QUARTERLY PERFORMANCE REPORT Year 4 (January 01 – …

RADA PROGRAM

Responsible, Accountable, Democratic Assembly in Ukraine

QUARTERLY PERFORMANCE REPORT

Year 4

(January 01 – March 31, 2017)

Submitted: April 20, 2017

Cooperative Agreement No. AID-121-A-14-00001

USAID RADA Quarterly Report, January 01 – March 31, 2017 Page 2

Program Background

East Europe Foundation is pleased to submit Quarterly Performans Report of its Responsible Accountable Democratic Assembly (RADA) Program in Ukraine for period of January 1, 2017 – March 31, 2017.

The Program was awarded by USAID the East Europe Foundation and launched in Ukraine on November 26, 2013 under Cooperative Agreement No. AID-121-A-14-00001.The Program is implemented in cooperation with Ukrainian Parliament, Ukrainian Government, local governments, regional associations and highly qualified civil society organizations.

The RADA program is designed to promote a representative, accountable and independent Parliament through (1) support to MPs to build constituent relations and improve their representation function; (2) expand citizen education and monitoring of Parliament and MPs in order to increase their accountability, and improve civic engagement in the legislative process; and (3) promote parliamentary independence to counterbalance the government by enforcing the rules and procedures that govern the body.

The RADA Program is administered to the following three program objectives:

i. Improved public presentation in the legislative process;

ii. Expanded role of citizens in monitoring Parliament’s work;

iii. Strengthened role of legislature in providing independent oversight of Executive branch of power.


Approach to Implementation

The RADA program works in conjunction with partners to form an alliance of Ukrainian CSOs that offers the RADA program as USAID’s primary vehicle for achieving one of the three USAID/Ukraine Mission Development Objectives “More Participatory, Transparent and Accountable Governance Processes.”

The RADA alliance partners implement innovative programmatic tools based on their vast experience of previous work in the Ukrainian context with government agencies both at national and the local levels, plus a variety of emerging local CSOs. Alliance partners include Internews-Ukraine, OPORA and Agency for Legislative Initiative (ALI). Their projects are supported via sub-grant mechanism.

RADA’s approach to institutionalize successful programs, such as parliamentary internship program, citizen monitoring of the legislative process and MP and MP aids training programs with Ukrainian CSOs and VR’s constituent units. RADA builds strong double-sided relationships with VR Secretariat, the VR Rules Committee, VR Committee on Prevention Crime and Corruption, VR Committee on Legal Policy, VR Committee on State Building, Regional Policy and Local Self-Governance, VR Press Services and other structures of the Parliament to strengthen VR’s legislative capacity through effective cooperation with civil society.

RADA’s alliance partners share their experience in effective participation and monitoring of the legislative and other government processes with emerging NGOs and regional civil society groups. The focus on raising awareness and skills of regional constituents aims reduction of political abyss between citizens and their elected representatives. Civic education efforts ensure more active civic engagement in the process of policy development and implementation at both national and regional levels.

RADA regards the USAID imperative factors (Anti-corruption, Gender equality and Local capacity building) in planning and coordination of all its activities.


Acronyms

ALI Agency of legislative Initiative

ANDU Association of National Deputies of Ukraine

AUC Association of Ukrainian Cities

CM Cabinet of Ministers

CoE Council of Europe

COP Chief of Party

CSO Civil society organization

EEF East Europe Foundation

EP European Parliament

EU European Union

IL Intern’s League

IPU Inter-Parliamentary Union

IT Information Technologies

IUA Internews Ukraine

LSG local self-government

MP Member of Parliament

MP aides Assistants to Members of Parliament

NDI National Democratic Institute

NF Narodnyi Front

NGO Non-governmental organizations

ODIHR/OSCE OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights

OGP Open Government Partnership

OSCE Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

PIP Parliamentary internship program

PPB Petro Poroshenko Bloc

PWD Persons with disabilities

SMD Single mandate district

SME Small or medium enterprise

SMS Short Message Service via mobile telephones

ToT Training of trainers

UN United Nations

USAID United State Agency for International Development

VR Verkhovna Rada (Parliament of Ukraine)

VRC Committee of Verkhovna Rada

VRS Secretariat of Verkhovna Rada

WG Working group

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Table of Content

Program Background .......................................................................................................................................... 2

Approach to Implementation ............................................................................................................................. 3

Acronyms ........................................................................................................................................................ 4

Table of Content ............................................................................................................................................. 5

ACHIEVEMENTS AND SUCCESS STORIES ............................................................................................................ 7

Quality of Legislative Process Index showed slight improvements in the Parliamentary Processes ......... 7

Colloquiums guided innovative teaching of social sciences in secondary schools .................................... 8

Interns’ League succeeded to raise additional funds for the Parliament Internship Program ................ 10

ACTIVITIES ........................................................................................................................................................ 11

OBJECTIVE 1: Improved public representation in the legislative process .................................................... 11

Expected Result 1.1. Effective communication, outreach and constituency services developed ........... 11

Expected Result 1.2. Inclusive legislative practices established .............................................................. 13

Expected Result 1.3. Cooperation between MPs and local governments strengthened. ....................... 16

OBJECTIVE 2: Expanded role of citizens in monitoring the work of Parliament. ......................................... 19

Expected Result 2.1. Civic education initiatives promoted to foster greater citizen engagement in the legislative process .................................................................................................................................... 19

Expected Result 2.2. Civil society monitoring of the VR fostered, including strengthening of lobbying groups. ...................................................................................................................................................... 21

Expected Result 2.3. Reform legislation passed by partnering with other USAID programs. .................. 21

OBJECTIVE 3. Role of legislature in providing independent oversight of the executive branch strengthened ................................................................................................................................................ 24

Expected Result 3.1. Anti-Corruption efforts strengthened including Parliamentary budgetary oversight .................................................................................................................................................................. 24

Expected Result 3.2. Parliamentary oversight strengthened through improved structural effectiveness .................................................................................................................................................................. 24

Expected result 3.3. Internship program institutionalized ....................................................................... 25

Other important activities ............................................................................................................................ 26

CROSS-PROGRAM USAID COMPONENTS ......................................................................................................... 27

Anti-Corruption ............................................................................................................................................ 27

Gender Equity ............................................................................................................................................... 28

People with Disabilities ................................................................................................................................ 28

Local Capacity Building ................................................................................................................................. 28

Lessons Learned ............................................................................................................................................... 30

List of Sub-Grants ............................................................................................................................................. 31

ANNEXES ........................................................................................................................................................... 32

Annex 1. OPORA List of media publications covering project results: ..................................................... 32


Annex 2. Photos of OPORA project events ............................................................................................... 33

Annex 3. Infographics on public report of MP Pavlo Rizanenko (IUA) ..................................................... 35


ACHIEVEMENTS AND SUCCESS STORIES

The RADA Program made a significant progress in bringing up the stronger dialog between the Parliament and local authorities and communities to agenda of separate Members of the Parliament and the Parliament in general. The synergy effect was achieved through a combination of several types of activities that included bringing MPs to their electoral districts (Model District component), consulting MPs on the most effective way to present themselves and keep the dialog with local communities (press-briefings in regions, assistance in preparing presentations and contructing effective trips’ agenda), expert support of meetings of parliament committees and local communities and associations of local governors, and finally with support of two sound regional events that contributed to the effective local governance development – the Prybuzhzhya Forum on Decentralization Issues in Volyn region and the Fifth Municipal Forum in Lviv.

The RADA Program played a key role in articulating the Ukrainian Parliament needs to international donor community that targets building stronger and effective parliament system in the country. Elaborated half-year plan on RADA’s support to the Parliament enabled smoother program implementation and caused higher visibility of the RADA Program in the Parliament. A series of important meetings with the Parliament Speaker and Speakers’ Secretariat, VRU Secretariat management, close cooperation and advice to the Parliament Committees achieved compromise on institutionalizing the Parliament Internship Program with VRU Secretariat. Training and workshop for VRU staff as well as expert support of working group on Parliament reform brought improvements in working relationaships between MPs and executive staff of the Parliament and the RADA Program.

Quality of Legislative Process Index showed slight improvements in the Parliamentary Processes

The RADA Program held an Expert Panel to assess the quality of the Parliamentary legislative processes with the the Quality of Legislative Process Index in 2016. This regular analytical exercise provides external evaluation tp the effectiveness of internal processes and management systems within the Verkhovna Rada by focusing on 9 variables (see description below); rated by 5-point scale where 1 is very low and 5 is very high. The index indirectly measures independence and representative character of the legislature, through a focus on transparency and public accessibility and the legislative-executive relations. The instrument is based on opinion, and is therefore subjective.

The recent Expert Panel comprised 13 experts that represented the Deputy Corp (1), Think Tanks and Analytical Centers (6), US Embassy (1), IFES (1), International Renneisance Foundation (1), Association of People’s Deputies (1), European Infromational Research Center in VRU (1) and the VRU Secretariat (1).

