DEMOCRATIZATION Participants examine how to integrate a gender-sensitive approach in the development and implementation of labour migration policies during a training session organized by ODIHR and the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Affairs, Warsaw, 8 July 2013. (OSCE/Shiv Sharma) Systems and the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy, by convening a roundtable meeting on political party funding and women’s participation in political life on 12 and 13 March in Tbilisi. Furthermore, ODIHR and International IDEA held a seminar on 6 November in Stockholm to discuss the Swedish model for party and candidate financing. MIGRATION AND FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT The right to freedom of movement is a precondition for equality, and enables the free choice of place of residence inside a country, and is often a pre­ requisite for the exercise of many other fundamental rights, such as the rights to education, to work and to family life. Equally, freer cross-border travel and increased human contacts are essential confidencebuilding measures between OSCE participating States, particularly in the social, cultural and economic spheres. ODIHR supports OSCE participating States in developing policies that protect the right to freedom of movement and the facilitation of freer cross-border travel. In 2013, ODIHR conducted research on the situation of cross-border mobility in the OSCE region and the impact of visa regimes on OSCE participating States, to be published in the ODIHR Baseline Study on Cross-Border Mobility in the OSCE Region in 2014. ODIHR supports OSCE participating States’ national institutions in the development of effective national migration-management systems, with a focus on gender-sensitive labour migration policies and migrant integration in line with OSCE commitments. Migrant Integration Following a request by the Armenian authorities, ODIHR, in co-operation with the Migration Policy Group, conducted an assessment of migrant integration measures, according to the internationally recognized Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) methodology. The resulting findings and 36  /   ODIHR Annual Report 2013