Civil Society Development

Number of Projects: 251
Grant Amount: $ 1 171 844
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 22,05 %

In 2003, the key objective of the International Renaissance Foundation was to assist the third sector in strengthening the positions recently gained by the civil society of Ukraine. Above all, this includes such capacities as to monitor activities of the state authorities and their decisions, to create effective coalitions, to join efforts to lobby public interests at the level of all branches of power, to effectively implement anti-corruption activities, and to protect human rights, in particular, the right to access unbiased information.

Among the IRF programs, the best results were achieved in such programs as Rule of Law, Mass Media, Civil Society Impact Enhancement, Information Program and Education Programs.

The Rule of Law Program initiated the establishment of an efficient network of organizations working in the field of human rights protection. The main objective of the network is to increase influence on the state decision-making process. Also, the Public Council at the Verkhovna Rada Committee for Human Rights, National Minorities and Inter-Ethnic Relations was created, operating as an independent expert body. Cooperation with various Committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the Parliament of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea provided an opportunity to hold public hearings on ensuring citizen’s rights and freedoms, above all, of Crimean Tatars and Roma, as well as on abidance by the anti-corruption legislation in the peninsula.

The first Ukrainian Festival "Human Rights Movie Days" organized by IRF together with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and Ukrainian Association of Amnesty International and held in the major regional centers became a significant event in the social life of the country.

The Rule of Law Program also supported establishment of the Center of Judicial Policy Analysis, which developed a concept of judicial and legal reform in Ukraine and assisted in introducing norms and resolutions of the European Court of Human Rights into Ukrainian judiciary system.

Also, IRF assisted in development and adoption of the Strategy of Penitentiary System Reform in Ukraine for 2004–2011 at the state level.

One of the achievements of the IRF Mass Media Program was establishment of and support to the Public Council at the Verkhvona Rada Committee for Freedom of Speech and Information. The Council unites over 50 public organizations. It took active part in preparing and endorsing democratic laws "On Television and Radio Broadcasting", "On Censorship", "On National Council on TV and Radio Broadcasting" and others.

The Public Radio supported by the Mass Media Program provided opportunity to citizens of the country where a hidden state censorship exists to receive unbiased well-balanced information about the most important events in the social life in Ukraine and abroad.

In 2003, the Mass Media Program supported another initiative of high importance for Ukraine aimed at establishment of an all-Ukrainian independent Mass Media Trade Union, which emerged as a form of protest of journalists against attempts of the state authorities to increase influence on and control over the mass media. So far, the Union joins together journalists from 12 regions of Ukraine while actively developing as a nation-wide initiative.

The Civil Society Impact Enhancement Program initiated establishment and later supported activities of three Public Councils at the relevant Verkhovna Rada Committees, which ensure publicity of the law-making process in the country and assist the public in lobbying its interests. IRF also assists in developing training modules for regional think tanks on the basis of leading expert NGOs.

The Information Program initiated establishment of the Forum of Telecommunication and ICT NGOs. Its representatives took an active part in preparing and presenting Ukrainian National Report at the World Summit on Information Society in Geneva in December 2003.

Civic Space Portal [ www.civicua.org ] addressing the needs of NGOs became a useful and most frequently visited resource for Ukrainian public organizations. For example, together with the Delegation of the European Commission to Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus, the Civic Space Portal successfully carried out an event "Information Online Week. European Union Programs for Ukrainian NGOs".

An educational project aimed at creating the all-Ukrainian Testing Technologies Center is now widely known in the society as an anti-corruption initiative directed towards ensuring equal access of young people to high-quality education. The Project was supported by the Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine, in part of development and adoption of the National External Testing System in the higher education institutions in order to ensure equal rights and opportunities for citizens to receive education. Within the framework of the Project, the monitoring of the quality of education was conducted. As a result, in 2004, the Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine envisage allocating state funding to the Project.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Civil Society Impact Enhancement Program

Number of Projects: 45
Grant Amount: $ 479 957
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 9,03 %


The program’s goal is to enhance the capacity of civil society institutions to defend the rights and interests of citizens effectively. The program promotes transformation of non-governmental organizations into authoritative civil institutions, which can influence the development and implementation of vital decisions and directly solve specific local and national problems.

Program priorities:

• Promoting civil initiatives for transparent and open elections;
• Supporting activities and public campaigns devoted to the discussion of socially important issues;
• Enhancing the expert-analytical capacity of civil society institutions and their effective cooperation with state administration and local self-government bodies;
• Supporting the activities of Public Councils at the committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine;
• Disseminating European experience in Ukraine in the domain of civil society development and activities;
• Supporting non-governmental organizations and institutions aimed at ethnic consolidation of Ukrainian society.

One of the Program’s main action areas includes supporting efforts undertaken to improve NGO-related legislation in Ukraine and to involve citizens into the law-making process. The Program pays especial attention to the projects aimed at public evaluation of the relevance and efficiency of activities of national and local state authorities.

An important action area of the Program is institutional support for the "third sector" NGOs in the regions: trainings to enhance the PR skills of Ukrainian non-governmental organizations, support of the communication environment for the public organizations—members of the International Renaissance Foundation’s Partnership Network. The Program also supports implementation of coalition and network projects of Ukrainian NGOs.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Chernihiv Region	1	$ 2 648
Chernivtsi Region	1	$ 2 500
Dnipropetrovsk Region	1	$ 15 000
Donetsk Region	1	$ 13 330
Ivano-Frankivsk Region	1	$ 13 323
Kharkiv Region	1	$ 15 000
Khmelnytskyi Region	1	$ 15 000
Kyiv City	3	$ 12 091
Luhansk Region	3	$ 13 045
Lviv Region	3	$ 41 660
Mykolaiv Region	1	$ 13 330
Odesa Region	1	$ 2 476
Sumy Region	1	$ 13 330
Zaporizhia Region	1	$ 10 000
All-Ukrainian Projects	25	$ 297 224
Total:	45	$ 479 957




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Open Elections in Ukraine Action Area

Number of Projects: 4
Grant Amount: $ 37 347
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 0,70 %


Support to the NGO initiatives in the following spheres is also an important action area of the Civil Society Impact Enhancement Program:

• Dissemination of the best practices of ensuring transparent and open elections process in Ukraine;
• Systematic monitoring and providing society with reliable information regarding election legislation violations and assisting the legal prosecution of such violations;
• Ensuring financial audits of presidential candidate campaigns and their opportunities to access the mass media on the state and regional levels;
• Conducting pre-election educational and informational social advertising campaigns.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Chernihiv Region	1	$ 2 648
All-Ukrainian Projects	3	$ 34 699
Total:	4	$ 37 347




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: Chernihiv Public Committee for Protection of Human Rights, Chernihiv.
Project Manager: Oleksiy Tarasov.
Project Summary: Monitoring violations and protecting voting rights of citizens during run-off elections for Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in single-member constituency (district) No. 206 in Chernihiv.
Total: $ 2 648

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Preparation and conducting of research entitled "Coalition Initiatives of Non-Governmental Organizations During Elections: Experience, Progress and Faults" resulting in further development of recommendations as respect to key directions of public activities during 2004 election campaign.
Total: $ 8 110

Grantee: Vidkryte Suspilstvo (Open Society) Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Oksana Hriaznova.
Project Summary: Promulgation of materials related to activities of people’s deputies in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for 2002 via issuance of an informational and analytical digest and its presentation in regions of Ukraine.
Total: $ 8 595

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Maintaining the organization, technical and information activities of the New Choice – 2004 Public Coalition.
Total: $ 17 994




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Capacity Building of Independent Think Tanks and Research Groups

Number of Projects: 14
Grant Amount: $ 206 000
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 3,88 %


The Civil Society Impact Enhancement Program supports institutional development of independent think tank and research groups in Ukraine. Enhancing expert and analytical capacities of NGOs can be achieved by supporting monitoring and research projects, gaining and disseminating successful experience in public campaigning aimed at defending the interests of citizens by the "third sector" organizations in cooperation with the state and local government bodies, as well as by providing Ukrainian regional research groups with financial support to publish the research results.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Dnipropetrovsk Region	1	$ 15 000
Kharkiv Region	1	$ 15 000
Khmelnytskyi Region	1	$ 15 000
Luhansk Region	1	$ 10 000
Lviv Region	1	$ 15 000
Zaporizhia Region	1	$ 10 000
All-Ukrainian Projects	8	$ 126 000
Total:	14	$ 206 000




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: Yi Independent Cultural Journal, NGO, Lviv.
Project Manager: Taras Vozniak.
Project Summary: Researching problems that may arise in the western frontier oblasts of Ukraine after EU expansion wave in May 2004. Studying impact of those problems on the pre-election atmosphere in Ukraine and the dynamics of political system building in those regions.
Total: $ 15 000

Grantee: Kharkiv Public Foundation for Local Democracy, Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Olha Miroshnyk.
Project Summary: Creation of powerful independent think tank in Kharkiv Oblast that will utilize prominent experts and young analysts and will conduct competition and training.
Total: $ 15 000

Grantee: Center for Political Studies, Lviv.
Project Manager: Anatoliy Romaniuk.
Project Summary: Researching today’s topical problems in Ukraine and lending analytical support of the social and political processes taking place in Ukraine both at the national and local levels (Lviv and Sumy regions).
Total: $ 15 000

Grantee: Association of Policy Analysts, NGO, Dnipropetrovsk.
Project Manager: Vladyslav Romanov.
Project Summary: Creating independent think tank aimed at generating efficient, competitive proposals with respect to public and local policy, promoting the development of the analytical potential of non-governmental organizations in the Prydniprovsky region.
Total: $ 15 000

Grantee: Europe XXI Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Inna Pidluska.
Project Summary: Enhancing efficiency of participation of public organizations in building and adhering to Euro-Atlantic integration policy and supporting the establishment of a civil society. Opening up public access to the Public Information Center for Civil Society and European Integration.
Total: $ 10 000

Grantee: Ukrainian Association of Theologians, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Liudmyla Fylypovych.
Project Summary: Monitoring information related to intra-confessional and inter-confessional problems of the existence of religious communities, collection and analysis of basic legislative initiatives in the field of freedom of conscience and distribution through mass media of the information obtained as a result of the monitoring.
Total: $ 10 000

Grantee: Association "Podillya Pershyi", Khmelnytsky.
Project Manager: Yevhen Bezvushko.
Project Summary: Monitoring and analyzing government procurements in Khmelnytsky Oblast. Developing web-portal for the purpose of public awareness of tender announcements for government procurements of commodities and services. Collecting and systemizing information related to tenders using the web-portal, distributing analytic materials gathered as a result of such monitoring.
Total: $ 15 000

Grantee: Institute of Competitive Society, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Kseniya Liapina.
Project Summary: Analyzing experiences from the implementation of the National and Regional Small Entrepreneurship Development Programs, ensuring participation of associations of enterprises both in the development of such programs and in public control over their implementation. Building methodological foundations for the selection of the best tools for small entrepreneurship development.
Total: $ 15 000

Grantee: Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Iryna Bekeshkina.
Project Summary: Developing criteria for measuring the state of democracy in Ukraine for the purpose of monitoring the democratization process. Publicizing and encouraging public discussion of the results.
Total: $ 15 000

Grantee: Yaroslav the Wise Institute of Legislative Problems, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Dmytro Piatachenko.
Project Summary: Analytically studying all draft laws submitted for consideration to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, comparatively analyzing Ukrainian legislation and the standards of international law, developed legislative proposals with respect to their harmonization, translated into English the 45 most important statutory acts of Ukraine in the field of economy, issued the electronic information weeklies such as Parliament’s Weekly and News of Legislation.
Total: $ 36 000

Grantee: Centre for Economic Development, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Lidiya Verkhovodova.
Project Summary: Monitoring privatization process in Ukraine and identifying crucial points in property reform implementation policy. Creating web page aimed at distributing information and methodologically justified results of analytic studies conducted in this field.
Total: $ 10 000

Grantee: South-East Center for Municipal and Regional Development, Luhansk.
Project Manager: Viacheslav Kozak.
Project Summary: Foundation of periodical analytic print and Internet resource for publicizing analytic studies carried out by the Luhansk analytic team in the field of local government and regional development.
Total: $ 10 000

Grantee: Center for Political & Legal Reforms, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Ihor Koliushko.
Project Summary: Research, examination and preparation of laws and other normative acts in the field of administrative and judicial reforms, human rights, information technologies applied in law and public administration.
Total: $ 15 000

Grantee: Association "Yevropeisky Shliakh" (European Way), Berdiansk.
Project Manager: Petro Hudz.
Project Summary: Administering public control and monitoring compliance by municipal authorities with international quality standards for providing municipal services, ISO 9001:2000. Monitoring implementation of the Strategic Development Plan of Berdyansk.
Total: $ 10 000




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Conferences, Summer Schools and Research

Number of Projects: 7
Grant Amount: $ 30 370
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 0,57 %


Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Kyiv City	2	$ 2 091
All-Ukrainian Projects	5	$ 28 279
Total:	7	$ 30 370




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: Free Trade Union Confederation of Ukraine, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Olena Chernenko.
Project Summary: Supporting participation of a representative of trade unions in the European Union Northern Dimension Labour Market Forum in Helsinki, Finland.
Total: $ 650

Grantee: Center of Philanthropy, NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Svitlana Kuts.
Project Summary: Supporting participation of a representative of the organization in the International Fundraising Summit and Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 22–26, 2003.
Total: $ 1 441

Grantee: Ukrainian Association of Theologians, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Liudmyla Fylypovych.
Project Summary: Conducting of International Youth Summer School of Religious Tolerance "Inter-Confessional Dialogue and Christian Ecumenism", Kyiv, June 24 – July 7, 2003.
Total: $ 5 324

Grantee: Olexander Razumkov Ukrainian Center for Economic and Political Studies, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Leonid Poliakov.
Project Summary: Supporting of the participation of L. Polyakov in the International Conference "Armed Forces and Society": study of the experience in the development of civil control system over security area, Chicago, USA, October 24–26, 2003.
Total: $ 1 980

Grantee: Non-Governmental Analytic Center "Institute of Reforms", All-Ukrainian NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Viktor Maziarchuk.
Project Summary: Conducting of the IV All-Ukrainian Competition "Young Economy".
Total: $ 6 225

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Supporting of the participation of Ukrainian regional non-governmental organizations in the conference "Cooperation of Polish and Ukrainian Public Organizations after the Expansion of the European Union", Kyiv, November 4–5, 2003.
Total: $ 4 750

Grantee: Humanitarian Technologies Development Foundation, NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Maksym Karyzhsky.
Project Summary: Holding a one-day seminar for journalists from the metropolitan and regional mass media "Regional Forms of Integration: International Experience in the Light of Signing of the Agreement on the United Economic Space".
Total: $ 10 000




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Expert Partnership Network

Number of Projects: 8
Grant Amount: $ 105 583
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 1,99 %


The Program assisted in establishment of a network of regional research groups that independently research the policies of local government bodies in accordance with international standards. The key tasks of this network include disseminating methodology of state policy analysis and independent expertise standards, involving the public into development and decision-making process of local government bodies, as well as into quality assessment of governmental services provided to the citizens.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Donetsk Region	1	$ 13 330
Ivano-Frankivsk Region	1	$ 13 323
Lviv Region	2	$ 26 660
Mykolaiv Region	1	$ 13 330
Sumy Region	1	$ 13 330
All-Ukrainian Projects	2	$ 25 610
Total:	8	$ 105 583




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: Olexander Razumkov Ukrainian Center for Economic and Political Studies, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Mykola Sunhurovsky.
Project Summary: Creating a network of think tanks operating under the uniform corporate standard of policy analysis and independent analysis of the state of social and economic development of territories, and preparing on their basis the recommendations with respect to specific branch transformations.
Total: $ 24 590

Grantee: Entrepreneurs’ Union of Trostianechyna, Trostianets.
Project Manager: Yuriy Bova.
Project Summary: Development of materials on the analysis of the policy as to respects of production of mechanisms for participation of public in the identification of priority directions of the development of Trostyanets in Sumy Oblast.
Total: $ 13 330

Grantee: Western Ukraine Center of Human Rights and Civic Initiatives, Stryy.
Project Manager: Petro Makovsky.
Project Summary: Analysis and public discussion of results of analysis of local authorities’ policy with respect to the migration of labour resources of rural communities in Stryy.
Total: $ 13 330

Grantee: Association of Economic Development of Kolomyischyna, Kolomyia.
Project Manager: Vasyl Fediuk.
Project Summary: Policy analysis, discussion of conclusions and preparation of recommendations with respect to maintaining mechanisms for public participation in the identifying priorities of the social and economic development of Kolomyya.
Total: $ 13 323

Grantee: Association of Entrepreneurs-Employers of Mykolayv, Mykolayiv.
Project Manager: Hennadiy Honcharovsky.
Project Summary: Development of a mechanism for municipal policy in the field of local taxation in Mykolayiv on the basis of methods and tools of policy analysis.
Total: $ 13 330

Grantee: Municipal & Regional Development Center, Drogobych City NGO, Drohobych.
Project Manager: Vasyl Tsiunyk.
Project Summary: Applying of policy analytic methods in order to improve efficiency and performance of local economic and social development planning.
Total: $ 13 330

Grantee: "Donbas", Regional Development Agency, Donetsk.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Liakh.
Project Summary: Policy analysis and preparation of recommendations with respect to the support of development of the depressed Donbas territories.
Total: $ 13 330

Grantee: "International Center for Policy Studies", International NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Hnat.
Project Summary: Conducting of training seminar, "Introduction to Public Policy" for regional think tanks.
Total: $ 1 020




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Regional Partnership Network

Number of Projects: 6
Grant Amount: $ 29 100
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 0,55 %


