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ABSTRACT

This study examined the roles of stakeholders in financing as a duty of electoral management boards. Electoral management boards must consider their concerns and interests when designing and implementing policies and activities. EMBs need access to the legislature to ensure that their views are considered in developing electoral legal frameworks and electoral resource allocations, and to obtain feedback on their performance from an important stakeholder. A clear legal framework for managing EMB finances ensures certainty, regularity and consistency, and fosters good governance within the EMB. Financial transparency raises stakeholder and public awareness of the EMB’s structures and programmes, financial policies and challenges, and can bolster stakeholders’ confidence in the EMB’s capacities. The study concluded that EMB’s stakeholders play very important roles in electoral management. EMB-initiated communication and consultation with stakeholders may be on issues such as strategic plans, election timetables and processes, electoral reforms, and voter education and information needs. And other conclusion. One of the recommendations made was that stakeholders need to control its own expenditure processes and cash flows and that they should be more credibly independent and better able to disburse electoral funds in a timely manner.

KEYWORDS: Stakeholders, Financing, Duty and Electoral Management Boards