Kyiv, 31 March 2016 – The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine and UNDP in close cooperation with the Government of Ukraine are launching a new initiative to increase transparency and integrity in the public construction sector.
Kyiv, 15 March 2016 – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and UNDP in Ukraine in close cooperation with the Government of Ukraine are launching a new project to help Ukraine prevent corruption.
On 16 February the Verkhovna Rada adopted in one vote, in the first and final reading, the draft law no. 3755 by MP Denysenko (Petro Poroshenko Bloc's faction). Before the vote a number of significant changes were introduced in the draft law orally, without proper discussion and without consideration in the committee.
Ivano-Frankivsk, 29 December 2015 – Representatives of the Ombudsperson's Office and the UMDPL Association conducted a monitoring visit to the National Police's Head Department in Ivano-Frankivsk region to assess its compliance with the access to public information law.
Seoul, 4 December 2015 – The international knowledge exchange about effective ways to ensure public construction transparency based on Korea's experience was organised by the UNDP Seoul Policy Centre in partnership with the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea.
Kyiv, 6 November 2015 – A 2-day workshop on access to public information, organized by the Media Law Institute with the support of UNDP Ukraine, brought together civic activists from all over Ukraine to increase their capacity for making government information available to the public.
Kyiv, 25 September 2015 – The Open Government Partnership Coordination Council in Ukraine held an expanded meeting chaired by its deputy head Oleksandr Ryzhenko, Head of the State Agency for e-Governance.
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.
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.
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.
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.
UNDP invites you to take the survey to determine what government data should be open in the first place and what format of open data is the most appropriate.
Odesa, 27-28 June 2015 – Regional Coordinators of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, social activists, and journalists from different regions of Ukraine took part in the kick-off workshop on "Public monitoring of the right of access to public information in law enforcement bodies."
Kyiv, 25 June 2015 – The Open Government Partnership Coordination Council in Ukraine held a public meeting chaired by its head Mr. Hennadii Zubko, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities.
Kyiv, 24 June 2015 – The European Union (EU) and the Council of Europe (CoE) officially announced the launch of their joint project "Strengthening the implementation of European human rights standards in Ukraine" at the meeting with representatives of the government, civil society, and international organizations.
9 June 2015, Kyiv – More than a hundred of civic activists, governmental officials, and representatives of international organizations gathered at the roundtable to discuss the progress in implementing the 2014-2015 Open Government Partnership National Action Plan approved by the Government in November last year.
When you check your smartphone in the morning trying to figure out if you need an umbrella or a heavy coat that day, or use your GPS navigator to avoid traffic jams, or look for directions on user-generated Open Street Map, you are relying on open data. A new law adopted by the parliament will make open data even more ubiquitous and accessible, making the lives of millions of Ukrainians easier.
In Lokachi district of Volyn region, eight rural councils approved the Regulations of providing free primary legal aid and the selection commissions involving legal entities of private law to provide free primary legal aid.
Ukrainian human rights activists, Alexandra Matviychuk, Center for Civil Liberties, and Vadim Pyvovarov, Association of Ukrainian Human Rights Monitors on Law Enforcement, participated in an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in New York on the situation in Ukraine.
On 8 August civic experts together with the experts of the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights held a seminar "Access to public information: how to arrange the effective work of the government agency" for the officials of the municipal authorities.