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to highlight critical achievements, weaknesses, limitations and potential
avenues for institutional growth and reform.

There is an expressed need for a more comprehensive but simple
framework for performance assessment and management for IECs. The

prototyping and subsequent testing of its usability to the Commissions
and its stakeholders will feed into efforts to institutionalize performance
M&E, and engage more election stakeholders in constructive and regular

IEC performance and electoral system monitoring and evaluation.

7. For the COMELEC, this exercise presents an opportunity
for a review and reformulation of their previous strategic plan

(COMSTRAT 1116) using the IHOPE framework as a guide. For the
ECT, this project provided the opportunity to be engaged in the

development of a pioneering performance assessment tool for the
Commission. The use of this tool and the application of the proposed
indicators and standards, accordingly, will be useful to obtain an overview

of ECT’s strengths and weaknesses in carrying out its mandated functions.
Areas of improvement can, therefore, be considered and determined by

the ECT based on the result of the assessment, which can be led and/
or undertaken by a third party or by the ECT itself.

8. The use of the IHOPE Framework and the application of
the proposed performance standards and indicators should be a
dynamic process; the framework, standards, and indicators are not

set in stone. The framework, indicators, and standards should be further
reviewed by the IECs and revised/ reworked accordingly to suit changing

political contexts and organizational needs, in particular after the
promulgation of a new constitution in Thailand, and should the shift to
a federal form of government push through in the Philippines.