3.1 Gender Section Introduction The Gender Section within the Office of the Secretary General continued its support to the participating States in preparing effective National Action Plans to implement UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. Activities Related to General Police Development and Reform On 22 and 23 March, the Gender Section and the Institute of Inclusive Security convened a two-day National Action Plan workshop in Yerevan, Armenia. Fifteen Armenian government representatives and five civil society experts worked together to learn new skills on how to implement UNSCR 1325 at the local level. On 19 and 20 April, Government and civil society representatives from Andorra, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Slovakia, Turkey and Turkmenistan gathered for the third OSCE National Action Plan Academy workshop in Vienna to discuss good practices in the implementation of UNSCR 1325. On 1 October, the Italian OSCE chairmanship, in cooperation with the Gender Section and ODIHR, organized a conference on “Women in the Security Sector: Challenges and Opportunities for the OSCE Area and Beyond”. In total, 119 participants attended the event. In 2016, the Gender Section started implementing a threeyear ExB funded research project, the “OSCE Survey on the Well-being and Safety of Women”.  2017 was dedicated to the development of research materials and the preparation of the mainstage fieldwork. Data collection, which constituted most of the fieldwork, was completed in 2018 in seven OSCE participating States, including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine. The research was also conducted in Kosovo1. Gender Section – Police-Related Activities 2018 1 Total 4 3 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% 1 34 All references to Kosovo, whether to the territory, institutions or population, in this text should be understood in full compliance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244.