The Index demonstrated the improvements in several areas during 5th Plennary Session if compared to the 4th Session in the Parliament: the Parliament considered more urgent legislation, drafting competene improved; there were more discussions on the issues without degressiosn and political manipulations in the plenary meetings. Experts also noted success of the Parliament in adherence to the parliamentary procesdures over the period of 1 year.

Unexpected backslide in transparency and access of the public to the legsislative processes despite noticeable effort of the Parliament Committees to involve civil society and external expertise to law making and discussions. RADA Program Expert Mr. Volodymyr Kryzhanivskyi explained that discrepancy: “Experts and the public have accustomed to have access to the legislator processes very fast, and they demand more transparency and accessibility without noticing progress made over last three years.”


Colloquiums guided innovative teaching of social sciences in secondary schools

In first quarter of 2017, the Agency for Legislative Initiatives (ALI) held two final colloquiums to present Methodical Guidelines on the Subject of Social Science for teachers of law and history in secondary schools. ALI presented its methodical guidelines at five Colloquiums for more than 200 teachers of law and history in Sumy, Poltava, Brovary, and twice in Chernihiv since October 2016. Trying to reach as biggest audience of teachers as possible with the initiative, ALI aimed to familizarize schools with with new approach in teaching the lessons on the Parliament work with the role-playing game "AGORA: the Democratic Law-Making Procedure in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine”. That civic education module offered the innovative mehodology of teaching that included brainstorming, open discussions, and role-play"Agora". ALI complemented the Colloquiums with the educative video produced by Internews Ukraine "How the Parliament Works" in Brovary and Chernihiv.

After first three events in 2016, ALI faced a high demand for similar educational events for teachers and students. MP Oleksandr Chernenko and MP Pavlo Rizanenko requested similar colloquiums to be held for teachesr in their electoral districts in Chernihiv and in Brovary. Other request was received from Secondary School grade #148 named after Ivan Bahryany (Kyiv): the school principal asked to deliver the game for school students.

Head of Social Sciences Department of Chernihiv Regional Institute of Postgraduate Education Mr. OlekandrMokrohuz who took active part in the Colloquium in Chernihiv on March 10, 2017 said: "The event

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1. Salience of the adopted legislation

2. Committee effectiveness in assessing and presenting draftlegislation

3. Drafting competence: clarity of language, internalconsistency and consistency with other laws

4. On-the-point discussion of the issue (without digressions)

5. Influence of political institutionalization of parliament

6. Efficiency and clarity of and adherence to parliamentaryprocedure

7. Transparency of and access of public to the legislativeprocess

8. Legislative-executive relations

9. Oversight over the executive government

Quality of Legislative Process Index, RADA Program, 2016-2017

5th Plennary Session 4th Plenary Session


became another step on the path of development of a New Democratic Ukrainian School. We have to transfer the gained knowlge to our collagues-teachers during advance training courses."

The most positive feedback was received from teachers about the role-play game "Agora". A participant of the Colloquium in Brovary the Head of the Research and Methodical Center of the Department of Education and Science of Brovary Town Council Olena Martenko expressed her exhitement about new interactive teaching methods: "I believe our schools have teachers who always are mastering modern approaches in teaching. This game and its content offer both role-playing and interaction for teacher and kids, it should be used during lessons for sure.”

Participant of the Colloquium in the city of Poltava on October 27, 2016, Director of the Department of Education and Science of Poltava Regional State Administration Olena Kharchenko, noted relevance of the event: "We, educators, cannot ignore how detached from realitytoday's school curricula are. Therefore, we support the initiative of mandatory course on civic education using new approaches and methods of teaching. Undoubtedly, the role-playing allows students to learn about actual operations of the main legislative body; it should enhance quality of teaching and increase interest, proactivity, and hence students' learning outcomes. We look forward to cooperate with the Agency for Legislative Initiatives in this direction."

The Agency for Legislative Initiatives continues monitoring of the initiative effect bycommunication with teachers who took part in the colloquiums.

ALI expects approval of the methodical guidance and the role-play AGORAwith the Institute of Modernization of Education Content by the Ministry of Education of Ukraine in the 2nd quarter 2017. Upon receiving the approval, the Agency will hold pubic presentation of civic education curriculas"Legislature for Youth", "Youth in Public Programs", "The Political System of Ukraine," and "The Election Process" jointly with the Institute of Modernization of Education Content in Kyiv.

The Shadow Report “Effectiveness of Property Registers in Ukraine" enabled registers' improvements

Agency of Legislative initiatives (ALI) celebrated successful implementation of its recommendations made after its presentation of Shadow Report "Effectiveness of Property Registers in Ukraine" held on November 21, 2016. The recommendations concerned urgent improvements to be done to several state registers.

The VRU Committee on Preventing and Combating Corruption that hosted the presentation advocated the ALI recommendations by sending them to the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, and the State Service for Geodesy, Cartography, and Cadastre in the form of the Committee’s queries. In response, the related executive government counted on recommendations and improved their registers:

• Administration of the State Land Cadastre included to its Action Plan 2017 an important modernization to the public cadastre map: the searchof land plots by addressat the mapwill be introduced during the year.

• The Ministry of Interior made changes to work of the Single State Register by allowing grouping about cars by ownership in information requests despite lack of identity data about the cars (available data can be groups and provided per request).

• The Ministry of Justice used the roundtable recommendations to update the software of the State Register of Real Estate Rights.


Interns’ League succeeded to raise additional funds for the Parliament Internship Program

Interns’ League experienced a growing amount of applications from candidates, which increased by 100 applications in 2017 if compared to the Internship 2015-2016. Interns’s League reduced number of interns for this year by 40 people and had 59 interns in 2017. All selected interns started their Internship with the Parliament in January 2017.

Interns’ League (IL) succeeded to raise funds for 31 young professionals-applicants for scholarships in the Parliamentary Internship Program. The Internship program 2017 was under risk to deny some of the regional participants because of lack of funds. Overall, IL raised UAH 410,385.00 from five donors additionally to the RADA program support. The Deutsche GesellschaftfürInternationaleZusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH allocated funds for 12 stipends and Mr. Valery Karpuntsov, MP of 8th convocation and the PIP alumni granted stipends for 11 young professionals. This year's statistics is a great success for the Internship Program, as since 2010 the demand of all interns in scholarships was never covered. Compared to the 2015-2016 the number of granted scholarships has increased by 40%.

On January 25, 2017 – due to efforts and negotiations held by Interns’ League, the memorandum between the VR Secretariat and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Ukraine on the implementation of the German Youth Internship Program in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine was signed. Starting from March 02, five students from Germany have Internship in the VR Secretariat. Interns’ League pay attention to their adaptation and integration into the community of Ukrainian interns. This is the first official internship for young people from abroad in the Ukrainian Parliament. Such example of a fruitful cooperation is very important, because it shows progress in the process of institutionalization of our Internship Program and demonstrates the openness of the Parliament and the will to work with young people from Ukraine and abroad.

The Committee on Public Health welcomed presentation of the RADA Program intern Alexandra Telehuzova, a student of medical university, that thoroughly and clearly described challenges in medical education in Ukraine during the parliamentary hearings on "Medical Education In Ukraine: A Sight Into the Future" (March 22, 2017). Making a speech during the committee hearings and other parlamentary events is not a common practice for interns. The case with the VR Committee on Public Health proves the high quality of the program participants’ selection process in 2017.

PIP Interns contributed to placement of video records from the Parliament’s event, important activities and meetings to VRU web-portal. This improvement became possible due to bringing an intern to the Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Fro more information please visit http://bit.ly/2opMzdP, http://rada.gov.ua/news/Novyny/142259.html, https://youtu.be/onUuF7xRgtc.

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ACTIVITIES

OBJECTIVE 1: Improved public representation in the legislative process

Expected Result 1.1. Effective communication, outreach and constituency services developed

i. Model District MP Offices

USAID RADA Program continued to support 7 MPs in their effort to communicatebetter with their constituents – local communities, businesses and self-governors and media within the pilot initiative called “Model District”.

In January-February, the RADA Program discussed the needs and expectations with MPs-participants of Model Districtinitiative that became a basis for a half-year plan of MPs communication with constituents in their regions. The most demand was on RADA assistance to organizeTown Halls Meetings (THM) with citizens to discuss urgent local issues. The plan also included a series of public hearings on decentralization, access to the election rights, and media tours for local journalists to cover the Parliamentary activities. Besides, MPs expressed their need in training on collaboration with local authorities and CSOs, communication skills, and education events for teachers on teaching the Parliament activities. As a reasult, the plan included 30 events to be heldby September 30, 2017.

March 29-30, 2017- USAID RADA Program supported Prybuzhzhya Forum on Decentralization Issues that have been organized in cooperation with MP Ihor Huz. About 100 communities’ leaders, representatives of local authorities, local self governance, and civic activists met in Volodymyr-Volynskyy to discuss challenges and success in decentralization process in Volyn region; special attention was paid to peculiarities in implementation of new adopted legislation on decentralization. It was a second big public forum in Model District of Ihor Huz after launching such platform in 2016. If compared to 2015, the number of amalgamated communities increased from 2 in 2015 to 7 in 2017 in the Model District. Internews has assisted with inviting local journalists (linked to ER. 1.1.ii). Mr. IhorHuz benefited from the event by better understanding of local communities’ concerns that allowed him to draw forth ideas to be promoted through legislative initiatives at the national level (linked to ER 1.3).

