On 27-28 May and 3-4 June 2021, PIANZEA delivered a virtual BRIDGE workshop on strategic planning for electoral management. International IDEA collaborated with PIANZEA on the delivery of the workshop. The workshop ran over four half days and was PIANZEA’s second virtual BRIDGE workshop.

After a long and productive relationship with face-to-face BRIDGE, the Covid-19 pandemic necessitated the first virtual BRIDGE workshop for the Pacific Island, Australia and New Zealand Electoral Administrators’ (PIANZEA) network.

The PIANZEA Network has put together a paper on out of constituency and out of country voting, with a focus on Pacific Election Management Bodies.

The Commonwealth Secretariat have released a publication on ‘Managing Elections in the Context of COVID-19: Perspectives from the Commonwealth’.

The Commonwealth Secretariat have published a guide on cybersecurity for elections. It has been developed to help election management bodies identify and manage cybersecurity risks. The publication can be found on The Commonwealth Secretariat’s website.

2017 General Voter Registration System (GVRS) Learning Clinic

On 6-7 February 2018, the Pacific Islands, Australia and New Zealand Electoral Administrators Network (PIANZEA) delivered a two-day BRIDGE workshop on strategic planning for 23 participants in Nuku’alofa, Tonga.

Two BRIDGE modules were conducted in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia between the 3^rd and 8^th of December 2017 for the PIANZEA (Pacific Islands, Australia and New Zealand Electoral Administrators) network.