EISAis a not-for-profit organisation established in the mid-1990s and based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Its mission is mainly to promote quality electoral processes in the SADC region. But electoral processes require other related and necessary processes, structures and conditions to obtain if elections are to be free, fair and democratic. With this in mind EISA has been engaged in programmes targeting such structures as political parties, electoral management boards, civil society organisations of all kinds, governance institutions in African countries, and so on. EISA’s vision is ‘An African continent where democratic governance, human rights and citizen participation are upheld in a peaceful environment’.