International Renaissance Foundation creates an environment where active members of the "third sector" can effectively interact, thus providing opportunities for sharing experience in successful project implementation and strengthening cooperation and partnership among non-governmental organizations. In 2001, the IRF Regional Partnership Network was created, which was joined by NGOs from all over Ukraine. In the result, in 2001–2002, the number of project proposals submitted by regional non-governmental organizations increased significantly. In 2003, the IRF continued with this effective form of cooperation with NGOs in all regions of Ukraine and in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Chernivtsi Region	1	$ 2 500
Luhansk Region	1	$ 2 438
Odesa Region	1	$ 2 476
All-Ukrainian Projects	3	$ 21 686
Total:	6	$ 29 100




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Professional training of representatives of the IRF information partnership network and regional non-governmental organizations.
Total: $ 9 112

Grantee: "Kovcheg", Association for Promotion Public Initiatives, Odesa.
Project Manager: Ihor Kaminnyk.
Project Summary: Holding of two-day training in fundraising, project management and social investment for non-governmental organizations of Odesa Oblast.
Total: $ 2 476

Grantee: Bukovyna Partner Agency, Civic Union, Chernivtsi.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Zavyalov.
Project Summary: Holding of two-day training in effective public relations for non-governmental organizations of Chernivtsi Oblast.
Total: $ 2 500

Grantee: Public Legal Assistance Service, Luhansk Oblast Organization, Luhansk.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Svientytsky.
Project Summary: Training of representatives of non-governmental organizations of Luhansk Oblast in effective PR methods.
Total: $ 2 438

Grantee: Ostroh Dukes Philanthropists Charitable Foundation, Rivne.
Project Manager: Oksana Kraplych.
Project Summary: Conducting of training course for preparation of projects for submission to international donor organizations for consulting trainers from non-governmental organizations.
Total: $ 4 490

Grantee: "Internews – Ukraine", International NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Mariya Shkarlat.
Project Summary: Training of representatives of non-governmental organizations in effective PR methods.
Total: $ 8 084




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Other

Number of Projects: 6
Grant Amount: $ 71 557
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 1,35 %


Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Kyiv City	1	$ 10 000
Luhansk Region	1	$ 607
All-Ukrainian Projects	4	$ 60 950
Total:	6	$ 71 557




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: South-East Center for Municipal and Regional Development, Luhansk.
Project Manager: Olena Kozliuk.
Project Summary: Conducting of a public opinion poll in Luhansk aimed at ascertaining their attitudes toward the integration processes taking place in Ukraine, issuance of a brochure of research results.
Total: $ 607

Grantee: Institute of Economic Research and Political Consultations, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Ihor Burakovsky.
Project Summary: Preparation and issuance of book "Ukraine’s Accession to the WTO Challenges National Economic Reform".
Total: $ 7 000

Grantee: Bukovyna Partner Agency, Civic Union, Chernivtsi.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Zavyalov.
Project Summary: Insurance of legal support for labour migrants and members of their families in Chernivtsi Oblast, creation of conditions for their social reintegration and involvement in different aspects of society therefore helping to solve problems caused by illegal labour migration.
Total: $ 10 000

Grantee: Publishers Forum, NGO, Lviv.
Project Manager: Oleksandra Koval.
Project Summary: Conducting of cultural and public action "Freedom Day": Publication of essays by prominent national authors, publicizing of them in central and regional media, arrangment of texts on the Internet site and their issuance in a special digest, conduct of art presentations.
Total: $ 10 000

Grantee: Social-Economic Strategy Institute, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Iryna Zapatrina.
Project Summary: Supporting of activities of the Scientific Expert Council at the Committee for European Integration of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine: analyzation of process for adapting Ukrainian law to EU legislation and GATT/WTO standards, public information of the adaptation process progress.
Total: $ 30 000

Grantee: Social-Economic Strategy Institute, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Iryna Zapatrina.
Project Summary: Development of a codified draft on the Law of Ukraine "On Intellectual Property" subject to provisions of the TRIPS Agreement and international agreements entered into by Ukraine.
Total: $ 13 950




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Democratization and Reforming of Local Government and Public Administration Program

Number of Projects: 32
Grant Amount: $ 239 050
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 4,50 %


Building modern democratic society depends largely on reconsideration of the role, place, form and tools of state regulation of social processes in Ukraine. As such, an objective "to reform government" through de-bureaucratization, decentralization, decreasing its regulatory power level, and modernizing administration has become top priority in the development of contemporary Ukrainian society.

In 1999–2002, the Program supported development of a number of law-drafts and model alternatives to the local normative acts. Additionally, methodological and educational materials on reforms in the domain of power division, on the mechanisms of effective resource use, and on modernization of the organization and activities of local government and public administration have also been developed.

In 2003, the Program focused its efforts on supporting public initiatives in the areas of developing self-organization bodies and developing effective mechanisms to involve citizens in developing, adopting, and controlling the implementation of decisions taken by state, regional, and municipal administration bodies.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Cherkasy Region	1	$ 7 000
Chernivtsi Region	1	$ 6 000
Crimean Region	1	$ 1 300
Donetsk Region	1	$ 5 000
Ivano-Frankivsk Region	1	$ 8 000
Khmelnytskyi Region	1	$ 7 000
Kyiv City	4	$ 26 500
Kyiv Region	1	$ 4 400
Luhansk Region	2	$ 10 500
Lviv Region	4	$ 26 000
Mykolaiv Region	1	$ 5 000
Odesa Region	1	$ 3 500
Poltava Region	2	$ 17 300
Rivne Region	2	$ 16 500
All-Ukrainian Projects	9	$ 95 050
Total:	32	$ 239 050




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Citizens' Self-Organization Bodies as a Local Democracy Development Instrument

Number of Projects: 10
Grant Amount: $ 62 600
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 1,18 %


In order to enhance institutions of self-organization and to transform them into capable instruments of local democracy development, the following areas were supported:

• Researching specific aspects of and preparing practical recommendations on functioning and organizing citizen’s self-organization bodies;
• Developing and disseminating typical provisions / enactments on NGO registration at local government bodies and mechanisms to delegate appropriate powers and to control their efficient implementation;
• Analyzing the implementation of the Law of Ukraine on "Citizens' Self-Organization Bodies".
• Preparing amendments to the Law of Ukraine on "Citizens' Self-Organization Bodies".
• Conducting regional competitions on the best practices in citizens’ self-government.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Cherkasy Region	1	$ 7 000
Donetsk Region	1	$ 5 000
Ivano-Frankivsk Region	1	$ 8 000
Kyiv City	2	$ 13 000
Lviv Region	1	$ 5 500
Mykolaiv Region	1	$ 5 000
Odesa Region	1	$ 3 500
Poltava Region	1	$ 7 800
All-Ukrainian Projects	1	$ 7 800
Total:	10	$ 62 600




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: Luhansk Oblast Center of Political and Sociological Studies "Politsocium", NGO, Luhansk.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Ivanov.
Project Summary: Studying of the work experience of citizens’ self-organization bodies in Luhansk and Luhansk Oblast in order to determine their optimal powers.
Total: $ 6 000

Grantee: Scientists Society to Assist Municipal Reform, NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Viktor Kravchenko.
Project Summary: Providing of practical, scientific and methodical assistance to territorial communities, local governmental bodies and officials for the implementation of provisions of the Law of Ukraine "On Citizens’ Self-Organization Bodies".
Total: $ 7 000

Grantee: Association of Cities of Ukraine, Poltava regional branch, Khorol.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Beznosyk.
Project Summary: Distribution and popularization of the best experiences garnered from the creation and activities of citizens’ self-organization bodies in Poltava Oblast.
Total: $ 7 800

Grantee: City of Mykolayv Development Foundation, Mykolayiv.
Project Manager: Mykhaylo Zolotukhin.
Project Summary: Foundation of information and methodical center for the citizens’ self-organization bodies in Mykolayiv.
Total: $ 5 000

Grantee: International Charitable Foundation Renaissance of the National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Rostyslav Pavlenko.
Project Summary: Creation of methodical recommendation package on typical procedures for adherence to municipal public policy with respect to the activities of citizens’ self-organization bodies.
Total: $ 7 800

Grantee: Agency for Development of Private Initiative, NGO, Ivano-Frankivsk.
Project Manager: Oksana Masliak.
Project Summary: Supporting of the development of an efficient citizens’ self-organization bodies system in Ivano-Frankivsk.
Total: $ 8 000

Grantee: Agency for Development of Rural Area, NGO, Zhydachiv.
Project Manager: Andriy Danylets.
Project Summary: Creation of citizens’ self-organization bodies system in Zhuravninsky microregion in Lviv Oblast.
Total: $ 5 500

Grantee: "Gromada Pershotravneva" (1st May Community), NGO of Proletarsky District of Donetsk City, Donetsk.
Project Manager: Lidiya Zabolotna.
Project Summary: Initiation of activities for public school training of the staff reserve for citizens’ self-organization bodies.
Total: $ 5 000

Grantee: "Lytsem do Lytsia" (Face to Face) Odessa City NGO, Odesa.
Project Manager: Oleksiy Orlovsky.
Project Summary: Creation of conditions for the development of citizens’ self-organization bodies through the development of applicable draft laws; foundation of resource center and distributed experience.
Total: $ 3 500

Grantee: Cherkassy Oblast Organization of the Voter’s Committee of Ukraine, Cherkasy.
Project Manager: Maksym Mykhlyk.
Project Summary: Development of typical regulations on citizens’ self-organization bodies in Cherkasy Oblast, preparation of methodical recommendations on their foundation, registration and management.
Total: $ 7 000




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Ensuring Transparency in Activities of Local Government

Number of Projects: 19
Grant Amount: $ 121 400
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 2,28 %


One of the 2003 Program priorities included supporting projects introducing organizational mechanisms which involve the public in assessing the effective implementation of territorial development strategic plans and the development of local economy branches. Much attention was also paid to independent public audits, which evaluated efficiency of the activities of central executive government bodies, local state administrations, their departments, local councils and their deputies, commissions and executive bodies, and local (village / rural community) heads. A very important component of this activity included publishing a special educational and methodological handbook entitled "Involving Citizens in Local Self-Government" and using it in trainings for representatives of local self-government and NGOs.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Chernivtsi Region	1	$ 6 000
Crimean Region	1	$ 1 300
Khmelnytskyi Region	1	$ 7 000
Kyiv City	1	$ 7 500
Kyiv Region	1	$ 4 400
Luhansk Region	2	$ 10 500
Lviv Region	3	$ 20 500
Poltava Region	1	$ 9 500
Rivne Region	2	$ 16 500
All-Ukrainian Projects	6	$ 38 200
Total:	19	$ 121 400




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: "EuroRegio Ukraine", Institute of Regional and EU-Integration Research, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Serhiy Bortkevych.
Project Summary: Development and implemention of the scientific and methodical training complex "Participation of Public in the Development and Implementation of Local Government Programs".
Total: $ 6 400

Grantee: Institute of European Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Vladyslav Verstiuk.
Project Summary: Development of a training program and conducting of training based on the manual "Involvement of Citizens in the Participation in Local Government".
Total: $ 6 800

Grantee: Public Legal Assistance Service, Luhansk Oblast Organization, Luhansk.
Project Manager: Yuriy Motsny.
Project Summary: Engagement of citizens’ self-organization bodies in the process of modernizing the public utilities sector in Luhansk.
Total: $ 3 500

Grantee: "Volyn Resource Center", Regional Foundation of Public Initiatives, Rivne.
Project Manager: Vasyl Kashevsky.
Project Summary: Involvement of citizens in the creation of strategic plans of sustainable development of Rivne.
Total: $ 9 500

Grantee: Scientists Society to Assist Municipal Reform, NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Viktor Kravchenko.
Project Summary: Preparation of training and methodical materials and implemention of training programs dealing with the topic "Involvement of Citizens in the Participation in Local Government".
Total: $ 7 500

Grantee: European Dialog, NGO, Lviv.
Project Manager: Ihor Kaspruk.
Project Summary: Development and implemention of organizational mechanisms for public involvement during the processes of control and assessment of the performance of strategic development plans for Yavorivsky and Sokalsky districts in Lviv Oblast.
Total: $ 7 000

Grantee: Executive Committee of Komsomol City Council of Poltava Oblast, Komsomolsk.
Project Manager: Valentyna Poltavets.
Project Summary: Development of efficient quality management systems for local government bodies based on the international standard ISO 9001:2000.
Total: $ 9 500

Grantee: Cherkassy Oblast Organization of the Voter’s Committee of Ukraine, Cherkasy.
Project Manager: Maksym Mykhlyk.
Project Summary: Development of typical Regulations on domiciliary citizens’ conferences.
Total: $ 3 000

Grantee: Lviv Regional Institute of Public Administration of the Ukrainian Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine, Lviv.
Project Manager: Anatoliy Chemerys.
Project Summary: Preparation and issuance of training and methodical manual "Involvement of Citizens in the Participation in Local Government" and conducting training arrangements.
Total: $ 7 500

Grantee: Kamianets-Podilsky Renaissance Party, NGO, Kamianets-Podilsky.
Project Manager: Ihor Lepyoshkin.
Project Summary: Organization and implementation of monitoring of the Strategic Economic Development Plan for Kamyanets-Podilsky.
Total: $ 7 000

Grantee: "Municipal Perspective", Municipal Figures Association, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Yuriy Melnyk.
Project Summary: Preparation, publication and distribution of the brochure "Local Social and Economic Development: Guidance for Deputies of Local Councils and Local Government Officials".
Total: $ 7 500

Grantee: Rivne Oblast NGO of the Voter’s Committee of Ukraine, Rivne.
Project Manager: Serhiy Pinchuk.
Project Summary: Conducting of training sessions for 60 deputies from two town councils for the purpose of optimizing their interaction with voters.
Total: $ 7 000

Grantee: "Law & Democracy", Regional Public Foundation, Lviv.
Project Manager: Roman Bilovus.
Project Summary: Introduction of high information technologies aimed at ensuring public access to decisions passed by local government bodies.
Total: $ 6 000

Grantee: "Public Initiative Association", Lviv City NGO, Briukhovychi.
Project Manager: Ruslana Rudnitska.
Project Summary: Training of of public expert team and conducting of independent audit of activities carried out by Zhydachiv and Mostysky district councils in Lviv Oblast.
Total: $ 7 500

Grantee: Association of Cities of Ukraine, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Olena Tomniuk.
Project Summary: Summarization and distribution of the best domestic experiences in ensuring public transparency in the activities of local governmental bodies.
Total: $ 7 000

Grantee: Civic Committee for Protection of Constitutional Rights and Freedoms of Citizens, Luhansk.
Project Manager: Mykola Kozyriev.
Project Summary: Promotion of the transformation of citizens’ self-organization committees into the instrument of public audit of local government system.
Total: $ 7 000

Grantee: Bukovyna Partner Agency, Civic Union, Chernivtsi.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Zavyalov.
Project Summary: Creation of the standing project consulting council and public archive in Chernivtsi.
Total: $ 6 000

Grantee: City Development Support Center, Kaharlyk.
Project Manager: Oleh Puriy.
Project Summary: Creation of public council for planning the development of Kaharlyk, Kyiv Oblast.
Total: $ 4 400

Grantee: "Ryng", Youth Sport Club of Boxing and Kick-boxing, Bilohirsk.
Project Manager: Vitaliy Khomutov.
Project Summary: Issuance and distribution of the digest, "Recommendation on Ensuring Transparency in Activities of Local Government".
Total: $ 1 300




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Other

Number of Projects: 3
Grant Amount: $ 55 050
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 1,04 %


Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Kyiv City	1	$ 6 000
All-Ukrainian Projects	2	$ 49 050
Total:	3	$ 55 050




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: Civil Society Institute, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Anatoliy Tkachuk.
Project Summary: Implementation of mechanisms of public involvement in legislative activities through the Public Council for legislation for local government and third sector organizations.
Total: $ 44 050

Grantee: "Reforming Land Relations in Ukraine", Information & Resource Center, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Oleksiy Yanov.
Project Summary: Issuance of manual for regulation of land relations for deputies of city and town councils.
Total: $ 5 000

Grantee: Direct Democracy Institute, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Pohorily.
Project Summary: Development of draft Regulations on general citizens’ meetings and local initiatives.
Total: $ 6 000




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East-East Program

Number of Projects: 104
Grant Amount: $ 229 271
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 4,31 %


This program has been in force in Ukraine for ten years. Its aim is to support the development of inter-state long-term partnerships between civil society institutions, and to facilitate information exchange in solving important societal problems. Over this time, the Program has supported nearly 1000 inter-state activities costing a total of $ 2 450 000. More than 240 projects implemented in Ukraine were united by a single motivating force: developing partnerships beyond borders, which in turn strengthens the impact of civil society on solving a broad spectrum of problems. It was also aimed at developing "people’s diplomacy", which is held to be a weighty instrument in developing positive inter-state relations.

In 2003, three quarters of the projects were implemented in partnership with representatives from Poland, and almost half—with representatives from Russia and the Baltic region. Ukrainian organizers of various events actively invite experts from EU future member countries in order to introduce European standards in Ukraine. An important component of the program includes securing the participation of citizens in partnering projects outside Ukraine under the auspices of the East-East Program. Most often, Ukrainian participants have been invited to work on joint projects in Poland, Russia and the Baltic states.

