3.1 Gender Section Introduction The OSCE Gender Section in the Office of OSCE Secretary General has a key responsibility to ensure that the OSCE successfully implements the 2004 OSCE Action Plan for the Promotion of Gender Equality. In June 2017, the “Secretary General’s Annual Evaluation Report on the Implementation of the 2004 OSCE Action Plan for the Promotion of Gender Equality in 2016” was published. The report shows that the OSCE field operations continue to face challenges in recruiting women as experts in police affairs, as in 2016 less than one in ten police experts was a woman. The Gender Section also provided support to the OSCE Secretariat Departments, Institutions and field operations to gender mainstream their projects and other activities. Gender mainstreaming of projects related to the security sector, including civilian policing, is still often limited to ensuring gender balance in participation, while there are still only a few projects that have gender equality as a principle objective. Activities Related to General Police Development and Reform Gender and Ethnic Mainstreaming The OSCE is committed to advancing the implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security in the OSCE region. The Gender Section has for several years provided support to the OSCE participating States in preparing effective National Action Plans to implement Resolution 1325. In September, the Gender Section, together with its partner organization Inclusive Security, brought together governmental and civil society representatives from 14 OSCE participating States and the OSCE Mission in Kosovo for a workshop in Vienna to discuss the challenges and best practices in preparing National Action Plans on implementing UNSCR 1325. There is an upward trend in National Action Plans both globally and in the OSCE region and, at the time of writing in early 2017, 31 OSCE participating States had adopted a National Action Plan. Gender-based and Domestic Violence The preparation phase for the Gender Section’s three-year survey project on the “Well-being and Security of Women Gender Section – Police-Related Activities 2016  Total   Information Exchange / Institution and Capacity-Building Analysis of Lessons Learned, Assessments and Guidelines ACTIVITIES ON: General Police Development and Reform 100% Threats posed by Criminal Activity 0% 34