DEMOCRATIZATION Alice Thomas, Chief of ODIHR’s Legislative Support Unit, addresses a workshop for preparing a roadmap to streamline and improve the lawmaking process in Serbia, Belgrade, 28 November 2013. (OSCE/Milan Obradovic) the Council of Europe, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Swedish Foreign Ministry and academia. The handbook, which combines a compilation of fair-trial standards with practical guidance on monitoring administrative proceedings for compliance with these standards, serves as a reference tool to support monitoring activities and awareness-raising initiatives on fair-trial standards in administrative proceedings. As a direct follow-up to the launching of the handbook, FBA and ODIHR supported the OSCE Mission in Kosovo in the development of a pilot project on monitoring administrative justice. The project will be the first to utilize the Handbook for Monitoring Administrative Justice. Supporting the Adjudication of War Crimes Under the War Crimes Justice Project – Phase II (WCJP – Phase II), ODIHR strengthened the capacities of justice systems through 10 training sessions and peer-to-peer meetings in seven locations throughout South-Eastern Europe, benefiting 212 practitioners (81 women and 131 men) working on war-crimes trials as judges, prosecutors, defence counsel and witness-support providers. The events focused on the exchange of good practice on modes of criminal liability for violations of international humanitarian and criminal law and trial advocacy skills specific to war crimes trials. WCJP – Phase II is a follow-up to Phase I, which was funded by the EU and implemented by ODIHR. Election Dispute Resolution In follow-up to the recommendations of its election observation missions, ODIHR assists participating States in providing access to justice and effective legal remedies for election-related disputes, in accordance with OSCE commitments. In Serbia, ODIHR brought together national stakeholders and international experts in election dispute resolution on 6 November in Belgrade, continuing a series of roundtable consultations to follow up on the recommendations of ODIHR election observation mission reports related to election dispute resolution. ODIHR Annual Report 2013  /   27