DEMOCRATIZATION Mobility in the OSCE Region,” organized by ODIHR on 15 and 16 May in Vienna. The meeting included 30 visa policy experts from different parts of the OSCE area, who explored and exchanged good practices related to visa facilitation and the promotion of international travel. Population Registration Residency registration in many OSCE participating States significantly affects the exercise of the right to freedom of movement and choice of residence. While in many participating States residency registration requires a simple notification to the relevant authorities, in some OSCE participating States it requires the fulfilment of certain administrative legal criteria. Complex and onerous registration criteria can effectively deter certain categories of the population from taking up legal residence in the place of their choice. Based on its Guidelines on Population Registration as a primary tool, ODIHR assists political decision makers, practitioners and relevant authorities in reforming population-registration systems to protect the right to freedom of movement and to facilitate international travel. Upon request of the State Registration Service of Kyrgyzstan, ODIHR, in co-operation with the OSCE Transnational Treat Department and the International Civil Aviation Organization, conducted a joint assessment of the Kyrgyz legal and policy framework for the issuance of travel documents. The Assessment Report, given to the Kyrgyz authorities in September, contains detailed recommendations for the development of a secure framework for the issuance of travel documents that rely on verifiable identity data from population-registration records. Association for the Integrity of Democracy and Elections, undertook comprehensive monitoring of the 2014 parliamentary and presidential elections. During the presidential election, the Office visited Tunisia and held meetings with several citizen observer groups, providing follow-up to a 2013 ODIHR-Democracy Reporting International workshop on report writing and to discuss future activities to support civil society, including the review of legislation for local elections. In follow-up to its engagement with Tunisia on promoting political participation, ODIHR invited a Tunisian representative to participate in the Office’s Youth Forum involving young leaders from the OSCE region, organized on 12 and 13 June in Warsaw. In addition, a civil society representative from Israel participated in ODIHR’s annual trial-monitoring meetings held from 26 to 28 November in Tbilisi to share experiences on trial-monitoring programmes and activities. With the aim of expanding and consolidating its engagement with OSCE Mediterranean Partners, ODIHR continued dialogue with all these countries throughout 2014 to highlight the benefits of its tools and publications and to define further areas of assistance, particularly in the areas of women’s political participation, tolerance and non-discrimination and freedom of religion or belief. To this end, the Office compiled a factsheet on its engagement with OSCE Mediterranean Partners in English and Arabic. Support for OSCE Partners for Co-operation ODIHR continued its co-operation with the OSCE Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation, with the aim of increasing understanding of the OSCE human dimension, by providing support in the fields of elections, legislative assistance, strengthening parliamentary systems, women’s political participation, gender equality and human rights. In follow-up to ODIHR’s training on its election observation methodology in Tunisia, representatives from several leading Tunisian citizen observer groups, including leaders from Mourakiboun, Youth without Borders, I-Watch, and the Tunisian ODIHR Annual Report 2014 39