About International IDEA
The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) is an intergovernmental organization with 33 Member States with the sole mandate to support and advance democracy worldwide. International IDEA contributes to the public debate on democracy and assists in strengthening process, reforms, institutions and actors that build, advance and safeguard democracy, with a focus on electoral processes, constitution-building, democracy assessment, and political participation and representation. Mainstreamed across all of our work is gender and inclusion, conflict sensitivity and sustainable development. International IDEA is one of the most trusted global sources of data and analysis on the health of democracy around the world.
We hope to build on our established experience in knowledge sharing to help in cooperation and collaboration between stakeholders throughout the Year of Action following the December 2021 Summit for Democracy.
Among other initiatives, International IDEA is implementing the project “Supporting Team Europe Democracy – Strengthening democracy evidence and communication around the Summit for Democracy”, financed by the EU. The project aims to foster and facilitate civil society and multi-stakeholder engagement in the Summit for Democracy (convened by the United States Government) with pro-democracy organizations in Europe and across the world, as inputs to Team Europe Democracy engagement in the Summit.
To find out more about our work, please visit our website. Our Global State of Democracy 2021 Report and data can also be accessed here.