Funded by the European Union, the overall objective of the citizen observation project is to contribute to the holding of credible, inclusive and transparent elections through an independent citizen observer evaluation of CAR's presidential and National Assembly elections scheduled for 27 December 2020 by a civil society network of CSOs.

Partnership with Réseau arc-en-ciel (RAC)

To achieve this objective EISA partnered with Réseau arc-en-ciel (RAC; "Rainbow Network"), with whom EISA worked in 2015. RAC began as a network of 14 CSO, but this number was increased to 17 for the sake of greater inclusivity.

More specifically, the project includes:

• An impartial and independent evaluation, by RAC, of the pre-election political environment as well as the preparation made by the EMB;
• The observation of the 1st and 2nd rounds of presidential and legislative elections using a methodology including the establishment of a situation room and the conduct of a PVT; and
• The evaluation and documentation of the post-election period through the monitoring of electoral disputes and the audit of the results.

EISA met RAC to share the content of the new project, their role in the project and the project management rules. A draft MoU was submitted to the 17 CSO partners of RAC clearly indicating EISA's role as the technical and financial manager of the project and that of the CSOs as beneficiaries and implementing partners.

Réseau arc-en-ciel's Citizen Election Observation Mission

Seventeen trainers were trained to conduct workshops for 150 observers recruited from 17 partner CSOs who were deployed to 13 prefectures and 58 sub prefectures to observe voter registration. The EOM was launched on 16 October 2020.
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