Prevention Network Workshop” in Brussels. The primary aim of the workshop was to bring together different expert opinions and experiences from policy-makers, academics and local practitioners to create a platform of discussion and present concrete guidelines with recommendations to inform and support local policy-makers and practitioners in the field of crime prevention. On 17 December, TNTD/SPMU and UNODC jointly organized the “Sub-Regional Policy-Makers Meeting on Holistic Approaches to the Prevention of Youth Crime and Violence” in Belgrade, Serbia. Representatives of the Ministries of Education, Youth and Sport, Health and Interior from Albania, Montenegro and Serbia shared experiences and results of programmes implemented in the area of youth crime prevention with the aim of identifying best practices and joint future interventions at the regional level. Gender-based and Domestic Violence In 2018, TNTD/SPMU launched a pilot project to support Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania in their fight against gender-based violence. By not only targeting criminal justice practitioners (police, prosecutors and judges) but also civil society, social workers and academia, the project aims to ensure a comprehensive approach to gender-based violence. Funded by the European Commission, the project “Effective Criminal Justice Strategies and Practices to Combat Gender-based Violence in Eastern Europe” is implemented in partnership with the Institute of Police Education at Linnaeus University in Sweden and in co-ordination with the OSCE Gender Section and ODIHR. Prior to the official launch of the pilot project, TNTD/SPMU visited Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania on 6, 10 and 18 July to meet the members of the national Steering Committees and identify, in close co-operation and consultation with them, relevant practitioners and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) dealing with cases of gender-based violence that could be part of the Working Groups and Reference Groups. During these meetings, the project team conducted national baseline needs assessments to identify the capacity-building needs of the stakeholders, as well as the benchmarks for measuring progress. Together with the implementation partners, TNTD/SPMU organized the pilot project’s kick-off event on 20 and 21 September. This event was built on the results of the assessment visits to the beneficiary countries undertaken previously by the project team. A total of 72 participants, including experts from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO) took part in the event, which was aimed at discussing project activities 18 and operational modalities, in particular the situational analyses the Steering Committees will conduct at the national level. Templates for these situational analyses were also discussed at the event, together with the respective national representatives and international experts. At the opening session, the Permanent Representatives to the OSCE of the three beneficiary countries signed Statements of Support for an effective and efficient co-operation in the project area. Other, including co-ordination and co-operation On 29 January and 12 September, TNTD/SPMU invited the Delegations of the OSCE participating States to the Hofburg in Vienna for a briefing session on planned projects and programmatic police-related activities. During these briefings, TNTD/SPMU staff presented Unified Budget (UB) and ExB activities and plans for the upcoming year. On 6 February, TNTD/SPMU participated in the “Ministry of Interior Innovation & Foresight Summit” in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The meeting was attended by 250 participants from the United Arab Emirates, Australia, Belgium, France, Italy, Morocco, the Republic of Korea, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, UNODC, INTERPOL and the OSCE. TNTD delivered a presentation on the OSCE’s activities related to countering cybercrime and actively participated in the workshop “Innovation with External Partners to achieve Greater Results”. In the margins of the Summit, TNTD/SPMU met the INTERPOL Director of Innovation Centre (Singapore) to discuss OSCE cybercrime capacity-building activities in South-Eastern Europe. On 18 and 19 April, TNTD/SPMU co-organized and participated in the regional meeting of Heads of Law Enforcement Departments of OSCE field operations (HoLEDs) in South-Eastern Europe in Prishtinë/Priština. The meeting was hosted by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and attended by representatives from all six OSCE field operations in South-Eastern Europe, as well as of TNTD/SPMU. Each OSCE field operation introduced and discussed their planned police-related activities, followed by general discussions on co-ordination and co-operation of tasks, activities and events. Participants agreed that closer co-operation was needed, especially in thematic-related tasks and projects such as community policing. Regional HoLEDs meetings are convened annually in South-Eastern Europe and Central Asia, in addition to one annual OSCE-wide meeting in Vienna. The purpose of these HoLEDs meetings is to gather relevant representatives of field operations and other executive structures with the goal to reinforce co-ordination and cooperation, and exchange information and good practices on the regional levels and between the OSCE Secretariat and other executive structures.