 The International Institute for Democracy and Electroassistance, or International IDEA, is an intergovernmental organization that has the mandate to promote and advance democracy worldwide. Our mission is to support the building, strengthening and safeguarding of democratic political institutions and processes at all levels, as an enabler to achieve the UN's sustainable development goals. To achieve our mission, we focus our work into three areas central to democracy, electoral processes, constitution-building processes and political participation and representation. Gender, inclusion, conflict sensitivity and sustainable development are mainstreamed throughout everything we do. We support those engaged in democratic processes by providing analysis of democratic trends through our flagship research on the global state of democracy, by producing comparative research on international democratic practices, by offering technical assistance and capacity building on democratic reform and by convening dialogue on issues related to the public debate of democracy. Headquartered in Stockholm, our work has a worldwide reach through our offices spread over Africa and West Asia, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean. We also sit at the UN as a permanent observer. Learn more at www.idea.int