An electoral risk management tool designed to build user’s capacity to understand, analyse, and mitigate electoral risks ensuring peaceful and credible elections. Useful for electoral management bodies, security sector agencies, civil society and other state and non-state actors.
- International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Management – Electoral Risk Management Tool
https://www.idea.int/data-tools/tools/electoral-risk-management-tool
The Electoral Risk Management Tool (ERMTool) is designed to empower people to ensure peaceful and credible elections. Intended users are electoral management bodies, security sector agencies, civil society and other state and non-state actors. The ERMTool aims to build the user’s capacity to understand, analyze, and mitigate electoral risks.
The ERMTool can build users’ capacity to understand electoral risk factors, collect and analyze risk data, design prevention and mitigation strategies, and record the results of actions. The tool consists of three integrated parts.
A knowledge library describes in detail 36 electoral risk factors, both internal and external to electoral processes. An analytical instruments section allows users to create analytical models specific to a country or election, upload data to generate risk maps and trend charts, and create a register of risks and actions. The prevention module consists of a digital library with approximately 100 action points intended to inspire user in designing strategies to prevent and mitigate electoral risks, including election-related violence, at the different phases of the electoral cycle.