The Pricing in Elections Database was developed by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) under the United States Agency for International Development's Global Elections and Transitions Leader Award (USAID GEPT). It builds on budget categories and pricing procedures developed by IFES and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in their 2006 publication: Getting to the Core: A Global Survey on the Cost of Registration and Elections (CORE). The CORE indicators outlined in the earlier paper were adapted through iterative consultations with practitioners and scholars on election administration, operations, costs and inclusion.