Fund/Programme/Project Region/Country Building a Comprehensive OSCE Region Criminal Justice Response to Hate Crime Included work on: · Delivering a training session on strengthening inter-agency co-operation to effectively address hate crimes for representatives of state institutions and civil society in Athens; · Delivering a training session on researching unreported hate crimes and hate incidents for criminal justice and human rights professionals in Warsaw; · Publishing a factsheet on the guide Building a Comprehensive Criminal Justice Response to Hate Crime: A Resource Toolkit; · Publishing a survey report on the nature and scale of unreported hate crimes against members of selected communities in Poland; and · Assessing the impact of project activities to develop a regional approach to countering hate crime during an event held with project partners in Milan, Italy. ROMA AND SINTI ISSUES Fund/Programme/Project Region/Country Included work on: Project: Assisting participating States to Effectively Implement the Action Plan on Improving the Situation of Roma and Sinti in the OSCE Area OSCE Region · Providing professional development opportunities for young Roma and Sinti activists at ODIHR, by hiring two Junior Experts for a period of six months; · Organizing a two-day training seminar on short-term election observeration for nine young Roma; · Supporting one young Roma to serve as a short-term observer (STO) to the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission to Ukraine's Early Parliamentary Elections, and another to serve as STO to the European Students’ Forum (AEGEE) Election Observation Mission to Poland; · Organizing the side event “Roma and Sinti Youth Initiative: Youth as Agents of Change” on the margins of HDIM; and · Supporting the participation of 19 young Roma and Sinti activists in Human Dimension and other events organized by the OSCE and/or ODIHR. 86 DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE OSCE