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).
