Democratization  •  17 the Ministry of Interior in the region or directly co-operating with war crimes prosecutors, investigators in war crimes cases face a number of practical challenges that the exchange of experiences and good practices can help mitigate. In December, ODIHR published the Final Report of WCJP II, to be disseminated to stakeholders to share this experience and relevant lessons learned. Between July 2012 and ­December 2015, ODIHR conducted 16 activities, including training seminars, peer-to-peer meetings and an international conference, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. Events also took place Kosovo. These activities involved 409 legal actors (including 168 women) involved in war crimes cases, such as judges, prosecutors, defence attorneys, witness support providers and war crimes investigators, as well as representatives of NGOs and academia. Electoral Dispute Resolution On 9 and 10 March 2015, ODIHR hosted a regional roundtable in Warsaw on existing practices in electoral dispute resolution, attended by more than 35 state representatives and members of civil society from the South Caucasus and Eastern Europe. The discussion focused on three main challenges: the availability of legal redress, respect for due process and the effectiveness of remedies. Representatives of election bodies and courts from Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus provided information on how they dealt with complaints filed in their jurisdictions in the context of elections. Improving Legislative Efficiency and Transparency To assist OSCE participating States in their efforts to improve their lawmaking processes, ODIHR has developed a methodology to conduct comprehensive assessments of the legislative process and actual practice, followed by the holding of thematic workshops and the creation of regulatory reform roadmaps, with concrete action points for national reform. In 2015, reports on the comprehensive assessments of the legislative process in Georgia and in Kyrgyzstan were launched in June and December 2015, respectively. These reports analyse the legislative and practical aspects of the lawmaking processes in these countries, and provide practical recommendations for reform to enhance their effectiveness, efficiency, openness, inclusiveness and transparency. Relevant stakeholders welcomed both reports as realistic depictions of the main challenges in the lawmaking systems of these countries and as excellent starting points for discussing possible reforms. In 2015, following the launch of the Report on the Comprehensive Assessment of the Legislative Process in the Republic of Armenia in October 2014, Tina Gewis (l), Chief of ODIHR’s Rule of Law Unit with Richard Lappin, Senior Election Advisor from ODIHR at regional roundtable on electoral dispute resolution in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus, in Warsaw, Poland, 10 March 2015. (OSCE/Murat Gungor)

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