

In over seventy countries, representing about half of the world’s population, citizens went to the polls this year. While some noted a trend of incumbents losing, NDI saw people-powered democracy triumph on every continent. NDI worked alongside our local citizen partners to play essential roles in many of these electoral hotspots: before, during, and after the polls. 

Sustaining the Fight for Democracy: Lessons from Citizen Election Monitoring Organizations Around the World

This paper is part of the series Sustaining the Fight for Democracy: Lessons from Citizen Election Monitoring Organizations around the World. This research was conducted by the National Democratic Institute’s Elections and Political Processes Team as part of their support to citizen election observation and the Global Network of Domestic Election Monitors (GNDEM).

NDI Welcomes Venice Commission Report Recognizing Election Observers as Human Rights Defenders, Hails Growing Global Consensus

A CEDAW Shadow Reporting Methodology for VAW-P

In 2016, NDI launched the #NotTheCost campaign, a global call to action to stop violence against women in politics (VAW-P). One of the key recommendations made by NDI’s then-Chairman and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at the launch of the campaign was for the United Nations to begin to examine violence against women in politics in its annual thematic reports.

Beyond Polarization: Collaboration and Dialogue for Political Parties