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Korea shares award-winning ‘Clean Construction System’ with Ukraine

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15.07.2016

Kyiv, 15 July 2016 – Korean authorities brief Ukrainian governments on the benefits, best implementation practices and lessons learnt from their award-winning Clean Construction System for efficient and transparent public administration, with a view to support reform and accountability in the public construction sector of Ukraine.


28242488731 82769d8939 oSome 100 officials from the Ukrainian Government as well as key policy and business stakeholders working on open data and construction sector management reforms, were briefed yesterday by the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) of the Republic of Korea, as it shared experiences and lessons learnt from its Clean Construction System (CCS), an effective technological and institutional approach, which enhances transparency, efficiency, and the protection of construction workers' rights in the public construction sector. A video presentation can be found here.
 
Organized in partnership with the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ukraine and the UNDP Seoul Policy Centre (USPC), the workshop meets Ukrainian authorities' need for best practices that increase transparency and accountability in the construction sector, as part of the ongoing reform process.
 
Introduced in Korea in 2011, the CCS has been implemented by relying solely on continuous advocacy, training and demonstration to users of its practical benefits, as a legislation-based approach may have delayed the reform process. It won the prestigious UN Public Service Award in 2013, in recognition of its innovation and potential for application in other countries.
 
28216968572 fc57df39e5 o"With the strong leadership of the Minister of Infrastructure and the dedication of all relevant government institutions and citizens, I have no doubt that Ukraine will succeed in making public construction more efficient and transparent, thereby accelerating its economic and social development even further," said the Mayor of Seoul, Mr. Park Won-soon, in his congratulatory remarks delivered through a video message.
 
A substantive and technical description of Seoul's One Project Management Information System (One-PMIS) also demonstrated to workshop participants the systematic and effective real-time management of public construction projects, about 90% of which is automatically transmitted to the Construction Information Disclosure System ("Allimi") for public access. A video presentation can be found here.
 
To date, the CSS' Allimi has disclosed information on 2,600 public construction projects in Seoul. In 2015 alone, some 164,419 people used the Allimi website, while another 5,867 people accessed the information via the mobile application.
 
27704990583 fd3fc85a7a oThe Seoul Delegation also shared the overall lessons learnt and policy recommendations to enhance transparency in the public construction sector included, while Ukrainian stakeholders provided an overview of their current initiatives in open data and transparency and discussed the way forward in Ukraine, both at national and sub-national levels, including open data development roadmap and potential ways to apply the CCS to the Ukrainian context. A video presentation can be found here.
 
Today, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Mayor of Seoul, Mr Won-soon Park, and the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine, Mr Volodymyr Omelyan, affirming their mutual interest in sharing Korea's experiences on enhancing efficient and transparent public construction management with Ukraine. A video of the press briefing can be found here.
 
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