David Ward

Over 20 years experience working in the field of development and elections with international organisations. Experience working in elections as press officer, external relations, regulatory advisor, on policy issues and with media monitoring groups across a number of countries. For the past two years working as a senior advisor to a UNDP country office governance cluster with programmes on human rights, security reform, elections and parliamentary reform programmes advising on corporate communications and results based management. Also managed a number of support programmes for the media sector for various international agencies as well as EU election observation missions in Africa and Asia. I have worked on the design of project documents and fiches that has included large-scale electoral commission reform programmes and written a range of documents related to governance issues from strategy plans to needs assessments.

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