methodology training for instructors, focusing on the facilitation of feedback, lesson planning, group dynamics and classroom management. Using the interactive methodology and antitrafficking course materials, Police Academy instructors trained prosecutors in 2011. From 24-26 October, the OiT’s Rule of Law and Human Rights Unit, in response to a request from the Prosecutors' Training Institute, conducted a co-operative training on “Anti-trafficking and Domestic Violence” for 28 investigators of the Prosecutor’s Service. Trainers included representatives of civil society, investigators from the Office of the Prosecutor General and instructors from the Academy of the MIA. UNSCR 1325: Gender and Security In October, the OiT’s Gender and Anti-Trafficking Unit supported the participation of a female MIA representative at the conference on "UNSCR 1325: Moving Beyond Theory to Maximize Security in the OSCE" organized by the OSCE Secretariat’s Gender Unit in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The conference, which was attended by over 100 representatives of governments, the security sector, civil society and international organizations, focused on the development, execution and monitoring of National Action Plans to increase female representation in the security sector, improve protection of non-combatants from the hazards of armed conflict, and create climates in which observance of human rights can lead to a reduction in factors leading to armed conflict. Gender-sensitive Policing In March, the OiT’s Gender and Anti-Trafficking Unit supported the participation of five female police inspectors from the MIA's pilot gender-sensitive police units in Dushanbe, Khujand, Kulyab, and Kurgan-Tube in a training programme on “Domestic Violence” organized by the Swiss Cooperation Office in Dushanbe. The training addressed signs, characteristics, forms, patterns, causes, consequences and risk factors of domestic violence and provided an opportunity to further linkages between local police and community organizations attempting to address domestic violence. In April, the Gender and Anti-Trafficking Unit, together with the MIA, formally established the specialized Domestic Violence Units at pilot police stations in Kulyab and Kurgan-Tube. In each pilot station, one office was renovated to be more family-friendly, and staff, including at least one female inspector in each office, was trained to handle cases of domestic violence. The MIA developed a reporting process utilized by these units to collect information about individual cases, families and communities. In June, the Office hosted a second specialized training course for 20 police inspectors on domestic violence. The training was conducted by senior staff of the Ministry and the Academy of the MIA and included a visiting lecture by an expert from the Philadelphia Police Department (sponsored by the U.S. Embassy) who familiarized training participants with the concept of community policing. In August, the Gender and Anti-Trafficking Unit, in co-operation with the MIA, held three roundtables in Khujand, Kulyab and Kurgan-Tube to review the work of the five pilot Domestic Violence Units. Each roundtable was attended by approximately 20 persons from the Ministry, local police, local government, civil society and communities. Participants discussed achievements of the special units as well as challenges to their continued effectiveness. Some of the challenges were linked to procedural issues that limited the inspectors' freedom to act and to change societal attitudes toward domestic violence, while others were based on material and financial limitations at the police stations. Recommendations were made in each of the roundtables aimed at improving the effectiveness of the police units and strengthening the relationship and co-operation with other actors involved in the prevention of domestic violence and the protection of victims’ interests. 121