Publications

Descriptive brochure on the 8th Edition of #YouthTrail that would be dedicated to environmental governance. The #YouthTrail is organized within the framework of the project “Youth in Focus II: Promoting the Role of Youth in Peace and Security in Albania” – implemented by the OSCE Presence in Albania with funding from the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), the Embassy of Greece in Albania, and the Permanent Mission of Italy to the OSCE.

This organizational resilience Guidance Tool is designed to be used by leaders and staff of national human rights institutions (NHRIs). Drawing on the experience of NHRIs around the world, it aims to help NHRIs build and maintain long-term resilience and to respond to threats. Part I examines the importance of organizational resilience and provides advice on the areas NHRIs can focus on to strengthen the resiliency of their institutions. Part II discusses crisis management for NHRIs under threat and suggests some practical ways of responding to pressure and attacks.

These guidelines, jointly developed by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), are designed to support the full implementation of participatory gender audits of parliaments across the OSCE region.

The OSCE Presence in Albania will support three Albanian journalists to participate in a peer-to-peer exchange with international colleagues selected for their investigative reporting. As a means of selecting participants, the OSCE Presence will open a formal competition with an invitation for journalists to apply. The competition will seek best-in-class investigative submissions from print, TV, radio and online media outlets, awarding the top selections from one of three important categories of news topics: 1) Anti-Corruption; 2) Local/Municipal Governance; and, 3) Youth or Gender. Investigative reporting is all about understanding, discovery, analysis, and communication without fear!

A factsheet on ODIHR's activities in Ukraine

The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina produced a factsheet on an ExB project titled: Informed citizens and efficient mechanisms to prevent and fight corruption. The main objective of the Project is to support BiH’s efforts in diminishing corruption by raising awareness of the consequences of corruption for BiH citizens and strengthening the capacity of anti-corruption bodies in corruption prevention.

This publication contains theoretical background about conflicts and their management, analysis of the specificities of conflicts in the public service taking into account the results of sociological research on perception, attitude to conflicts and ways of  managing conflicts in Ukrainian

The manual describes approaches and criteria used for creating starosta’s constituencies by local self-governance bodies. Four models are proposed for starosta’s constituences: «Starostat», «Starosta’s office», «Office of services», «Combined Starosta’s Office».The publication is based on materials

This Manual explains in the Q&A format the legal essence of the starosta’s post in the system of local self-governance, organization of routine activities, basic and additional responsibilities, provision of administrative services, and performance of residency registration by starosta in

The report comprises outcomes from the desk research of the best practices of dialogue evaluation conducted at the end of 2021. It is based on the analysis of academic and practitioner sources covering existing approaches, frameworks, and data collection methods used for evaluation of peacebuilding