Delimitation Equity Project Resource Guide - IFES

Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
IFES would like to thank the many people from government institutions at home and
abroad, from the non governmental sector around the world, and the individuals who
committed their time and expertise to creating and testing the Delimitation Equity Project.
Their professional expertise is the meat and bones of this manual.
Our greatest thanks are to Jeff Fischer who created this project to identify ways by which
democratic societies could begin applying best practices and citizen oversight to one of
democracies most fundamental processes. Dr. Lisa Handley has carried the heaviest
load as IFES expert practitioner and has put in countless hours writing and perfecting
the manual at home and researching and teaching training sessions in the field. Dr.
Peter Schrott and Dr. Jeremy Grace applied their skills to honing the project in the US
and Azerbaijan. The training CD and website could not have been created without Mike
Connell, Mike Jedacek, and Matt Murray of New Media Communications who created
them from thin air and provided much appreciated technical expertise. IFES would like
especially to thank the Electoral Commission of Azerbaijan and Citizen’s Action for Free
and Fair Elections of Jamaica. These two institutions were the test beds and first
appraisers of the training manual. The information contained in the many tables and
appendices of the manual is the product of years of hard work on the part of the world’s
election community who created the tools and volunteered their information. IFES also
thanks Zoe Fraade-Blanar of BinarySpark for her expert eye.
Special thanks go to the writers of the delimitation case studies who research is breaking
new ground, Dr. Ron Johnston, Michael Maley, Alan McRobie, Dr. Charles Pattie, Dr.
David Rossiter, Peter Watson.
Many thanks to those at IFES who labored over the project, Jeffrey Carlson for leading
the project, and Lesley Richards, Denise Dauphinais, Rebecca Mischel, Will Covey, and
Maya Serban.
Finally, without the support of the United States Agency for International Development
this project would never have incubated. And in particular, thanks to Dana Beegun and
Madeline Williams at USAID who have guided the project from research to publication.
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