Some projects supported by the Program in 2003 were jointly financed by PAUCI, the Canada-Ukraine Gender Fund, CIDA, USAID (WinRock International), UNDP, Global Fund for Women, Mama Cash, TADA, the McArthur Fund, Milieu Kontact Oost-Europa Fund, the State Committee on Issues of Family and Youth, the Lviv and Sambir City Councils.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Cherkasy Region	1	$ 92
Chernihiv Region	2	$ 510
Crimean Region	3	$ 3 385
Donetsk Region	5	$ 5 603
Ivano-Frankivsk Region	2	$ 928
Kharkiv Region	2	$ 1 112
Kherson Region	2	$ 484
Kirovohrad Region	1	$ 510
Kyiv City	30	$ 14 681
Luhansk Region	2	$ 833
Lviv Region	10	$ 10 517
Odesa Region	5	$ 2 937
Rivne Region	1	$ 125
Ternopil Region	1	$ 125
Transcarpathian Region	2	$ 668
Volyn Region	2	$ 397
Zaporizhia Region	2	$ 616
All-Ukrainian Projects	31	$ 185 748
Total:	104	$ 229 271




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Activities Supported by the Program in Ukraine

Number of Projects: 26
Grant Amount: $ 183 951
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 3,46 %


Among the activities supported by the Program in Ukraine, priority was given to the initiatives which would develop partnership with the public in neighboring countries, as well as to the projects based on sharing experience in monitoring and actively influencing the processes of positive solving significant societal problems. Special interest was evoked by projects, which developed cooperation between public institutions in Ukraine and Poland, as well as by those sharing experience in European integration, overcoming social fears and prejudices, developing favorable environment for implementing European standards in Ukraine and optimizing the EU’s attitude towards Ukraine.

The activities which took place in Ukraine (hostings) in 2003 were broad. They included ecology, education, fighting corruption, introducing gender equality, protecting human rights, enhancing the role of mass media, etc. Other projects were aimed at reforming the trade union sphere, developing ideological and religious tolerance and pluralism, working with youth to control the spread of HIV/AIDS, developing philanthropy in Central and Eastern Europe.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Lviv Region	1	$ 1 780
All-Ukrainian Projects	25	$ 182 171
Total:	26	$ 183 951




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: Liberal Society Institute, NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Oksana Kyselyova.
Project Summary: Holding of regional seminar on development of recommendations on building environmental strategy and problems of women’s participation in environmentally essential decision making process, Kyiv, February 2 – March 3, 2003.
Total: $ 9 670

Grantee: "EcoLaw-Kyiv", Public Ecology-Law Organization, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Olena Panina.
Project Summary: Holding of international seminar "Public Participation in Ecologization of the Transport Policy of Cities in the Central and Eastern Europe", Kyiv, April 23–25, 2003.
Total: $ 4 079

Grantee: International Foundation for Education Policy Research, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Taras Finikov.
Project Summary: Holding of seminar with the participation of Ukrainian and foreign experts on the creation of a training and methodical complex for opening Euroclubs on the basis of secondary schools, Kyiv, May 21–23, 2003.
Total: $ 5 245

Grantee: "Geneza", Social & Humanitarian Consortium, Lviv.
Project Manager: Andriy Yurash.
Project Summary: Conducting of an extended meeting of the organizational committee for preparation of the international conference, "Challenge of Religious Pluralism for Central and Eastern Europe", Lviv, June 6–7, 2003.
Total: $ 1 212

Grantee: Center of Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy of Ukraine, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Nataliya Parkhomenko.
Project Summary: Holding of seminar with respect to the presentation of the Ukrainian version of the report "More than a Neighbour" (Brussels, February 2003) and discussion of the structure and contents of the final report under the project "Expanded European Union and Ukraine", Kyiv, June 26–29, 2003.
Total: $ 9 275

Grantee: "Geneza", Social & Humanitarian Consortium, Lviv.
Project Manager: Andriy Yurash.
Project Summary: Preparation and holding of international conference, "Challenge of Religious Pluralism for Central and Eastern Europe", Lviv, December 11–14, 2003.
Total: $ 10 000

Grantee: Charitable Fund "Salus", Lviv.
Project Manager: Marta Vasylyeva.
Project Summary: Holding summer school, "Stop AIDS" aimed at the prevention of HIV-infection and creation of a network of Ukrainian trainers for the purpose of HIV/AIDS prevention activities, Lviv, July 15–21, 2003.
Total: $ 1 780

Grantee: "Geneza", Social & Humanitarian Consortium, Lviv.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Shumelda.
Project Summary: Conducting of conference aimed at discussing matters of developing draft law "On Financing of Political Parties", Lviv, June 27–28, 2003.
Total: $ 1 120

Grantee: League of Women Voters of Ukraine "50/50", Kyiv.
Project Manager: Svitlana Drobysheva.
Project Summary: Conducting of conference "Legal Provision of Parity between Women and Men: the World and Ukrainian Experience", Kyiv, June 30 – July 2, 2003.
Total: $ 7 800

Grantee: All-Ukrainian Association of Employees’ Solidarity, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Dzhulyk.
Project Summary: Holding of seminar, "Experience of Eastern European Countries in Reformation of Trade Union Area", Kyiv, July 18–19, 2003.
Total: $ 5 045

Grantee: Southern Ukrainian Center for Young Lawyers, Odesa.
Project Manager: Yuliya Zelvenska.
Project Summary: Conducting of seminar under the Program of cooperation between the Jagellon Human Rights Center Southern Ukrainian Center for Young Lawyers, Odesa, July 21–24, 2003.
Total: $ 1 892

Grantee: Democratic Seminar Foundation, Lviv city NGO, Lviv.
Project Manager: Roman Shust.
Project Summary: Conducting of seminar, "National Identity and European Integration: Ukraine-Poland-Germany", Lviv, February 15–19, 2003.
Total: $ 5 560

Grantee: Independent TV & Radio Broadcasters Association, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Tetiana Lebedieva.
Project Summary: Holding of conference, "Production and Approbation of a Mechanism of Coalition Activities of Broadcasting Associations" and distribution among young professional associations materials presenting the best practices of conducting campaigns to protect of the rights to freedom of speech and access to information, Kyiv, September 30 – October 1, 2003.
Total: $ 24 583

Grantee: International Committee for Defense of Taxpayer Rights in the Countries of Central & Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Larysa Apasova.
Project Summary: Conducting of seminar, "Lobbying Practice in the Activities of Law-Enforcement Organizations", Kyiv, November 26–27, 2003.
Total: $ 7 655

Grantee: Association of Cities of Ukraine, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Myroslav Pittsyk.
Project Summary: Conducting of Workshop for the leaders of non-governmental organizations from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia on the implementation of the Clean Up the World campaign as a means of integration and mobilization of local communities, Kyiv, November 7–8, 2003.
Total: $ 9 200

Grantee: Kyiv Entrepreneurs School, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Victor Polischuk.
Project Summary: Holding of international conference, "Women’s Role in the Development of Entrepreneurship", Kyiv, November 13–14, 2003.
Total: $ 9 418

Grantee: "Meridian", Center of Informational Research and Resource Services, Lviv.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Lavrynovych.
Project Summary: Conducting of regular meeting of the journalists’ club with respect to problems related to the introduction of a visa regime along the Ukrainian-Polish border, Lviv, October 20–24, 2003.
Total: $ 9 818

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Liliya Hrynevych.
Project Summary: Conducting of round table, "International Experience in Conducting External Exams" involving expert specialists from European countries, Kyiv, November 19, 2003.
Total: $ 7 303

Grantee: European Dialog, NGO, Lviv.
Project Manager: Ihor Kaspruk.
Project Summary: Conducting of seminar for representatives of non-governmental institutions from Ukraine, Poland and Russia related to the development of new forms of searching for foreign partners, financing and supporting sources, Lviv, December 1–5, 2003.
Total: $ 11 087

Grantee: Ukrainian Women’s Foundation, International Charitable Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Liudmyla Bezsonova.
Project Summary: Conducting of seminar, "Women’s Partnership Network and Possibilities for Ensuring Its Self-Adequacy" with the participation of representatives of non-governmental women’s organizations form the CIS and Central and Eastern Europe with respect to possibilities for creating an international women’s partnership network and supporting international cooperation, Lviv, December 1–5, 2003.
Total: $ 4 000

Grantee: "Prykarpattia", Development Agency, Sambir.
Project Manager: Yuriy Kmit.
Project Summary: Conducting of seminar, "Role of Local Governmental Bodies and Public Organizations in the Formation of Civil Society" for the experience exchange between representatives of non-governmental organizations and private entrepreneurs from Sambir (Ukraine), Snin (Slovakia), Oswenzim and Kostchin (Poland), Sambir, November 22–23, 2003.
Total: $ 3 722

Grantee: Kyiv Ecological & Cultural Center, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Anatoliy Podobaylo.
Project Summary: Holding of international school-seminar on the protection of rare species of animals, Kyiv, November 26 – December 7, 2003.
Total: $ 3 297

Grantee: "Geneza", Social & Humanitarian Consortium, Lviv.
Project Manager: Andriy Yurash.
Project Summary: Conducting of international conference, "Challenges of Religious Pluralism for Central and Eastern Europe" in the development of an inter-confessional ideological partnership and implementing ideas of religious pluralism, Lviv, December 11–14, 2003.
Total: $ 10 739

Grantee: "Svoboda Vyborou" (Freedom of Choice) Secretariat of the Coalition of NGOs of Ukraine, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Yan Lepetun.
Project Summary: Holding of working meeting of leading non-governmental anticorruption organizations from Central and Eastern European countries including developing a two-year work plan in accordance with the agreed baselines and standards within the scope of the Regional Fairness Dialogue, Vorokhta, February 14–15, 2004.
Total: $ 9 187

Grantee: "Donbas", Regional Development Agency, Donetsk.
Project Manager: Oleksiy Stasevych.
Project Summary: Holding of meeting of activists from Ukrainian, Polish and Belarusian organizations engaged in the development of territorial self-government, aimed at discussing the European integration process in the Donbas region, Donetsk, January 25–30, 2004.
Total: $ 7 764

Grantee: European Dialog, NGO, Lviv.
Project Manager: Yaryna Borenko.
Project Summary: Conducting of training session for volunteers of the project, "Monitoring the Visa Policy in Poland", Lviv, January 26–27, 2004.
Total: $ 3 500




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Supporting Ukrainian Citizens’ Participation in Central and East-European Activities

Number of Projects: 78
Grant Amount: $ 45 320
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 0,85 %


In 2003, more than 200 Ukrainian citizens were provided with financial support to participate in 36 international activities in Central and Eastern Europe. Ukrainian experts and NGO representatives, the mass media as well as government officials worked in partnering projects in the areas of human rights (in particular, street kids), youth social activism, developing regional and local councils, innovations in educational initiatives, enhancing the role of the media, and ecological "hot spots". The East-East Program gives preference to long-term initiatives, which foresee educational visits of Ukrainian experts to partner countries. The aim is to gain experience, learn innovational approaches in the social sphere and implement the knowledge accumulated.

Most often, Ukrainian participants are invited to partake in the joint projects in Poland, Russia and the Baltic states. At the same time in 2003 most of the invitations for events in Armenia, Azerbaijan supported by the Program were addressed to Ukrainian experts in the areas of ecology and human rights. Countries that are also interested in cooperating with the Ukrainian public include Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic, Moldova and Kazakhstan.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Cherkasy Region	1	$ 92
Chernihiv Region	2	$ 510
Crimean Region	3	$ 3 385
Donetsk Region	5	$ 5 603
Ivano-Frankivsk Region	2	$ 928
Kharkiv Region	2	$ 1 112
Kherson Region	2	$ 484
Kirovohrad Region	1	$ 510
Kyiv City	30	$ 14 681
Luhansk Region	2	$ 833
Lviv Region	9	$ 8 737
Odesa Region	5	$ 2 937
Rivne Region	1	$ 125
Ternopil Region	1	$ 125
Transcarpathian Region	2	$ 668
Volyn Region	2	$ 397
Zaporizhia Region	2	$ 616
All-Ukrainian Projects	6	$ 3 577
Total:	78	$ 45 320




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: "Yekhipe" Transcarpathian Association of Roma NGOs, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Aladar Adam.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the Conciliatory Congress of Roma Communities from the CIS and Baltic, Russia, Smolensk, January 31 – February 2, 2003.
Total: $ 496

Grantee: "Romano Drom" (Roma’s Way), NGO, Myrhorod.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Buzna.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the Conciliatory Congress of Roma Communities from the CIS and Baltic, Russia, Smolensk, January 31 – February 2, 2003.
Total: $ 103

Grantee: Association of Roma of the city of Izmail and Odessa Oblast, Izmayil.
Project Manager: Anatoliy Kondur.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the Conciliatory Congress of Roma Communities from the CIS and Baltic, Russia, Smolensk, January 31 – February 2, 2003.
Total: $ 303

Grantee: Kherson City Roma Association, Kherson.
Project Manager: Yuriy Ivanenko.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organzation in the Conciliatory Congress of Roma Communities from the CIS and Baltic, Russia, Smolensk, January 31 – February 2, 2003.
Total: $ 150

Grantee: All-Ukrainian Charitable Organization "Ukrainian Association of Food Banks", Donetsk.
Project Manager: Dmytro Stehniyenko.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organzation in the conference, "Foodstuff Banks of Eastern Europe", Lithuania, Vilnius, February 14–15, 2003.
Total: $ 800

Grantee: "Ame Roma" NGO in Cherkasy Oblast, Zolotonosha.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Bambula.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organzation in the Conciliatory Congress of Roma Communities from the CIS and Baltic, Russia, Smolensk, January 31 – February 2, 2003.
Total: $ 92

Grantee: "Kholmshchyna Association" (Kholm Region), NGO, Rivne.
Project Manager: Inna Omelianchuk.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organzation in the program, "Old and New Stereotypes and Their Occurrence in Media", Poland, Warsaw, March 24–28, 2004.
Total: $ 125

Grantee: "Donbas", Regional Development Agency, Donetsk.
Project Manager: Oleksiy Stasevych.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organzation in the training session, "Creation of a Coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations for the Development of Communities in Donbas Region", Poland, Keltze, March 17–21, 2003.
Total: $ 3 100

Grantee: Chernihiv Media Club, Chernihiv.
Project Manager: Liubov Potapenko.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organzation in the program, "Media without Borders – Old and New Stereotypes", Poland, Warsaw, March 24–28, 2003.
Total: $ 155

Grantee: Journalists’ Union of Ukraine, Department of Lviv Oblast Organization, Lviv.
Project Manager: Askold Yeriomin.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organzation in the seminar, "Media without Borders – Old and New Stereotypes", Poland, Warsaw, March 24–28, 2003.
Total: $ 96

Grantee: Ternopil Oblast Organization of the Union of Journalists of Ukraine, Ternopil.
Project Manager: Oleh Klochak.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organzation in the seminar, "Media without Borders – Old and New Stereotypes", Poland, Warsaw, March 24–28, 2003.
Total: $ 125

Grantee: "Meridian", Center of Informational Research and Resource Services, Lviv.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Lavrynovych.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organzation in the seminar, "Media without Borders – Old and New Stereotypes", Poland, Warsaw, March 24–28, 2003.
Total: $ 85

Grantee: "Tamara", International Union of Recreation-Sports Teachers, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Ihor Martsenkovsky.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organzation in the "Medical and Social Rehabilitation of Autistic Children and Members of Their Families", Poland, Warsaw, March 24–27, 2003.
Total: $ 665

Grantee: Zhytomyr Oblast Center of Youth-Related Initiatives, Zhytomyr.
Project Manager: Serhiy Shevchuk.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organzation in the seminar, "Media without Borders – Old and New Stereotypes", Poland, Warsaw, March 24–28, 2003.
Total: $ 150

Grantee: Kherson Regional Organization of the Union of Journalists of Ukraine, Kherson.
Project Manager: Hennadiy Lukiv.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organzation in the seminar, "Media without Borders – Old and New Stereotypes", Poland, Warsaw, March 24–28, 2003.
Total: $ 334

Grantee: "Geneza", Social & Humanitarian Consortium, Lviv.
Project Manager: Andriy Yurash.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the seminar, "Religion and Democracy: Experience Exchange between the East and West", Lithuania, Vilnius, April 10–12, 2003.
Total: $ 160

Grantee: Crimean-Tatar Initiative, NGO, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Eldar Seydametov.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the international conference, "Participation of Youth in Election Process", Azerbaijan, Baku, April 28–30, 2003.
Total: $ 475

Grantee: Committee of Voters of Ukraine, All-Ukrainian NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Olesia Oleshko.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the conference, "Participation of Youth in Election Process", Azerbaijan, Baku, April 28–30, 2003.
Total: $ 567

Grantee: Charitable Foundation "Church-Secular Accord", Odesa.
Project Manager: Eduard Martyniuk.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the international conference, "Religion and Democracy: Experience Exchange between the East and West", Lithuania, Vilnius, April 10–12, 2003.
Total: $ 330

Grantee: "Prykarpattia", Development Agency, Sambir.
Project Manager: Yuriy Kmit.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the seminar, "Democracy and Scheduled Public Organization as a Guarantee of Building Up a Democratic Society", Poland, Glivitse, May 12–19, 2003.
Total: $ 2 162

Grantee: Institute of Otolaryngology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Larysa Savchuk.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the international seminar, "Integration of Children with Hearing Impairments in General Education Process", Kazakhstan, Alma-ty, May 13–15, 2003.
Total: $ 710

Grantee: Ukrainian Foundation of Culture, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Valentyna Vrublevska.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the international conference, "Cultural Values and Property Problems. Experience of the Central Europe after 1989", Poland, Warsaw, May 30–31, 2003.
Total: $ 201

Grantee: Committee of Voters of Ukraine, All-Ukrainian NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Yevhen Radchenko.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the international conference, "Activities of Non-Governmental Organizations Aimed for Youth Involvement in Election Processes", Azerbaijan, Gazakh, June 9–14, 2003.
Total: $ 1 468

Grantee: Ukrainian Art Forum, NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Serhiy Kot.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the international conference, "Cultural Values and Property Problems. Experience of the Central Europe after 1989", Poland, Warsaw, May 30–31, 2003.
Total: $ 323

Grantee: Ukrainian Women Union of Lviv Oblast, Stry.
Project Manager: Oksana Shmilyk.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the Polish-Ukrainian exhibition of art works made by pensioners and incapable individuals, Poland, Warsaw, June 15–21, 2003.
Total: $ 940