The RADA Program provided expert and technical support to MP Svitalana Zalischuk with her site visit to the model district in Luhansk oblast. On March 28-29, 2017 MP conducted series of important meetings - with head of the Luhansk Oblast Military Civic Administration Yuriy Harbuz, law enforcement authorities and CSOs as well as voters to discuss the problems of the regions and collect ideas to refer in further MPs’s activities.

On May 29, 2017 – The RADA Program and IFES conducted a round table “On Peoples’ Access to Election Rights” where Ms. Svitlana Zalischuk presented a draft Law on amendments to certain legislative acts regarding rights of Internally Displaced People #6240 that has been co-registered by her. About 30 national and local journalists could participate to the meetings and covered Ms. Zalischuk’s visit with Internews support (linked to ER. 1.1.ii.). In follow up to her meeting with the voters, MP Svitlana Zalischuk met with the Minister on Temporary Occupied Territories Mr. Chernych to present him 21 citizen appeals collected during the visit.

On March 10 and March 31, 2017 - under request of participants of the Model District initiative MPs Oleksandr Chernenko and Pavlo Rizanenko the RADA Program held two Сolloquiums for schoolteachers "Presentation of Methodological Materials on Civic Education" to introduce best practices for Civic Education for teachers of Chernihiv and Brovary and Baryshivka rayons, Kyiv oblast. The Colloquims were developed and conducted by the Agency for Legislative Initiatives (ALI) to increase capacity of teachers to deliver lessons on lawdrafting, Parliament’s key functions for school students (linked to ER 2.1.).

With theRADA Program support, the model district MP Olena Sotnyk launched her 8-stage initiative on development of positioning of Ukraine in international informational and economic environment, on March 22, 2017. That initiative received support from the RADA program and the Parliament of Ukraine after a field meeting of the VR Committee on European Integration "State policy on positioning Ukraine in


European information and economic space" in Kharkiv in 2016. The strategic Initiative includes different tools like brainstorming, town hall meetings, public discussions, committee hearings to incorporate ideas of her district voters in creation the vision of Ukraine for its international branding.

The RADA Program supported the public reports of MP Pavlo Rizanenko to his voters in rayons of Brovary (February 24) and Baryshivka (March 03) about his work in the Parliament over last year. The report was held in form of press-briefing to highlight MP’s accomplishments in period of February 2016 to January 2017: The Parliament adopted 8 draft laws out of 70 draft laws drafted by him. Mr. Rizanenko noted: “The majority of the bills are a long run. An impact of the Bill on Fixed-Term Depositsbecame visible in one year after its adoption in 2015 - finance system of the country was stabilized with the law influence.” The RADA Program partner Internews-Ukraine invited media and streamed the press-briefing online (linked to ER. 1.1.ii).

The RADA Program proposed the most active three MPs – Ihor Huz, Committee on Foreign Affairs, MP Pavlo Rizanenko, Committee on Finance and Banking, and MP Oleksandr Chernenko, Committee on Legal Policy and Justice to participate in the study tour to Germany. MPs will have an opportunity to learn the best practices of communication with constitutents of two members of the German Parliament (Bundestag) Dr. Christoph Bergner and Mr. Hartmut Koschyk’s during their constituency week on May 8-13, 2017. Ukrainian MPs and their aides will have site visits together with german parliamentaries to meet constituencies, local authorities and CSOs, deliver public reports, raise public awareness about the Parliament, and consideration of voters’ needs in legislative process. In addition, participants will have several working meetings with Bundestag offices to learn the work of the executive authorities in the German Parliament, and will learn about the workshops agendas for bureau staff.

RADA will continue process of institutionalization of the Model Districts practice by cooperation with the Organizational Department of the VRU Secretariat. Purpose is to develop relevant procedures on communication with constituents to be recommended to all MPs in current and future convocations of Ukrainian Parliament.

ii. Regional issue-related press-tours

The RADA Program partner Internews-Ukraine (IUA) assisted three MPs in communication with communities and media in their Model Districts by organizing three press-tours that included press briefings, meetings with local authorities and public events. IUA convinced the MPs and their aides to improve MPs’ reporting standards by using more visuals i.e. video presentations, infographics, and by adding site visits to local communities to provide reporters with the opportunity to learn about real life of the regions. IUA efforts to invite 62 journalists from 8 regions resulted with over 70 media materials describing issues of particular regions. Realistic media reports about issues of Ukrainian citizens living in ATO zoneafter visit to Luhansk region were the most stirring because of the limited access to these territories for the media representatives.

In general, the press tours were a new practice for Ukrainian MPs to help effectively interact with the communities to better understand needs and communicate the results of their work through media.

• Two-day press tour of regional media was organized to support the public report of MP Pavlo Rizanenko to towns of Baryshivka on February 24, 2017 and Brovary on March 03, 2017. This year the report of the MP was supplemented with infographics and video reports that clearly demonstrated the indicators that Pavlo Rizanenko achieved this year.

The public report of Mr. Rizanenko attracted twice more residents of the towns than in previous year. Members of local councils, NGOs and local government attended to learn about the MP activities. IUA noted the qudience’s questions were completely correlated with the MP activities, when last year attendies quaried a large number of non-constructive questions and claimed in general, that had no connection with the activities of Pavlo Rizanenko.

Those who could not attend the events had an opportunity to watch a live stream-broadcast at the Facebook pages of NGO Internews Ukraine and USAID RADA Program.

• Two-day press tour of the regional media was organized to Model Distric of MP Svitlana Zalishchuk in Lugansk region. Journalists could attend towns of Severodonetskand Stanitsa Luhanska on March 28-29, 2017 to observe the public report of Ms. Zalischuk, take part in meetings with local


authorities, interview citizens living in the territories close to the contact line of the anti-terroristic operation (ATO).

A meeting with the Head of the Luhansk regional military and civil administration Yuriy Garbuz, his deputies and law enforcement officials, as well as public organizations was held in Severodonetsk. Visit to Stanytsia Luhanska provided understanding about problems related to the so-called gray zone ATO. Journalists could listen to expert opinions on the issue of IDPs’ voting rights during a round table held in coordination with The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES).

Summing up the two-day visit, MP Svitlana Zalishchuk emphasized the need and importance of such visits, which help MPs and the media coverage and solve problems in frontline areas: “Security issues, the problem of rebuilding social infrastructure, housing people, living conditions of IDPs, working conditions of teachers and doctors are abandoned in Lugansk region. Problems that people experience in rest territories of Ukraine should be multiplied by two, to understand situation in Luhansk. I seek for opportunity to solve the region’sproblems one by one during such visits.”

IUA assisted the MP to prepare more qualitative information for jorunalsits that needed more analytical and evidence data about the region. The meetings and analytical data formed deeper understanding of the situation in the region among reporters who have never visited the regions before.

• IUA assisted MP Ihor Guz to organize and conduct a one-day press tour of regional media to his Model Districto town of Volodymyr-Volynskyi in Volyn region on March 30, 2017. This year press tour had more illustrative concent: journalists visited Zymne’sunited territorial community to learn about successful decentralization reform in action. On the reporters’ opinion, the site visit better than words demonstrated how local population can benefit from the reform and journalists got inspired to support the decentralization nationwide in their further publications.

iii. Open Government Partnership Implementation

The RADA Program together with the Open Government Partnership Support Unit and Interns’ League took part in the donor-driven meeting at UNDP office on February 14, 2017. The donor-driven meeting discussed opportunities for further involvement of civil society into the parliamentary processes along with international practices to motivate MPs to be more open to the public.

iv. Training for MPs, MP aides and faction staff

Internews-Ukraine delivered a two-day workshop Digital security for MP in Kyiv on March 30-31, 2017.

Digital security expert of the Institute of Mass Information Iryna Chulivska and Digital security expert and analyst of "Center UA" Anton Kushnir held the workshop. VR staff members and MPs aides (8 women and 7 men) took part in the event. The trainers provided the participants with basic data protection rules that included accounts protection (email, social networks), mail accounts and social networks protection, devices protection from physical loss / physical access, devices protection from spyware and viruses, protection of data link surveillance by Internet service providers and other intermediaries.

The analysis of feedback showed participants' interest in the subject, the relevance of provided information, and appreciation of high level of event management.

Expected Result 1.2. Inclusive legislative practices established

i. New Civic Platform CSO Registry

In March 2017, the Agency for Legislative Initiatives passed the administration of an electronic CSO Registry to the other RADA partner –Interns’ League.

The electronic CSO Registry was presented during the monthly coordination meeting of the representatives of the RADA Program and partner organizations with the heads of the Secretariats of Parliamentary Committees and secretariats of the parliamentary factions and groups on 28 March 2017.

