The Responsibility to Implement Mikhail Evstaviev ODIHR Director Ambassador Christian Strohal gives an interview to Russian TV journalists during the Madrid Ministerial Council, 29 November. held in Warsaw, more interactive and to allow civil society to hold governments accountable. In this way, we contribute to our collective implementation review, together with our partners both from within the Organization and from outside. The involvement of civil society is also a key component of ODIHR’s democratization and human rights programmes. Democracy as a process ODIHR’s democratization work, too, has developed stronger focus, in particular on democratic governance and democratic processes. In response to growing demand by participating States, we have strengthened our capacity to provide assistance in drafting and amending legislation, including by further developing legislationline.org, our Internet-based legislative database. In 2007, ODIHR again organized a series of roundtables and workshops, providing practical assistance in judicial reform, civil 6 Annual Report 2007 registration, political participation of women, and other related fields. Elections: the need for follow-up Election observation work continues to be ODIHR’s most visible activity, widely recognized in the international community. In 2007, we fielded over 3,000 election observers and experts on 17 election missions, ranging from the Serbian parliamentary elections in January to the presidential elections in Uzbekistan at the end of December. In line with our general policy, we have also increasingly been following developments in longer-established democracies, assessing specific aspects of the electoral process, for example, during the Swiss parliamentary elections, or following the impact of newly introduced voting technologies, as we did in Estonia. Sadly, ODIHR was unable to observe the largest electoral event in 2007, the November