[{"bbox": [81, 146, 1167, 1322], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><tr><td></td><td>completion of next electoral cycle legal framework.</td><td></td><td></td><td>in and adoption of a transformative approach to the electoral cycle.</td></tr><tr><td>Societal and cultural</td><td>Risk 4: Low citizens' confidence, or identification with the electoral process or its aspects, owing to the disenchantment of past elections and a negative perception of the Legislature.</td><td>Medium</td><td>High</td><td>Support NEC communication and voter education efforts to engage in raising awareness of citizens on the importance of participation in electoral processes.</td></tr><tr><td>Political</td><td>Risk 5: Political instability resulting from Government's incapacity or lack of political will to address the deep social disparities prevailing in Liberia.</td><td>Medium</td><td>High</td><td>Continuous engagement by development partners to support the Government medium term development agenda- the Liberia's Pro-Poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development 2018-2023.</td></tr><tr><td>Economic</td><td>Risk 6: Lack of sufficient funding under the Liberian National Budget to proceed with the overall Electoral process.</td><td>High</td><td>High</td><td>Constant monitoring and active coordination with all partners involved through technical and political dialogue.</td></tr><tr><td>Political and economic</td><td>Risk 7: Delays in the ongoing Census, which has implications for boundary delineations for the elections.</td><td>High</td><td>Medium</td><td>Constant monitoring and active coordination with all partners involved through technical and political dialogue.</td></tr><tr><td>Technical</td><td>Risk 8: Limited capacities of implementing partners twinned by low availability of skilled resources.</td><td>Medium</td><td>High</td><td>Constant monitoring and active coordination with all partners involved through technical and political dialogue.</td></tr><tr><td>Societal</td><td>Risk 9: Perpetuation of gender stereotypes and discriminatory social norms. Dissolution of the gender perspective during the implementation of the Action.</td><td>High</td><td>High</td><td>A gender mainstreaming and right-based approach and the principle of 'leave-no-one-behind' will be implemented in all phases of the Action.</td></tr></table>"}, {"bbox": [92, 1324, 252, 1348], "category": "Section-header", "text": "Lessons Learnt:"}, {"bbox": [92, 1366, 1162, 1580], "category": "Text", "text": "The EU supported the Liberian Election cycles under the 10th and 11th EDF via UNDP partnership with UNDP projects (UNDP direct management). Evaluations have been conducted at the end of the programmes. In particular, the last one conducted in 2020 recommended to continue support to NEC, support civic voter education as gender sensitive civic education curriculum, foster women's political participation and representation and mainstream gender policies, provide more training to political parties. All recommendations have been considered in the formulation of the Action. The coordination and cooperation of all different partners, national and international, engaged in the support to Elections cycle in Liberia and the timely availability of the financial resources (from Government of Liberia and Donor partners) remains fundamental."}, {"bbox": [1026, 1680, 1141, 1704], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 12 of 25"}]