4.2 Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina Networks have trained fellow officers on gender mainstreaming in their daily duties. The BiH NWPO has continued with training sessions that began in 2018, covering eight additional cantonal MoI’s in 2019, with some 140 women police officers as participants. Each event has demonstrated that becoming more familiar with gender-based discrimination has led participants to display a greater openness and willingness in terms of sharing experiences and ideas. In pursuing its aim to strengthen the structure of both Networks and facilitate internal communication, the Mission helped to organize both annual assemblies to elect new members, revise previous activities and plan future steps. In addition, the Mission organized a training on addressing hate crimes for the BiH NWPO. The BiH NWPO assembly meeting and training took place on Mt. Jahorina, while the RS NWPO met in Teslic. For the RS NWPO, in addition to regular agenda items, the assembly meeting focused on increasing the visibility of the Network and possibly introducing a mentoring scheme on gender equality mainstreaming, not only among the members, but also among other colleagues. The participants also expressed interest in becoming more involved in the work of their Network and adopted all the proposed decisions unanimously. Gender-Based Violence On 19 and 20 June, in co-operation with the Federation of BiH (FBiH) Centre for Education of Judges and Prosecutors and RS Centre for Education of Judges, the entity and cantonal MoI, the Mission organized two trainings on Mt. Jahorina, which tackled gender-based violence. The training sessions targeted entity police, prosecutors, judges, and civil society that were engaged in domestic violence. The focus of the training sessions was on the existing legal framework on protection from domestic violence, the role of the institutions, the efficient investigation and prosecution, and the importance of a co-ordinated approach. On the sides of both events, the Mission organized a joint session for colleagues from both entities and Brčko District to discuss institutional responses to cases of domestic violence, survivor-centred approaches and experiences in the implementation of the legislation on protection from domestic violence. On 29 November, in co-operation with the Education Section of the Sarajevo Canton MoI, the Mission organized a training workshop in Sarajevo on processing domestic violence cases for 30 police officers and assistant commanders from seven police stations. The activity was based on a previous MoI assessment, which had observed that the response of the law enforcement agencies to domestic violence in their areas of responsibility had significantly deteriorated. The training was also an opportunity to co-ordinate the procedural issues relating to response between different police stations in the Canton. 50 On 10 and 11 December, the Mission organized a training seminar in Sarajevo on sexual violence for 30 women officers from State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA), Federal Police Administration and all ten cantonal MoI’s. As most survivors of rape and sexual assault are women and considering that, procedurally speaking, women police officers are expected to provide support to the survivor, the Mission engaged a psychologist and senior police inspector as trainers, which contributed to strengthening the skills of women police officers in implementing a ‘survivor-oriented’ approach. Hate Crime On 28 March, the Mission organized a workshop in Zenica on hate crimes and bias-motivated incidents for law enforcement officers and prosecutors from the Zenica-Doboj Canton. On 25 June, a similar workshop was organized for prosecutors in Travnik. In total, 36 participants increased their understanding of the concepts, legal frameworks, and responses to bias-motivated incidents and hate crimes. On 13 June and 2 October, the Mission organized two hate crime workshops at Mt. Jahorina for 57 members of the BiH and RS NWPO. Both events included a presentation of the concept of hate crime, the findings from the Mission’s monitoring programme, and hate crime legal framework. Participants were also provided with practical skills required through a case study analysis exercise. From 17 to 18 June and 10 to 11 September, in co-operation with entity judicial and prosecutorial training centres, the Mission organized two workshops in at Mt. Jahorina for 24 police and prosecutorial spokespersons on communicating information on hate crimes to the media and the public. The workshops focused on the concept of hate crime, legal framework, the Mission’s monitoring findings, and a case study on an alleged hate crime through which the principles of effective media communications were presented. Throughout 2019, in co-operation with the police and other relevant stakeholders, the Mission organized presentations across the country at local events on combating hate crime and bias, which included the Mission’s findings on the current situation, the legal framework and importance of investigation and prosecution. On 30 August, the Mission organized a presentation for 58 participants at the 6th Brčko District BiH Police Summer School for Youth in Brčko, and on 5 December at the end-of-year meeting in Prijedor for 27 participants, including representatives from the police, security forum, city administration, and local coalition against hate.