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Building Collective Resilience for Women to Stand Against Online Disinformation and Hate Speech
Learn about the exceptional women from across Asia who participated in IFES's She Leads conference.
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In Their Words: A Practical Guide for Engaging Young People in Civic Education Virtual Launch Event
Join IFES and KDI for the launch event of In Their Words: A Practical Guide for Engaging Young People in Civic Education.
May 17, 2023
9:00 AM EDT
3.2.2 Preparing Reporting
A cornerstone in political finance transparency is the financial reporting system for political parties and election contestants, whether it relates to annual or ongoing party finance reports or to campaign finance reports submitted before or after an election.
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Recipients of Research Fund: Supporting Online Campaigning Transparency
Internet Lab and Expert Forum are the first recipients of IFES's Community of Practice Research Fund.
3.2.1 Supervision and Monitoring
Supervision and monitoring are part of the tasks political finance oversight bodies can be vested with. Depending on the country and the mandate entrusted to the political finance oversight body, supervision and monitoring of political finances can encompass different mechanisms or powers.
3.2 Compliance Control Mechanisms
Compliance control mechanisms cover all the different methods and processes oversight institutions can resort to in order to supervise and check compliance with political finance regulations.
3.1.5 Increasing Public Awareness
Political finance is crucially important in any democratic state today. The role of money in politics is also critical to public confidence on the political and electoral processes in any country.
3.1.4 Policy Development
The role that an impartial and politically neutral body with oversight of political finance issues can play in policy development will usually be limited, but can still be important.
3.1.3 Publication of Financial Reports and Your Decisions and Actions
The key principle expressed in the United Nations Convention against Corruption Article 7.3 about party and campaign finance is transparency. This cannot be achieved unless received financial reports are published in a way that is accessible for average voters as well as media.
3.1.2 Advisory Services
The importance of providing good advice and guidance cannot be emphasised enough. We often focus on the oversight body’s role in pursuing potential violations of the law and thus neglect their broader purpose, namely, to ensure compliance with the rules.