Kyiv, 18 March 2016 – The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine hosted the first meeting of the Monitoring Committee on the issues related to the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness, which Ukraine joined with an Action Plan prepared by the CSOs in cooperation with the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with the support of UNDP Ukraine.

Kyiv, 5 February 2016 – The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine endorsed the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness which places the country amongst the leaders of the global legislative openness movement.

Kyiv, 29 October 2015 – The coordination meeting on Ukraine's joining the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness was held by Ukrainian MPs and civil society experts with the support of UNDP Ukraine.

On 17 February 2015, a press-conference to present first results achieved by the IDP Resource Centre was held in Kyiv. For the first four months the Centre has assisted over 4,500 IDPs by providing consultations on psychological and legal issues, employment, and accommodation, and delivered humanitarian assistance to more than 2,600 resettlers.

Women's role and performance in politics has been a heated topic for many years, and was revisited on 26 October 2014 when parliamentary elections took place in Ukraine. Statistics shows that the new Verkhovna Rada has the largest number of women MPs in the history of independent Ukraine.