1. Jan Plešinger The OSCE Documentation Centre in Prague: what we do and what we offer
The core instrument of OSCE’s engagement after Paris Chapter: the field operations
My personal experience: getting to know OSCE as implementing partner, donor, worker in the field and worker in the Secretariat.

2. What is the DCiP?
The OSCE Documentation Centre in Prague (DCiP) deals with documentation of OSCE activities, disseminates public information about OSCE and serves as the organization's repository. In co-operation with the OSCE Secretariat, the Centre provides support to annual meetings of the OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum in Prague – the key event of the OSCE’s work in economic and environmental dimension of security.

3. Documentation Centre in Prague
Archives From 1970 until now
- Document orders and answering of questions /
Mailing list - Sending of OSCE Magazines to subscribers
Internship
Online Library (
Reference Library & Paper Publications
Economical and Environmental Forum
Researcher-in-Residence Programme

4. DCiP and the OSCE field presences
DCiP, the OSCE Office in Prague is its documentation centre
Materials from the closed mission are at your disposal both physically and electronically
Researcher-in-Residence programe enables access to historical files
There are many lessons to be learned from the closed field presences
Studying the past may help us to avoid future mistakes
DCiP dissemimates public information

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6. OSCE Missions and Field Operations
OSCE missions are an important instrument of multilateral diplomacy in the areas of conflict prevention and crisis management. About 2,500 OSCE associates are currently working in 18 missions (called "missions", "offices" or "project offices") in 16 countries of South Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Mandates are agreed on in the OSCE Permanent Council by consensus, i.e. including the vote of the host country. The mandates of individual missions can take various forms, depending on the situation and needs of the host country. They comprise, inter alia, support and advisory services in the promotion of democracy and the rule of law, human rights and the rights of minorities as well as civil society development.

7. Learning the Lessons of the Past
Explanatory notes: OSCE presence with some other form of continuity, OSCE highly specific missions with terminated task,
terminated OSCE presence in EU countries, OSCE presence terminated abruptly or sooner than expected
OSCE Missions of Long Duration in Kosovo, Sandjak and Vojvodina OSCE Mission to Ukraine OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission OSCE Representative to the Joint Committee on the Skrunda Radar Station OSCE Mission to Estonia OSCE Mission to Latvia OSCE Advisory and Monitoring Group in Belarus OSCE Assistance Group to Chechnya OSCE Centre in Tashkent OSCE Representative to the Estonian Expert Commission on Military Pensioners OSCE Mission to Croatia OSCE Centre in Dushanbe OSCE Mission to Georgia OSCE Office in Minsk OSCE Office in Zagreb

8. Is OSCE field presence a stigma for the host country?
Different qualities and level of control by respective host countries, different mandates and methods of work – diplomacy, projects, cooperation etc.
Presence in Albania
Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mission in Kosovo
Mission to Montenegro
Mission to Serbia
Mission to Skopje
Mission to Moldova
Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine
Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine
Observer Mission at the Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk
Project Co-ordinator in Baku
Office in Yerevan
Centre in Ashgabat
Programme Office in Astana
Centre in Bishkek – Programme Office (2017)
Office in Tajikistan – Programme Office (2017)
Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan

9. Geographical distribution of OSCE Missions and Field Activities
South Eastern Europe
Albania
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Kosovo
Montenegro
Serbia
Skopje (Macedonia)
Eastern Europe
- Moldova
Ukraine
South Caucasus
Baku (Azerbaijan)
Yerevan (Armenia)
Central Asia
Ashgabat (Turkmenistan)
Astana (Kazakhstan)
Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan

10. Cooperation with other institutions - Does the OSCE presence in the field correspond to lack of international cooperation from a host country?

11. The OSCE activities in Ukraine and Moldova
Project for Co-ordinator in Ukraine
Special Monitoring Mission
Donetsk
Gukovo
Mission to Moldova
MH17 crash site
Mission to Ukraine

13. The OSCE activities in Western Balkans
Mission to Croatia
Office in Zagreb
Mission to Serbia
Missions of Long Duration in Kosovo, Sandjak and Vojvodina
Mission to Bosnia I Herzegovina
Kosovo Verification Mission
Croatia: Sisak, Vukovar, Knin
Long Missions were withdrawn due to Yugo
Mission to Kosovo
Mission to Montenegro
Mission to Skopje
Presence in Albania

14. The OSCE activities in Latvia, Estonia, and Belarus
Representative to the Latvian-Russian Military Pensioners' Commission
Mission to Estonia
Estonian Military Pensioners Commission
Mission to Latvia
Representative to the Joint Committee on the Skrunda Radar Station
Advisory and Monitoring Group in Belarus
Office in Minsk
Johvi and Narva
Skrunda