Grantee: Tavrian State Agro-Technical Academy, Melitopol.
Project Manager: Mykola Lobanov.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the international seminar, "Information and Consulting Assistance to Farmers", Russia, Saratov, July 8–10, 2003.
Total: $ 237

Grantee: Lviv Art Galery, Lviv.
Project Manager: Ihor Khomyn.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the international conference, "Cultural Values and Property Problems. Experience of the Central Europe after 1989", Poland, Warsaw, May 30–31, 2003.
Total: $ 86

Grantee: Committee of Voters of Ukraine, All-Ukrainian NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Ihor Popov.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the international conference, "Observance of Elections Held in Eastern European Countries and CIS: Experience and Prospects", Azerbaijan, Baku, July 15–17, 2003.
Total: $ 1 192

Grantee: Sustainable Development Regional Agency, Lviv.
Project Manager: Nadiya Vrublevska.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the Ninth Regional European Conference, "Protecting Children: Promoting the Development of Interdisciplinary Approaches", Poland, Warsaw, August 27–31, 2003.
Total: $ 244

Grantee: Ukrainian Association of Bioethics, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Svitlana Viekovshynina.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the seminar, "Patients’ Rights and Development of Health Protection Ethics in the Central and Eastern Europe", Lithuania, Vilnius, August 21–23, 2003.
Total: $ 150

Grantee: Women’s Consortium of Ukraine, All-Ukrainian NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Maria Alekseyenko.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the Ninth Regional European Conference, "Protecting Children: Promoting the Development of Interdisciplinary Approaches", Poland, Warsaw, August 27–31, 2003.
Total: $ 159

Grantee: Luhansk Oblast Organization of the All-Ukrainian Association of Democratic Forces "Zlagoda", Luhansk.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Hloba.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the seminar, "Alternative Communication Methods with a Special Emphasize on the Bliss-System", Poland, Legniza, August 23–28, 2003.
Total: $ 393

Grantee: Zalouchansk Children Boarding School, D.Zaluchchia.
Project Manager: Vasyl Oleksiychuk.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of teachers from the Zaluchany Children’s Home in the traineeship, "The Best Practices of Social Support of Children with Special Needs", Czech Republic, Prague September 9–21, 2003.
Total: $ 438

Grantee: Eastern Ukraine Foundation for Social Research (EUFSR), Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Tetiana Basina.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the round table, "Globalization, Integration and Social Development in Central and Eastern Europe", Romania, Sibiu, September 5–9, 2003.
Total: $ 465

Grantee: Ukrainian Center of Studying the Holocaust History, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Anatoliy Podolsky.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the seminar, "Problems of Teaching the History of the Holocaust in Eastern European Countries", Lithuania, Vilnius, September 16–20, 2003.
Total: $ 1 041

Grantee: Kyiv Ecological & Cultural Center, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Namik Rashydov.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the seminar, "Problems of Radiation Safety in the Caspian Region", Azerbaijan, Baku, September 11–14, 2003.
Total: $ 386

Grantee: New Horizonts Association, Drohobych.
Project Manager: Tetiana Hretchenko.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the seminar, "Alternative Communication Methods with a Special Emphasize on the Bliss-System", Poland, Legniza, August 23–28, 2003.
Total: $ 3 616

Grantee: Donetsk Memorial, Donetsk City Organization, Donetsk.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Bukalov.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the conference, "Monitoring Penitentiary Institutions and Public Control", Armenia, Yerevan, October 3–6, 2003.
Total: $ 370

Grantee: Sebastopol Human Rights Protection Group, Sebastopol.
Project Manager: Olha Kononenko.
Project Summary: Presentation of experiences of public organizations from Crimea region at the conference, "Monitoring Penitentiary Institutions and Public Control", Armenia, Yerevan, October 3–6, 2003.
Total: $ 450

Grantee: Memorial of Melitopol, NGO, Melitopol.
Project Manager: Hryhoriy Aleynikov.
Project Summary: Presentation of experiences of public organizations from Zaporizhia Oblast at the conference, "Monitoring Penitentiary Institutions and Public Control", Armenia, Yerevan, October 3–6, 2003.
Total: $ 379

Grantee: Luhansk Oblast Mediation Group, Luhansk.
Project Manager: Olha Datsko.
Project Summary: Presentation of experiences of public organizations from Luhansk Oblast at the conference "Monitoring Penitentiary Institutions and Public Control", Armenia, Yerevan, October 3–6, 2003.
Total: $ 440

Grantee: Creative Initiatives Support Center, Kirovohrad.
Project Manager: Valeriy Holoborodko.
Project Summary: Presentation of experiences of cooperation between public organizations and penitentiary structures of Ukraine at the conference "Monitoring Penitentiary Institutions and Public Control", Armenia, Yerevan, October 3–6, 2003.
Total: $ 510

Grantee: Center of Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy of Ukraine, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Nahirny.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the working meeting, "Monitoring the Openness of the Eastern Polish Border", Poland, Warsaw, October 16–19, 2003.
Total: $ 630

Grantee: "Kovcheg", Association for Promotion Public Initiatives, Odesa.
Project Manager: Iryna Suetina.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the working meeting, "Monitoring the Openness of the Eastern Polish Border", Poland, Warsaw, October 16–19, 2003.
Total: $ 622

Grantee: "Meridian", Center of Informational Research and Resource Services, Lviv.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Lavrynovych.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in working meeting, "Visa Regime and Its Impact on Polish-Ukrainian, Polish-Belarusian, and Ukrainian-Belarusian Relations", Poland, Przemysl, October 19–22, 2003.
Total: $ 1 360

Grantee: Secretariat of the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Eduard Pavlenko.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the seminar, "International Experience in the Establishment and Activities of Ombudsman’s Office", Armenia, Yerevan, October 10–11, 2003.
Total: $ 417

Grantee: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Yavorsky.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the working meeting, "Monitoring the Openness of the Eastern Polish Frontier", Poland, Warsaw, October 16–19, 2003.
Total: $ 647

Grantee: Green Cross Society, NGO, Lviv.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Voloshynsky.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in "Tourism in Highland Regions – Impact on Natural and Cultural Diversity", Armenia, Yerevan, October 27–29, 2003.
Total: $ 818

Grantee: Association of Protection of Volyn’s Youth Rights, Lutsk.
Project Manager: Oksana Pankovych.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the working meeting, "Monitoring the Openness of the Eastern Polish Border", Poland, Warsaw, October 16–19, 2003.
Total: $ 155

Grantee: "Resonance", Regional Charity Foundation, Lviv.
Project Manager: Olena Hrabovska.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the working meeting, "Monitoring of the Openness of the Eastern Polish Border", Poland, Warsaw, October 16–19, 2003.
Total: $ 488

Grantee: Europe XXI Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Inna Pidluska.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the meeting, "Together towards Europe", Poland, Warsaw, October 27–30, 2003.
Total: $ 640

Grantee: Center of Political and Informational Technologies "Democracy and Development", Kyiv.
Project Manager: Dmytro Shportko.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the meeting, "Together towards Europe", Poland, Warsaw, October 27–30, 2003.
Total: $ 320

Grantee: Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Ilko Kucheriv.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the meeting, "Together towards Europe", Poland, Warsaw, October 27–30, 2003.
Total: $ 580

Grantee: "Geneza", Social & Humanitarian Consortium, Lviv.
Project Manager: Diana Yurash.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the meeting, "Together towards Europe", Poland, Warsaw, October 27–30, 2003.
Total: $ 298

Grantee: Center of Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy of Ukraine, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Nataliya Parkhomenko.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the meeting, "Together towards Europe", Poland, Warsaw, October 27–30, 2003.
Total: $ 315

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a Ukrainian expert in the conference, "Quality Education for Everyone: Basic Education for Further Acquiring Knowledge for Life", Lithuania, Vilnius, October 26–30, 2003.
Total: $ 280

Grantee: Donetsk Oblast Association of Consumers, Donetsk.
Project Manager: Harri Manhasarov.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the international seminar, "Increase Access to Justice and Conflict Prevention via Mediation", Kazakhstan, Almaty, November 16–18, 2003.
Total: $ 567

Grantee: East West Research Institute, Kyiv center, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Iryna Solonenko.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the meeting, "Together towards Europe", Poland, Warsaw, October 27–30, 2003.
Total: $ 280

Grantee: "Zhinky za Dovkillia" (Women for Environment), NGO, Odesa.
Project Manager: Tetiana Halushkina.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the seminar, "Integration of Sustainable Development Indicators into the National Planning System", Kazakhstan, Almaty, November 14–15, 2003.
Total: $ 525

Grantee: European Dialog, NGO, Lviv.
Project Manager: Ihor Kaspruk.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the working meeting, "Monitoring the Openness of the Eastern Polish Border", Poland, Warsaw, October 16–19, 2003.
Total: $ 169

Grantee: Women’s Network Information & Education Center, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Nataliya Nahorna.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the international conference, "Contemporary Citizenship: Exclusion and Involvement Policy", Slovenia, Ljubljana, December 5–6, 2003.
Total: $ 426

Grantee: Association of Protection of Volyn’s Youth Rights, Lutsk.
Project Manager: Oksana Pankovych.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the working meeting, "Monitoring the Openness of the Eastern Polish Border", Poland, Warsaw, October 16–19, 2003.
Total: $ 242

Grantee: Odessa Oblast Mediation Group, Odesa.
Project Manager: Inna Tereschenko.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the international seminar, "Increase Access to Justice and Conflict Prevention via Mediation", Kazakhstan, Almaty, November 16–18, 2003.
Total: $ 625

Grantee: "Drevo Zhyttia" (Tree of Life), Center of Human Rights, Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Tamara Tratsevych.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the working meeting, "Monitoring the Openness of the Eastern Polish Border", Poland, Warsaw, October 16–19, 2003.
Total: $ 705

Grantee: European Dialog, NGO, Lviv.
Project Manager: Ihor Kaspruk.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the working meeting, "Monitoring the Openness of the Eastern Polish Border", Poland, Warsaw, October 16–19, 2003.
Total: $ 66

Grantee: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Yavorsky.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the working meeting, "Monitoring the Openness of the Eastern Polish Border", Poland, Warsaw, October 16–19, 2003.
Total: $ 647

Grantee: Democracy Development Center, All-Ukrainian NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Liudmyla Huniava.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the conference, "State Policy with Respect to Child Homelessness: Reality and Necessity", Armenia, Yerevan, November 23–27, 2003.
Total: $ 430

Grantee: "Donbas", Regional Development Agency, Donetsk.
Project Manager: Viacheslav Koval.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the first international seminar, "Building Up a Communities Development Network in Central and Eastern Europe", Hungary, Budapest, November 28–30, 2003.
Total: $ 766

Grantee: Center of Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy of Ukraine, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Nahirny.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the working meeting, "Monitoring the Openness of the Eastern Polish Border", Poland, Warsaw, October 16–19, 2003.
Total: $ 630

Grantee: Society for the Development of Rural Green Tourism in Ukraine, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Olena Perepelytsyna.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the conference, "Opportunities and Approaches to Rural Locality development", Romania, Timisoara,
Total: $ 598

Grantee: Institute of Drug Addiction and Narcomania-Related Crimes Problems, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Andriy Kotsiuba.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the training session, "Drug Addicts Day Rehabilitation Models: Experience Exchange between Poland and Ukraine", Warsaw, Poland, December 14–23, 2003.
Total: $ 1 398

Grantee: Committee for Support of Children’s Rights Protection, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Vekola Maksymov.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the conference, "State Policy with Respect to Child Homelessness: Reality and Necessity", Armenia, Yerevan, November 23–27, 2003.
Total: $ 369

Grantee: Institute of Public Administration & Regional Development, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Kateryna Sochka.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the international seminar, "Building Up a Network of Organizations for Communities Development", Hungary, Budapest, November 28–30, 2003.
Total: $ 172

Grantee: "Renaissance of Crimea" Foundation, Bakhchysaray.
Project Manager: Hulara Emirova.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the project, "International School Republic", Poland, Warsaw, January 6–12, 2004.
Total: $ 2 460

Grantee: Democracy Development Center, All-Ukrainian NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Iryna Heyko.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the working meeting related to the development of methodology for teaching human rights at school and preparation of the applicable manual, Poland, Warsaw, December 7–14, 2003.
Total: $ 324

Grantee: "Business Initiatives" Public Center, Ivano-Frankivsk.
Project Manager: Kateryna Bosovych.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the conference, "Opportunities and Approaches to Rural Locality Development", Romania, Timisoara, December 10–12, 2003.
Total: $ 490

Grantee: "Kovcheg", Association for Promotion Public Initiatives, Odesa.
Project Manager: Iryna Suetina.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the working meeting, "Monitoring the Openness of the Eastern Polish Border", Poland, Warsaw, October 16–19, 2003.
Total: $ 835

Grantee: "Dobrochyn" (Good Deed) Center for Social Welfare, NGO, Chernihiv.
Project Manager: Nataliya Drozd.
Project Summary: Supporting of participation of a representative of the organization in the training in percentage philanthropy, Hungary, Budapest, January 19–20, 2004.
Total: $ 355




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Integration of Formerly Deported Crimean Tatars, Armenians, Bulgarians, Germans and Greeks into Ukrainian Society

Number of Projects: 26
Grant Amount: $ 90 000
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 1,69 %


This program, which has been operating since 1998, aims to develop tolerant interethnic relations, remove the factors of interethnic tension, secure equality in relations and tight interaction between representatives of various ethnic groups, remove differences between ethnic communities in order to develop the economy, society and culture of the Crimean Peninsula.

One of the most important Program action areas remains developing an environment for rejuvenation and development in the areas of educational, cultural, informational, social and legal needs of persons who were deported from the Autonomous Republic of Crimea—one of the most multiethnic regions of Ukraine.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Crimean Region	17	$ 60 500
Kyiv City	1	$ 5 000
All-Ukrainian Projects	8	$ 24 500
Total:	26	$ 90 000




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: "Initium", League of Crimean Tatar Lawyers, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Emine Avamileva.
Project Summary: Creation of informational consultative centers or public departments to provide practical legal assistance to repatriates on the basis of the representative offices of the League of the Crimean Tatar lawyers "Initium".
Total: $ 14 000

Grantee: "Maarifchi", Association of Crimean Tatar Educators, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Safure Kadzhametova.
Project Summary: Publication of the “Ridna Mova” (Native language) manual for the 4th grades of the secondary schools with the Crimean Tatar language of instruction.
Total: $ 3 500

Grantee: Abdurashid Mediyev Charitable Fund, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Eldar Seitbekirov.
Project Summary: Publication of the book "Tragedy of Crimea" written by Amet Ozenbashly in three languages.
Total: $ 3 800

Grantee: "Temel Foundation", Simpheropol City NGO, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Elvedin Chubarov.
Project Summary: Publication of ”Readings on History and Culture of the Crimean Tatars” book.
Total: $ 3 500

Grantee: Ukrainian World Society of Professional Teachers, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Nataliya Matsko.
Project Summary: Publication of the "Mathematics and Environment, 1st grade" manual for schools with the Crimean Tatar language of instruction.
Total: $ 5 000

Grantee: "Integration and Development", Center for Information and Research, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Liudmyla Mukhomorina.
Project Summary: Development of a regional program of multicultural education for pre-school children "Culture of Neighborhood" which combines a program for pre-school institutions; samples of methodological materials pursuant to the program; methodological recommendations for educators, tutors, parents; a dictionary and a list of recommended literature.
Total: $ 3 000

Grantee: "Ukraine — Word", Crimean Republican Branch of the Center of Relations with Ukrainians outside Ukraine, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Halyna Khomenko.
Project Summary: Creation and introduction of didactic materials for the regional program of literature along with preparation of the methodological manual and reading book containing the best literature works of national literatures for Ukrainian literature and language teachers.
Total: $ 1 500

Grantee: "Elpida", Tavrian Hellenistic Center, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Sokrat Lazaridi.
Project Summary: Development and creation of the program-methodological complex on ethnical history, culture and literature for teachers of modern Greek language and ethnology at secondary schools and cultural and educational centers.
Total: $ 2 600

Grantee: Crimean Armenian Society, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Azat Hryhorian.
Project Summary: Development of the educational program on Armenian language, and didactic materials thereto for schools of the first level with Ukrainian and Russian languages of instruction.
Total: $ 2 500

Grantee: "Meleshve" (Fialka), Local Children’s NGO, Ukrayinka.
Project Manager: Zarema Khayredinova.
Project Summary: Creation of multimedia educational program in the Crimean Tatar language called "We learn letters together with a computer” for the children of a pre-school age.
Total: $ 2 000

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Drafting of the Regulations on Public Expert Commission and the Regulations on Regional Didactic Material for Intercultural Education, to create mechanisms for financing innovative educational activities on a regional level.
Total: $ 4 000

Grantee: Crimean State Industrial & Pedagogics Institute, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Remzi Devlietov.
Project Summary: Publication of the "Studying – Methodological Complex on Bilingual Training in Elementary Schools. The English language".
Total: $ 2 500

Grantee: Foundation for Support to Simferopol City & Crimean Libraries, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Nadzhyie Yahya.
Project Summary: Publication of the historic book "The Rose Bush of Khans" written by Halim Geray Sultan both in the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar language.
Total: $ 3 700

Grantee: Foundation for Support to Simferopol City & Crimean Libraries, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Niyaver Kurshutov.
Project Summary: Publication of the new edition of "Gulliver's Travels to the Country of Lilliputians" by Jonathan Swift in the Crimean Tatar language.
Total: $ 2 500

Grantee: Crimean Tatar Culture Foundation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Hulnara Yahyaeva.
Project Summary: Publication of the new edition of "Gulliver's Travels to the Country of Giants" in the Crimean Tatar language.
Total: $ 2 500

Grantee: "Crimean-Tatar PEN-club", regional NGO, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Memedulla Useyinov.
Project Summary: Publication of the book of Shevkiy Bektore "Volga's Red Flow" in Ukrainian language.
Total: $ 2 900

