3.3 Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings Introduction In line with the 2003 OSCE Action Plan to Combat THB, including its 2005 Addendum addressing the special needs of child victims of trafficking and the 2013 Addendum complementing the Action Plan and the Ministerial Council Decision No. 3/06, the OSR/CTHB is mandated to address all forms of THB. This includes raising the public and political profile of combating THB, assisting participating States in setting up national strategies and implementing their OSCE anti-trafficking commitments, as well as co-ordinating anti-trafficking efforts within the OSCE, with national authorities and other relevant stakeholders. The OSR/CTHB’s current strategic priorities include: improving victim identification and assistance; strengthening the criminal justice response; enhancing the prevention of human trafficking, with a special focus on child trafficking and combating human trafficking along migration routes, in supply-chains and during conflicts. The OSR/CTHB co-operates with relevant thematic units of the OSCE Secretariat and field operations in projects and joint activities through its network of Anti-Trafficking Focal Points. For this purpose, the OSR/CTHB engages TNTD/SPMU on issues of mutual concern, including police-related matters. In 2015, the OSR/CTHB initiated a Methodology for the OSR/CTHB Training Strategy, which should improve the overall capacity of the OSCE and other relevant actors in pS to respond effectively to THB. The training strategy is expected to provide a broad overview of potential training areas, including those listed in the 2013 Addendum to the OSCE Action Plan. It should outline specific training modules that could be developed to strengthen the capacity of relevant actors and experts from a variety of disciplines within the criminal justice system, labour inspection services, civil society, governmental and non-governmental sectors, media, and any other sector or structure involved in combating and preventing trafficking in human beings. Two staff members of the OSR/CTHB implement police activities and aim in furthering the exchange of information and strengthening capacity-building and training. The 2015 Revised Budget (UB) of the OSR/ CTHB totalled € 831,500, of which approximately 7% (€ 56,276) was allocated to police-related activities. Activities Related to Threats Posed by Criminal Activity Trafficking in Human Beings & Migration-Related Crime In 2015, the Office organized meetings with Italian lawenforcement experts to develop a specific response to the issue of combating human trafficking along migration routes, to enhance the criminal justice response to human trafficking, and to prompt identification of trafficking victims among irregular migrants. From 2-5 March, the OSR/CTHB organized a training course on THB for OSCE Monitors in Kiev, Kharkov, and 34 Dnepropetrovsk. Additionally, from 7-8 April, the OSCE SMM, PCU and the OSR/CTHB organized a training course on THB for OSCE SMM Monitors in Kiev. 25 participants from Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Odessa, Kherson, Kyiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Luhansk, Severodonetsk, Donetsk, Kramatorsk and Mariupol field offices attended the training. Participants were trained on international standards on the prevention of THB, the applicable Ukrainian legislation, and the national referral system. From 18-20 March, in the framework of the OSR/CTHB’s project “Combating Human Trafficking along Migration Routes”, the OSR/CTHB visited the Centre of Excellence for Stability Police Units (CoESPU) in Vicenza. During the visit, the OSR/CTHB held meetings with the Directors of CoESPU and the European Gendarmerie Force and further visited