1.At the heart of Brotee’s work lies the commitment to contribute to the evolution of a society where all citizens, irrespective of their culture, ethnicity or gender, live in harmony with the freedom to self govern.

2.In the context of a legacy of electoral violence and mal governance, the vision of an inclusive, participatory democratic process in Bangladesh is often replaced with a ‘dictatorship of the majority’.

3.This disenfranchises those who are most vulnerable, namely ethnic and religious minorities, women and the parties in opposition. People lose their right to representation and participation in governance.

Brotee’s vision of Bangladesh is a just and well governed society (rooted in democratic values of civic equality before the state and principles of participation in secular politics) - is a citizens’ right.

Our mission was to strengthen democracy and citizen’s right to fair elections through strong electoral governance as the first step towards democracy.

So, we began in 2001 with, monitoring electoral governance and quality of participation of the most vulnerable voters, with women, youth and minorities being the golden markers

For the next 14 years Brotee has monitored, assessed every major election in the country: National, local, pouroshova, municipality and city corporations. Benchmarks 2001 National Election: Brotee was first agency to bring to light the violence that was unleashed on the minorities by the winning party, during and after elections, later to be admitted by all others. Brotee first introduced research based observation and combined quantitative and qualitative observation at a time when only quantitative and short term observation was the practice. Today this method is largely accepted by all.

Brotee conducted the largest electoral survey of the electoral process in the history of Bangladesh: ‘Voter list survey in 30 constituencies’ with a consensus approach; with 75 lac voter interview and deployment of 96 partners and 11,000 data collectors;

The anomaly of 1.4 crore  voter in excess in voter list (2007) declared by Brotee,  established the poor quality of the voter list and  Brotee’s work became a major reason for the making of a new voter list with photo by the CTG/BEC (2008). 

Brotee, as part of its monitoring exercise, studies ‘security perception of vulnerable voters’ as an indicator qualifying electoral environment;

Election observation reports and publications show the extensive work Brotee does in this field

Report on 13th Parliamentary Elections, January 2026; Report on 10th Parliamentary Elections, January 2014; Report on Upazila Elections in 6 phases, May, 2014; Study on perception and application of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) 2011, 2012; Monitoring Narayanganj City Corporation Elections 2011; Understanding voter perception on first time introduced electronic voting system and monitoring City Corporation Elections 2010; Upazilla Elections Observation Report 2009; Comparative Analysis: City Corporation Elections ’02 & ’08; Study on Situation and perception of vulnerability amongst non-Muslim voters prior to Ninth Parliamentary Elections 2008; Voter List Survey in 30 Parliamentary Constituencies, 2007; Monitoring report of Pouroshova elections 2004; Monitoring report of Parliamentary Bi-elections 2004; Monitoring Selection Process of Gram Sarkar 2004;Union Parishad Elections 2003, how much do we know 2003; National Election 2001 Observation Report, 2001. Impact Brotee evolved the first mixed method for long term observation; first to develop analytical and monitoring tool to measure quality of electoral participation of the vulnerable. 

Brotee is recognized as a key player/expert in the field of election monitoring in Bangladesh. Its report is sought after by Election Commission, political parties and the media. Its statements and analyses are highly respected for its non partisan and data based positions. So much so, that its’ CEO became the only woman and civil society representative selected for nomination for the position of Election Commissioner.