Governance and Human Rights
Governance and Human Rights projects funded by MEPI focused on rule of law, human rights, elections and political parties.

Global and Regional Perspectives on Money and Politics in Political Campaigns
Organization: Center for Democracy & Election Management (CDEM), American University
Project: Gulf States Electoral Initiatives Program
- Governance and Human Rights
- CSOs/NGOs |
- Election Administrators |
- Journalists |
- Party Members
- Campaigns |
- Democracy |
- Election Management
- United States
The presentation describes challenges facing emerging democracies and factors different from western systems that can impact campaign finance. Results from a study of campaign finance are summarized.

Countermeasures to Address Identified Vulnerabilities
Organization: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Project: MEFTA Technical Assistance-USDA
This presentation provides background on countermeasures, including examples of countermeasures as employed by industry and government. Also included is a discussion of possible countermeasures for vulnerabilities.

Chemical and Microbiological Hazards in Human Food, Introduced Maliciously Through Animals in the Farms
Organization: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Project: MEFTA Technical Assistance-USDA
This presentation describes the public health problems that can arise from animal feed, government's responsibility, prevention, and detailed instructions to farmers.

International Electoral Observation Briefing & Information session
Organization: Center for Democracy & Election Management (CDEM), American University
Project: Gulf States Electoral Initiatives Program
- Governance and Human Rights
- CSOs/NGOs |
- Election Administrators |
- Journalists |
- Party Members
- Election Management
- United States
The presentation describes the Organization of American States, mandates to observe elections, activities of observers, and inclusive and clean elections.

Election Fraud: Comparative Perspective
Organization: Center for Democracy & Election Management (CDEM), American University
Project: Gulf States Electoral Initiatives Program
- Governance and Human Rights
- CSOs/NGOs |
- Election Administrators |
- Journalists |
- Party Members
- Anti-Corruption |
- Crime Prevention |
- Election Management
- United States
The presentation describes pre-election day fraud through the campaign or registration, election day fraud, vote buying, abuse of state resources and detecting abuse.

Election Management Bodies (EMBs): Composition, Roles and Types
Organization: Center for Democracy & Election Management (CDEM), American University
Project: Gulf States Electoral Initiatives Program
- Governance and Human Rights
- Election Administrators |
- Journalists |
- Party Members |
- CSOs/NGOs
- Election Management
- United States
This presentation describes election management bodies (EMBs), including key elements, basic models and guiding principles.

CARVER + Shock Vulnerability Assessment Tool
Organization: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Project: MEFTA Technical Assistance-USDA
This presentation gives an overview of the CARVER method, which uses screening methods to identify foods for evaluation and uses an evaluation team. Also discussed is the profile of terrorists, factors that affect the desirability of a target, and scales for analyzing each one.

A Global Perspective towards Food Defense
Organization: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Project: MEFTA Technical Assistance-USDA
The presentation focuses on the role of the UK Food Standards Agency, global food trends affecting the UK, insights from food safety incidents, case studies, and the UK approach to food defense.

Elections and Transparency in the Gulf Countries
Organization: Center for Democracy & Election Management (CDEM), American University
Project: Gulf States Electoral Initiatives Program
- Governance and Human Rights
- CSOs/NGOs |
- Election Administrators |
- Journalists |
- Party Members
- Election Management
- United States
This presentation describes the importance of media for fair, free and transparent elections.

Developing Infrastructure for Food Defense
Organization: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Project: MEFTA Technical Assistance-USDA
The presentation focuses on what is meant by developing food defense infrastructure and government strategies for developing such an infrastructure, including setting national policy, establishing food defense responsibilities, conducting key food defense activities, and partnering with industry and academia.

Water Infrastructure Protection
Organization: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Project: MEFTA Technical Assistance-USDA
This presentation describes the U.S. EPA's mission, the link with the Department of Homeland Security related to water infrastructure protection, the importance of protecting drinking water systems, and EPA efforts and risk assessment tools.

Food Safety vs. Food Defense: Differences and Similarities
Organization: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Project: MEFTA Technical Assistance-USDA
This presentation describes the different U.S. offices that are involved with protecting the food supply, the definition of food defense, reasons for concern, examples of unintentional and intentional contamination, and differences between food safety and food defense.

Election Observation
Organization: Center for Democracy & Election Management (CDEM), American University
Project: Gulf States Electoral Initiatives Program
- Governance and Human Rights
- Election Administrators |
- Journalists |
- Party Members |
- CSOs/NGOs
- Election Management
- United States
This presentation describes the purpose of election observation, international standards for elections, regional recognition and election monitors.

Delimiting Electoral Boundaries
Organization: Center for Democracy & Election Management (CDEM), American University
Project: Gulf States Electoral Initiatives Program
- Governance and Human Rights
- CSOs/NGOs |
- Election Administrators |
- Journalists |
- Party Members
- Election Management
- United States
This presentation describes the importance of delimitation, types of electoral systems that delimit electoral districts, legal framework, authority, communities of interest and examples from Sierra Leone and Lebanon.

Election Standards: An Introduction
Organization: Center for Democracy & Election Management (CDEM), American University
Project: Gulf States Electoral Initiatives Program
- Governance and Human Rights
- CSOs/NGOs |
- Election Administrators |
- Journalists |
- Party Members
- Election Management
- United States
This presentation gives an overview of election standards, declaration of principles, standards for assessing elections and international obligations.