The prevention of gender-based and domestic violence was another priority the project addressed in 2010. The project contributed to improving, and where necessary, developing preventive mechanisms on gender-based and domestic violence. The project also contributed to enhancing capacities of key local actors to effectively deal with and combat these phenomena. A series of training courses and seminars, which were held for local administrations, school administrations, medical institutions, local police, and Courts of Elderly, addressed various thematic issues. These included international/national legal norms in the field of gender-based and domestic violence; main problems related to the practical implementation of the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic on the Social and Legal Protection from Domestic Violence; opportunities, limitations and obstacles to improving the work of local municipal bodies in developing and delivering preventive measures. Importantly, several joint multi-agency initiatives were developed as a result of these events. The Office of Internal Oversight reviewed the results of the Domestic Violence project in its Evaluation Report (2010) of police training activities in CiB. It recognized the important role of the training and advisory component of the project in raising awareness of police officers on gender-based and domestic violence, and in improving their professionalism in dealing with such cases.20 The impact of the training was also demonstrated by the increasing number of issued Temporary Security Orders, rising from 292 in 2007 to 2,100 in 2009. Public Order Management The main emphasis in the area of public order management was on raising awareness on tactics that focus on dialogue and conflict prevention, as well as on developing training materials with a human rights approach in public order management. This was done in conjunction with the Police Academy’s Centre for Public Disorder Prevention and Conflict Resolution and the Centre for Human Rights and Civilian Oversight and with civil society. Follow-up training-of-trainer courses were provided in the regions for police officers on the new public order management tactics (first and second stages of the training system), crowd psychology and human rights. The training was provided in co-ordination with the Police Academy’s trainers on human rights. The training goal was to analyse shortcomings in the preparedness of non-specialized police units or inter-service teams (consisting of various police units that are involved during public disorders in provinces), to discuss tactical and other mistakes and to increase theoretical and practical knowledge and skills. As commanders’ performance demonstrated a weak knowledge of the provisions of the Instruction on the New Public Order Management Tactics, a practical training was conducted for 252 police officers of non-specialized police units. However, due to the April unrest, the training schedule was changed. Later on, similar training courses were conducted for nonspecialized police units in Talas, Issyk-Kul, Naryn and the southern provinces of Kyrgyzstan. Overall, some 1,500 police officers were trained on public order management tactics, human rights and crowd psychology issues. The training was delivered by local trainers who had previously undergone training-of-trainers organized by the OSCE. Following the request of the authorities of the Kyrgyz Republic, a training course on public order management was organized by the US Embassy and a training expert of the Centre was tasked to share information with the US counterparts on the methodical approach, lessons learned and the challenges the OSCE had faced during its training of the Kyrgyz police. The OSCE expert attended the training conducted by the US counterparts in 20 94 OSCE, Horizontal Evaluation of Police Training Activities. Based on three cases studies: Police Programmes in Serbia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Kyrgyzstan, Office of Internal Oversight, Vienna, 2010.