4.8 Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine In April, the PCU and the EUAM jointly organized the third Parliament-Civil Society Platform, as a Kyiv-based analogue to the Donbas forums. The event focused on Ukrainian police reform, and was attended by approximately 150 people, including several participants from earlier Donbas dialogue forums. Gender-based and Domestic Violence At the request of Ukrainian Ministry of Social Policy, the PCU, in co-operation with the OSCE Secretariat’s Gender Section, UN Women and other partners, provided expert support in the drafting of the Ukrainian National Action Plan on UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. This was adopted by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in February. To support the implementation of the National Action Plan on UNSCR 1325 “Women. Peace. Security”, the PCU facilitated the development of a training manual and course on gender aspects of conflict for law enforcement and military personnel and social service providers. The developed training material will be piloted in 2017 with the aim to further finalize and handover the material to the relevant training institutions. In order to raise awareness and strengthen inclusiveness and co-operation in the implementation of the National Action Plan, in September, the PCU, in co-operation with the “Equal Opportunities” Caucus of Ukrainian Parliament, Ukrainian government, NGOs and international partners, organized an International Forum on Partnership between the Parliament, Government and Civil Society on the Implementation of the National Action Plan. At the request of the Ukrainian Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine, the PCU facilitated the drafting of governmental regulations on a National Referral Mechanism (NRM) to provide assistance to victims of gender-based violence, including violence resulting from the current conflict. The draft is expected to be approved in 2017. The PCU also assisted in the development of a monitoring card to ensure regular and comprehensive monitoring and evaluation of the progress made in the implementation of the National Action Plan on UNSCR 1325 “Women. Peace. Security” at both the national and regional levels, with a specific focus on gender-based violence. When approved, the monitoring card will allow the government to have a detailed method of tracking data on specific types of genderbased violence offences, along with demographics of victims and offenders, including if they belong to the most conflictaffected population groups such as IDPs, ex-combatants, etc., as well as measures undertaken to respond to each case and other data recommended by OSCE, Council of Europe and EU gender-related documents. In October, the PCU, together with the Ukrainian Ministry of Social Policy, conducted a three-day workshop on strengthening interagency co-operation for preventing and combating domestic violence and providing comprehensive services to victims for 25 regional social service practitioners. On 3 November, at the request of the Ukrainian Ministry of Social Policy, the PCU facilitated a dialogue platform for over 150 heads of the regional departments of social services and child protection to discuss the implementation of social reforms in the context of decentralization and the influence of gender aspects. A special focus was put on improving the basic social protections of the population as a pre-condition for combating manifestations of gender-based violence including human trafficking and domestic violence. Participants also discussed the influence of decentralization processes on the implementation of the state policy to promote gender equality, communicated respective challenges to the management of the Ministry, and jointly identified solutions to be implemented in 2017. Extensive support to Ukraine’s police reform Ř Over 10,400 police officers trained Ř Seven training curricula 98 Ř Interactive training methods with a strong focus on daily policing Ř Selection and training-of-trainers constituting of 161 training not only among representatives courses/subjects and 1588 of police and its educational training hours developed and institutions, but also external implemented trainers from civil society, business, leading IT, law, banking, university and forensic institutions Ř Cross-cutting evaluation Ř 96% of trainees successfully pass exams