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UNDP-supported CSO hubs become winners of the 4th Best Annual Report Award

Kyiv, 10 July 2015 – Donetsk branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine and Kherson Community Fund "Zakhyst" scored second and third respectively in the 4th Best Annual Report Awards, organized by CCC Creative Centre with support of the Democratization and Human Rights Programme in Ukraine (DHRP), implemented by UNDP and funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.

The Ombudsperson’s Regional Coordinators participate in the first NPM monitors' Forum

Vinnytsia, 8-9 July 2015 – Regional Coordinators for public relations of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsperson), National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) monitors, human rights activists, and international organizations representatives took part in the first NPM Monitors' Forum.

Open Government Partnership working groups conduct midterm review

Kyiv, 8-10 July 2015 – The Open Government Partnership Coordination Council's working groups on preventing and combating corruption and introducing e-governance and developing e-democracy held meetings to discuss the status of the 2014-2015 Open Government Partnership Action Plan implementation, resolve a number of organizational issues, and elect the working group leadership.

E-Governance boosts reforms in Ukraine

Kyiv, 8 July 2015 – The Public Council under the State Agency for e-Governance in Ukraine held a meeting to discuss the draft policies to modernize the principles of electronic identification, electronic services, electronic interaction, and disclosure of official information in open data formats.

Reforms en Route: how changes in legislation affect the lives of ordinary people

Kherson, Mykolaiv, Odesa, 1-3 July 2015 – The Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative (RPR) continues its "Reforms en Route" all-Ukrainian tour, presenting their findings on the adoption and implementation of urgent reforms for the country. This time RPR experts visited Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Odesa, as supported by UNDP and other partners.

Training civic monitors to ensure access to public information in law enforcement bodies

Odesa, 30 June - 1 July 2015 – The second workshop in a series of capacity enhancement activities on public monitoring of the right of access to public information in law enforcement bodies was organized by the Association of Ukrainian Human Rights Monitors (UMDPL Association) and the Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsperson) with support of UNDP Ukraine.