Elections and Democracy Activity (EDA), a five-year project funded by USAID, aims to help Liberia overcome the most serious threats to its democracy and foster inclusive, sustainable democratic political development. EDA seeks to work with civil society organizations (CSOs), the National Elections Commission (NEC), and the Government of Liberia to cultivate accountable elected representatives who govern in the interest of their constituents.

EDA consists of three primary objectives:  Increase leadership of marginalized groups in political processes: the project will support greater inclusion with a focus on empowering women and youth to take on meaningful community and government leadership roles, improve civic knowledge and sense of duty: to strengthen civic education and a sense of civic duty, support the Ministry of education to reintroduce a civics curriculum in 386 primary schools and provide targeting and technical assistance to CSOs in rural communities to increase the effectiveness of their civics activities and advance self-reliance of the NEC and CSOs to independently manage and observe all stages of the electoral cycle: the project will provide targeted organizational development (OD) and technical support to the NEC and election observation groups while building their self-reliance.