CONSOLIDATED REPORT During 2017 a series of training sessions on practical issues of the functioning of NPMs were conducted with the participation of international experts and organizations such as PRI, OSCE, OHCHR, and the Council of Europe. Thus, on 14-15 February 2017, a training seminar was held for newly elected members of the NPM. The training was an introductory course on the functioning of NPMs where special attention was paid to the preparation for preventive visits, the conduct of the visit itself, the preparation of reports on the results of visits as well as the importance of sharing responsibilities among group members. A working meeting of the heads of the NPM preventive visits and reporting teams was held on 15-16 March 2017. Within the framework of this event the group leaders discussed thematic issues of the NPM activities, shared knowledge and experience, and developed proposals for improving the work of the Coordinating Council. 13 In 2017, a very important event, the first Forum of the national preventive mechanism “Prevention of torture, Kazakhstan and international experience,” was held. . The event was dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the entry into force of the optional Protocol to the Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (OPCAT). During the meeting Kazakhstan presented its experience about the functioning of the Torture Prevention Institute and the monitoring of places of deprivation and restraint of liberty. Kazakhstan also discussed how to further improve the NPM activities, including the issues of its legal regulation. During the forum the emphasis was placed on the importance of strengthening the role of the Coordinating Council of NPM and the need to further improve cooperation between the NPM and state authorities at the сentral and local levels as well as administration of the