Traduction de «consultante en matière d'élection » (Français → Anglais) :

55. Underlines that a longer-term approach covering the whole election cycle is required to appropriately follow up on the reports and recommendations of the EU Election Observation Missions; stresses the importance of drawing up realistic and achievable recommendations and of ensuring that these recommendations are monitored – and become part of the political dialogue and assistance offered – by the EU delegations; considers that Parliament’s standing delegations and the joint parliamentary assemblies should also play an enhanced role in following up these recommendations and analysing progress with regard to human rights and democrac ...[+++]y; encourages EU election observation missions (EOMs) to reinforce their coordination with other international election observation missions so as to improve the coherence of EU action in this respect; stresses that the EU needs to invest in the training of local observers in order to build sustainable and autonomous electoral processes in third countries; outlines the fact that the transition to democracy, as well as progress in promoting human rights, calls for long-term strategies and may not yield visible results in the short term; encourages, therefore, the Commission and the EEAS to monitor more than one election cycle in detail by deploying EU EOMs to countries that move from authoritarian regimes to democratic regimes or that register serious lapses in their progress towards democracy;

50. Underlines that a longer-term approach covering the whole election cycle is required to appropriately follow up on the reports and recommendations of the EU Election Observation Missions; stresses the importance of drawing up realistic and achievable recommendations and of ensuring that these recommendations are monitored – and become part of the political dialogue and assistance offered – by the EU delegations; considers that Parliament’s standing delegations and the joint parliamentary assemblies should also play an enhanced role in following up these recommendations and analysing progress with regard to human rights and democrac ...[+++]y; encourages EU election observation missions (EOMs) to reinforce their coordination with other international election observation missions so as to improve the coherence of EU action in this respect; stresses that the EU needs to invest in the training of local observers in order to build sustainable and autonomous electoral processes in third countries; outlines the fact that the transition to democracy, as well as progress in promoting human rights, calls for long-term strategies and may not yield visible results in the short term; encourages, therefore, the Commission and the EEAS to monitor more than one election cycle in detail by deploying EU EOMs to countries that move from authoritarian regimes to democratic regimes or that register serious lapses in their progress towards democracy;

13. Regrets that election rules remain an ongoing subject of discussion and points out that the local election law has proven to be unsuitable for Ukraine; recommends all relevant political stakeholders of government and opposition to consider measures to foster the trust of electoral contestants and voters in the electoral process; underlines the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission Report characterising the parliamentary elections of 2007 as mostly in line with OSCE and Council of Europe commitments and other international stan ...[+++]dards for democratic elections, that confirmed an open and competitive environment for the conduct of elections, and insists that these achievements must be guaranteed for future elections;

My introductory comments derive from my dual experience as both an academic researcher and a gender consultant on several CIDA projects, where my specific role has been to aid the institutionalization of gender-based analysis in a number of post-Soviet countries that are undergoing dramatic public sector reform. I've organized my remarks around four observations.

I know about this approach firsthand, as I worked as a consultant to the Ontario universities in developing training materials for employment equity.

The Joint Chair (Senator Landon Pearson): Just to follow up a bit on the same questioning, you did say at the beginning that you thought you were probably the only child custody consultant.