
Kyiv, 19 June 2016 – The third graduation ceremony took place at the Open University of Reforms – an educational initiative of the Reanimation Package of Reforms held this year thanks to the support of UNDP in Ukraine and the Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law.
During three months, the University's participants took an 11-day training course, which consisted of 90 academic hours. Such anti-corruption leaders as MPs Viktor Chumak and Yehor Soboliev, UNDP experts Ivan Presniakov and Sofiya Kovach, CEDEM Director and RPR Council Co-Chairman Taras Shevchenko were among the speakers.
Ivan Presniakov, Head of UNDP's Enhanced Public Sector Transparency and Integrity Project, noted: "This was the first graduation of the Open University of Reforms that was supported financially by the UNDP's Enhanced Public Sector Transparency and Integrity Project. I am exceedingly happy that large numbers of people with law degress who have never encountered anti-corruption subject before are now involved in the anti-corruption movement gaining influence in Ukraine."