Grantee: I. Franko Crimean Republican Universal Scientific Library, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Inna Noskova.
Project Summary: Publication of the manual on history, ethnography and folklore of the Crimean Bulgarians.
Total: $ 2 000

Grantee: I. Gasprinskyy Foundation, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Feryt Zyiatdynov.
Project Summary: Publication of the two novels of I. Gasprinsky in Ukrainian language.
Total: $ 2 659

Grantee: Odjak Publishers, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Amet Kharakhady.
Project Summary: Publication of the manual "Exercises on Syntax and Punctuation of the Crimean Tatar Language" for teachers of schools and students of philological departments.
Total: $ 2 000

Grantee: Krymchakhlar Crimean Republican Cultural Awareness Society, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Yuriy Purim.
Project Summary: Publication of the manual “Krymchak Language” for schools with the Krymchak and Crimean Tatar languages of instruction.
Total: $ 2 500

Grantee: "Ukraine — Word", Crimean Republican Branch of the Center of Relations with Ukrainians outside Ukraine, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Tetiana Zakharova.
Project Summary: Publication of the album “In the Crimean Dwelling. Part 5. Germans”. The album includes didactic material for pupils and methodological recommendations for teachers.
Total: $ 4 500

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Design and publication of the informational booklet of the Program “Integration…” which reflects the achievements of the Program attained since 1997 till 2003.
Total: $ 3 841

Grantee: "Yavir", Ukrainian Cultural Ethnographic Center, Pozharske.
Project Manager: Nataliya Popova.
Project Summary: Evaluation of tourist potential of the western region of Crimea, in preparation of an informational brochure and to design the web-site of cultural and ethnographic center “Yavir” (Maple).
Total: $ 3 000

Grantee: Association for the Promotion of Development of Rural Green Tourism in Crimea, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Nataliya Hordetska.
Project Summary: Publication of the booklet “Crimea – Live Tradition. Issue 2”, as well as at production of video materials representing information on ethnocultural centers of Crimea and their activities.
Total: $ 3 000

Grantee: Crimean State Industrial & Pedagogics Institute, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Alie Veliulaieva.
Project Summary: Publication of the manual "Book for Reading" for the 3d grade of secondary schools with the Crimean Tatar language of instruction.
Total: $ 3 500

Grantee: Crimean State Industrial & Pedagogics Institute, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Alie Veliulaieva.
Project Summary: Publication of the manual "Book for Reading" for the 4th grade of secondary schools with the Crimean Tatar language of instruction.
Total: $ 3 500




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Roma of Ukraine Program

Number of Projects: 41
Grant Amount: $ 73 566
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 1,38 %


The program has been operating since 1999, and throughout this time it has supported 156 projects totaling a financial contribution of $424 090. The program tries to increase the level of education among Roma youth, develop effective government policies with respect to the Roma population in Ukraine, spur the monitoring and implementation of special government programs with respect to meeting the ethno-social, cultural and educational needs of the Roma population in Ukraine.

In 2003, representatives of the State Committee on Issues of Nationalities and Migration and the International Renaissance Foundation proposed developing a special government program geared towards meeting the needs of the Roma population. As a result of this tight cooperation the first strategic document ever providing governmental support for the Roma minority was developed and approved on the territory of the former USSR. It is known as the program supporting the social and cultural revival of Ukrainian Roma until 2006.

More than 30 non-governmental organizations from every region of Ukraine are involved in the activities of this program. Relationships have been developed with the International Organization for Migration, the embassy of the Netherlands, The Carpathian Fund, the European Roma Rights Centre, the Council of Europe, and the OSCE Office for Roma and Sinti.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Cherkasy Region	1	$ 2 500
Kharkiv Region	3	$ 4 450
Kyiv City	1	$ 1 200
Odesa Region	4	$ 7 627
Transcarpathian Region	20	$ 26 183
All-Ukrainian Projects	12	$ 31 606
Total:	41	$ 73 566




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Holding of a one-day workshop that included the participation of representatives of network programs, for taking part in the development of the Project "Roma Education Initiative".
Total: $ 1 242

Grantee: "Romani Yag", Transcarpathian Cultural and Education Society of Roma, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Aladar Adam.
Project Summary: Conducting of a meeting with representatives of the Romany NGOs dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Society "Romany Yag".
Total: $ 3 000

Grantee: Ukrainian Institute of Social Research, NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Yaremenko.
Project Summary: Conducting of sociological research and publication of the analytical report according to the preparation of "National Program on attending the needs of Ukrainian Roma".
Total: $ 14 610

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Conducting of a meeting of the representatives of the Project "Roma Education Initiative" with representatives of network educational programs and Romany educational projects.
Total: $ 736

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Arranging of a visit of the representatives of the Project "Roma Education Initiative" to Kyiv and Uzhgorod.
Total: $ 1 218

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Arranging of a meeting of the Council of Europe representatives with representatives of the Roma NGOs for workout joint approach to solving problems of Romany women.
Total: $ 1 088

Grantee: Rozmay, NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Veronika Makoviy.
Project Summary: Presentation of the culturological Project "Roma Musical Encyclopedia".
Total: $ 500

Grantee: "Amaro Drom", Transcarpathian Oblast Society of Roma, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Emil Pap.
Project Summary: Supporting of holding the Yan Tomash Sports Tournament for the Romany residents of Uzhgorod.
Total: $ 1 000

Grantee: "Lautary", Society of Transcarpatian Roma Musical Culture, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Vilmosh Pap.
Project Summary: Participation of Roma Folk Amateur Musical Theatre "Lautari" (Uzhgorod) in the International Romany Song and Culture Festival (the town of Tsiegotniek, Poland)
Total: $ 2 500

Grantee: "Romani Zor", Transcarpathian Oblast Society of Roma, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Yosyf Tyrpak.
Project Summary: Supporting of the Romany children’s group "Romashka", Uzhgorod.
Total: $ 1 900

Grantee: "Bakhtali Luma" (Happy Light) Rakhiv Regional Woman Public Cultural Awareness Society, Rakhiv.
Project Manager: Anna Roshtash.
Project Summary: Opening of the Sunday school for the Romany children in the town of Rakhiv.
Total: $ 1 500

Grantee: Roma Association of the city of Balta and Balta Region, Balta.
Project Manager: Zinayida Arkhipova.
Project Summary: Opening of the Sunday school for the Romany children in the town of Balta, Odesa oblast.
Total: $ 1 000

Grantee: Association of Roma of the City and District of Kiliya.
Project Manager: Yuriy Kondur.
Project Summary: Sunday school activities and opening up of pre-school class in the town of Kiliya.
Total: $ 2 000

Grantee: Roma School at the Association of Roma, Izmayil.
Project Manager: Olha Lipska.
Project Summary: Supporting of activities of the Romany Sunday school in the town of Izmail.
Total: $ 2 500

Grantee: "Roma", Transcarpathian Roma Society, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Svitlana Adam.
Project Summary: Supporting of activities of the Roma Sunday school associated with the "Roma" society in Uzhgorod.
Total: $ 2 500

Grantee: "Romani Yag" Transcarpathian Cultural Society, Velykiy Bereznyansky District NGO, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Ivan Tyrpak.
Project Summary: Supporting of further development of the Romany children’s Sunday school in the settlement of Velyky Berezny.
Total: $ 2 500

Grantee: "Romano-Drom", Vynogradiv Regional Cultural-Educational Association of Roma, Velyki Komyaty.
Project Manager: Laslo Diuri.
Project Summary: Opening up of Sunday school for the Romany children in the village of Velyki Komiaty, Vynohradiv district, Uzhgorod oblast.
Total: $ 1 000

Grantee: "Ame Roma", Oblast Cultural Center, Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Karafetov.
Project Summary: Supporting of the activities of Romany children studio school in the City of Kharkiv.
Total: $ 2 500

Grantee: "Lautary", Society of Transcarpatian Roma Musical Culture, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Vilmosh Pap.
Project Summary: Holding of the Festival "PaP-Jazz-Fest" within the framework of the Romany Arts Festival "Amala" in Uzhgorod.
Total: $ 2 500

Grantee: "Amala", National Cultural Association, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Ihor Krykunov.
Project Summary: Supporting of the Kyiv stage of the IV International Romany Arts Festival "Amala – 2003".
Total: $ 6 100

Grantee: "Ame Roma" NGO in Cherkasy Oblast, Zolotonosha.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Bambula.
Project Summary: Supporting of the activities of the Sunday school for Romany school in the town of Zolotonosha.
Total: $ 2 500

Grantee: "Raykane Roma" (Roma’s Intelligentsia) Association, NGO, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Aladar Pap.
Project Summary: Supporting of the participation of Children’s Dancing Group "Rom Som" in the Festival "Romany Folk Dances", Hungary.
Total: $ 600

Grantee: "Romani Zor", Transcarpathian Oblast Society of Roma, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Ivan Tyrpak.
Project Summary: Supporting of the M. Nikiforov’s university studies during two semesters.
Total: $ 472

Grantee: "Romani Chkhib" (Romani Language), Transcarpathian Oblast Society of Roma, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Borys Buchko.
Project Summary: Supporting of the E. Buchko’s university studies during two semesters.
Total: $ 660

Grantee: Society for Community Self-Defense NGO, Transcarpathian Oblast, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Yuriy Chyzhmar.
Project Summary: Supporting of Ye. Churei’s university studies during two semesters.
Total: $ 340

Grantee: "Romen" Kharkiv Oblast National & Cultural Society of Roma, Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Ivan Matiushenko.
Project Summary: Supporting of I. Matiushenko’s university studies during two semesters.
Total: $ 700

Grantee: "Romani Cherkhen" (Roma Star), Transcarpathian Oblast Roma Youth Club, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Myroslav Horvat.
Project Summary: Supporting of M. Horvat’s university studies during two semesters.
Total: $ 618

Grantee: "Romani Yag", Transcarpathian Cultural and Education Society of Roma, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Yevheniya Navrotska.
Project Summary: Supporting of R. Baloog’s university studies during two semesters.
Total: $ 700

Grantee: "Romayi Katouna", Zvenigorodka Regional NGO, Zvenyhorodka.
Project Manager: Petro Burlachenko.
Project Summary: Supporting of P. Burlachenko’s university studies during two semesters.
Total: $ 1 200

Grantee: Association of Roma of the city of Izmail and Odessa Oblast, Izmayil.
Project Manager: Halyna Popesku.
Project Summary: Supporting of I. Arkhipov’s, L. Kondur’s, V. Kondur’s and K. Kondur’s university studies during two semesters.
Total: $ 2 127

Grantee: "Lautary", Society of Transcarpatian Roma Musical Culture, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Vilmosh Pap.
Project Summary: Supporting of V.A. Pap’s and V.V. Pap’s university studies during two semesters.
Total: $ 610

Grantee: "Rom Som", Transcarpathian Roma Cultural Association, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Aladar Pap.
Project Summary: Supporting of A. Pap’s university studies during one semester.
Total: $ 255

Grantee: "Roma", Transcarpathian Roma Society, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Mynia.
Project Summary: Supporting of V. Pintseisha’s and Ye. Yaroshenko’s university studies during two semesters.
Total: $ 1 600

Grantee: "Ame Roma", Oblast Cultural Center, Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Karafetov.
Project Summary: Supporting of O. Karafetov’s and V. Karafetov’s university studies during two semesters.
Total: $ 1 250

Grantee: "Kondor", NGO, Odesa.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Kondur.
Project Summary: Conducting of the V-th Oblast Romany Culture Festival in Odesa in the framework of the All-Ukrainian Festival "Amala".
Total: $ 2 000

Grantee: "Pralipe" (Brotherhood), Transcarpathian Oblast Charity Foundation, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Ernest Buchko.
Project Summary: Supporting of N. Kish’s university studies during two semesters.
Total: $ 540

Grantee: "Romani Yag", Transcarpathian Cultural and Education Society of Roma, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Yevheniya Navrotska.
Project Summary: Supporting of M. Patai’s university studies during two semesters.
Total: $ 400

Grantee: "Romani Yag", Transcarpathian Cultural and Education Society of Roma, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Yevheniya Navrotska.
Project Summary: Supporting of M. Patai’s studies in the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management.
Total: $ 700

Grantee: "Romani Yag", Transcarpathian Cultural and Education Society of Roma, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Yevheniya Navrotska.
Project Summary: Supporting of L. Adam’s studies in the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management.
Total: $ 700

Grantee: "Romani Yag", Transcarpathian Cultural and Education Society of Roma, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Yevheniya Navrotska.
Project Summary: Supporting of B. Yonash’s studies in the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management.
Total: $ 700

Grantee: "Rom Som", Transcarpathian Roma Cultural Association, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Aladar Pap.
Project Summary: Supporting of refurbishment of the premises of the Medical Center for Romany Population associated with Society "Rom Som".
Total: $ 3 000




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Civil Society Development Programs Gender Action Area

Number of Projects: 3
Grant Amount: $ 60 000
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 1,13 %


The issues of priority for the IRF Civil Society Development Programs Gender Action Area include protecting women’s rights and removing discrimination in society, developing gendered policies on the national level, enhancing inclusion of women in political decision-making at the local, regional, and national levels, and developing a network of Ukrainian women’s non-governmental organizations.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
All-Ukrainian Projects	3	$ 60 000
Total:	3	$ 60 000




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: Kyiv Entrepreneurs School, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Victor Polischuk.
Project Summary: Holding of four regional forums on the problems of women’s participation in small and medium business, as well as the International Conference, "Role of Women in the Development of Entrepreneurship", Kyiv, 13–14 November 2003.
Total: $ 10 000

Grantee: International Charitable Foundation Renaissance of the National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Irena Hryha.
Project Summary: Development of a training module on women’s health protection, preparation of managers and social workers, refresher course for the teachers in the Illinois University Public Health School, USA.
Total: $ 15 000

Grantee: Women's Health and Family Planning, Charitable Fund, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Halyna Maystruk.
Project Summary: Dissemination of an informational and educational campaign, "Knowledge Beats Cancer" in regions of Ukrainian. Developed mechanism for the functioning of advocatory network, "Together Against Cancer".
Total: $ 35 000




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Rule of Law

Number of Projects: 111
Grant Amount: $ 925 469
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 17,41 %

IRF Rule of Law Program is purported to encourage the improvement of mechanisms of judicial and extrajudicial protection of human rights in Ukraine, implementation of judicial-legal and penitentiary reforms, increase of activity and efficiency of human rights protection non-government organizations and development of "Legal Clinics" network in the country.

Organizations which implement projects under support of the Program shall work in cooperation with the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Legal Policy, Supreme Court of Ukraine, Council of Judges of Ukraine, State Judicial Administration of Ukraine, the Ombudsman, executive government authorities, State Department of Ukraine for Execution of Punishments, Human Rights Directorate and the Legal Directorate of the Council of Europe.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

Number of Projects: 38
Grant Amount: $ 370 135
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 6,96 %


The Rule of Law Program causes the consolidation and implementation of joint actions of human rights protection organizations, carrying our of monitoring and public hearings regarding the situation with the compliance with human rights, counteraction against corruption in various sectors of pubic life through increase of transparency of decision making mechanism and provision of access of community to information of public interest.

