Overview
- The Election Commission of India opened a five-day workshop at IIIDEM on Monday, May 25, bringing together election officials to build institutional capacity in risk management.
- Thirty-two participants from 12 countries, including Election Commissioners and senior electoral managers, are taking part in classroom sessions, tool demonstrations and field exposure visits through May 29.
- Practical work centres on the Electoral Risk Management Tool (ERMTool), custom risk factor libraries and Risk and Action Registers so officials can identify, assess and track mitigation actions.
- Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar told delegates that EMBs must continuously identify legal risk areas and mitigate them to strengthen competition, legitimacy and voter participation.
- The workshop is run by the ECI with International IDEA under India’s 2026 Chairship and seeks to harden electoral systems so voters face fewer disruptions and election administrators can coordinate responses faster.