The Protecting Elections Training Curriculum comprises 19 customizable activities on the Integrated Framework for Protecting Elections, with an emphasis on electoral risk management, resilience-building and crisis management. It is a comprehensive and highly interactive capacity-development tool, designed for a two-day training workshop to be run at the country, regional or global level.

The workshop aims to inspire, enable and empower national stakeholders to protect the integrity of electoral processes by promoting informed decision making when dealing with electoral risks, threats and crises, in a collaborative and gender-sensitive way.

The training curriculum, together with The Protecting Elections Guide: The Guide to Knowing and Using the Integrated Framework for Protecting Elections and The Protecting Elections Self-Assessment Survey comprises the Integrated Framework for Protecting Elections.

Details

Publication date
17 November 2025
Language(s)
English
Number of pages
31
ISBN
978-91-8137-043-0 (PDF)
978-91-8137-044-7 (HTML)

Contents

Introduction

Activity 1: Introduction to the Protecting Elections Training Workshop

Activity 2: Key terminology and core concepts for protecting elections 

Activity 3: Electoral integrity challenges and safeguards

Activity 4: Management processes for protecting electoral integrity 

Activity 5: Risk, threat or crisis? 

Activity 6: Risk identification: What can go wrong?

Activity 7: Risk assessment: How likely is it to happen?

Activity 8: Risk analysis: How do we know?

Activity 9: Risk communication: How do we communicate? 

Activity 10: Risk treatment: How do we prevent or mitigate risk?

Activity 11: The risk-management cycle: From identification to treatment

Activity 12: Introduction to tabletop exercise

Activity 13: Risk management tabletop exercise

Activity 14: Resilience-building in elections

Activity 15: Inter-agency collaboration as an integral part of resilience-building in elections

Activity 16: Resilience-building tabletop exercise

Activity 17: Crisis management in elections

Activity 18: Crisis-management tabletop exercise

Activity 19: Integrated Framework for Protecting Elections

Model agenda (2 days)

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The Protecting Elections Training Curriculum: An Overview

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