Kojo Asante represented the Ghana Center for Democratic Development/Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO), which conducts non-partisan election observation and monitoring in Ghana and was involved in developing a network of non-partisan election observation and monitoring organizations in West Africa. This initiative developed into the West Africa Election Observers Network (WAEON) comprising member organizations from 11 countries from West Africa. Peter Aling’o represented the Institute for Education in Democracy (IED), which conducts non-partisan election observation and monitoring in Kenya and is involved in encouraging the development of a network of non-partisan election observation and monitoring organizations in the Horn and East Africa. Asia Sanjay Gathia and Damaso G. Magbual, from Thailand and the Philippines, respectively, represented the Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL), which comprises 21 nonpartisan election observation and monitoring organizations across Asia. Europe and Eurasia Darko Aleksov, Secretary General of the European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO) and Executive Director of Citizen Association MOST of Macedonia, represented ENEMO; ENEMO comprises 22 non-partisan domestic election monitoring organizations from Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Latin America and the Caribbean Emmy Dekker and Percy Medina, from the Peruvian non-partisan election observation organization Transparencia, represented the Acuerdo de Lima network of 18 non-partisan election observation organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean, plus NDI and the Center for Electoral Assistance and Promotion/Centro de Asesoría y Promoción Electoral (CAPEL). The Middle East Nabil Hassan represented the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections (LADE), which conducts non-partisan election observation in Lebanon and is involved in developing a network of non-partisan election monitoring organizations in the Middle East and North Africa. 40