Laboratory of Legislative Initiatives Complete works of the Second Annual International Conference "Parliamentary Readings" (2011), with the assistance of PDP II

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In December 2011 the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Fighting Organized Crime and Corruption issued New Publication "Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption – assessment of Civil Society (Round Table, 7 December 2011)".Publication  issued with the assistance of PDP II.

Available in Ukrainian Only.

In December 2011 the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Fighting Organized Crime and Corruption issued New Publication "Actual Issues of the Improvement of Anti-corruption Laws as to Professional Ethics of Public Service and Prevention of Conflict of Interests (Round Table, 2 November 2011)". Publication issued with the assistance of PDP II.

The Parliamentary Development Project for Ukraine II together with the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine conducted series of seminars for members of the civic councils attached to the district state administrations. The fifth final seminar was held in the Club of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on December 21 in Kiev. Its participants were 77 representatives of advisory and consultative bodies of the district state administrations of Kyiv, Chernihiv, Khmelnytsky and Zhytomyr regions.

On November 17-18 PDP II supported a series of training sessions conducted at the European Information Support Center (EISC) of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The sessions focused on building skills to conduct legal research using the Westlaw database available through the EISC. Legal experts from among the Verkhovna Rada staff and MPs’ aides as well as interns of the Parliamentary Internship Program working in various parliamentary committees and departments of the VR Secretariat participated in the trainings.

Round-table on "Prospects for the development of inter-municipal cooperation" was held in the Verkhovna Rada` of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (VR ARC). The round-table was organized jointly by the VR ARC and the Parliamentary Development Project for Ukraine (PDP II). The round table was attended by VR ARC members and their assistants, VR ARC staff, members of the Association of Local Authorities of Crimea and Sevastopol, representatives of district councils and rayon district administrations of Crimea.

November 11, in the framework of collaboration between PDP II and the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministries of Ukraine with the support of National Academy of Public Administration a seminar for civic council’s representatives of eastern regions of Ukraine was held in Kharkiv. The participants were heads of civic councils attached to the local state administrations in Kharkiv, Sumy, Donetsk, Luhansk and Poltava regions.

The seminar was attended by about 100 of participants.  They were informed, in particular of the Government's measures to promote civil society, public involvement in decision making process, and implementing public policy. In turn, heads of civic councils were able to express their views on the cooperation with executive bodies, as well as share their experience of such collaboration.
Participants were also introduced to important aspects of the Law of Ukraine "On Access to Public Information".
The program included training on anti-corruption legislation and anti-corruption public expertise, as well as Problem Solving Method training.