Strengthening democracy in Ukraine through monitoring of government decisions in the context of the European Neighbourhood Policy with Ukraine in accordance with good governance and rule of law
Overall objective
- Strengthening the rule of law, good governance, independence of justice in Ukraine in accordance with European Neighborhood Policy with Ukraine
Specific objectives in the field of public administration reform
- Developing proper legal regulations on authorities and organization of public administration
- Providing clear differentiation between political and administrative offices in public administration
- Developing the law dealing to establish politically neutral, professional and stable public service
- Developing and implement law on administrative procedure (relations between public administration and private persons)
- Increasing the efficiency of preparation and adoption of governmental decisions
- Developing law on access to public information in order to provide transparency of public administration
Results
- Draft concepts (policy papers) on local self-government reform and administrative and territorial building reform — concept on local self-government reform’s approved by the Ukrainian Government on July 28, 2009; concepts on administrative and territorial building’s on approval at the Ukrainian Government
- Draft Law on Access to Public Information was developed and submitted to the Parliament (after broad advocacy campaign of different CSOs the Law was adopted on 13 January 2011)
- Draft Code of Administrative Procedures was developed (the contribution of CPLR experts was significant)
- Draft Law on Ministries and Central Executive Bodies and draft Law on Public Service were developed (both were adopted by the parliament in 2011 but with a huge distortions made for the sake of political interest)
- Dialog between government and civil society was supported due to monitoring activities
- Conducting permanent monitoring of the government activity in the area of justice, criminal justice, constitutional and administrative reform with responding to the most high-profile event in this area (public measures, press-conference etc.)
- Producing experts conclusion related to the key draft laws
- Preparing the report on development of public law in Ukraine in 2009-2010 (forthcoming publication at the end of 2010)