DEMOCRATIZATION  //  29 Tomáš Boček, Special Representative on Migration and Refugees of the Council of Europe Secretary General, delivering a keynote address during an ODIHR expert meeting on migrant integration at the local level, with Katarzyna Gardaphadze, ODIHR First Deputy Director, on his right. Warsaw, 26 October 2017. (OSCE/Maria Kuchma) Building on previous assistance to the State Migration Service of Ukraine in meeting EU visa liberalization criteria, ODIHR offered ­recommendations for standard operating procedures for local authorities in the handling of travel and identity document applications and for the establishment of a cross-ministerial data sharing mechanism to facilitate the issuance of travel documents and national identity cards. In September, ODIHR, in partnership with the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, published the Compendium of Good Practices in Identity Management in the OSCE Region. The publication highlights good practices, both in providing evidence of identity for the issuance of travel documents and identity cards and in ensuring access to economic, civil and political rights. Its conclusions informed global discussions on the implementation of the Traveller Identification Strategy of the International Civil Aviation Organization, as well as the review of the EU Action Plan to Strengthen the European Response to Travel ­Document Fraud. ODIHR was a partner in the consortium of international agencies that agreed and launched the Principles on Identification for Sustainable Development: Toward the Digital Age, and co-organized global consultations on advancing standards for civil registration legal frameworks with a number of UN agencies and the World Bank. ODIHR also collated and analysed data on cross-border travel in the OSCE region, publishing a short overview report on Cross-border Mobility in the OSCE Region (2011-2015), providing an update to the 2014 ODIHR Baseline Study on Cross-border Mobility. Women made up 89% of participants at Democratization events in 2017