A survey conducted among the participants representing the Parliament unwealed that 83% (15 people) of respondents believed that the presentation of an electronic CSO Registry was relevant and useful to the committees/parliamentary factions, meanwhile 94% of respondents (17 people) stated that they planed to use this resource in the future. Representatives of the VR Committee on Family, Youth Policy, Sports and


Tourism and representatives of the party "Narodnyy front" stated that the registry is useful as an information resource or directory.

Among the practical offers introduced at the meeting there was an idea to invite the representatives of the organisations listed on the CSO Registry to the commitee events and make it possible for them to get electronic conclusions. Because of the presentation and further communication, two new committees joined the Registry: the Committee on Cultureand the Committee on veterans, combatants, ATO and disabled. It is qiute important that one of the interns of the Committee on Culture is authorized to work with the CSO Registry.

ii. Promotion of the CSO Registry’ public use

On March 28, Interns’ League with assistance of Serhiy Cherednichenko presented CSO e-Registry – the new electronic tool for the VR Committee Secretariats with all necessary information on over 80 active Ukrainian NGOs that are ready to cooperate with VR Committees. The presentation was made for heads and deputy heads of the VR Committee Secretariats heads. Roundtable Expert Discussions in cooperation with the Constitutional Assembly on constitutional changes

iii. Public education on decentralization and regional reform

The RADA Program Coordinator Ihor Parasyuk has developed a manual “Legislative dimension of the decentralization: The overview of Ukrainian legislation” during the reporting period. The manual was disseminated among participants of different events on decentralization and regional reform (see ER. 1.3.i. and 1.3.ii). The publication is available at http://www.radaprogram.org/publications/zakonodavchyy-vymir-reformy-decentralizaciyi.

iv. Training on Policy Analysis for lawmakers

No RADA activities in the reporting period.

v. E-Platform to monitor and respond citizens’ legislative petitions and complaints

In order to popularize the service of electronic petitions to the Parliament, the weekly reviews in the form of infographics were introduced. These reviews introduce new and the most popular petitions to the Parliament - during the reporting period 2 reviews were released. Infographics were disseminated through publications on the IL website and Facebook (4,090 followers), and FB pages of the RADA Program (3,220 followers) and East Europe Foundation (8,090 followers).

vi. Support activities of the European Informational Research Center (EIRC)

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http://www.radaprogram.org/publications/zakonodavchyy-vymir-reformy-decentralizaciyi


USAID RADA program undertook initial efforts to strengthen institutional capacity of the EIRC:

• The content management of EIRC’s web-site1 and Facebook page2 was passed to the EIRC staff in March 2017. This is important step towards improving PR capacity of the EIRC.

• Training course on policy analysis for the EIRC staff started on February 2017. Four PIP young professionalshaving intership with EIRC and RADA program were invited to participate.

• RADA management discussed opportunities to report on EIRC activities at the VRU’s TV-Channel RADA.

USAID RADA Program supported presentations of EIRC activities at three events with participation of MPs and executives of the Parliament:

• At the Panel Discussion «The control powers of the German MP’s over the FRG Government: best practices for the reform of the Verkhovna Rada» on March 6, 2017;

• At the Panel Discussion «Foreign experience of regulating the role of opposition in parliaments. Political debate. Regulation of the participation of opposition in the work of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine» on March 22, 2017;

• At the USAID RADA Coordination Meeting with the heads of secretariats of parliamentary committees and deputy factions on March 28, 2017.

Presentations resulted with growing number of requests to EIRC for analytical information and legal justifications. During first three months of 2017, the Center received 22 requeststhat included:

Analytical notes developed by the EIRC responding to the requests are available at http://euinfocenter.rada.gov.ua/documents/Request/.

vii. Policy Dialogue Meetings in cooperation with the Association of National Deputies of Ukraine

• On March 22, The RADA Program jointly with the VRU Procedure Committee and Association of People’s Deputies of Ukraine conducted a round table “International experience of the parliamentary opposition. The political debate. Regulation of participation of the opposition in Parliament." 48 representatives of VR and civil society discussed possible solutions to improve dialog between coalition and opposition in the Ukrainian Parliament. The RADA Program Senior Consultant Volodymyr Kryzhanivskiy summed up the suggestions of experts to resolve the issue:

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1) Amendments to the Rule of Procedure of VR on the forming and activity of the coalition and the opposition should be adopted. Such amendments will provide the legal basis of dialogue between the coalition and the opposition.

2) Due to to the European Parliament’s Needs Assessment Mission’ Recommendations, the Agenda-Setting Council of VRU should play a role of inter-factional platform for the dialog to include MPs from different parties and groups.

3) Considering disunity of the parliamentary minority’s groups, their activities should be regulated in some way. Individual membership in the "minority" can not be excluded; however MPs should be encouraged to join MPs factions and groups.

Expected Result 1.3. Cooperation between MPs and local governments strengthened.

i. Support regional local government associations and the Association of the Ukrainian Cities (AUC) – biannual MP district report sessions

• The RADA Program became one of the organizers of the Fifth Municipal Forum in Lviv, which was held on March 24-25, 2017. The event gathered more than 400 participants including 20 MPs, several dozens of officials, local heads, representatives of local councils, experts and representatives of mass media, had the goal to discuss the topics, which are among the direct competence of the RADA Program.

The RADA Progrm fully formed one panel discussion devoted to the collaboration of Ukrainian parliamentarians with local councils and their associations. TheRADA Program COP Ihor Kohu tmoderated it. Three people’s deputies – Yuriy Bublyk,VR Committee on issues of state building, regional development and local self-government; two deputies running Model Districts Ihor Huz and Pavlo Rizanenko, the deputy to the executive director of the Association of Ukrainian cities (AUC) and the mayor of the town of Lyubomyl (Volyn region) Valery Baranov took part in the panel.

RADA program coordinator Mr. Ihor Parasyuk presented analysis of the impact of metropolitan areas in the world on the impact on economic growth and gave suggestions to the concept of the new lawdraft about agglomerations in Ukraine. The package of handouts prepared by the RADA Program included the manual “Legislative dimension of the decentralization. The overview of Ukrainian legislation” developed by the RADA Program Coordinator IhorParasyuk.

The Forum accepted the Resolution with the RADA Program proposals. In particular, the resolution recommended accelerating consideration of bills on 1) the ubiquity of local government under the European Charter, 2) enforced financial and technical support of forming amalgamated territorial units, 3) specifics in functioning agglomerations at special form of inter-communal interaction of communities.

Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine should developed a strategy on innovations and good governance at the local level; promote development of the Centers of Adminsitrative Servies and condominiums at the district level in cities,control of utility tariffs and changes in maintenance of communcal utilities.


Some items in the resolution concerned issues in parking systems and related reforms; as well as introduction of targeted state subsidies; no recognition of property rights to the kiosks (small architechture forms) as a real estate property.

All recommendations were elaborated on the results of thematic discussions at the Forum, which brought together more than five hundred specialists in different fields from all over Ukraine and abroad.

• On March 29-30 the RADA Program jointly with the Association of Self-government “Prybuzhzhya” held a Forum of local self-government in the model district of MP IhorHuz in Volyn region. About 100 local governors from village, settlement and district councils, academicians, media and local businessmen exchanged their opinions about decentralization issues that arise before and after merge of small communities, the legal framework for land, water and forest community, creating Centers of Adminsitrative Services, reforms in education, culture and health. The package of handouts for participants included a manual “Legislative dimension of the decentralization. The overview of Ukrainian legislation” prepared by the RADA Program Coordinator Ihor Parasyuk

At the second day of the Forum, the participants attended an amalgamated community of Zymne – the area that piloted the decentralization reform in the region. Forum participants learned about the current results of local government reform in Pribuzhzhya and witnessed the successful implementation of reforms on the ground - renovated schools, kindergartens, and roads abbd acting Center of Adinsitrative Service.

Visitors that included local governors of local councils that did not join the process of amalgamation within the reform, get motivated to launch the amalgatation process in their territorial communities.

MP Ihor Huz appreciated the RADA support in raising awareness and strengthening capacities of the local communities during the Forum, which became a reforms’ driver in the region. During the Forum, participants set the goal to completethe process of uniting the territorial communities at least in the model district of Mr. Huz by end of 2018.

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ii. Regional policy dialog meetings in different regions in coordination with VR LSG and in cooperation with CoE

• The RADA Program jointly with Council of Europe Program “Decentralization and territorial consolidation in Ukraine” and Swiss-Ukrainian Project “Support of decentralization in Ukraine” (DESPRO) conducted a roundtable discussion with participation of the VR Committee on state building, regional development and local self-government in Pyryatyn (Poltava region) on February 24, 2017. The event discussed implementation of the Law of Ukraine “On the voluntarily amalgamation of territorial

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communities” with examples from Poltava region. Coordinator of the RADA Program Ihor Parasyuk made a presentation of implementation of already accepted acts and those that planned for consideration by the parliament in 2017. The event provided opportunity for legislators to receive feedback from local communities in relation to positive and negative aspects of the law in practice. Possible changes that might resolve the issues of decentralization reform implementation were discussed. For instance, the local governors were dissatisfied with the limited jurisdiction of self-governmentsin land tenure outside of settlements. The solution of this problem is possible through acceptance of draft laws #4355 “On Introducing Amendments to Certain Ukrainian Legislation with Regard to increasing the Scope of Local Government Authority in Land Management and Strengthening the State Control over the Use and Protection of Lands" (http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/zweb2/webproc4_1?pf3511=58610) and #5253 “On Introducing Amendments to Certain Ukrainian Legislation with Regard to increasing the Scope of Local Government Authority of the territorial communities on the whole territories of appropriate village and city territorial communities” (http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/zweb2/webproc4_1?pf3511=58610).

