Although many EMB legal frameworks do not provide for participation in international electoral assistance missions, many EMBs do undertake these tasks on both a small and a large scale. EMBs which regularly participate in international technical cooperation include those of Australia, Canada, France, Ghana, India, Mexico, South Africa, and the UK, and such cooperation is both bilateral and multilateral. Many other EMBs regularly participate in international observation missions, particularly in neighbouring countries, or in professional contact and exchange activities facilitated by regional networks of election officials. The mandate of the Bangladesh EMB provides for EMB ‘support to the United Nations and its member states in organising elections by fielding of election monitors and observers and organising training for electoral personnel’. It is important that the legal framework for elections provide a mandate for the EMB to participate in international electoral activities. No EMB or country is an island unto itself and many EMBs are called on from time to time to render assistance to other EMBs, either as observers or technical advisors, or to host study missions from other EMBs.