In 2017, Africa led the way with 42 of the year’s 89 workshops, followed by Asia with 17, Europe closely behind with 16, Middle East 6 and Americas and Oceania with 4 each.

The top five modules run in 2016 and 2017 include:
1. Gender and Elections – 48
2. Introduction to Electoral Administration – 39
3. Strategic and Financial Planning – 37
4. Electoral Systems – 31
5. Electoral Dispute Resolution – 28

The top five modules in total, run from 2001 to 2017 include:
1. Introduction to Electoral Administration – 346
2. Gender and Elections – 187
3. Train the Facilitator – 164
4. Electoral Systems – 127
5. Civic Education – 110

There has been steady growth in the ranks of BRIDGE facilitators with 1,017 Workshop and Accrediting Facilitators now listed in the BRIDGE database. Pie chart totals: Accrediting Facilitators: 128, Workshop Facilitators: 889, TtF Complete: 1780 Totalling, 2797

Africa leads the way with the highest number of facilitators and workshops:

Facilitator numbers by region (Workshop and Accrediting):
1. Africa – 414
2. Asia – 250
3. Oceania – 147
4. Europe – 87
5. Middle East – 76
6. South America – 14
7. North America – 20
8. Central America/Caribbean – 9

43 percent of all BRIDGE Workshop and Accrediting level Facilitators are female. Gender balance continues to be a priority for implementers putting together facilitation teams. The increased interest in the Gender and Elections module has also been positive, it was the most popular module in 2017.

The top six languages spoken by BRIDGE Workshop and Accrediting Facilitators are:

1. English – 570
2. French – 197
3. Arabic – 145
4. Portuguese – 68
5. Russian – 40
6. Spanish – 37

‘Other’ includes 40 languages, with 320 reported speakers, some of which include:

Indonesian – 65
Urdu – 24
Tetum – 22
Nepali – 21
Georgian – 19
Pidgin – 17
Pashto – 16

Statistics as of October 2017

Summary

BRIDGE Workshops and Events

In 2017 there have been 143 BRIDGE modules run at 79 workshops up to the end of October.

The region that has run the majority of these workshops is Africa with a total of 39 so far this calendar year, Asia-15, Americas-4, Middle East-4, Oceania-2 and Europe 15.

The graph below shows the modules run over the period 2001-2017. The majority being the Introduction to Electoral Administration workshop -345 in total (18 in 2017) and 186 Gender and Elections workshops (31 in 2017), followed closely by 164 Train the Facilitator workshops (5 in 2017).

BRIDGE Facilitators

The statistics below reflect the new category structure, all Expert facilitators have now been categorised as Accrediting, and Semi Accredited are now TtF Complete.

BRIDGE has 983 Accredited Facilitators.

The breakdown by country reflects those which have dedicated BRIDGE programs and the high level of interest in Africa.

Below statistics show the number of participants that complete a TtF workshop in a given year and how many are now fully accredited from that year’s cohort.For example in 2016, 246 participants completed a TtF workshop and 28 went on to ‘Workshop’ level and one on to ‘Accrediting’ level (12% became fully Accredited).

The top six languages spoken by BRIDGE facilitators are:

– English-1620

– French-772

– Arabic-501

– Portuguese-209

– Russian-128

– Spanish-104