DEMOCRATIZATION legislation pertaining to 19 human dimension topics in all OSCE participating States. The database also contains key international instruments and materials pertaining to the protection of human rights. In 2013, the database received more than 200,000 visits, an increase of 22 per cent on the previous year. In 2013, almost all the thematic areas outlined on Legislationline were extensively revised and updated. Legal documents, including primary and secondary legislation, international standards and useful links to other resources for lawmakers, were collected in all official OSCE languages and are accessible through the website’s English- and Russian-language interfaces. DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE AND GENDER ODIHR worked closely with national parliaments, political parties, government bodies and independent human rights institutions over the course of 2013, and continued to support the full participation of civil society in governance processes. OSCE field operations remained key partners in the implementation of ODIHR’s democratic governance and gender equality activities, while the Office itself sought to enhance its role as a “knowledge hub” of good practices in the OSCE region. In addition, ODIHR expanded its cooperation with international and regional actors with the aim of ensuring synergies in democratic governance and gender-equality initiatives. For example, ODIHR continued to act as the OSCE liaison to the Council of Europe on local governance in countries of South-Eastern Europe, and has expanded its network of partners working on youth participation and women’s political participation. Increasing Women’s Participation in Politics ODIHR continued the implementation of its project on women in political parties, which builds the capacity of parties to adopt measures to promote women as party leaders, decision-makers and candidates for public office. ODIHR organized an evaluation training workshop on 11 and 12 February in Tirana focused on voluntary measures political parties can take to increase women’s participation, where women politicians assessed the effect of previous project activities and presented recommendations to enhance project impact. From 22 to 25 November, ODIHR organized a regional workshop on women’s political leadership in Bishkek, bringing together 35 women politicians from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Participants developed political leadership skills and discussed opportunities and challenges associated with crossparty co-operation on gender equality. Building on the achievements of the project in laying the groundwork for women to be better represented in political parties, ODIHR began implementation of a second project, on strengthening women’s participation in political parties. This project targets political party leaderships, women leaders and gender advocates to help advance women’s political participation and promote gender equality within political parties. ODIHR also started work on an assessment methodology to determine the level of gender equality in political party structures, procedures and processes, which it will apply during national workshops with party representatives in selected pilot countries in 2014. ODIHR continued to promote its baseline study Gender Equality in Elected Office: A Six-Step Action Plan in OSCE participating States. The study includes strategies for governments and political stakeholders to support women’s meaningful political participation. ODIHR presented the study at events in Georgia, Hungary, Poland, Turkey and Ukraine, as well as in OSCE Mediterranean Partner countries Jordan and Tunisia. For example, ODIHR experts took part in the Ninth Kyiv Dialogue on Gender Politics: Successes, Failures, Prospects on 5 and 6 March in Kyiv, where over 300 participants met to highlight the continuing challenges in increasing women’s parliamentary representation in Ukraine. Similarly, in co-operation with the Central European University and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, ODIHR organized the conference Women’s Political Participation in the Upcoming Elections on 15 November in Budapest. The event, which gathered 150 participants, was held to encourage political parties to support women’s candidacy ahead of parliamentary elections in Hungary in 2014. In co-operation with the Polish School of Leaders, ODIHR trained Polish women politicians on voluntary measures political parties can take to increase women’s political participation on 12 and 13 August, and supported a study tour to Poland for youth representatives from EU Eastern Partnership countries, enabling them to attend sessions of the OSCE’s Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. ODIHR also undertook to strengthen gender analysis as part of election observation activities and reporting in 2013, building on its existing election observation methodology. Election experts discussed gender mainstreaming in election observation during 32  /   ODIHR Annual Report 2013