4.14 The OSCE Office in Tajikistan Background The OSCE presence in Tajikistan has been mandated to promote the implementation of OSCE commitments, support the development of common approaches to addressing problems and threats to security, facilitate the exchange of information, and build national capacity and expertise. The OSCE Office in Tajikistan (OiT), upon request from the Republic of Tajikistan, further expanded its police assessment in undertaking a broad programme regarding legal, administrative, technical and operational reform in order to modernize and strengthen the law enforcement capacity and institutions. All projects mainstreamed a change management approach in the implementation of police reform. The OiT took a cross-dimensional approach to police reform in order to ensure a coherent approach and mainstream all aspects of gender, anti-trafficking and human rights in the reform process. Important elements of the programme were also the establishment of and support to the thematic co-ordination and donor group for all international missions and organizations supporting Tajikistan in the field of police reform and law enforcement development as well as measures to ensure the regular participation of MIA representatives in the group meetings. Furthermore, the Office provided the framework to explore strategic priorities for combating terrorism under consideration of human rights and to develop skills of operational managers. The OiT enhanced the national capacity to develop an appropriate curriculum to train senior management and operational managers to apply methods of preventing terrorism and strengthening partnership with the community. In 2010, the OiT’s police-related activities were undertaken by seven international and two national staff members. Strategic Planning and Development As part of Phase II of the police reform, the OiT conducted a one-week community police training from 5-8 April for Senior and Mid-Management police officers. The training served as a platform for identifying possible strategic approaches to police reform. It focused on increasing the knowledge of Senior and Mid-Management Police Officers in the area of community policing, particularly with respect to trust and confidence building; identifying ways to incorporate community policing problem-solving tools within the police reform activities; and on increasing opportunities to build partnerships between the communities and the police. The participants stressed the importance of civilian engagement for achieving successful police reform and therefore promoted a simultaneous bottom-up (addressing citizens) and top-down (addressing law enforcement) approach. Upon request from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan, the OiT invited four highly experienced police reform and public relations experts to conduct a four-day Training Needs Assessment workshop from 27-30 April for 11 mid-level managers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Academy and Training Centre. The aim of the workshop was to increase the ability of instructors to apply the theory of training needs assessment as part of the police reform process in practice. From 3-7 May, the Office organized a Strategic Planning Workshop for 16 Senior and MidManagers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Dushanbe, in order to increase the ability of 100