Election Aid (ELECTA) provides expert advice on electoral governance and policymaking.

ELECTA's mission is to protect people's democratic right to vote in free and fair elections.

Our goal is to ensure the proper conduct, supervision, and monitoring of elections, primarily in developing democracies. 

ELECTA's Executive Director, Hilary Miezah (author of Elections in African Developing Democracies), has served with the Government of Ghana as Secretary and Administrative Head of the Electoral Commission and as Foreign Service Officer. 

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Hilary worked for the United Nations as an Electoral Consultant at UNHQ New York in 1984; Deputy Director with UNTAG (Namibia) in 1989; Zone Controller and Provincial Director with UNTAC (Cambodia) in 1993/94; with the UN Citizens Identification Team to Western Sahara, Morocco in 1998; as Chief Electoral Officer with MINURCA in the Central African Republic from 1999 to 2001, and as Senior Electoral Advisor to the UN Mission to Sierra Leone 2002/2003.

Hilary also served as a Member of the NDI Faculty of Election Experts and Practitioners which, in collaboration with the University of Western Cape, prepared political and civic organizations for the first multi-racial elections in South Africa in 1994.