2014, the Mission organized a summarizing workshop which was held on 17 December in Prishtinë/Priština. The workshop hosted the staff of the Office, alongside the representatives of the Mission, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Kosovo Police Directorate of Community Policing and Crime Prevention and ICITAP. During the workshop, the Coordination Office staff reported on the progress achieved during the year, identified gaps and shortcomings, made plans for improvements and elaborated on the action plan of the Office for 2015. Throughout the year, the Mission implemented the second phase of the joint OSCE and Royal Norwegian Embassy project to help improve safety and inter-ethnic relations in local communities. As a result, 22 initiatives of the Local Public Safety Committees were implemented and the representatives of different ethnic communities (including women, youth and the elderly) in the respective communities throughout Kosovo directly benefited from improved safety conditions. These implemented initiatives mainly covered activities such as installation of security and surveillance cameras; provision of IT, sport equipment and items for kids with special needs; construction of school sports infrastructure and environmental classes; improved environmental conditions in a community through cleaning activities, as well as awareness of schoolchildren on environmental protection and first aid; street lighting; improved road safety infrastructure; and co-operation between different ethnic groups through two “youth camps for better future”. In addition, safety conditions were improved in ten different schools through construction of pavements within their schoolyards and fenced stairs. Municipal Community Safety Councils (MCSC) Following the 2013 local elections in Kosovo, the Municipal Community Safety Councils16 were established in 34 out of 38 municipalities in Kosovo, with the four northern municipalities only recently having begun their function under Prishtinë/Priština administrative system. While the majority of the Councils are mainly compliant with the requirements of the relevant administrative instruction, in most cases there are still shortcomings in representation, as well as in drafting and adoption of working plans. Commitment and dedication of the Councils’ chairpersons varies between municipalities, while in some areas members complain of non-payments and lack of funds for community safety initiatives. The Mission continued to build institutional capacity of the municipal and grassroots-level community safety forums by contributing to new and sustainable solutions to enhance communication between the Councils, Committees and the Kosovo Police, especially in those municipalities where Committees have not been established. For this purpose, between March and December the Mission organized 21 one-day community policing seminars as part of its capacity building training for Councils, where the mayors/Council chairpersons, Council co-ordinators, police station commanders and senior officials from the headquarters, sector leaders and representatives from the Ministry of Internal Affairs discussed the benefits of establishing Committees as effective community policing tools and ways of improving co-operation between the grassroots and municipal levels. In most municipalities, the mayors recognized the advantages of community engagement on local and neighbourhood level and agreed to undertake actions toward initiating the establishment of new Committees. Although full results will not be seen until 2015, the Mission’s capacity building programme has so far contributed to increasing the number of municipalities where Committees were established from 17 to 25 by the end of the year. The Mission also continued to provide support to the Steering Group for Monitoring the Implementation of the Community Safety Strategy and Action Plan 2011-2016 in drafting the central-level monitoring mechanism for collection and analysis of community safety-related 16 72 Municipal Community Safety Councils are consultative bodies formed in Kosovo municipalities in order to foster dialogue between Kosovo Police, municipal authorities and civil society on security issues.