The Chairperson of the National Elections Commission (NEC), Davidetta Browne Lansanah, is in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, ahead of that country’s general elections, slated for Tuesday, August 9, 2022.
At the invitation of the Association of African Election Authorities (AAEA), Browne Lansanah joined the 5-member team, led by Rwanda and include Ghana, Sierra Leone and Malawi, on a solidarity mission to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) of Kenya.
Since her arrival in Nairobi on August 7, 2022, the NEC boss and colleagues of the AAEA are providing electoral support to the Kenyan Election Management Body (EMB). Since its establishment in 1996, the AAEA has been promoting peer support in election management among sister EMBs that are members of the association.
A dispatch from Nairobi says, “Peer-support is an important part of sharing good practices and lessons learned relating to election management, a key function of the AAEA.”
The AAEA solidarity mission team has been participating in a series of meetings and briefing sessions with key local and international electoral and donor support groups as part of contextualizing the Kenyan electoral experience to strengthen the AAEA in sharing best practices from their perspectives.
The AAEA solidarity mission to the Kenyan election is funded by the European Centre for Electoral Support (ECES), as well as its partner, the African Union Commission.