[ Tolerance and Non-discrimination ] Participants at an ODIHR roundtable on contemporary forms of racism and xenophobia affecting people of African Descent in the OSCE region, Vienna, 10 November 2011. (OSCE/Veronika Sperl) monitoring the delivery and evaluating the impact of the training. In December, ODIHR piloted TAHCLE in Prishtinë/ Priština, with the support of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo. Forty investigators and police trainers were provided instruction on identifying hate crimes and providing adequate and quick responses to them. Following the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding in Bulgaria in February, the authorities there established an intergovernmental working group to support the implementation of TAHCLE. The implementation plan includes the delivery of training for trainers in March 2012 and the inclusion of TACHLE in the national curriculum for police cadets and investigators. An additional five participating States in 2011 indicated interest in implementing TAHCLE. Supporting Civil Society An OSCE Ministerial Council Decision in 2006 tasked ODIHR to continue its close co-operation with civil society working in the field of combating intolerance and discrimination, including through the collection of data on hate crimes. ODIHR supports civil society organizations in various ways, including training civil 56 ODIHR Annual Report 2011 society representatives, assisting their awareness raising efforts and developing useful resources. In 2011, ODIHR trained more than 100 representatives from civil society organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Greece, Italy, the Russian Federation, Serbia and Turkey. Two training seminars were also organized for more than 40 Roma representatives, from 13 to 15 April in Poland and from 13 to 15 July in Italy. These programmes provided participants with an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the concept of hate crime and explore potential activities to complement government efforts to combat hate crimes. On the margins of the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting in November in Vienna, ODIHR organized a roundtable for people of African descent, focusing on the prevention of racism, xenophobia and hate crimes through educational and awareness-raising initiatives. Fifteen participants from 12 countries discussed the manifestations of contemporary racism targeting African communities, exchanged information on effective responses, and concluded that additional information is needed to determine the scope of the problem in the OSCE region.