12    ELECTIONS United States of America General Austria Presidential repeated second round 30 October, 13 November EOM In 2016, women made up 43% of all ODIHR election observers. to provide clarity and consistency, and to promote greater attention to the implementation of recommendations. Throughout the year, ODIHR continued using digital pens for the submission of observation information by short-term observers in observation missions, which helped streamline and enhance the collection of data they provided. TRAINING OBSERVERS ODIHR supports OSCE participating States in their training of observers Women “ Women ODIHR’s new handbook on following-up on electoral recommendations is an important milestone for all involved made up to in election observation. The European Parliament is committed made up supporting the follow-up of ODIHR’s recommendations in order to maximize the impact of election observation.” 70% 42% Pietro Ducci, Director of Democracy Support at the European Parliament. of participants at Democratization of participants at Contact Point for Roma and Sinti 13 4 December 14 15 11 December The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Early parliamentary Lithuania 12 Uzbekistan 9 October 11 Early Presidential 18 September 10 Moldova 9 4 December Presidential 8 8 November Parliamentary Montenegro 16 October Parliamentary 7 Parliamentary 29 June 6 Parliamentary Georgia Parliamentary Belarus 5 Russian Federation 5 March 4 8 October, 30 October 11 September Mongolia 3 Slovakia The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Early parliamentary 5 June (postponed) 2 Parliamentary 1 24 April Parliamentary 20 March Early parliamentary Serbia Early parliamentary Kazakhstan 2016 Election-Related Activities LEOM EET EAM seconded to election observation missions. Throughout 2016, ODIHR contributed to courses organized by the German Centre for International Peace Operations, the Solidarity Fund in Poland, the Centre for European ­Perspective in Slovenia, the Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan and the European Inter-­University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation. Through extra-budgetary funding, ODIHR also provided comprehensive election observation training to broaden the pool of potential observers from participating States that do not regularly send election observers and, thus, are eligible under the Fund for Diversification. In 2016, ODIHR hosted a training course for long-term observers, from 7 to 11 November in Belgrade. In total, 23 potential observers from 15 participating States, benefitted from the training.