in 2017 and will be finalized in 2018. They will offer police officers a resource to build their capacity to effectively apply the practical tools offered by the Guide. In 2017, ODIHR also continued co-operation with the participating States on improving their hate crime data collection systems. ODIHR organized workshops in Albania, Estonia, Kosovo9 and Moldova with the goal of understanding and improving hate crime recording and data collection. On 24 March, ODIHR organized a workshop in Chisinau, Moldova which gathered 16 participants (six women and ten men), with representatives from the law enforcement, prosecutors, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Justice, civil society organizations and of the OSCE Mission to Moldova. The aim of the workshop was to raise awareness on the need to record hate crimes and understand the existing hate crime recording and data collection framework. As a result of the workshop, a set of recommendations on how to improve the hate crime recording system of Moldova were issued. On 12 May, TND organized a workshop on understanding and improving hate crime recording and data collection in Tirana, Albania. The workshop involved 24 participants (six women, 18 men), with representatives of the law enforcement, Prosecutor’s Office, the State Commissioner for NonDiscrimination, the Ombudsman, civil society organizations and from the OSCE Presence in Albania Participants were informed on the existing hate crime recording framework and how to identify gaps in the current system. At the end of the workshop, the participants and ODIHR jointly developed a set of recommendations to improve the current hate crime recording system in Albania. On 1 and 2 November, ODIHR facilitated a one-and-ahalf-day workshop organized by the OSCE Mission to Kosovo (OMiK) in Prishtinë/Priština. The meeting gathered representatives (five women and 20 men), from the Kosovo police, MIA, Chief Prosecutor’s Office, Kosovo Judicial Council and three civil society organizations working on monitoring hate crimes. The workshop aimed at the development of an Inter-Agency Agreement on Addressing Hate Crimes; a policy document including concrete actions that each partner should commit to in order to ensure a comprehensive and co-ordinated response to hate crimes. During the workshop, the participants in consultation with ODIHR finalized an Agreement which now includes a Kosovo-specific monitoring definition of hate crimes shared across the four partner agencies. A national working group has been established by the Agreement with a task to coordinate partner co-operation. 9 A  ll references to Kosovo, whether to the territory, institutions or population, in this text should be understood in full compliance with UNSCR 1244. 142 On 8 December, ODIHR facilitated a workshop on improvements to hate crime recording in Tallinn, Estonia. The workshop gathered 19 participants (14 women, five men), including representatives from the Estonian Ministry of Justice, MoI, Ministry of Social Affairs, Estonian police, Prosecutor’s Office and civil society organizations. The participants discussed the shortcomings of the current system and possible improvements. As a result of the workshop, the Estonian Ministry of Justice committed to implement the most urgent recommendations as a matter of priority. These included updating instructions for the police on recording hate crimes and the establishment of an interagency working group to develop a working definition of hate crimes for recording purposes. Public Order and Crisis Management In 2017, ODIHR started its 4th cycle of assembly monitoring to identify gaps and challenges, as well as examples of good practices, in how participating States meet their commitments on freedom of peaceful assembly. Several ODIHR monitors (11 women and 11 men) observed 19 assemblies in three participating States, namely Belgium, Italy and Germany. The main findings and recommendations of the monitoring exercises will be published in a thematic report at the end of the monitoring cycle, in December 2018. In June, ODIHR developed and piloted a ToT course in Warsaw, building on the good policing practices promoted in ODIHR’s Human Rights Handbook on Policing Assemblies.10 11 police commanders (3 women and 8 men), from seven participating States participated in the pilot course. In November, ODIHR conducted its first ToT course on human rights compliant policing of assemblies in Kyiv, Ukraine with the participation of 15 public order police commanders and representatives from the Patrol Police and the National Guard (all men). Other In 2017, ODIHR released its new Guidelines for Public Security Providers in Elections.11 These guidelines are intended as a reference document for ODIHR election experts in the course of observing and assessing the framework for providing security and the conduct of public security providers over the course of an election. The guidelines may also benefit other organizations seeking guidance on how to assess these issues in the course of their election observation activities. The guidelines can also serve as reference material for government and election authorities, including those who legislate on electoral security, and for public security providers themselves. 10 See http://www.osce.org/odihr/226981. 11 See http://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/339581.