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An evaluation of the BRIDGE programme in Nepal has deemed it an effective professional development tool for the Election Commission, and credited it for creating a paradigm shift in training methodology and improving the quality of the ECN’s relationships with its...

  On 7 February, the Election Commission of Nepal (ECN) held the elections for National Assembly (NA), which is the upper house of the bicameral Federal Parliament. The National Assembly is comprised of 59 members, with eight elected from each of Nepal’s seven...

  On 7 December 2017, Nepal organized polling for the second phase of the House of Representatives and Provincial Assembly elections, completing all voting for the direct elections required to set up the federal structure of the 2015 Constitution. Voters...

On 26 November, more than 3.2 million voters were called upon to cast their vote and choose their representatives in Nepal’s new State Assemblies and in the House of Representatives. This was the first phase of polling for these...

"The democratic process, which is the cornerstone of peace, security and prosperity, is not complete without inclusion of all, including people with disability," Dr. Ayodhee Prasad Yadav, the Chief Commissioner, emphasized in an interaction programme between the...

Sunday 19 November saw the completion of the complex process of candidate nominations for the upcoming election of House of Representatives and the seven State Assemblies. The elections for the provincial and federal levels of government are to be held together but in...

Cascading knowledge to voter education volunteers "Reducing the number of invalid votes in the upcoming elections is our objective, and this training made us more confident in achieving it." This was a common sentiment among the trainers participating in the two-day...

The 2017 local elections have been among the most peaceful in Nepal, but the Election Commission of Nepal (ECN) is not taking security for granted for the upcoming elections for the members of the House of Representatives and the seven State Assemblies. To ensure that...

For the federal and provincial elections, the Election Commission of Nepal (ECN) will be using a new IT system called 'Integrated Election Information Management System', which ECN itself developed to integrate its Election Result Information System, its Event...

"Without the positive role that the media played in the local elections, such peaceful elections would not have been possible." This statement, by Mr. Narendra Dahal, the Commissioner responsible for media management at the Election Commission Nepal (ECN) expressed at...

The Election Commission Nepal (ECN) successfully conducted polling for the third and final phase of local level elections in Nepal on 18 September 2017. ECN declared that turnout in this phase was 77 percent of registered voters, the highest among all seven provinces,...

Thanks to constitutional and legal provisions that introduced compulsory quotas for women in different posts in local governments, as well as intensive campaigns for women’s engagement in politics carried out by the Election Commission Nepal with the support of UNDP’s...

The Election Commission Nepal (ECN) conducted a new biometric voter registration drive from 16 July to 19 August 2017 and collected data from over 1.3 million voters across the country. “As per preliminary details provided by our local offices, the number of new...

    As polling day of the third phase of the local elections in Nepal is approaching, the Electoral Support Project (ESP) provided support the Election Commission of Nepal (ECN) in conducting two refresher trainings on election management and administration for 139...

An innovative upgrade for the voter registration system in Nepal is ready to be piloted, after a nearly two-year development effort by the Electoral Support Project (ESP), implemented by UNDP Nepal and supported by the European Union and Norway. The Election...

The Election Commission Nepal’s voter education campaign, conducted with support of UNDP’s Election Support Project in 29 districts, has proved largely effective in bringing more people to the polls and ensuring their familiarity with the voting procedures so as to...

In August 2017, the European Union has allocated an additional EUR 1.6 million grant to the Electoral Support Project (ESP) implemented by UNDP in Nepal. This new financing will be used to provide additional electoral assistance to the Election Commission of Nepal...

The mass media played a crucial role in the Election Commission Nepal’s voter education campaign—conducted with support of UNDP’s Election Support Project—for the 2017 local level elections in helping to bring information regarding the voting process and the...

On Wednesday 28 June 2017, polling for phase II of the historic local elections has been successfully completed with a significant turnout despite some threats of disruption in the voting process and monsoon rain. The second phase of the local elections in Nepal,...

  In order to ensure persons with hearing impairment were not left behind in asserting their political and electoral rights during the elections, the Election Commission Nepal, with the support of UNDP’s Election Support Project, has been reaching out to them through...

The Nepal local election is conducted in two phases: Polling for the local Units comprised in Provinces 3, 4 and 6 is on 14 May, and for those in Provinces 1, 2, 5 and 7 scheduled for 14 June.     On Sunday 14 May, Nepali citizens voted to elect their representatives...

The two-day national conference “Towards Planet 50:50: Enabling Women’s Leadership and Representation in Local Governance”, was held in Kathmandu, Nepal on 20 and21 April, 2017. It was organized by the United Nations in collaboration with the Election Commission,...

In the context of preparations for the local level elections the Election Commission of Nepal (ECN), supported by the EC-UNDP Electoral Support Project (ESP), organized from 29 to 30 March 2017 an orientation on gender and social inclusion in local elections in...

On 15 March 2017 the Prime Minister Dahal called on Madhes-based parties to participate in the local elections scheduled for 14 May this year, and committed to reviewing the constitution in order to address their demands with regard to provincial and federal...