The Program supports the public examination of draft laws related to human rights which are under consideration of the Committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The Program initiated the performance of joint actions of direct influence on legislative and executive government authorities. The Program also supports initiatives related to the protection of vulnerable groups of people, encourages the use of mechanisms of local self-governance for solution of problems connected with the violation of human rights at the local level.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Cherkasy Region	1	$ 9 940
Chernihiv Region	1	$ 12 891
Chernivtsi Region	1	$ 4 895
Crimean Region	3	$ 16 704
Donetsk Region	1	$ 8 982
Kharkiv Region	1	$ 10 377
Kirovohrad Region	1	$ 4 680
Luhansk Region	2	$ 20 184
Lviv Region	1	$ 6 000
Vinnytsia Region	2	$ 17 835
Zhytomyr Region	1	$ 9 745
All-Ukrainian Projects	23	$ 247 902
Total:	38	$ 370 135




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Analysis of Ukrainian legislation and development of proposals on how to improve criminal law measures on human traffic counteraction using the foreign experience.
Total: $ 631

Grantee: "Vidrodjennia" (Renaissance) Vinnytsia City Public Foundation for Protection and Recreation of Epilepsy Patients, Vinnytsia.
Project Manager: Ruslan Imerelli.
Project Summary: Establishment of specialised legal services at the public reception of organisation, monitoring of rights of the mentally ill, development and placement of a website.
Total: $ 8 399

Grantee: Donetsk Social Protection and Mercy Foundation, Donetsk.
Project Manager: Tetiana Anisimova.
Project Summary: Lending of practical legal support to asylum seekers, refugees and migrants, carrying out of research on observing rights of asylum seekers in Ukraine, and presentation of workshop for civil servants of Eastern oblasts of Ukraine on problems of refugees’ and migrants’ rights protection.
Total: $ 10 414

Grantee: "Initium", League of Crimean Tatar Lawyers, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Server Yakubov.
Project Summary: Provision of legal support to deported individuals, preparation and dissemination of analytical report on the situation with providing rights for deported persons, holding of public hearings in Simferopol.
Total: $ 8 413

Grantee: "Djerela" – Charity Association for People with Intellectual and Behavioral Disabilities., Kyiv.
Project Manager: Rayisa Kravchenko.
Project Summary: Studying the observation of rights of the inhabitants of the psychoneurological boarding houses, as well as public hearings, legal support for theprecedent making case involving the protections of rights for mentally disabled individuals.
Total: $ 9 011

Grantee: "Pravova Initsiatyva" (Legal Initiative) All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Serhiy Chekhovych.
Project Summary: Studying legislative provisions of rights on freedom of movement and free choice of residence, working out of proposals on improving current legislation, publication and dissemination of an analytical report.
Total: $ 5 900

Grantee: Private Initiative Support Center, Lviv.
Project Manager: Taras Budzinsky.
Project Summary: Conducting of an international seminar on issues of observing the rights of Ukrainian wage earners, conducting of a sociological poll among illegal workers in the Republic of Poland and Russian Federation.
Total: $ 6 000

Grantee: Cherkassy Oblast Committee of Soldier’s Mothers, Cherkasy.
Project Manager: Svitlana Kasyan.
Project Summary: Performance of legal consulting, publication and disseminationed of a monthly remedial bulletin, preparation and holding of a number of remedial workshops for servicemen in the military garrisons in Cherkassy oblast, publication and dissemination of a textbook on servicemen rights protection.
Total: $ 9 940

Grantee: "Dobrochyn" (Good Deed) Center for Social Welfare, NGO, Chernihiv.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Pidhorny.
Project Summary: Setting up of a task force for the 24-hour legal support of detainees, monitoring of the observation of the human rights while taking into custody, development and publication of a practical textbook; conducting a training workshops in Chernihiv oblast.
Total: $ 12 891

Grantee: Innovation Implementation Institute, Zhytomyr City NGO, Zhytomyr.
Project Manager: Ruslan Hodovany.
Project Summary: Performance of a legal consultion over labor legislation, initiated claims, conducted thematic workshops, "Woman in the Field of the Ukrainian Labor Legislation", "Protection of Labor Cases of Young Specialists", publication of a textbook "Ukrainian Labor Legislation. Zhytomyr Experience".
Total: $ 9 745

Grantee: "Gelios", Kirovograd Oblast Youth Center of Volunteers, Kirovohrad.
Project Manager: Viktoriya Matveyeva.
Project Summary: Identification of important problems in the field of human rights in Kirovohrad oblast, preparation and conduct of six public hearings with the local bodies of self-governance, highlighting the hearing with summaries in the regional mass media.
Total: $ 4 680

Grantee: Chernivtsi City Center of Protection of Private Entrepreneurs and Small Business Enterprises, Chernivtsi.
Project Manager: Ihor Kukharchuk.
Project Summary: Holding of six public hearings and press conferences in Chernivtsi, publication and dissemination of the informational booklet on corruption prevention issues.
Total: $ 4 895

Grantee: "Social Research Institute", Simpheropol City NGO, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Arsen Osmanov.
Project Summary: Preparation and holding of parliamentary hearings on the observation of human rights in Crimea in the Verkhovna Rada [Parliament] of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, publication of a hearings materials collection.
Total: $ 6 291

Grantee: All-Ukrainian Association of Political Prisoners and Repressed People, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Oleksiy Mykolyshyn.
Project Summary: Establishment of a political repressions museum in Ukraine.
Total: $ 9 134

Grantee: Kharkiv Law Society, Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Serhiy Maksymov.
Project Summary: Implementation of the Scientific Tour of Ukraine by the President of the International Law Philosophy Association, conduct of the final Conference "Law Philosophy: the Status and Tendencies Development thereof in Ukraine and World", participation of the representative of Ukraine in the XXI World Congress of the International Law and Social Philosophy.
Total: $ 1 500

Grantee: Modern Information Technologies and Visual Arts Center, NGO, Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Hennadiy Kofman.
Project Summary: Conduct of the Human Rights Cinema Days in Lviv, Kharkiv, Odesa and Donetsk.
Total: $ 14 030

Grantee: Teachers for Democracy & Partnership Charitable Organization, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Olena Pometun.
Project Summary: Development of the curriculum and training materials on preparing militiamen for conducting interactive law lessons with teenagers. Joint training for specialists of the criminal militia and teachers of Kyiv oblast.
Total: $ 11 300

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Translation, publication and dissemination of the Ukrainian version of the textbook on human rights and public interests protection, "Pursuing the Public Interest".
Total: $ 7 050

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Supporting of the participation of the leading non-governmental law protection organisations in the international forums in cooperation with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and Council of Europe.
Total: $ 8 017

Grantee: Crimean Centre for Reforms, NGO, Bakhchysaray.
Project Manager: Ayder Muzhdaba.
Project Summary: Conducting of studies on the observance of main human rights in the Crimea region in the form of public forums participated in by the local self-governance bodies.
Total: $ 2 000

Grantee: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Yavorsky.
Project Summary: Supporting the activities of the Council of human rights organizations in order to focus the mutual activities of law-protecting organizations in accordance with the actual needs of the society in human rights protection area.
Total: $ 32 718

Grantee: "Mytets" (Artist), Charitable Organization, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Kazanevsky.
Project Summary: Establishment of co-operation of the Ukrainian political caricaturists with international organizations, holding of an international seminar on the issues of accessible means of protection of the political caricaturists.
Total: $ 4 556

Grantee: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Yevhen Zakharov.
Project Summary: Comparing of the conformity of Ukrainian legislation and practice of law with requirements set by the Committee for Torture Prevention. Conducting of a workshop and public hearings on torture prevention and brutal treatment of detainees and the imprisoned.
Total: $ 8 500

Grantee: Ukrainian Legal Foundation, All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Inna Demchuk.
Project Summary: Analyzing the use of power by the President of Ukraine in light of requirements of power separation and human rights observation. Publication of informational and analytical materials of the studies.
Total: $ 6 503

Grantee: Center of Legal and Political Researches "SIM", Lviv.
Project Manager: Yaroslav Hordiyevych.
Project Summary: Monitoring the implementation of the ideology and religious freedom rights in Ukraine.
Total: $ 14 398

Grantee: Luhansk Oblast Branch of the Voter’s Committee of Ukraine, Sieverodonetsk.
Project Manager: Oleksiy Svietikov.
Project Summary: Rendering of the practical assistance to the residents of Luhansk oblast in protection of human rights envisaged by the European Convention on Human Rights.
Total: $ 7 940

Grantee: "Dobrota" (Kindness), Donetsk City Charitable Foundation, Donetsk.
Project Manager: Yakiv Rohalin.
Project Summary: Establishment of an informational and analytical center for gathering, analyzing and disseminating information about the infringing the rights of persons released from penal institutions. Monitoring, development and implementation of the concrete mechanisms for protecting the rights of former convicts. Rendering of legal support to convicts.
Total: $ 8 982

Grantee: Civic Committee for Protection of Constitutional Rights and Freedoms of Citizens, Luhansk.
Project Manager: Liudmyla Sokolenko.
Project Summary: Monitoring of and identifying the facts of discrimination in the sphere of labor relations in coal industry enterprises in the Luhansk region.
Total: $ 12 244

Grantee: Podillya Center of Human Rights, Vinnytsia.
Project Manager: Mychaylo Bardyn.
Project Summary: Thematic monitoring of observation of the right to access information about terms and conditions of granting subsidies, procedure for executing state acts for the right of private land ownership, as well as rendering practical assistance in receiving information, all in Vinnytsia oblast.
Total: $ 9 436

Grantee: Ukrainian Internet-Society, All-Ukrainian NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Ihor Diadiura.
Project Summary: Performance of expert public evaluations of legislative initiatives that envisage vesting additional powers in law enforcement for controlling telecommunication information exchanges.
Total: $ 13 500

Grantee: International Society for Human Rights, Ukrainian branch, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Andriy Sukhorukov.
Project Summary: Analysis of the most typical violations of rights of servicemen. Preparation, drawing up and dissemination of informational materials concerning human rights protection by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Total: $ 7 460

Grantee: "Molodist" (Youth) Foundation, NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Larysa Rodnianska.
Project Summary: Production and demonstration of the documentary film on Ukrainian TV about the violations of the rights of children and the rights of homeless children in Ukraine.
Total: $ 14 985

Grantee: Modern Information Technologies and Visual Arts Center, NGO, Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Hennadiy Kofman.
Project Summary: Holding of Human Rights Cinema Days in Kyiv.
Total: $ 10 377

Grantee: Ukrainian Roma Congress, All-Ukrainian Association of NGOs, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Petro Hryhorichenko.
Project Summary: Holding of public discussions regarding the State Program of Social and Cultural Renaissance of Romany’s in Ukraine and presentation of its conclusions.
Total: $ 8 600

Grantee: "Molodizhna Alternativa" (Youth Alternative), City Youth NGO, Chernihiv.
Project Manager: Serhiy Burov.
Project Summary: Monitoring of the observance of human rights in children’s hospitals; including psychiatric facilities.
Total: $ 14 097

Grantee: Kharkiv City Organization of International Organization "Zhinocha Gromada", Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Olha Biletska.
Project Summary: Monitoring of observation of the rights of orphan children in the four regions of Ukraine, preparation, discussion and dissemination of a final report.
Total: $ 11 237

Grantee: Association of Farmers and Private Land-owners of Ukraine, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Valeriy Petrov.
Project Summary: Conducting of training workshops and round tables on issues of farming and land ownership in Ukraine, published the newspaper "Visnyk Fermera" [Farmer’s Bulletin] with articles on the Law "On Farmer Enterprise".
Total: $ 9 781

Grantee: Vinnytsia Human Rights Protection Group, Vinnytsia.
Project Manager: Dmytro Hroysman.
Project Summary: Monitoring of torture and active legal victim protection. Development of unified tools for documenting torture, conducting of workshops for judges, lawyers, investigators, legal activists and journalists.
Total: $ 24 580




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Judicial Reform in Ukraine Support

Number of Projects: 20
Grant Amount: $ 168 365
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 3,17 %


The Rule of Law Program initiated the development of the concept of judicial and legal reform, supported initiatives directed to the improvement of professional qualifications of judges. The Program also supports investigations related to revealing of officials having influence on the independence of judges, as well as development of proposals related to the improvement of procedures of making appeals and cassations against judgments.

Tenders carried out under the Program cause the development of independent judicial power and implementation of public initiatives proposed by judges associations, support practical use by judges of international norms of human rights in Ukraine, approach the Ukrainian judicial practice to the European standards and encourage the implementation of the European principles of court proceedings. The Program started the activities directed to the consolidation of efforts of non-government organizations related to analytical support of judicial reform in Ukraine. Within the limits of this direction, the Program supports the performance of analytical investigations of the principal problems and obstacles on the way of implementation of judicial and legal reform in Ukraine, establishment of information resources, taking law education measures.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Dnipropetrovsk Region	1	$ 6 375
Kyiv City	1	$ 317
Lviv Region	3	$ 25 698
Transcarpathian Region	2	$ 14 627
All-Ukrainian Projects	13	$ 121 348
Total:	20	$ 168 365




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Analyzing the independence status of judges in Ukraine, preparation of a report for the International Conference, "Superior Courts: Court Independence Problems".
Total: $ 317

Grantee: Ukrainian Legal Foundation, All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Yuriy Zaytsev.
Project Summary: Republication of the book, "Practice of the European Court of Human Rights. Judgements. Comments".
Total: $ 9 700

Grantee: Juridical Club, NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Mykola Siry.
Project Summary: Preparation of the working analytical document with determination of main problems of judicial and legal reform, setting up of a group of experts, conducting of an open discussion over questionable issues of judicial reform, as well as studies of respective international experience, and dissemination of analytical materials.
Total: $ 14 920

Grantee: Private Initiative Support Center, Lviv.
Project Manager: Taras Budzinsky.
Project Summary: Preparation of and and placement of analytical materials on the implementation judicial and legal reform in Ukraine and consequences thereof in the two circulating issues in Lviv and Khmelnytskyi oblasts.
Total: $ 6 000

Grantee: Sebastopol Human Rights Protection Group, Sebastopol.
Project Manager: Olha Kononenko.
Project Summary: Conducting of comparative analysis on law application in Ukraine and the Council of Europe member countries regarding application of Articles 5 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Total: $ 7 320

Grantee: "Law & Democracy", Regional Public Foundation, Lviv.
Project Manager: Andriy Bury.
Project Summary: Holding of round tables on issues affecting the functioning of administrative courts and analysing of judicial practice in Lviv in conflict resolution between individuals and governmental bodies; publication of textbook with situational examples of such cases.
Total: $ 8 423

Grantee: All-Ukrainian Independent Judges’ Association, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Nataliya Piskovska.
Project Summary: Development of website on issues of judicial reform, preparation of analytical materials, analyzing of judicial practice and conducting of comparative analysis of the practice of human rights protection Ukrainian courts as opposed to the Council of Europe member countries.
Total: $ 8 182

Grantee: Charitable Fund "Lviv Regional Center of Judge’s Studies", Lviv.
Project Manager: Taras Maritchak.
Project Summary: Monitoring of the observation of victims’ rights in the criminal process, organizing consultancy points for persons under investigation and trial, as well as publication of the legal magazine "Lvivskyi Pravnychyi Chasopys" [The Lviv Legal Bulletin].
Total: $ 11 275

Grantee: "Alternatyva" (Alternative) Analytical Center, Dnipropetrovsk.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Kononenko.
Project Summary: Establishment of a resource center for judges at the Dnipropetrovsk Training Center "Pravosuddia" [Justice] and the three affiliations thereof in different areas of the Region, as well as execution of and supporting of informational stands in the 50 courts of Dnipropetrovsk oblast.
Total: $ 6 375

Grantee: Ukrainian Legal Foundation, All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Yuriy Zaytsev.
Project Summary: Setting up of a unified database and website listing decisions of Ukrainian courts with an up-to-date search engine.
Total: $ 8 000

Grantee: Society for Community Self-Defense NGO, Transcarpathian Oblast, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Yuriy Chyzhmar.
Project Summary: Conducting of training seminars for court judges in the Jurisdictional and Appeallate Court of Zakarpattia oblast.
Total: $ 7 660

Grantee: Chernihiv Public Committee for Protection of Human Rights, Chernihiv.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Demchenko.
Project Summary: Preparation of a textbook and CD-ROM for Ukrainian judges on issues of applying the European Court of Human Rights’ standards to Ukrainian jurisprudence.
Total: $ 5 920

Grantee: Ukrainian Legal Foundation, All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Yuriy Zaytsev.
Project Summary: Translation of European Court of Human Rights’ decisions and relevant analytical materials, as well as publication of the thematic issue of the magazine, "Practice of the European Court of Human Rights. Judgements. Comments" and free dissemination amongst the judges in the regions of Ukraine.
Total: $ 9 900

Grantee: Academy of Ukrainian Judges, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Iryna Voytiuk.
Project Summary: Development of the methodological recommendations regarding the precedent practice of the European Court of Human Rights based on Article 5, publication of the methodological textbook, holding of thematic workshop for judges.
Total: $ 6 313

Grantee: "European Association of Law-Studying Students "EASP-Ushgorod", City Youth NGO, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Mykhaylo Savchyn.
Project Summary: Establishment of the Center of European and Comparative Law at the Juridical Faculty of the Uzhgorod State Institute of Informatics, Economics and Law, making of comparative analysis of the application of the European Court of Human Rights’ decisions in courts of Ukraine and the Slovak Republic and conducting of seminars for judges and representatives of the law protection agencies.
Total: $ 6 967

Grantee: Ukrainian Legal Foundation, All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Yuriy Zaytsev.
Project Summary: Setting up and supporting of the thematic website "The Right to Fair Trial", where information about reform and European standards of legal proceedings will be placed.
Total: $ 9 772

Grantee: Center for Judges’ Studies, International Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Andriy Alekseyev.
Project Summary: Development of new tools for practical application of Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights in the form of training and methodological practical work for judges.
Total: $ 8 130

Grantee: Juridical Club, NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Mykola Siry.
Project Summary: Identification of requirements to law enforcement system reform, development and opening up of public discussion over the main directions of reform, creation of informational resources dedicated to the requirements and directions of law enforcement reform in Ukraine.
Total: $ 9 355

Grantee: Center for Political & Legal Reforms, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Roman Kuybida.
Project Summary: Establishment of a group of experts whose aim is to develop and discuss scientific and practical comments on new procedural legislation of Ukraine.
Total: $ 13 945

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Holding of regular working meetings between the NGO representatives, who work in the field of analytical support of judicial and legal reform in Ukraine.
Total: $ 9 891




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Penitentiary Reform in Ukraine Support

Number of Projects: 43
Grant Amount: $ 326 969
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 6,15 %


At present in Ukraine there are preconditions for strengthening the process of democratization of the penitentiary system, direction of its activities to human attitude to the condemned and ensuring their social preservation at the expense of the extended attraction of public communities to the process of reforming the system, comprehensive solution of current tasks or re-socialization of the condemned.

The Rule of Law Program established the cooperation with the State Department of Ukraine for Execution of Punishments. The Program developed and approved the concept of partnership relations among penitentiary organs and more than 60 public organizations and institutions of public community.

Under support of the Program a number of social adaptation centers was established, the work related to popularization of alternative types of criminal punishment and creations of terms and conditions for their effective implementation was carried out with judges. New pilot projects were commenced in connection with introduction of juvenile justice in Ukraine, reconciliation in criminal cases, elements of probation service, creation of terms and conditions for the performance of alternative types of punishment.

