20   DEMOCRATIZATION “ Stronger co-ordination between financial institutions and anticorruption bodies needs to be promoted as a necessary step towards a more effective fight against corruption.” Drago Kos, Chairperson of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Working Group on Anti-bribery Magnus Ohman (r), IFES Senior Political Finance Adviser and Director of Regional Europe Office speaking at an event on financial regulations in politics, while Keti Maisuradze (c-r), IFES Deputy Chief of Party of Georgia, Daniel Smilov (c), Associate Professor at the Political Science Department of University of Sofia, Lisa Klein (c-l), Political Finance Specialist, and Christophe Speckbacher (l), Head of Section of Council of Europe's Secretariat of the GRECO listen, in Tbilisi, 18 February 2016. (OSCE/Jacopo Leone) for regular exchange of experiences. ODIHR organized a working follow-up meeting on 28 and 29 September 2016 in Warsaw, initiating a series of consultations on the establishment of the proposed Network in 2017. Advancing transparent political finance, accountable democratic institutions ODIHR reinforced its efforts in 2016 to assist anti-corruption agencies and regulatory bodies, as well as civil society, in selected OSCE participating States to fight political corruption. The innovative and cross-dimensional “Money in Politics in South-Eastern Europe” project, implemented jointly by ODIHR and the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, in co-operation with OSCE Field Operations, assessed the level of co-operation among relevant anti-corruption bodies in the Balkan region, identifying key challenges and existing gaps in order to promote more comprehensive and holistic approaches to effectively fight corruption. Practical steps towards improving political finance regulations in Eastern and Central Europe were discussed by over 100 political officials and non-governmental experts from more than 30 countries during the Money in Politics conference organized by ODIHR together with a number of other partners in Georgia in early 2016. The Fourth Political Party Expert Workshop, organized by ODIHR in Kyiv, Ukraine, covered related issues, reviewing international practices in political party regulation and Ukrainian institutions’ efforts to strengthen their party system and the monitoring of political ­party financing. Furthermore, ODIHR has supported the development, adoption and implementation of ethical standards for Members of Parliament in over 15 participating States and worked directly with three parliaments in 2016 alone. The 2012 ODIHR Background Study: Professional and Ethical Standards for Parliamentarians continues to be an important tool, offering comprehensive analyses of how to develop and implement codes of conduct in parliaments. Enhancing Youth Participation Since 2014, ODIHR, establishing partnerships with the Folke Bernadotte Academy, the Central European School for Public Policy, and the EU, provided support to young men and women policy advisors by increasing their capacities to contribute to building democratic institutions,. In 2016, ODIHR organized four policy advisors courses in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, building the capacity of nearly 100 participants to implement their responsibilities as advisors shaping