The Youth and Elections Topic Area was added to the ACE website in 2018.
The Lead Writer was Yvonne Goudie. Yvonne has over 20 years’ experience working for various agencies as a democratic governance educator and practitioner. Her specialties are election management and educating for capacity development in the intersecting areas of gender, youth and disability inclusion.
Young people were integral to the development of this Topic Area – several young people (as young as 20 years) including students, activists, and members of EMBs contributed by researching, writing, editing, and providing examples.
Contributors:
- Carla Chianese, Civic and Voter Education and Strategic Communications Specialist, IFES Kenya
- Genet Menelik, IFES Kenya
- Alan Wall, Electoral Consultant
- James Fiford and Alex Markham, Education and Electoral Inclusion Officers, Victorian Electoral Commission
- Carol Goudie, Freelance Writer and Editor
- Lani Voulgarakis, Freelance Writer and Editor
- Sally Holdsworth, Freelance Writer and Editor
- Georgia Cromarty, student
- Joe Goudie, student
- Tom Quinlivan, student
- Krushnadevsinh (Kano) Ravalji – student
- Ravneel Chand, Research Officer, Executive Directorate, Fijian Elections Office
- Heather Szilagyi, Research Officer, Center for Applied Research and Learning, IFES
- Ashley Law, Youth Technical Coordinator, IFES
- Maria do Rosário Gonçalves, Presidente, Comissão Nacional de Eleições (CNE) Portugal
- Andre Fecteau, Elections Canada
- Ossama Kamel, Electoral Consultant
- Fida Nasrallah, Carter Centre, Tunisia
- Ilona Tip, Operations Director, Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA)
- Zolzaya (Zola) Batkhuyag, Director and Co-Founder, Women for Change NGO, Mongolia
Thanks also to:
- Therese Pearce-Laanela, Head of Electoral Processes, International IDEA
- Noëlla Richard, Youth Policy Specialist – Youth Global Programme Manager, Governance and Peacebuilding Cluster, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP
- Julia Guadalupe Almaraz Anaya, ACE the Electoral Knowledge Network, International Affairs Unit, National Electoral Institute, Mexico
This topic area was managed and supervized by Aleida Ferreyra of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