• On March 30-31 the Rada Program attended a roundtable discussion “Implementation of the Bill On Cooperation of Territorial Communities in Vinnytsya region” held by the VRU Commmittee on state building, regional development and local self-government. RADA Program Lead Consultant Volodymyr Kryzhanivskiy took part in the event.

iii. Town-Hall Meetings to discuss emerging issues and voice the concerns and preferences

On March 06, 2017 the RADA Program held one-day workshop on facilitationof Town Hall Meetings in premices of International knowledge platform IDF Reforms Lab for 62 (50 female and 10 male) students of the National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, participants of the Internship Program of the Parliament of Ukraine and other young professionals. The workshop aimed to expand the pool of highly skilled facilitators and note-takers for local Town Hall Meetings in 2017.

The RADA Program involved Institute for Peace and Understanding NGO to train the participants to work in difficult and stressful circumstances that are customary for THMs. Trainers of the Institute Roman Koval and Alyona Horova worked out the algorithm of working with scenarios and the sense-restoration exercise, which is a powerful tool to maintain a constructive dialog. They acquired skills of professional note-taking and were introduced to the fast typing algorithm. For practice purpose of received knowldge, trainees tried out the role of a facilitator and note-taker during imaginary public discussion "Reform of the Parliament: search for ways to reduce legislative spam and prevent ghost voting," developed by the RADA Program and ALI experts OlexanderZaslavsky, VolodymyrKryzhanivsky, and OlhaYurchyshyn. The press release of the event is published on the web site of the Agency for Legislative Initiatives http://bit.ly/2oXtsL8.

iv. Initiate, in cooperation with CoE, regular reports by local government associations in the VR LSG Committee with the participation of representatives of other committees.

The RADA Program continued supporting dialog between the Parliament and professional associations that represent local government of Ukraine.

The report of the Association of Regional and District Communities (UAROR) for the relevant VR Committee became possible on February 8, 2017. The event aimed to provide the Committee with feedback on decentralization reform from one of the most influencial associations in Ukraine. Representatives of the Association spoke about urgent issues that self-government bodies faced at regional and district levels while implement the acting legislation, and particular those related to united territorial communities that fully limit the districts power. The problem of duplication and overlapping powers might cause serious trouble for the reform on the ground if relevant regulations are not adopted. Sides agreed to cooperate in process of drafting necessary legislation and discuss its possible implications before to register and submit to the Plennary Meetings.

This was the second report of self-government bodies for the Committee, after exposure of the Association of Ukrainian cities (AUC) earlier in fourth quarter of 2016.

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OBJECTIVE 2: Expanded role of citizens in monitoring the work of Parliament.

Expected Result 2.1. Civic education initiatives promoted to foster greater citizen engagement in the legislative process

i. Interactive map-based web portal with information about MPs


ii. Civic Education Campaign in regions on both national and regional specific policy issues

• The RADA Program partner OPORA held a coordination meeting of 13 regional public consultants, project manager and analysts on March 08 in Kyiv. In total, 19 persons presented (10 men and 9 women).

• OPORA public education campaigning enriched with two videos concerning the global legal and Ukrainian parliamentary experience. 3:40-minute short video explained principles of the parliament work in user-friendly format illustrated with animated infographics.

The first video “And how it happens there: Button-pressing and truancy in the Parliament?”3was posted on RADA OPORA portal (https://rada.oporaua.org) on March 24, 2017 and distributed via Facebook as YouTube embedded video. 2,359 people watched it during first 9 days.

The second video “How do parliamentary committees work”4has been posted on March 30, and got 524 views in five days. OPORA presented the video “How do parliamentary committees work” during the Coordination meeting of USAID RADA representatives and VRU committees’ heads.

• Totally 7 publications have been prepared for RADA OPORA web portal https://rada.oporaua.org among which 4 analytical publications, 2 videos with captures and news.

• OPORA experts prepared and published 84 individual monitoring reports reflecting activities of the members of Parliament in Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and their activities in the constituencies in for February 2017. The list of reports included additional deputies selected by the consultations for monitoring. All the reports were posted on RADA OPORA web portal.

• Number of visitors of RADA OPORA web portal has increased in comparison to initial indexes: 158 dayly visitorsin February and 160 daily visitors in March; the initial attendance in 2014 was 85 persons per day. Generally, there were 4,449 unique visitors of RADA OPORA portal in February and 4,967 visitors in March.

iii. Workshops for youth on culture of effective engagement in the legislative process


iv. Public discussions on proposed legislation in public libraries (Bibliomist)


v. Methodological recommendations for teachers in high schools on Legislature for Youth

ALI organized two final one-day Colloquiums for teachers to present methodological guidelines on teaching social sciences. The purpose of the Colloquiums was to launch civic education into secondary schools in Ukraine with already developed courses "The Legislature for Youth", "Youth in Public Programs," "The Political System of Ukraine," and "The Election Process" in innovative teaching manner such as brainstorming, open discussions, and role plays that help to better grasp theoretical knowledge. Short

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video "How the Parliament Works" developed earlier by RADA partner Internews-Ukraine became good supplement for the courses, it was presented during events and shared online for use in teaching in the schools. Both events were besides presentation of the methodical guidelines for senior schoolteachers demonstrated a role-playing game "AGORA: The Democratic Law-Making Procedure in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine," which simulates legislative activities of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

• On March 10 in the model constituency of MP Oleksandr Chernenko in Chernihiv. 42 teachers (27 female and 15 male) of law and history, advance training course students, methodologists, and lecturers of the Department of Social Sciences of Chernihiv Regional Institute of Postgraduate Education in Pedagogics named after Ushynsky. Author of the guidelines Associate Professor of Political Science to the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Natalia Amalchenko and ALI project coordinator Tetyana Chernukha presented the methodology and answered questions. ALI distributed a press release about the important initiative to change the style of teaching social sciences via ALI web-site http://parlament.org.ua/2017/03/10/7676/, Chernihiv Regional Institute of Postgraduate Education in Pedagogics named after Ushynsky http://choippo.edu.ua/?p=18242 and Naukova Dumka Journal http://bit.ly/2pFhjey.

• Similar Colloquium was held in the model constituency of MP of Ukraine Pavlo Rizanenko on March 31 in Brovary. Fifty (36 female and 14 male) teachers of law and history of the cities of Brovary and Berezan, Brovary and Baryshiv districts, representatives of the Institute of Modernization of Education Content. MP of Ukraine Pavlo Rizanenko, the RADA Program manager Maryna Rudenko and ALI program coordinatorTetyana Chernukha presented the methodology and its applications. The press release on the event was published on ALI website http://bit.ly/2oXG6de, and in two Brovary local media http://bit.ly/2oporYy, http://bit.ly/2oXO8Th. Video from the colloquium in Brovaryis available on the YouTube http://bit.ly/2oNmbNJ.

Materials for teacher – metholodgy and guideline on role-play – are available in Ukrainian per request.

vi. Civic educational campaigns on citizen rights, roles and responsibilities

Parliamentary TV channel Rada has been airing USAID RADA Program’s five educational videos since March 2017. Produced by the RADA Program partners – Internews-Ukraine (IUA) and OPORA, video were provided to the channel free of charge to promote public awareness about the Parliament work. The list of videos particularly includes:

1. An education movie for high school students “How the Parliament works” (IUA)

2. A video “E-petitions” (regarding how to submit an e-petition to the Verkovna Rada) (IUA)

3. A video “Understand you Parliament” (about the functions of the Ukrainian Parliament) (IUA)

4. A video “Inquiries to an MP” (regrading drafting and submission of the inquiry to the MP) (IUA)

5. A video “How to work with an MP. A tutorial for active citizens.” (OPORA).

vii. Press tours for regional media to VR


viii. Youth Parliament Initiative to discuss the pressing issues for young people


ix. TV program “Dear MPs” (Re:Forma)


x. Series of program “Parliament through Young People’s Eyes” at RADA TV Channel


xi. Annual Parliament Hearings

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Expected Result 2.2. Civil society monitoring of the VR fostered, including strengthening of lobbying groups.

i. With Institute of Legislation develop and institutionalize the platform for public commentaries on proposed legislation

Interns’ League (IL) worked up the draft Communication Strategy to promote online platform for public commentaries on legislation among parliamentary committees. The Strategy targets two key audiences – 1) the VR committee to stimulate them publicise draft laws for public for discussions and 2) citizens to promote their greater involvement into commenting of draft laws. On March 16, 2017, the IL presented the platform for public commentaries on draft legislation for the members of the RPR coalition. The RPR experts are ready to comment the draft laws appearing on the platform.

ii. Training module on CSO monitoring of constituency development funds and other district-specific allocations


iii. Monitoring of the Parliament Legislative Initiatives


Expected Result 2.3. Reform legislation passed by partnering with other USAID programs.

i. Beginning-of-plenary-sessions presentations of USAID projects in VR committees

The RADA Program jointly with the VR Secretariat held a Coordination Meeting on improving the efficiency of cooperation between the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, VR structural units and international technical assistance projects on March 13, 2017. Up to 60 representatives of the VR and of international technical assistance projects took part.The meeting served as a communication platform for committees to express their needs and organizations to offer their possible support.