15. The OSCE activities in Caucasus
Znamenskoe
Branch office in Tskhinvali
Assistance Group to Chechnya
Office in Georgia
Project Co-Ordinator in Baku
Office in Yerevan

16. The OSCE activities in Central Asia
Programme Office in Astana
Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
Centre in Bishkek
Centre in Ashgabat
Office in Tajikistan
Centre in Dushanbe
Centre in Tashkent

18. Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe:
"Getting to Know the OSCE as Implementing Partner, Donor, Worker in the Field and Worker in the Secretariat".
Jan Plešinger

19. Structures And Institutions 2013
Summit
Meeting of OSCE Heads of State
or Government
Line of Command
Provides Support
Ministerial Council
Annual Meeting of OSCE Foreign Ministers
(except of years with Summit)
Economic and Environmental Forum
Regular annual meeting within the economic
and environmental dimension of the OSCE
Permanent Council
Regular body for political consultation and
decision-making (weekly)
Forum for Security Co-operation
Regular body for arms control
And CSBMs (weekly)
Chairman-in-Office
(Germany )
Troika
(Serbia, Germany, Austria)
OSCE
Parliamentary Assembly
Copenhagen
Personal Representatives
of the Chairman in Office
Office for Democratic
Institutions and
Human Rights
Warsaw
Secretary General
Vienna
High Commissioner
On National Minorities
The Hague
OSCE Representative on
Freedom of the Media
Vienna
OSCE Secretariat
Vienna
Documentation Centre in Prague
OSCE Field Activities
South Eastern Europe: Presence in Albania, Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mission to Kosovo, Mission to Montenegro, Mission to Serbia, Mission to Skopje
Eastern Europe: Mission to Moldova, Project Coordinator in Ukraine
South Caucasus: Office in Baku, Office in Yerevan
Central Asia: Center in Ashgabat, Center in Astana, Center in Bishkek, Office in Tajikistan, project Coordinator in Uzbekistan
High-Level Planning Group
(makes recommendations on developing a plan for the establishment
force structure requirements and operation of a multinational OSCE peacekeeping
force for the area of conflict dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference.
OSCE Assistance in Implementation of Bilateral Agreements
The OSCE Representative in the Russian-Latvian Joint Commission on Military Pensioners
The OSCE Representative to the Estonian Government Commission on Military Pensioners

20. OSCE Assistance Group to Chechnya
The OSCE AG to Chechnya: in Grozny 1995 – 1998
December 1998: AG's international staff was evacuated to Moscow due to the deteriorating security situation.
December 2000: local staff moved to the new AG office in Znamenskoye in the north of Chechnya.
On 15 June 2001, after almost two and a half years of evacuation, the AG's international staff returned to Chechnya.
The mandate of the Group was extended for one year until 31 December 2002.
The mandate was not further extended and the administrative closure of the Assistance Group was completed on 21 March

21. Implementing Partner
„The OSCE’s co-operation with NGOs/CSOs as implementing partners is regulated by the OSCE Financial/Administrative Instruction 15 (FAI 15). Before engaging an implementing partner, the Project Manager and Chief of Fund Administration will ensure the NGO/CSO is selected in line with FAI 15 and that the co-operation is based on a reasonable level of OSCE involvement to ensure the proper monitoring, controlling and self-evaluation of the project.“

22. People in Need – the implementing partner
People in Need has been operating in Russia since the time of the Chechen wars.
It was one of the first international humanitarian organisations to independently reach Chechnya with a delivery of food after the cessation of extensive battles in February of 2000.
It was forced to end its activities in the Caucasus in 2005

23. Specialized Projects – OSCE and the IP
Inhabitants of Chechnya – in need of pure water
OSCE Assistance Group – obtained water purifying filters
OSCE had no distribution network
People in Need – had very good distribution network but had no possibility to obtain the water purifying filters
Therefore People in Need becomes OSCE‘s implementing partner

24. Czechia – the donor to OSCE
The Czech government identified as its development priorities in Kosovo fight against
organized crime and support for minorities
OSCE Mission in Kosovo mediated between the Kosovo Police Education Centre
in Vushtrri/Vucitrn and the Czech Government, which offered to donate 45,000 euros 

25. Czechia – the donor to OSCE
OSCE Mission in Kosovo implemented a Czech-sponsored project that supported the education faculty to train primary and secondary school teachers and improve the quality of education, especially in other languages spoken in the community (non-Albanian, non-Serbian).

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