86  //  ANNEXES Fund/Programme/Project Region/Country Included work on: Combating Hate Crime - Prosecutors and Hate Crimes Training (PAHCT) OSCE region • Signing an agreement on PAHCT with Slovakia; • Needs assessment visits prior to the implementation of PAHCT in Slovakia; and • Delivering training-of-trainers sessions in Georgia, Iceland, Malta, Slovakia. ROMA AND SINTI ISSUES Fund/Programme/Project Region/Country Assisting Participating States to OSCE region Effectively Implement the Action Plan on Improving the Situation of Roma and Sinti within the OSCE Area Included work on: • Implementing Partner Agreements signed with three NGOs in Georgia, Poland and Serbia on projects relating to the participation and security of Roma youth; • Hiring two Junior Experts with the OSCE/ ODIHR Contact Point on Roma and Sinti Issues for six months each; • Organizing training for a group of 27 Roma and Sinti NGO activists at HDIM, out of which ten were young Roma and Sinti representatives; • Supporting the participation of two young Roma and Sinti activists in the SHDM; and • Supporting the participation of seven women, young Roma and Sinti activists to the Gender Equality Review Conference. UKRAINE Fund/Programme/Project Region/Country Included work on: Programme on ODIHR Support for and engagement in Ukraine Ukraine • Developing practical tools for officials conducting public consultations and human rights impact assessment of draft legislation in Ukraine; • Holding two trainings on effective and human rights compliant policing in Roma communities to 40 Ukrainian police officers and teaching staff members of the National Academy of Internal Affairs; • Holding a roundtable discussion on access to identity and civil registration documents among Roma in Ukraine, producing recommendations to overcome obstacles in access to such documents; • Implementing the Office’s partner agreement with the Kharkiv Institute for Social Research on research on the perception of security among Roma men and women in Ukraine; • Promoting the human dimension of security, fostering the participation of civil society in its work and strengthening the co-operation between governmental actors and the non-governmental sector through organization of a large conference summarizing ODIHR’s engagement in Ukraine; • Building capacity of Ukrainian civil society to identify, monitor and report on human rights issues and to advocate for better protection of human rights; • Following up on monitoring of the human rights situation in Crimea;