Capacity building work is largely the responsibility of the Governance Institutions and Political Processes (GIPPS) department under its Political Parties Support Programme. The political parties capacity building activities are focused on ensuring that political institutions and processes are democratic and function effectively.

Poll-watcher training is mainly undertaken by Elections & Political Processes (EPP) department under its Support to political parties programme.

Training workshops cover thematic areas such as:

• Gender representation in political parties;
• internal organisation;
• management and functioning of parties;
• leadership qualities within political parties;
• conflict and conflict management; as well as
• poll watching; and
• electoral reform.

Activities have been undertaken from the head office and the field offices in the countries below:

Governance Institutions &
Political Processes