ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This Declaration of Global Principles for Non-partisan Election Observation and Monitoring by Citizen Organizations and Code of Conduct for Non-partisan Citizen Election Observers and Monitors is the product of a process initiated through the Global Network of Domestic Election Monitors (GNDEM) and facilitated by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the UN Electoral Assistance Division (UNEAD). The process included representatives from the existing regional networks of domestic non-partisan domestic election monitoring organizations and initiatives to develop such networks where they did not yet exist formally. The representatives formed a Draft Development Group that reviewed a considerable body of preparatory materials, including relevant treaties and regional charters, declarations and other documents and the 2005 Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation and its accompanying code of conduct. The Draft Development Group then met in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 24-25 May 2010, and subsequently produced the 25 May 2010 Johannesburg Draft Declaration of Principles for Non-partisan Election Observation by Citizen Organizations and Code of Conduct for Non-partisan Citizen Election Observers and Monitors (Draft Declaration). The meeting was co-hosted by the Southern Africa Development Community Election Support Network (SADC-ESN), GNDEM and NDI. The Draft Declaration was then circulated to all 125 members of GNDEM at that time for comments and proposed changes. Each regional network of domestic election monitors distributed the Draft Declaration to its members, while GNDEM distributed it to GNDEM members that are not part of a regional network. The respective networks collected and consolidated comments and the Draft Development Group reviewed all comments, evaluated them and made appropriate changes to the Draft Declaration. The revised text was considered by the representatives of the networks and consensus was reached on the final text. Members of the GNDEM Draft Development Group included: Africa Steve Duwa and Aloisious Nthenda, from the Malawi Electoral Support Network (MESN), represented the SADC-ESN. MESN is the present rotating chair of the SADC-ESN which comprises non-partisan citizen election observation and monitoring organizations from the 14 SADC countries. Barbra Nyangairi and Rindai Chipfunde Vava, from the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), which serves as the secretariat for the SADC-ESN, also represented the SADC-ESN. 39