Kyiv, 26 February 2016 – The President of Ukraine signed a Decree to promote civil society development in Ukraine during the meeting with representatives of civil society organisations.
Kyiv, 20 November 2015 – The country's biggest civil society forum welcomes more than 1,300 civic leaders, business people, and public officials to share and discuss innovative ideas and good practices of building capacities of civil society organizations (CSOs).
The United Nations Democracy Fund invites civil society organizations to apply for funding for projects to advance and support democracy. Project proposals may be submitted on-line between 15 November 2015 and 31 December 2015 at www.un.org/democracyfund. You can find guidelines, FAQs and lessons learned from previous rounds at http://www.un.org/democracyfund/application-materials.
Kyiv, 6 November 2015 – The national conference "Civil Society and State: Strategy for Cooperation and Development 2016-2020" brought together representatives of the government and civil society to discuss the revised National Strategy for Developing Civil Society over the next four years.
Kyiv, 10 July 2015 – The Center for Civil Liberties and Euromaidan SOS initiative presented the second edition of the report "Crimea. Chronicles of Occupation" featuring a chronology of the political persecution of civil society in the occupied peninsula.
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, 8 June 2015 – A working group of experts from civil society, academia, and government gathered to conduct an inventory of today's Ukrainian civil society for the upcoming National Strategy for Support of Civil Society Development in Ukraine.
2 June 2015, Kyiv – Over 30 civic activists from 17 regions of Ukraine took part in a workshop hosted by UNDP Ukraine to increase their capacity for expanding anti-corruption efforts to regions.
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) is pleased to offer four separate human rights monitoring workshops to civil society representatives in Ukraine. The workshops will take place in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa and Lviv.
On 5 November, diplomats, representatives of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and international experts on human rights gathered in Geneva to hear the assessment of Ukrainian human rights defenders of the human rights situation in Crimea and eastern Ukraine.
On 1 November, Chasopys Creative Space hosted the final meeting of grantee organizations in the thematic area "Support of civil society as the engine of democracy and good governance," organized by CCC Creative Center in the framework of UNDP project "Democratization and human rights in Ukraine," funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.
On 22 August the Government cleared a package of draft laws that will, if adopted and implemented, enable the most extensive anticorruption reform in Ukraine since its independence. The draft laws envisage establishment of a full-scale state-wide mechanism for corruption prevention, as well as investigation and prosecution of individuals who have committed grave corruption offences.
How do you overcome the government inertia for change in such a tough field as corruption prevention and make sure that the usual "go-through-the-motion" is replaced by reformative locomotion?
On Friday the venue of the Council of Ministers of Crimea hosted a cross-regional round table as to the prospects for the development of the civil society through adoption and implementation of oblast-level target programmes and implementation of the Law of Ukraine on public associations. The event served as an introduction to the conference "State of the art and challenges for the development of the civil society in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea".
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Council supported the draft Oblast-level Programme to Promote Civil Society Development for 2014 - 2015. The decision was approved by a majority vote at the Council session on 15 November, 2013.
On 14 November Donetsk Oblast Council approved the oblast Programme to Promote Civil Society Development for 2013 - 2015 with the overall budget of UAH 2038 thousand.
The round table initiated in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council by the Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research and Association for Promoting Citizen Self-Organization was meant to discuss the prospects for the development of the civil society through adoption and implementation of oblast-level target programmes and implementation of the new Law of Ukraine on public associations.
All-Ukrainian Network of CSOs in support of civil society development was created in October in Kyiv with 27 CSOs from all over the country serving as its pillars.