The RADA Program and the VR Secretariat summarized the committees’ needs and suggestions from the events in the the needs assessment report and built a plan for cooperation for six months of 2017. The needs assessment report was distributed among donor organizations for better coordination and planning their support to the Parliament Reform. The RADA Program expects the initiative will contribute to better cooperation between VR committees and international donor organizations.

In particular, the RADA Program, working with all Parliamentary Commitees, most closely cooperates with the Committee on Prevention of Corruption, State Building and Local Governance, Rule of Proceure and Legal Policy. All these four Committees and RADA Program develop a semi-annual plan by conducting round tables on actual issue, working meetings, developing polcicies and co-organizing events.

Representatives of VR Committees and structural units of VR expressed the following needs for cooperation except those already included in summarized work plan with RADA:


• unification of all contacts database of donor organizations and NGOs that are ready to cooperate with Parliament;

• staff training for VR secretariat workers, in particular, courses on the practice of using decisions of European Court of Human Rights, foreign language courses, information security courses;

• assistance in development of information and promo materials about VRU work including infographics to be placed on VR web-resources and distributed in print;

• translation of VR web-site content into English language.

Organizational aspects of effective cooperation with partners of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine also were discussed with the participation of the Main Organizational Department, the HR Department, the InformationDepartment, and the Press Service. Natalia Ruzytska, main specialist of the Main Organizational Department expressed expectation that after the Coordination meeting and profound discussion that took place, cooperation would become stronger and the number of quality events would increase.

The USAID RADA Program continued its monthly coordination meetings with the heads of the VR Committees and faction secretariats to raise their awareness about existing tools and available technical assistance for the Parliament Reform. RADA pursued the enhancement of communication between the VR, international donor organizations and civil society to strengthen the Parliament’s staff competence and capacity. Three meetings were held during the period:

• On January 24- 32 VR representatives learned about instruments for investigation transparency of the Parliamentary Committees, which the Civic network OPORA uses in monitoring of the VR Committees (please read more in ER 3.2.ii).

The RADA Program gender expert Olena Suslova announced a short-term course on “Gender analysis of the state policies” that started on January 31.

• On February 28 -38 VR representatives discussed the Parliament oversight function over the executive authorities. The RADA Program Senior Consultant Volodymyr Kryzhanivskyi presented the mechanisms for the oversight, and payed special attention to EU Needs Assessment Mission recommendation №16 concerning establishing an annual work plan for oversight activities by each Committee. Mr. Kryzhanivskyi emphasized requirement to have number of VR Committees equal to the number of ministries.

DCoP of the Agency for Legislative Initiatives Oleksandr Zaslavskyy presented the application of Shadow Reports and described the first successful use of this tool by the Ukrainian Parliament. Participants of the meeting agreed, that shadow reports could strengthen oversight function of the Verkhovna Rada and its Committees significantly.

• On March 28 – Director of European Informational Research Center Roman Kobets presented information briefs, policy papers and policy briefs, which the EIRC prepared for the VR Committes, factions and groups.

Interns’ League Communication Manager Maryana Doboni presented the RADA Program e-tool –CSOs e-Registry, which contained full information about the expert CSOs for cooperation with relevant VR committees: 80 CSOs and 11 VR Committees already created their profiles in the online register.

OPORA presented its video on the work of committees for 26 VR representatives. The video might be used for public educational purposes during the Parliament communication, along with the public awareness campaigns held by OPORA and other CSOs.

Feedback analysis from the events showed the participants’ high interest and motivation to participate in such coordination meetings, which were usefull for VR structural units; 74% of respondents confirmed their plan to use presented tools in their work.

ii. Encourage USAID programs’ representation in WGs, discussions, committee meetings


• USAID RADA Program jointly with the VR Secretariat held a Coordination Meeting on improving the efficiency of cooperation between the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, VR structural units and international technical assistance projects on March 13, 2017. Please read more in ER 2.3.i.

• RADA Program coordinator Ihor Parasyuk took an active role in three Donor Board Working Groups that serve as a coordination mechanism between Ministry of Regional Development, Construction and Communal Service (MinRegion) and the international donor organizations that provide support in implementation of reforms on decentralization, local governance and regional development in Ukraine. Mr. Parasyuk moderated the first workgroup "Territorial Organization of Power and Decentralization of Legal Base" on February 27, 2017; two other workgroups met on March 16 and on March 21 to finalize the table of activities and expected results to be supported by the donor communities. The workgroups reports and final plans are placed at http://donors.decentralization.gov.ua and http://donors.decentralization.gov.ua/uk/donors_senate.

iii. Develop recommendations of draft legislation tracking to be used by CSOs

In Year 2 and Year 3, OPORA developed and widely promoted its web-sites and methodology for the Parliament monitoring among national and regional CSOs and public activists. Those toolkits are under current use throughout Ukraine (https://rada.oporaua.org/ ).

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OBJECTIVE 3. Role of legislature in providing independent oversight of the executive branch strengthened

Expected Result 3.1. Anti-Corruption efforts strengthened including Parliamentary budgetary oversight

i. Video-based training manual on analyzing the state budget and the participation of MPs in the budget preparation and oversight

Training manual is a unique tool that allows getting the budget process in full in the video format. The video is placed at the RADA Program YouTube channel and the RADA Program website (http://radaprogram.org/videomaterials/byudzhetnyy-proces).

ii. Encourage use of the web-site resource corruptua.org on corruption activities by region


iii. Expert discussion on changes to the Law on the Rules of Parliamentary Procedure In cooperation with VR Rules Committee


iv. Methodological Recommendations for VR committees for reviewing the Chamber’s reports

The RADA Program produced analysis “Cooperation of the Accounting Chamber, Parliament and civil society orgaizations” as the basic document for MPs, VR staff, civil society and media that becomes the first step to set up a working group consisting representatves of the VR Budget Committee, members of the Accounting Chamber, independent experts and appropriate international organizations. This is very important to draw attention and develop recommendations on the necessity for Ukraine to have the Accounting Chamber as the independent state auditor with oversight functions.

v. Participate in activities of VR Committee on Fighting Organized Crime and Corruption

As part of the regular RADA Program activities, anti-corruption expert of RADA Program follows anti-corruption legislation that is drafted and submitted in the Parlaiment. For the reporting period, approved by Parliament and signed by the President Law on Mandatory E-Declarations of civic activists, representing anti-corruption CSOs was the key piece of legislation that is still under great attention of civil society, international organizations and media as one that cuts freedoms in the country and ruins the concept of mandatory declaration of assets of civil servants.

vi. Series of round table discussions on political and campaign finance and changes to current legislation with IFES

On May 29, 2017 – The RADA Program and IFES conducted a round table “On Peoples’ Access to Election Rights” in Severodonetsk, Luhansk region (government controlled area). Please read more in ER 1.1.i and 1.1.ii.

vii. Guidelines and methodological recommendations on the implementation of new anti-corruption provisions in the Ukrainian legislation, with Government Representative for Anti-Corruption Policy and NAUCS


Expected Result 3.2. Parliamentary oversight strengthened through improved structural effectiveness

i. Series of public hearings on pre-paid shadow reports


ii. Support using MP inquires challenges to Government decisions and other oversight means during committee-conducted hearings – in cooperation with VR committees

• OPORA presented its methodology to monitor the transparency of parliamentary committees’ work during the Coordination meeting of the RADA Program experts and heads of VR committees on January 24. In following to the presentation, representatives of four committees expressed their willingness to elaborate the recommendations regarding increasing of transparency of their work.

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Thus, OPORA has developed detailed recommendations for the four parliamentary committees - Committee on Freedom of Speech and Information Policy; Committee on Construction, Urban Development, Housing and Communal Services; Committee on Legislative Support of Law Enforcement; and Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations – to raise a transparency of their work. The committees have already considered part of the OPORA recommendations as valid, the rest of the recommendations will be gradually applied in work as of the committees’ feedback.