In implementation of the priorities of this component, the Program cooperates closely with the Human Rights Directorate and Legal Directorate of the Council of Europe, Swiss Cooperation Bureau in Ukraine, Department for International Development (Great Britain), Penal Reform International, International Rehabilitation Council of Torture Victims (Denmark) and other international organizations.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Chernihiv Region	2	$ 15 848
Dnipropetrovsk Region	2	$ 12 598
Donetsk Region	4	$ 29 739
Kharkiv Region	1	$ 5 465
Khmelnytskyi Region	1	$ 11 920
Kyiv City	6	$ 46 892
Kyiv Region	1	$ 9 238
Luhansk Region	3	$ 14 956
Lviv Region	2	$ 13 288
Zaporizhia Region	1	$ 6 680
All-Ukrainian Projects	20	$ 160 345
Total:	43	$ 326 969




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: State Department of Ukraine for Execution of Punishments, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Ptashynsky.
Project Summary: Determination of penitentiary reform in Ukraine conceptual problems. Expert assessment and public discussion over the Strategy of Further Reforming the Penitentiary System during the period of 2004–2011. Action plan for Strategy implementation developed.
Total: $ 13 900

Grantee: Militia Employees Professional Training School of the Internal Affairs Department of Lviv Oblast, Lviv.
Project Manager: Mykhaylo Vavryn.
Project Summary: Adaptation of innovative training technologies, developed by the Open Society Institute (Budapest), for preparing militiamen of Ukraine. Training modules for teachers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ professional training schools presented.
Total: $ 5 700

Grantee: Donetsk Memorial, Donetsk City Organization, Donetsk.
Project Manager: Tetiana Bukalova.
Project Summary: Holding a joint seminar with the Council of Europe Directorate General of Human Rights. Discussion of issues on observing rights of young offenders while being detained by militia, serving court sentences and released from penal institutions.
Total: $ 3 997

Grantee: Briankivsk City Affiliation of Taras Shevchenko All-Ukrainian Union "Prosvita", Brianka.
Project Manager: Valentyna Chuhuievets.
Project Summary: Vocational training of prisoners. Business training on economic issues among the personnel of the penal institutions conducted. Social assistance and re-employment support for released convicts provided.
Total: $ 5 800

Grantee: "Victoria", Khmelnytsky Association in Support of the Resolution of Drug Related Problems, Khmelnytsky.
Project Manager: Larysa Vysotska.
Project Summary: Organization of crisis center activities for youth, released from penal institutions. Complex program of providing psycho-correctional, legal, medical and social support to released convicts, aimed at helping them socially adapt, implemented.
Total: $ 11 920

Grantee: "Alternatyva (Alternative) – V", All-Ukrainian Association for Youth Cooperation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Tamara Kushnirova.
Project Summary: Organization of the preparatory for release school for young prisoners of correctional facilities in Kyiv oblast. Provision of convicts with social and legal support in penal institutions directly and after release. Training, social support and re-employment assistance for released prisoners.
Total: $ 11 452

Grantee: "Kyiv — Native City", NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Evelina Baliasna.
Project Summary: Complex measures for the re-socialization of the convicts during their stay in penal institutions carried out. Organization of activities of the rehabilitation center, psychological adaptation and social support of the persons released from prison.
Total: $ 12 664

Grantee: "Sphera Publishers ", International Charitable Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Oleksandra Abessonova.
Project Summary: Publication and dissemination of the textbook "Torture Prevention in Ukraine" for employees of law enforcement agencies and NGO.
Total: $ 3 604

Grantee: "Dobrota" (Kindness), Donetsk City Charitable Foundation, Donetsk.
Project Manager: Yakiv Rohalin.
Project Summary: Regional Board of Trustees for issues of rehabilitating persons, released from prison, established. Informational and analytical support, strategic planning and collective participation of civil society institutions in solving the problems of social reintegration of ex-prisoners.
Total: $ 8 340

Grantee: "New Generation", Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Civic Association of Social Work Specialists, Dnipropetrovsk.
Project Manager: Nataliya Zymivets.
Project Summary: Complex program of social, psychological and legal support to young offenders in pre-trial detention centers implemented. Thematic educational measures through involving social services for youth and public organizations conducted.
Total: $ 7 505

Grantee: Torez District Branch of the Donetsk Regional League of Business & Professional Women, Torez.
Project Manager: Natalia Belyukina.
Project Summary: Complex program of preparation of convicts to release elaborated and implemented. Provision of social support for the former convicts aimed at their reintegration into the society.
Total: $ 7 310

Grantee: Chernihiv Women’s Legal Defense Center, Chernihiv.
Project Manager: Alla Lepekha.
Project Summary: Chernihiv Social adaptation Center for released convicts established. Provision of ex-prisoners with advisory, legal, psychological and social support, and assistance in re-employment.
Total: $ 7 862

Grantee: "Cascade" Military-Patriot Association, Luhansk.
Project Manager: Halyna Tyschenko.
Project Summary: Psychological training of female personnel at the women’s colony conducted. Provision of women prisoners with psychological, medical, social and advisory legal support before release.
Total: $ 4 605

Grantee: "Myloserdya" (Mercy), Ukrainian Charitable Foundation for Support and Social Protection of Families of Interior Ministry Personnel Perished when Fighting the Crime and Provision of Assistance to Bodies and Subdivisions of Law Enforcement Bodies, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Mykhaylo Parkhuta.
Project Summary: Involving Academy of Internal Affairs’ cadets into study of problems of respecting the rights of detainees and convicts by the law enforcement agencies. Publication and dissemination of a collection of scientific works on these problems.
Total: $ 2 400

Grantee: Doroha (The Way), Center of Spiritual & Psychological Support and Mutual Assistance based on Christian Morals, Lviv City NGO, Lviv.
Project Manager: Roman Rybiy.
Project Summary: A center for reintegrating into society persons, released from penal institutions, set up in Lviv region. Legal and psychological consulting for the centers clients, vocational training thereof, carrying out the socio-therapeutic and drug prevention work with drug addicts.
Total: $ 8 431

Grantee: All-Ukrainian Harm Reduction Association, All-Ukrainian NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Mykola Haharkin.
Project Summary: Activities of an informational center on implementing effective international strategies and programs for drug abuse prevention measures, HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases in the penitentiary system of Ukraine organized. Informational and methodological workshops for and with NGO in order to develop these joint programs held.
Total: $ 11 760

Grantee: Women’s Consortium of Ukraine, All-Ukrainian NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Ruslana Bezpalcha.
Project Summary: Train the Trainers program for the team scheduled to work with female convicts. A public organization network established, which would render assistance to imprisoned women and released persons.
Total: $ 12 350

Grantee: Kholodnohirsk Correctional Facility No. 18, Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Ivan Tkachenko.
Project Summary: Closed circuit TV system with a mini studio set up in the penal institution in order to improve awareness for the convicts. Preparation and demonstration of thematic video films for the convicts.
Total: $ 5 465

Grantee: Ukrainian Legal Foundation, All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Inna Demchuk.
Project Summary: Establishment, in co-operation with the State Department of Ukraine for Execution of Punishments, an informational base of the national and international legislative acts on observing the rights of prisoners.
Total: $ 7 600

Grantee: State Department of Ukraine for Execution of Punishments, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Mykola Voytsekhivsky.
Project Summary: Competition for the best literary works among Ukrainian convicts conducted. Publication and presentation of a competition winners’ writing collections.
Total: $ 6 583

Grantee: International Society for Human Rights, Ukrainian branch, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Andriy Sukhorukov.
Project Summary: Ways and forms of cooperation of penitentiaries with the public organizations developed.
Total: $ 5 770

Grantee: Chernihiv Women’s Legal Defense Center, Chernihiv.
Project Manager: Valentyna Badyra.
Project Summary: Training of pre-trial detention center personnel in practical application of the international standards of treatment of prisoners. Provision, together with the oblast center for social youth services, the legal and socio-psychological advisory support to incarcerated persons in pre-trial detention center.
Total: $ 7 986

Grantee: Mykytynska Correctional Facility No. 87, Horlivka.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Ahafonov.
Project Summary: Vocational training classes for use by the convicts to acquire specialties established. Methodological recommendations on issues of organization and carrying out professional and technical training of convicts for implementing the activities of other penitentiary institutions developed.
Total: $ 8 288

Grantee: Charitable Fund "Samodopomoga" (Self-Assistance), Lviv.
Project Manager: Zinon Kotyk.
Project Summary: Amateur art activities and competitions of creative works by the convicts held in six penal institutions in Lviv oblast. Publication of the book "Creative Activities Behind Bars". The workshop "Activities of Regional Public Organizations in the Field of Penitentiary Reform Support" conducted.
Total: $ 4 857

Grantee: Zaporizhya City Human Rights Protection Women’s Organization, NGO, Zaporizhzhia.
Project Manager: Zinayida Kudlay.
Project Summary: Organization of a fine arts creative works competition for young offenders, publication of the illustrated booklet of the best arts and creative works of the convicts.
Total: $ 8 151

Grantee: Zaporizhya Institute of Law, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia.
Project Manager: Serhiy Alfiorov.
Project Summary: The international seminar and training program "Moral and Ethical Aspects of the Militia and Penitentiary Officers" conducted. Ethical standards to prepare law enforcement officers for their professional duties developed.
Total: $ 7 500

Grantee: Charitable Foundation "Christian Children’s Fund", Kyiv.
Project Manager: Iryna Zvierieva.
Project Summary: Training course on the professional development of governors of young offenders’ institution regarding forms and methods of social work organized. Training for applying the innovative social and pedagogical technologies in penitentiary activity carried out.
Total: $ 7 800

Grantee: All-Ukrainian Committee for Protection of Children, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Yevheniya Pavlova.
Project Summary: Implementation of European Standards of juvenile justice in Ukrainian legislation. Two standard juvenile courts established. Training methods for judges established and their implementation in the court practice prepared.
Total: $ 6 000

Grantee: "Pravova Initsiatyva" (Legal Initiative) All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Olha Korniyenko.
Project Summary: Monitoring of the Ukrainian courts’ application of the community work as a criminal penalty. Regional workshops for judges, criminal-execution inspects and local state administrations on enlarging the scope of alternative penalties conducted.
Total: $ 5 409

Grantee: Charitable Foundation "Christian Children’s Fund", Kyiv.
Project Manager: Iryna Zvierieva.
Project Summary: Instruction module for training criminal-execution inspectors in the forms and methods of social work with young criminals developed and published. Training and round table on the implementation of social and pedagogical innovations in the activities with young offenders, sentenced to alternative penalties, conducted.
Total: $ 5 150

Grantee: Luhansk Oblast Mediation Group, Luhansk.
Project Manager: Halyna Tyschenko.
Project Summary: Preparation of social information about defendants to local courts aimed at imposing sentences that adequately fit the crime. Methods of restorative justice and pre-trial mediation developed and disseminated among the judges of the region. Four training seminars for judges on the issues of juvenile justice and alternative punishments conducted.
Total: $ 4 551

Grantee: All-Ukrainian Committee for Protection of Children, Dnipropetrovsk Branch, Dnipropetrovsk.
Project Manager: Tetiana Avaltseva.
Project Summary: The technology of mediation of the victim and guilty or accused in two pilot sites, attracting the social workers, developed and tested. The use made of foreign restorative procedures, experience and implementation thereof in the current system of criminal justice as the element of juvenile justice.
Total: $ 5 093

Grantee: State Department of Ukraine for Execution of Punishments, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Petro Kocherhan.
Project Summary: An experiment in Kyiv carried out on implementing the practice of pre-sentence reports, prepared by employees of the criminal-execution inspection, of the social characteristic of the defendant as a prerequisite for imposing alternative sentences for the criminal. Methodological recommendations thereon prepared and training of the inspectors conducted.
Total: $ 5 034

Grantee: Melitopol Educational-Informational Center of Human Rights "Zakhyst" (Protection), NGO, Melitopol.
Project Manager: Tetiana Ilyenko.
Project Summary: Involving public organizations of the region into rendering assistance to the criminal-execution inspectors in carrying out social rehabilitation of persons sentenced to non-custodial punishment. Organization of a series of training lessons with the inspectors.
Total: $ 6 680

Grantee: Center for Judges’ Studies, International Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Nataliya Vereschinska.
Project Summary: The use made of probation elements on the basis of the two local courts and the criminal-execution inspection by means of pre-trial studies of the personality of the defendant for the application of the adequate punishment. Methodological recommendations for the inspectors developed. Proposals regarding ways of introducing the concept of probation in Ukraine prepared.
Total: $ 9 238

Grantee: Institute of Drug Addiction and Narcomania-Related Crimes Problems, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Steskov.
Project Summary: Mechanism of social and psychological support of persons released on probation developed. Implementation of the individual psychological rehabilitation of the drug addicts who are serving alternative punishments. Criminal-execution inspectors trained in the specific features of social work with this category of convicts.
Total: $ 5 012

Grantee: Donetsk Youth Debate Center, Donetsk.
Project Manager: Valentyna Diomkina.
Project Summary: Workshops and training on social and psychological work with convicted young offenders held for criminal-execution inspectors, youth social services centers and teenager issues services. The information booklet for minor aged persons, sentenced to alternative punishments, prepared and published.
Total: $ 5 801

Grantee: State Department of Ukraine for Execution of Punishments, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Mykola Voytsekhivsky.
Project Summary: Preparatory issues regarding implementation of the new Criminal-Execution Code discussed. Working groups set up and respective resolutions of the Government, as well as the departmental documents for the further implementation of penitentiary reform, developed. Publication of the scientific and practical commentary of the Criminal-Execution Code. Round table and training concerning ways of implementing the Code innovations conducted.
Total: $ 14 960

Grantee: State Department of Ukraine for Execution of Punishments, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Petro Kocherhan.
Project Summary: Template of social and psychological work with young offenders, sentenced to alternative punishments, established. Public awareness with the results of the experiment raised and the experience disseminated among the other regions of Ukraine.
Total: $ 9 120

Grantee: State Department of Ukraine for Execution of Punishments, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Petro Kocherhan.
Project Summary: An experiment on pre-sentence reports of the social characteristics of the accused by the criminal-execution inspection carried together with the local and appellate courts, prosecutor’s offices of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Odessa. The methodological recommendations for the inspectors developed and the respective training conducted. Dissemination of the findings of experience and interaction with the courts as the argument for the setting up a probation service in Ukraine.
Total: $ 10 330

Grantee: Atika Publishers, LLC, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Nina Hayduk.
Project Summary: Translation and publication of the book "Introduction to the Probation Service". Dissemination of the print among the employees of the prosecutor’s office, penal institutions, judges, lawyers, and universities, which prepare professional judges and penitentiary personnel.
Total: $ 4 050

Grantee: Scientific and Research Institute for Studying Crime Problems of the Academy of Law Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Viacheslav Borysov.
Project Summary: Comparative analysis of the international standards in the area of providing the right of freedom and personal immunity, the national legislation and judicial practice in terms of applying pre-trial preventive measures. Audit (standard) for the judges prepared.
Total: $ 9 711

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Monitoring of the judicial practice regarding application of pre-trial detention measures. Instructive materials for judges aimed at limitation of pre-trial detention in Ukraine developed.
Total: $ 11 230




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Legal Clinics Support and Development

Number of Projects: 10
Grant Amount: $ 60 000
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 1,13 %


Reform of the practical legal education and legal protection of socially unprotected layers of people is one of the main targets of the Program. Such task is performed by the Program through the support and development of "Legal Clinics" network in Ukraine, as well as the development of mechanisms of their self-support, operation and individual development. One the most important positive movement in this sphere of the Program activities was the establishment of the Association of "Legal Clinics" of Ukraine that considerably strengthens their positions and makes them ready to step-by-step transition to self-support system. The positive consequence of the Program development includes changes in the views and approaches to the legal education reform from the side of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and administrations of the higher education institutions which begin to understand the value of the "Legal Clinics" network and create preconditions for the formation of grounds for their support.

Not only education institutions were involved into development of the "Legal Clinics" network, but also public organizations. The Program for the development of such component also attracted funds for information and technical resources from other donors working in Ukraine: representative office of American Bar Association in Ukraine, Cooperation Bureau of the Swiss Embassy in Ukraine, Democracy Grants Program of the US Embassy in Ukraine, etc.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Chernivtsi Region	1	$ 6 212
Donetsk Region	1	$ 5 485
Odesa Region	1	$ 5 692
Sumy Region	1	$ 5 354
All-Ukrainian Projects	6	$ 37 257
Total:	10	$ 60 000




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Establishment of an Association of "legal clinics" of Ukraine aimed at carrying out informational and analytical work and developed strategy to promote "legal clinics" in Ukraine. Supporting and developing of "legal clinics" in Ukraine website, provision of the "legal clinics" with informational and analytical materials as well as materials for institutional development.
Total: $ 8 615

Grantee: Kyiv Institute of Internal Affairs, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Stadnik.
Project Summary: Development and foundation of concrete proposals regarding typical concept of developing an organizational structure for the "legal clinics" in Ukraine.
Total: $ 6 317

Grantee: Law Education Foundation, Donetsk.
Project Manager: Mykola Udod.
Project Summary: Development of the "legal clinics" of Ukraine network, improvements of the role and professional level thereof by way of developing standards for the "legal clinics", as well as programs of improvement and regulation of their activities.
Total: $ 5 485

Grantee: "Vested", Association of Law-Faculty Students & Young Lawyers, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Navrotskyy.
Project Summary: Supporting of a number of measures to further develop the standard "legal clinics" operation in Ukraine, proceeding with work on creating mechanisms for self-financing, summarizing the methodological and practical library for the "legal clinics" of Ukraine.
Total: $ 5 078

Grantee: Sumy Regional Organization of Journalists, Sumy.
Project Manager: Zhanna Zavalna.
Project Summary: Supporting of the practical work of the "legal clinic" in Sumy, as well as a number of measures on improving the sustainability of the activities thereof.
Total: $ 5 354

Grantee: Volyn Oblast Organization of the Ukrainian Lawyers’ Association, Lutsk.
Project Manager: Vitaliy Yelov.
Project Summary: Dissemination of the "legal clinic" "Ad Astra" expertise into the rural area of Volyn oblast.
Total: $ 5 212

Grantee: Chernivtsi City Center of Protection of Private Entrepreneurs and Small Business Enterprises, Chernivtsi.
Project Manager: Ihor Kukharchuk.
Project Summary: Development of the standard curricular for the "legal clinics" at Chernivtsi State University and dissemination of the same in other regions, as well as implementation of the program, "Practical Law" in secondary schools.
Total: $ 6 212

Grantee: Southern Ukrainian Center for Young Lawyers, Odesa.
Project Manager: Serhiy Pohribny.
Project Summary: Development of standard curriculum on theoretical aspects of the "legal clinics" activities and integration of same into the curriculum of higher educational institutions of Ukraine.
Total: $ 5 692

