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.
Sievierodonetsk, 15 September 2015 – UNDP's Democracy University (DemoVersity) attracted over 50 students and civic activists from eastern Ukraine to celebrate the United Nations International Day of Democracy.
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.
6 April 2015, Kyiv – an opportunity to voice citizens' views on topical issues via electronic petitions was discussed during a roundtable, organized by the Reanimation Package of Reforms (RPR) initiative with the support of UNDP in Ukraine and other partners.
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.