CAT/OP/MKD/1/Add.1 Execution of Sanctions in cooperation with the United Nations Development Program – UNDP and the Ministry of Education and Science. The training was delivered by professors from SAGS, Koco Racin”– Skopje, and it included 17 PDTL – women. VI. Juvenile detention 73. Aiming to improve the treatment and care of juveniles who are serving an educational measure – referral to an educational correctional facility, the Directorate for Execution of Sanctions envisaged a special strategic goal in the National Strategy for Development of the Penitentiary System in the Republic Macedonia within the framework of the National Strategy. 74. In the course of 2016, new house rules were prepared for the institutions in which an educational measure is carried out – a referral to an educational-correctional institution. The house rules were adopted on September 15, 2016. 75. Furthermore, the Basic Life Skills Program for Minors in the Tetovo Educational and Correctional Center is implemented as an integral part of the YOU TURN / EQUIP Program for work with minors, whereby among other things, juveniles are educated on the basic life skills. It is implemented on a continuous basis. 76. Within the activities of the Project “Improving the prison conditions for reintegration of juvenile detainees”, which has been implemented since 2013 in order to improve the treatment of juveniles at Ohrid Prison and ECI Tetovo, continuous training of the personnel of ECI Tetovo and personnel of Ohrid Prison is delivered on the application of the YOU TURN / EQUIP Program for working with minors. YOU TURN / EQUIP program is applied continuously, while the project was completed in April 2017. 77. A brief preventive program for strengthening the awareness of minors on the negative consequences of the use of drugs and prevention of transmissible infections has been drafted. The implementation of training for trainers and the implementation of the program will follow in the upcoming period. 78. Also within the framework of the Project supported by the Dutch Helsinki Committee and the Dutch Directorate for Educational and Rehabilitation Institutions, a kick-off meeting was held in January 2017 at the Directorate for Execution of Sanctions, attended by representatives from these institutions, the Director of DES and the ECI as well as the employees in the DES. This project represents an upgrade of the MATRA/COPROL project (2013–2017), which was previously implemented and juveniles in the Republic of Macedonia were involved. 79. The aim of this project is to improve the opportunities for juveniles for successful reintegration into society by introducing official working methods for prison staff and their integration into official policies and curricula in educational institutions, while strengthening the capacities of prison staff, prison administrations and representatives of the Ministry of Justice. 80. Since the beginning of 2018, the activities under the aforementioned project were continued and 2 (two) workshops were held which were attended by the employees of ECI Tetovo and Ohrid Prison as well as employees of the Directorate for Execution of Sanctions. 81. The Directorate for Execution of Sanctions, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme and the Ministry of Education and Science, implemented a PilotProject for completion of primary education for minors who are serving prison sentences in the PCI Ohrid Prison or minors that are serving an educational measure at the EducationalCorrectional Center Tetovo, whose premises are temporarily placed in Ohrid Prison. The project was implemented from October 1, 2017 until March 30, 2018, including the study of the Macedonian language and numerical literacy, covering 22 juveniles. The teaching was carried out by teachers from the elementary school “Hristo Uzunov” – Ohrid. 11