Preamble
Believing in the efficient and lively role of an independent elections monitoring process in promoting democratic electoral practice, and taking up our shared responsibility for free, fair and periodical elections.
On the basis of our joint work on awareness raising and training on the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and the Interim National Constitution of 2005, and the Elections Law of 2008,
On the basis of the joint vision shared during that work, we declare our wish to further develop mutual cooperation and coordination, and work together as the Sudanese Civil Society Organizations Platform for Elections for the sake of monitoring elections and exchanging information and expertise.
Based on these grounds, we undertake to abide by the following:
1. Respect for the legal jurisdiction and sovereignty of the state originating from the National Interim Constitution of 2005, the national laws and all international criteria for human rights included in the Bill of Rights, in particular the rights relating to elections.
2. Cooperation with the National Elections Commission and all other related entities to guarantee that the elections reflect the will of the people, according to the Elections Law of 2008.
3. Performing of an independent and neutral monitoring in order to observe and monitor electoral conduct in general and the electoral process under the sovereignty of law, and to observe to what extent all the voters and nominees achieve a non-biased, neutral and efficient electoral procedures, as well as the neutrality of all the state's official institutions, in that they do not, in any way, influence the will of the voters nor exploit the resources of the state for the benefit of any particular party/nominee.
4. Respect for the secrecy of the information obtained and the sources providing them.
5. All monitors from our side should make themselves clearly visible throughout the phases of the electoral process, and should immediately present themselves before any concerned or responsible entity and should, of course, carry with them specific identity cards as long as they are on duty.
6. They should refrain from taking part in any meetings or electoral demonstrations, encouraging others to participate in them, repeating their slogans or participating in disputes within or outside these groups.
7. They should refrain from intervening with the procedures of the electoral operation.
8. They should refrain from carrying arms while on duty.
9. They should abide- while performing their duty of monitoring- by institutionalism which requires that declarations and reports should be issued by corporations and never by individuals, in addition to respecting the decisions of the platform.
10. They should -within adequate time- disclose any possible contradiction of interests, and refrain from taking part in any activity or assessment involving a case where 'contradiction of interests' applies.
Epilogue
In order to perceive and assess the extent of implementation, and protect the electoral rights in practice, and with the aim that the assessment process will lead to the promotion and development of a democratic electoral conduct in our home country, we will do all we can in order to obtain correct and accurate information and we undertake that its accuracy will be verified according to a trustworthy, scientific standard of verification, and we will consider objectively all incidents presented to us and deal with them in a neutral and non-biased way.
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