• In follow up to the meeting between the RADA Program with VRU Speaker Andriy Parubiy that took palce in the Parliament on February 15, OPORA prepared recommendations on necessity to expand volume of public information, which has to be mandatory for publication on the committees’ websites. In response to a later request from the Parliament Speaker Secretariat, OPORA updated recommendations and included advice to unify format for parliamentary committees’ websites, and developed a checklist for information to be posted on the unified websites of the committees. That included the lists of the committee members, their short bios, regularly updated agendas for the committees meetings, updated contact information among other, opportunity to send requests and/or comment the draft laws, reports o nthe committee performance sorted by date and topics.

iii. Updated training courses currently provided on Drafting Legislation, Norm Making, Lawmaking Techniques, Legal Language, Citizens and Lawmaking – with Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, IRF, VR HR Department, VR Secretariat, and Institute of Legislation


Expected result 3.3. Internship program institutionalized

i. Support Parliamentary Internship Program (PIP)

• The RADA Program partner Interns’ League (IL) finalized the selection of interns for the Parliament Internship Program 2017 in December 2016. For the first time, a part of the organizational work on preparing the selection was shared with the Verkhovna Rada Secretariat . The launch of the Internship Program took place on 23 January 2017 for 59 interns - 50 were allocated to the VR Secretariat and 9- in the Secretariat of the Ombudsman, the RADA Program, in European Information and Research Center, the Office of the Financial and Economic Analysis of the Parliament.

The intern team 2017 is represented by 63% of women and 37% of men; 42% of interns will work for the Parliament and its units on a part-time basis and 58% for full time. Majority of interns origin from Kyiv (17 people ~ 29%), and per 5 from Lviv and Kharkiv oblasts. Any interns from Zakarpattia, Zaporizhzhia, Luahnsk, Mykolaiv and Odesa appreared to be involved into the PIP 2017.

This year the IT Department has provided interns with individual authorization with access to some databases on the VRU web-portal and personal email accounts within the IT-system of VRU; that happened for the first time in 22-year history of the Parliament Internship Program. The access to the IT-network of the Parliament provided interns with unique opportunity to update web-platform, to check and process public commentaries on proposed legislation, the CSO Registry and other resources that are granted for intern access. Training managers and supervisers defined these resources for each intern individually.

To monitor the interns’ adaptation with the work in the Parliament and other, the IL held a meeting with the heads of Departments, which host our interns on March 28. The opportunities of even more active involvement of the Internship Program into everyday activities of VRU Secretariat were discussed.


ii. Assist the Interns’ League in conducting recruitment campaign for Parliament Internship Program 2015-2016 and build institutional capacity for the Interns’ league

The selection to the Internship Program 2017 was held in November and December 2016 with the support of USAID Rada Program. For the first time, a part of the organizational work on preparing the selection was shared with the Verkhovna Rada Secretariat (the VRU Personnel Department).

League of Interns undertook efforts to implement its strategic plan of the on building institutional development. LI Board considered and adopted two policies – 1) Provisions on the prevention of the conflict of interests, and 2) Policy on equal opportunities. Besides, LI developed an action plan on institutionalization of the PIP with the Parliament and had several meetings with the chief accountant of the Parliament to seek for opportunities to include the Internship Program to the budget of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine starting this year.

iii. Develop a Sustainability Plan and Exit Plan for the Interns’ League

The RADA Program and Interns’ League developed the institutionalization plan of the Internship Program during the reporting period. The plan includes advocacy campaign to allocate the stipends at the VR Budget for 2018 through recommednations of the Committee on Rules and Procedures of the VR or the VR Resolution initiated by the Program Alumna MPs Valeriy Karpuntsov and Pavlo Pynzenk and leadership of the VR at the Program management.

The Intern’s League sent a letter to Pavlo Pynzenyk, the First Deputy of the Committee on Rules of Parliamentary Procedure and Support to Work of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with request to recommend the allocatation of stipends at the VR budget. It is expected that the issue of financial support for the Internship Program will be submitted for consideration at the Committee meeting in April. The RADA Program representatives and Interns’ League met with the chief accountant of the Parliament to discuss the procedures of submitting the budget request to allocate stipends at the VR budget for 2018.

To PIP advocate further within the the Parliament, IL made a list of MPs who demonstrated the loyalty to the internship program and held separate informal meetings with them or their assistants to ask for support of PIP in case the financial support issue will to be put to vote in the plenary session.

iv. Negotiate the transfer of the Parliamentary Internship Program’s to the VR Secretariat and provide limited programmatic training support

Also partners work on transfer the management of the Internship Program including transparent selection of interns by the VR Secretariat in cooperation with Interns’ League through education of Human Resource Departments on recruitment and management of Program, preparation and introducing Manual on full cycle of Program etc.

Other important activities

• Under the order of the Committee of state building, regional development and self-government, the RADA Program took the active part in workgroups that developed the Draft Law “On the temporally occupied territories”. Since February 16, RADA expert Mr. Parasyuk rendered technical assistance during three WG meetings. The finalized draftlaw is expected by middle of April 2017.

CROSS-PROGRAM USAID COMPONENTS

Anti-Corruption

• The RADA Program and its partners adhere to the policy on inadmissibility of corruption and conflict of interests in their work. Thus, IUA reported on non-discriminory manner to select participants of all events within the RADA Program, which were invited through competitions. Information on the competitive selection was previously spread by various communication channels.

• Interns’ League organized a meeting of interns with MP Serhiy Lyeshchenko on March 02, 2017. Mr. Leschenko spoke on activities of the VR Committee on Corruption Prevention, educated about the differences and mandates of the national anti-corruption bodies NABU, SAP, NASP. Interns also discussed with Mr. Leschenko the e-declaration system and procedure on public funding for political parties.


Gender Equity

• IUA reported its adherence to the gender equity policy that is used in hiring personnel, selection partners and events participants. Thus, during selection of Digital security training coaches, IUA paid attention to manage gender balance in coach team –1 male and 1 female were invited. During the selection of event attendee, IUA seeks to provide equal opportunities for participation of media workers representing men and women. Therefore, 8 women and 7 men took part in training. We also achieved gender balance during press tours except press tour to Volyn regions where number of men was much lower.

• Interns attended an introductory lecture delivered by "Basics of gender policy" by the RADA Program gender expert Olena Suslova on January 26. After the lecture, several interns who were particularly interested in the theme formed a group to study the course "Gender analysis of legislation" by Ms. Suslova conducted on a weekly basis. By the end of the course the trainees will write an analytical paper.

• OPORA respected principles of gender equality when hired 13 public consultants and administrative team of the project - project manager, analysts, presssecretary. There is approximately equal number of men and women cooperate with OPORA. The coordination meeting for public consultants in Kyiv gathered gander-balanced group of trainees - 10 men and 9 women. When planning future project trainings, public discussions, round tables, module lectures, OPORA managers will pay additional attention on enlisting representatives of various genders and people with disabilities.

People with Disabilities

The RADA Program involved 12 interns of the Parliament Internship Program to contribute into organization of the World Day of a Person with Down Syndrom in the Parliament on March 21, 2017. After the event the the Secretariat of the Committee on Veterans, Combatants, ATO Participants and Disabled People sent a letter of appreciation to the Interns’ League for the significant contribution.

Local Capacity Building

• The RADA Program played a lead role in strengthening the Parliament institutional capacity in many sides:

o to maintain effective communication with the public by supporting MPs’ site visits and public reporting to their constituents,


o promoting better dialog between VRU, executive government agencies and donor community in Ukraine,

o making a chart of the VRU institutional needs and negotiations with donor community on the possible support to VRU,

o providing recommendations to the VR Speaker and his Secretariat on update of public information on web-portals of VRU,

o conducting training and educational-coordination meetings for the VRU staff on different topics

o by bringing a group of young professionals to keep daily communication with different target groups.

• The RADA Program contributed to capacities of associations of local governors’ to advocate interests of their groups with the Parliament of Ukraine (referred to ER 1.3.i and 1.3.iv).

• OPORA contributed to the capability building of local non-goveronment institutions and civil society with provided methodologies for monitoring of MPs and local deputies’ activities. More transparency in the Parliament’s work was achieved through development of geographically oriented Internet portal https://rada.oporaua.org, which contained a number of tools to monitor the Verkhovna Rada and the members of Parliament’s work; improvement of working procedures, standards of transparency and openness in the work of parliamentary committees (please read more under ER 2.1.ii.)

• OPORA strengthened the cability of civil society: the public regularly gets findings of independent monitoring on work of the parliament, MPs, and parliamentary parties. On the other hand the public obtained reputable tools and can continue own monitoring of MPs and VRU to establish communication with members of Parliament in order to address pressing problems on both local and national levels (please read more under ER 2.1.ii.).

• ALI provided interns and alumni of the League of Interns and program staff of OPORA with basic skills of facilitation and note-taking during Town Hall Meetings. Those capacities can be used not only for the surrent RADA program, but also for other public discsussion / pubic awareness events (please read more under 1.3.iii).

• Teachers and professors of the Chernihiv Regional Institute of Postgraduate Education and teachers from secondary schools in Brovary town enhanced their methodological capacity due to participation in the colloquium for teachers held by ALI experts in Chernihiv on March 10, 2017 (please read more under ER 1.1.i and 2.1.v).



