DEMOCRATIZATION A youth forum organized in Warsaw on 16 and 17 June focused on promoting political participation of young leaders in the OSCE region. OSCE/Murat Gungor Ensuring Pluralistic Political Party Systems Political parties are fundamental to ensuring pluralistic democracy and citizens’ participation in political and public life. Political parties play a key role in ensuring women’s meaningful political participation, the proper functioning of parliaments, transparency of party financing, and the separation between political parties and the state. These issues were the focus of ODIHR’s activities in 2014 when assisting OSCE participating States in advancing their multiparty political landscapes. The Office continued to utilize the ODIHR-Council of Europe Guidelines on Political Party Regulation, as a tool to assist OSCE participating States in formulating legal frameworks that comply with OSCE commitments and other international standards. ODIHR organized a Roundtable on Political Party Finance in Georgia on 13 and 14 February in Tbilisi, and presented good practices of political party regulation to 25 Mongolian parliamentarians on 25 and 26 June in Ulaanbaatar. In Mongolia, ODIHR emphasized the importance of independent financial oversight and monitoring of political parties. The Expert Workshop on Campaign Finance Monitoring, held on 30 June in Warsaw, also focused on issues 36 ODIHR Annual Report 2014