Appendix 1 approval. The event aimed at increasing the knowledge and skills of police officers in addressing gender-based violence within the framework of UNSCR 1325 and promoting active co-operation between police and civil society organization. The training included plenary discussions, interactive exercises and joint working sessions where police and civil society elaborated co-operation plans to step up responses to gender-based violence. On 8 and 9 October, ODIHR conducted a training event on “Implementing UNSCR 1325, addressing Gender-based Violence while strengthening police oversight: Training for the Albanian Police and Civil Society”. The event gathered 35 participants (31 women and four men), including 20 police officers from different regions of Albania and 15 representatives from non-governmental organizations, in their role of oversight of the security sector. Among the police representatives were gender and diversity specialists and officers specializing in investigating domestic violence cases. Hate Crime In 2018, ODIHR continued its efforts to support the OSCE participating States in addressing hate crimes through implementation of its “Training against Hate Crimes for Law Enforcement” (TAHCLE) Programme.1 The OSCE participating States showed continuous interest in the TAHCLE programme. Four more participating States expressed preliminary interest in implementing it. Two of them are in the process of finalizing negotiations regarding modalities of the programme implementation; the Memoranda of Understanding will be signed in early 2019. • From 21 to 23 February, ODIHR organized an international ToT on hate crimes in Warsaw, Poland. The event gathered 12 participants (eight women and four men) from eight participating States, invited through the European Network of Police Women (ENP) and the Association of European Police Colleges. The purpose of the training was to promote the TAHCLE as well as other capacity-building programmes and assistance tools, to equip participants with practical instruments to recognize and investigate hate crimes. At the event, ODIHR also identified several potential trainers, later hired to deliver TAHCLE in the interested participating States; • On 5 June, ODIHR presented the TAHCLE programme to relevant representatives of the Spanish government, 1 www.osce.org/odihr/tahcle including ten representatives of the MoI (State Secretariat for Security, National Office for Hate Crimes), National Police, National Police Education Department and the Civil Guard (three women and seven men). Following that, ODIHR proceeded with drafting a Memorandum of Understanding and negotiating modalities of TAHCLE implementation in Spain; • From 29 to 31 August, ODIHR delivered a three-day ToT session for 20 female police officers from eight participating States. ODIHR and the ENP co-organized the event, hosted by the Scottish Police College. The event aimed at empowering female police officers and increasing their knowledge on addressing hate crimes and learning ODIHR’s teaching techniques used in the TAHCLE programme. This training session was also a good opportunity for ODIHR to promote its capacity-building programmes in various participating States through the participants of the event; • On 16 October, ODIHR conducted an awareness-raising seminar for senior officials of the Turkish National Police and Turkish National Police Academy (TNPA). The event gathered 22 participants (two women and 20 men). The workshop was a part of the Memorandum of Understanding signed between ODIHR and the TNPA in January 2016 and the final stage of the TAHCLE implementation in Turkey. The Turkish authorities informed ODIHR that the cascading process was ongoing and the TNPA planned to train 380 trainers in total, who would then disseminate TAHCLE in the form of half-day training sessions to all police officers in the country within the next few years as a part of in-service training. In parallel, TAHCLE modules became part of the TNPA standard curriculum for future police officers. TNPA delivers the modules on hate crimes within the courses on Criminology, Constitution and Human Rights; • From 23 to 25 October, in the framework of preparations for the TAHCLE implementation in Georgia, and following an official request ODIHR received from the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia on 9 August 2017, ODIHR conducted a Needs Assessment Mission to Tbilisi. The visit aimed at assessing the scope and nature of biasmotivated crimes in Georgia, the capacity of the police and civil society to address such crimes, and understanding the approach to police training and the existing police training system. During the visit, ODIHR took part in the first meeting of the National Implementation Working Group, which discussed the training curriculum in detail. ODIHR and the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs will sign the Memorandum of Understanding in February 2019; 149