Lessons Learned

• RADA Program delayed with negotiations of annual workload and signing grant agreements with its implementing partners for the Fourth financial year of the project. Partners’ grant agreements became active starting February 2017, that created a 1-1,5 month gap in the RADA program activities related to areas of public monitoring, legislative training for MPs, communication support to MPs and the RADA Program initiatives.

• The RADA Program shortened budgets to deliver an intensive multi-vector training program for MPs. The RADA Program strategy in building institutional capacity of the Parliament and its units re-focused on tutor-manner support that included more regular meetings and organizational-coordination events, bringing other donor programs to the coordinated and planned support to satisfy needs of VRU Secretariat and MPs, shorter (and less expencive) lectures and workshops on a range of topics with the follow up extension for the most motivated groups of VRU staff.

• More regular meetings of MPs with their constituents – local governors, voters, professional associations and experts enable better understanding of the communities’ urgent needs by MPs, and cause better targeted legislative activities, search for cooperation within the Parliament to promote desarable decisions.

• RADA’s partner Interns’ League demonstrated its capability by successful fundraising campaign from different donors,adoption of several institutional policies, launch internship program 2017 without delays and active negotiations with the VRU Secretariat about institutionalization fo the program with the Parliament. The RADA might gradually decrease the level of trusteeship toward the League of Interns to ensure the LI “exit strategy” by the end of RADA program.


List of Sub-Grants Organization

name Contacts Project

Manager Project Period

Project Description Grant amount in

Y4, USD Agency for Legislative Initiatives NGO

15 Nyzhniy Val, office 303, Kyiv, 04070 Tel: (044) 531 3768; fax: (044) 425 2533 [email protected]іev.ua; www.parliament.org.ua

Oleksandr Zaslavskyi

10 months The project objectives are: • Support to MPs to build constituent relations and improve their representation function; • Expand citizen education and monitoring of Parliament and MPs in order to increase their accountability; • Promote parliamentary independence to counterbalance the Government by reinforcing the rules and procedures that govern the body. Major activities within the project: 1. Prepare and publish analytical materials (Policy Paper, Policy Research) 2. Conduct trainings, colloquia, Town Hall Meetings with the MPs participation 3. Develop a Guide on communication with the VRU during lobbying and

advocacy campaigns for CSOs

225,336.27

Civil Network OPORA, NGO

Kyiv, 34A Hrushevskogo, office 93, 29013 [email protected] +38 044 591 44 44

Olena Rybiy / AnatoliyBondarchuk

9 months The project will facilitate public education and improved information of citizens on working mechanisms of the parliament and MPs by systematically publicizing high-quality materials on the operation of the parliament in formats intelligible to a wide audience (infographics, video clips, educational and analytical materials). Itis also envisaged the further development of the www.rada.oporaua.org web portal and as well as producing of TV programs focusing on the parliamentary issues. The project will ensure regular production and distribution of monitoring reports on activities of the parliament and MPs based on a number of criteria.

119,727.49

Internews-Ukraine NGO

International NGO “Internews Ukraine” 15 Ryz’ka Street, Kyiv, Ukraine, 04112. Tel: (044) 458-44-40, 501-92-03 E-mail: [email protected] http://internews.ua/about/

KostiantynKvurt 10 months The main purpose of the project is to assist the RADA Program in providing support to MPs to build effective constituent relations, and improve their representative function via increased and more efficient use of information and communication technologies (ICT), among other activities.

120,000.00

Interns` League NGO

11 VelykaZhytomyrskya str., office 511, Kyiv, 01021 Tel/fax (044) 255-92-44 [email protected]; www.interns.org.ua

Maria Savina Tel: (066) 764-68-08 [email protected]

10 months The main purpose of the project is to strengthen institutional and organizational capacity building of Interns` League, as well as to support it in administrating of Parliamentary Internship Program in 2017. The project objectives are as follows: • Promotion campaign of using the E-Petitions, Citizens-Rada Legislative Discussion E-Platform (Citizen E-Platform); • Strengthen capacity building of NGO “Interns` League”; • Implement Parliamentary Internship Program in 2017; • Develop new areas of Interns` League`s activities.

38,267.85

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.rada.oporaua.org/

mailto:[email protected]?subject=%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%82%20%D0%B4%D0%BE%20%D0%86%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%8C%D1%8E%D0%B7-%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97%D0%BD%D0%B0


http://www.interns.org.ua/




ANNEXES

Annex 1. OPORA List of media publications covering project results:

1. 25 members of Parliament joined the parliamentary committees, https://rada.oporaua.org/analityka/komitety/13314-25-nardepiv-popovnili-sklad-komitetiv-verkhovnoji-radi

2. The committees continue to consider OPORA’s proposals to increase the transparency of their work, https://rada.oporaua.org/analityka/komitety/13316-komitety-prodovzhuiut-vrakhovuvaty-propozytsii-opory-shchodo-pidvyshchennia-prozorosti-ikhnoi-roboty

3. Change of power balance in the committees: the coalition took control over the Committee on Corruption Prevention and Counteraction, https://rada.oporaua.org/analityka/komitety/13321-zmina-balansu-syl-u-komitetakh-koalitsiia-vziala-pid-kontrol-antykoruptsiinyi-komitet

4. And how it happens there? “Button pressing” activity and truancy of the Parliament meetings, https://rada.oporaua.org/video/13317-a-iak-u-nykh-knopkodavstvo-i-prohuly-zasidan-parlamentu

5. And how it happens there? Compliance of ethical principles and standards of conduct, https://rada.oporaua.org/novyny/novini/13322-a-iak-u-nykh-dotrymannia-etychnykh-norm-ta-standartiv-povedinky

6. And how it happens there? E-parliament tools, https://rada.oporaua.org/76-chitati/a-iak-u-nykh/13315-a-iak-u-nykh-instrumenty-elektronnoho-parlamentu

7. How do parliamentary committees work, https://rada.oporaua.org/video/13323-a-iak-u-nykh-yak-pratsiuiut-parlamentski-komitety

https://rada.oporaua.org/analityka/komitety/13314-25-nardepiv-popovnili-sklad-komitetiv-verkhovnoji-radi

https://rada.oporaua.org/analityka/komitety/13314-25-nardepiv-popovnili-sklad-komitetiv-verkhovnoji-radi

https://rada.oporaua.org/analityka/komitety/13316-komitety-prodovzhuiut-vrakhovuvaty-propozytsii-opory-shchodo-pidvyshchennia-prozorosti-ikhnoi-roboty

https://rada.oporaua.org/analityka/komitety/13316-komitety-prodovzhuiut-vrakhovuvaty-propozytsii-opory-shchodo-pidvyshchennia-prozorosti-ikhnoi-roboty

https://rada.oporaua.org/analityka/komitety/13321-zmina-balansu-syl-u-komitetakh-koalitsiia-vziala-pid-kontrol-antykoruptsiinyi-komitet

https://rada.oporaua.org/analityka/komitety/13321-zmina-balansu-syl-u-komitetakh-koalitsiia-vziala-pid-kontrol-antykoruptsiinyi-komitet

https://rada.oporaua.org/video/13317-a-iak-u-nykh-knopkodavstvo-i-prohuly-zasidan-parlamentu

https://rada.oporaua.org/video/13317-a-iak-u-nykh-knopkodavstvo-i-prohuly-zasidan-parlamentu

https://rada.oporaua.org/novyny/novini/13322-a-iak-u-nykh-dotrymannia-etychnykh-norm-ta-standartiv-povedinky

https://rada.oporaua.org/novyny/novini/13322-a-iak-u-nykh-dotrymannia-etychnykh-norm-ta-standartiv-povedinky

https://rada.oporaua.org/76-chitati/a-iak-u-nykh/13315-a-iak-u-nykh-instrumenty-elektronnoho-parlamentu

https://rada.oporaua.org/76-chitati/a-iak-u-nykh/13315-a-iak-u-nykh-instrumenty-elektronnoho-parlamentu

https://rada.oporaua.org/video/13323-a-iak-u-nykh-yak-pratsiuiut-parlamentski-komitety

https://rada.oporaua.org/video/13323-a-iak-u-nykh-yak-pratsiuiut-parlamentski-komitety


Annex 2. Photos of OPORA project events

Pic 1. Igor Kogut, the Director of USAID RADA Program and Olena Rybiy, the Manager of OPORA’s project within the RADA Program, communicate with OPORA’s public advisors.

Pic 2. Olena Rybiy, the Manager of OPORA’s project within the USAID RADA Program, communicates with OPORA’s public advisors on the Coordination meeting.


Pic 3. Presentation of the video "How do parliamentary committees work?" during the Coordination meeting of representatives of the RADA Program with the committees’ Chiefs of Staff of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The video is produced within the RADA Program.

Pic 4. Anatoliy Bondarchuk, OPORA’s analyst within the RADA Progam, tells about OPORA’s experience in collaboration with the parliamentary committees. The Coordination meeting on improving the efficiency of cooperation of the Verkhovna Rada’s committees, structural subdivisions of the Apparatus with international projects of technical assistance.


Annex 3. Infographics on public report of MP Pavlo Rizanenko (IUA)

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