Advancing dialogue, learning and cooperation among Member States

The dialogues, which enabled participants to learn from one another about key issues related to democracy, took place in two successful and engaging series.

First, the Australian Electoral Commission, in partnership with International IDEA, initiated a series of virtual seminars for electoral practitioners called the Canberra Series on Electoral Integrity. The strong reception of and high level of participation in these seminars led the Swedish Election Authority and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs to join the partnership and convene a second series of seminars. The aim of the seminars is to forge sustainable connections between technical and political issues and communities and between the national and the global levels. 

Second, International IDEA partnered with Luxembourg, the 2024 Chair of the Institute’s Council of Member States, to develop a series called ‘Democracy Exchanges on Gender’. These meetings were dedicated to Sustainable Development Goal 5.5, on women’s political participation, and to gender-related aspects of policy debates on digitalization and climate change. The series highlighted good practices, identified critical drivers of effective policies, proposed areas for collective action and supported Luxembourg’s leadership efforts as the Chair to highlight the intersection of gender and democracy.