Guidelines to Assist National Minority Participation in the Electoral Process Page: 35 Addendum III – INTEGRATING MINORITY ISSUES INTO ODIHR ELECTION OBSERVATION ELECTION OBSERVATION Contents I. INTRODUCTION II. ROLE OF ODIHR IN PRE-MISSION PHASE Table 1: Legislative Review III. ROLE OF NEEDS ASSESSMENT MISSION Table 2: Voter Registration Issues IV. ROLE OF ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION (EOM) CORE TEAM Table 3: Voter Education Issues V. ROLE OF LONG-TERM OBSERVERS VI. ROLE OF SHORT-TERM OBSERVERS VII. REPORTING ON NATIONAL MINORITY ISSUES VIII. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE EOMs Annex 1 National Minority Issues and Observation Techniques I. INTRODUCTION How far a participating State’s electoral system could assist representation for national minorities in elected bodies raises interesting problems for ODIHR Election Observation Missions (EOMs) in terms of international standards. The challenge for ODIHR is to provide EOMs with a framework for assessing the extent to which participating States meet those standards, whilst taking full account of comparative experience in the OSCE region and the political dynamic of the country in question. This section will attempt to place the Lund Recommendations in the context of the work and existing methodology of an ODIHR EOM, highlighting the important factors to be considered and seeking to identify ways in which they can be adequately addressed. The format of the paper considers each component of an EOM, from the ODIHR Election Section to the deployment of STOs. Suggestions are also offered on how the findings can be reported, both within an EOM and publicly. Finally, some changes are recommended to the existing ODIHR EOM methodology in order to accommodate this new approach.