Recommendation 16 (Election Administration) Sudan 2010
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It should include necessary professional staff and skills, independent from political parties, and establish an appropriate structure to manage the process:
i. By establishing departments dealing with legal issues and complaints, logistics/operations, training, and voter information and implementation of expenditure ceilings and work management plans for each activity;
ii. By detailing the timing and sequencing of the election process and producing operational plans to be implemented by the NEC.
iii. By undertaking continuous, institutionalized consultation with stakeholders, in particular with political parties and civil society down to constituency level.