Grantee: Kyiv City Municipal Advocates Collegium, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Inna Rafalska.
Project Summary: Standard development of the interaction of the "legal clinics", institutions and organizations of the state. Setting up an analytical group on the basis of the Kyiv Municipal Bar and the "legal clinic" of the Academy of Municipal Management involving practicing lawyers, barristers, solicitors and scientists.
Total: $ 6 295

Grantee: Crimean Republican Mediation Group, NGO, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Larysa Surovska.
Project Summary: Development and testing of a training courses on the principles of "legal clinics" activities in co-operation with the governmental and public organizations of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
Total: $ 5 740




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Mass Media

Number of Projects: 48
Grant Amount: $ 868 096
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 16,33 %

The IRF Mass Media Program has been in force since 1993. It is oriented toward the support, establishment and realization of the principle of freedom of speech and establishment and development of an independent and professional mass media in Ukraine. Thanks to the Program, the first ever non-governmental mass media and news agencies have appeared in Ukraine during the period 1993–1994. According to Media and Elections Strategy of the IRF, the Program supported NGO initiatives on unprejudiced information campaign drives on the eve of Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) elections.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Information Broadcasting Development and Support for Internet Media in Ukraine

Number of Projects: 11
Grant Amount: $ 385 119
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 7,25 %


The Program seconded the Public Radio Project in 2003. It was an alternative source of unbiased information. The Project continued the development of a new format of Ukrainian information broadcasting. It was about giving priority to quick and efficient news, analytical programs and involving experts in discussions together with interactive contacts with the audience. The second most important component of the format was the inclusion of educational radio programs (both studio discussions and subject programs). Public Radio moved to making cooperative programs with regional broadcasting services. Another radio broadcasting project supported the Panorama broadcasting service. It made news and informational programs for free and spread them amongst regional non-government radio stations in Ukraine via Internet.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Donetsk Region	1	$ 19 183
All-Ukrainian Projects	10	$ 365 936
Total:	11	$ 385 119




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: "Internews – Ukraine", International NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Kostiantyn Kvurt.
Project Summary: Creation of the English version of the website “Telekrytyka” with the purpose of increasing the opportunities for the Internet users to obtain information relating to the state of media in Ukraine.
Total: $ 8 700

Grantee: Rozmay, NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Veronika Makoviy.
Project Summary: Supporting of the news radio service “Panorama Novyn”, dissemination of public-oriented information in Ukraine aimed at protection of the citizens’ interests. Helping to increase of the number of radio stations broadcasting the radio service programs, as well as production of new projects in a live format.
Total: $ 10 000

Grantee: Rozmay, NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Veronika Makoviy.
Project Summary: Prolongation of functioning of the news radio service “Panorama Novyn”, dissemination of news programs among non-governmental regional radio stations, production of a series of programs in the talk-show format, conducting a number of journalistic investigations.
Total: $ 76 520

Grantee: Public Radio Charitable Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Roman Vybranovsky.
Project Summary: Supporting of the extension of the network of “Public Radio” regional partners.
Total: $ 48 750

Grantee: "Group of Citizens" Public-Analytical Movement, NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Oleksiy Myronov.
Project Summary: Supporting a 6-month period of the functioning of an independent Internet medium www.obkom.net.ua as a source providing the impartial information on social, economic and political processes that take place in Ukraine.
Total: $ 13 102

Grantee: "Ukrainska Pravda" (Ukrainian Truth), NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Serhiy Leschenko.
Project Summary: Creation of more opportunities for functioning of an independent Internet medium “Ukrainska Pravda”.
Total: $ 19 940

Grantee: Public Radio Charitable Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Taras Kuzmov.
Project Summary: Providing the institutional support to “Public Radio”.
Total: $ 115 054

Grantee: Donbas Social Perspectives Research Center, NGO, Donetsk.
Project Manager: Serhiy Peteshov.
Project Summary: Maintaining the activities of informational and analytical medium www.ostro.org which included a news banner, analytical publications, information on the monitoring of the authorities’ activities, social aspects in Donetsk region.
Total: $ 19 183

Grantee: Center of Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy of Ukraine, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Sushko.
Project Summary: Establishing the informational portal "EuroatlanticUA" dedicated to the European integration of Ukraine.
Total: $ 14 870

Grantee: Spilnyy Prostir (Common Space) Association, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Yuriy Nesteriak.
Project Summary: Supporting of a traineeship for the members of the National Council on TV and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine in the European Institute for the Media, Dusseldorf (Germany).
Total: $ 19 000

Grantee: Rozmay, NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Veronika Makoviy.
Project Summary: Supporting of activities of the informational radio service, "Panorama Novyn" [News Panorama], expanding of its broadcasts and increased number of regional partners.
Total: $ 40 000




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Support for Establishment and Development of Media Trade Unions and Professional Associations, Professional Skill Enhancement for Journalists

Number of Projects: 13
Grant Amount: $ 150 924
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 2,84 %


There were the following priorities for development of the Media Program directions:

• Support to journalist and media associations that favor professional unity of journalists in order to meet the main needs of the surroundings and to establish a system of effective mechanisms for self-governance of journalists, in particular.
• Working out effective mechanisms for attracting media associations and uniting the process of governmental decision-making.

The Program gave legal, methodological and organizational support to the establishment and legitimization of the Kyiv Independent Media Trade Union during its first stage in 2003. The Program also worked alongside representatives of the general Ukrainian mass media and professional journalist associations.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Chernihiv Region	1	$ 8 925
Crimean Region	1	$ 23 104
Odesa Region	1	$ 13 800
Poltava Region	1	$ 3 746
Zaporizhia Region	1	$ 11 410
Zhytomyr Region	1	$ 7 000
All-Ukrainian Projects	7	$ 82 939
Total:	13	$ 150 924




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: Ukrainian Association of Periodical Publishers, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Lidiya Molodetska.
Project Summary: Familiarizing Ukrainian experts in the sphere of mass media with the activities of the Center for Media Training (Prague), as well as at adopting the experience of foreign management.
Total: $ 1 273

Grantee: Institute of Mass Information, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Leonid Zvieriev.
Project Summary: Supporting the participation of Ukrainian unofficial delegation in the work of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Familiarizing the European institutions with the information relating to the status of the freedom of speech in Ukraine.
Total: $ 14 940

Grantee: Informational Press-Center, NGO, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Oleh Khomenok.
Project Summary: Supporting of the activity of the information press-center in Simferopol, including providing free of charge access to the Internet and informational and library resources for journalists and NGO and mass media employees, as well as publication of and dissemination of a bulletin on media professional activity.
Total: $ 23 104

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Institutional support of Kyiv Independent Media Trade Union.
Total: $ 7 187

Grantee: Independent Trade Union of Journalists, Odesa.
Project Manager: Mykhaylo Aksaniuk.
Project Summary: Providing support for the functioning of the Odesa Independent Media Trade Union, to organize legal protection of journalists in the courts, to set up legal consulting center “Media Law”.
Total: $ 13 800

Grantee: Professional Union of Mass Media Employees, city of Chernihiv.
Project Manager: Ihor Chayka.
Project Summary: Conducting of seminars devoted to issues relating to the establishment of trade unions, legal aspects of a trade union movement for mass media employees of Chernihiv and Chernihiv region.
Total: $ 8 925

Grantee: Association of Professional Journalists and Advertisers, Zhytomyr.
Project Manager: Svitlana Bulatova.
Project Summary: Conducting of an informational campaign with respect to organization of mass media trade unions among journalists and mass media of Zhytomyr region. Preparation of trade union leaders, provision of informational and methodical materials, so that they could set up primary media trade union organizations in mass media collectives.
Total: $ 7 000

Grantee: "Za Prava Kozhnogo" (For Everybody’s Rights), NGO, Kremenchuk.
Project Manager: Kyrylo Zhyvotovsky.
Project Summary: Creation of a trade union organization of journalists in Kremenchuk (Poltava region), as well as the conducting of seminars and round tables devoted to trade union movement organization issues.
Total: $ 3 746

Grantee: Kyiv Independent Media Trade Unions of Ukraine, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Serhiy Huz.
Project Summary: Introduction of efficient mechanisms to arrange the activity of Kyiv Independent Media Trade Union as a model organization for regional organizations, conducting of trainings for the representatives of regional departments, preparation and conducting of a constituent assembly of the National media trade union.
Total: $ 38 370

Grantee: Ukrainian Media Union, Association, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Andriy Dashko.
Project Summary: Participation of the representatives of partner broadcasting organizations from Central and Eastern European states in the conference “Development and Approbation of the Mechanisms of Coalition Actions by Broadcasting Associations”, Kyiv, September 30 – October 1, 2003).
Total: $ 6 816

Grantee: Ukrainian Association of Periodical Publishers, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Mykhaylo Veysberg.
Project Summary: Setting up of a resource center for journalists at the Ukrainian Association of Periodical Press Publishers and to establish the Press Public Center.
Total: $ 12 303

Grantee: Ukrainian Association of Periodical Publishers, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Lidiya Molodetska.
Project Summary: Provision of consultancy support to the Ukrainian Association of the Periodical Press Publishers in developing its strategic action plan.
Total: $ 2 050

Grantee: Professional Union "Zaporizhya Independent Media-Union", Zaporizhzhia.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Vorotilov.
Project Summary: Provision of institutional support of the Zaporizhzhia Independent Media Trade Union.
Total: $ 11 410




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Reform of Media Legislation, Ensuring Legal Guarantees of Freedom of Speech and Right to Information

Number of Projects: 3
Grant Amount: $ 72 775
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 1,37 %


Among the main elements of the Mass Media Program activities in 2003 were:

• Elaboration and approval of grounded legal decisions in mass media.
• Informational accompaniment of elaboration and realization of legal initiatives in mass media.
• Conducting a campaign drive on the forming of international institutions’, organizations’ and politicians’ opinions about the current status of freedom of speech and mass media activities in Ukraine and perspectives on their development.

The Program gave expert support to the Freedom of Speech and Information Issues Committee of the Verkhovna Rada. It also helped to carry out a professional legal analysis of law-drafts that were being considered by the Committee. In addition the Program also helped to elaborate new law-drafts on improvement of freedom of speech principles development, on right to access information and on general Ukrainian mass media legislation reformation. It assisted the Committee when new laws were passing the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, too.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
All-Ukrainian Projects	3	$ 72 775
Total:	3	$ 72 775




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: Ukrainian Association of Periodical Publishers, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Lidiya Molodetska.
Project Summary: Provision for the involvement of foreign experts in consultations on the elaboration of the draft law on denationalization of printed mass media.
Total: $ 760

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Supporting of processes of making well-grounded legislative decisions in mass media sphere, implementation of principles of freedom of speech and providing access to information in Ukraine. Setting up of the conditions necessary to conduct campaigns aimed at the formation of opinion of international institutions, organizations and politicians on the current situation in mass media sphere in Ukraine.
Total: $ 48 015

Grantee: Ukrainian Media Union, Association, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Andriy Dashko.
Project Summary: Conducting of in the regions of Ukraine, public discussions over the electronic mass media draft laws involving the people’s deputies of Ukraine—members of the specific profile committee of the Verkhovna Rada, members of the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Broadcasting, media experts, representatives of the public organizations, managers and journalists of the electronic mass media.
Total: $ 24 000




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Support for Internships, Participation in International Conferences, Media Coverage of Crucial Foreign Events

Number of Projects: 10
Grant Amount: $ 34 545
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 0,65 %


This direction made it possible for journalists of different independent media outlets to take part in the enlightening of international events and to get professional experience during their internship in foreign mass media organizations. Familiarization of Ukrainian journalists and mass media representatives with international principles of legal assistance for journalists during the PARE sessions was an important component as well as the examination of mechanisms for resolutions’ and recommendations’ approval by the Council of Europe. Some projects realized within the framework of this direction in 2003 should be pointed out in particular. They are the media covering of the summit of presidents of Central and Eastern European countries in Salzburg, experts’ participation in the International Forum of Periodical Press in Dublin, Ukrainian journalists and experts participation in the forum of NGOs and mass media leaders of Central and Eastern Europe entitled, "European Union Enlargement: First or Last Stage of Integration?"

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Kirovohrad Region	1	$ 1 500
Lviv Region	2	$ 5 850
Zaporizhia Region	1	$ 1 242
All-Ukrainian Projects	6	$ 25 953
Total:	10	$ 34 545




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: "Mytets" (Artist), Charitable Organization, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Liudmyla Muzyka.
Project Summary: Supporting of the participation of L. Muzyka in traineeship aimed at exchanging experiences on conducting seminars, exhibitions and master-classes in area of political caricature, Gabrovo (Bulgaria).
Total: $ 533

Grantee: "Academy of Ukrainian Press", International Charitable Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Serhiy Leschenko.
Project Summary: Supporting of the participation of a group of Ukrainian journalists in covering the Summit of the Presidents of Central and Eastern Europe, Saltsburg (Austria).
Total: $ 8 350

Grantee: Vidkryte Suspilstvo (Open Society) Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Myroslava Honhadze.
Project Summary: Supporting of the presentation of the research “Challenge for Ukraine: Political Elite, Protest Movement and Possibilities for Democratic Changes in Ukraine” at the conference “Culture, Security and Political Development at the European Borderlands: Cases of Ukraine and Belarus”, May 23-24, Lund (Sweden).
Total: $ 2 980

Grantee: "Universum Society", Lviv City NGO, Lviv.
Project Manager: Oleh Romanchuk.
Project Summary: Supporting of the participation of the editor-in-chief of the magazine “Universum” Oleh Romanchuk in the conference “Ukraine Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”, Urbana-Shampaign, (USA) June 16–21, 2003.
Total: $ 1 350

Grantee: National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Serhiy Kvit.
Project Summary: Supporting the media section of the Conference, "Ukraine: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow", the town of Urbana-Champaign, USA, June 16–21 2003.
Total: $ 6 000

Grantee: City Development Institute, NGO, Lviv.
Project Manager: Roman Andreyko.
Project Summary: Supporting the participation of Ukrainian journalists in the Global Congress of Newspaper Journalists, Dublin (Ireland), June 8–11, 2003.
Total: $ 4 500

Grantee: Ukrainian-Polish Forum, NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Iryna Korol.
Project Summary: Participation of a group of Ukrainian journalists and experts in the work of the Central and Eastern European NGO and Media Forum “Widening of the European Union. The First or the Last Stage of Integration” (Krynytsya, Poland, September 4–6, 2003). Coverage of the forum activity in Ukrainian media.
Total: $ 2 930

Grantee: Civic Initiatives Association, Kirovograd, Kirovohrad.
Project Manager: Nina Ptashkina.
Project Summary: Internship of a Ukrainian journalist (Oleh Ptashkin, Kirovograd) at NTV (Russia).
Total: $ 1 500

Grantee: Ukrainian-Polish Forum, NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Anatoliy Yakovets.
Project Summary: Supporting the participation of a team of Ukrainian journalists and experts in the meeting “Ukraine on its Way to National Statehood – Round Table IV: Ukraine’s Transition to the Developed Market Economy”, Washington, USA.
Total: $ 5 160

Grantee: Informational Press-Center, NGO, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Tetiana Horiachova.
Project Summary: Supporting the traineeship of Tetyana Horyachova, the editor-in-chief of “Berdyansk Dilovy”, Zaporizhia Oblast, at the Omaha World Herald newspaper, Omaha, USA.
Total: $ 1 242




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Public Monitoring of Abidance by Freedom of Speech and Right to Information, Protection of Rights of Journalists and Media

Number of Projects: 7
Grant Amount: $ 197 864
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 3,72 %


Increase in the level of society’s familiarization with the status of freedom of speech in Ukraine is one of the main principle tasks of the Mass Media Program. It is fulfilled by supporting projects aimed at systematic monitoring norms of freedom of speech in Ukraine. Thus, thanks to the Program’s support, monitoring of news programs by the leading Ukrainian mass media was carried out. The results of this analytical work on the level of presence and balance in enlightening various social and political events in news were publicly announced.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Chernihiv Region	1	$ 9 650
Crimean Region	1	$ 12 989
Poltava Region	1	$ 15 000
All-Ukrainian Projects	4	$ 160 225
Total:	7	$ 197 864




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: Chernihiv Public Committee for Protection of Human Rights, Chernihiv.
Project Manager: Kateryna Luhova.
Project Summary: Establishment of the center for legal aid to journalists “Lawyers for Journalists” in Chernihiv. Providing the organization of an interactive service for legal aid and expertise of journalists’ publications, creation of a webportal and publication of the bulletin “Lawyers for Journalists”.
Total: $ 9 650

Grantee: Institute of Mass Information, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Leonid Zvieriev.
Project Summary: Organization of the forum of Ukrainian journalists “Legal Self-Protection” aimed for improvement the interaction between regional mass media, public organizations and the Profile Committee of the Verkhovna Rada. Dissemination among reperesentatives of mass media of practical recommendations on the mechanisms of protection of their rights in the view of the amendments brought to the media legislation of Ukraine.
Total: $ 14 782

Grantee: Committee for Monitoring of Press Freedom in Crimea, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Prytula.
Project Summary: Legal, informational, methodological and organizational support of professional organizations of mass media employees in Crimean regions. Creation of a network of the media employees’ professional associations and non-governmental organizations in Crimea for freedom of speech, press and journalists' rights protection.
Total: $ 12 989

Grantee: Poltava Regional Media Club, Poltava.
Project Manager: Liudmyla Kucherenko.
Project Summary: Monitoring of the observance of rights to freedom of speech and mass media rights in the region. Organizing of joint actions of journalist partnership organizations in Poltava region.
Total: $ 15 000

Grantee: "Academy of Ukrainian Press", International Charitable Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Valeriy Ivanov.
Project Summary: Monitoring of news programs produded by the leading Ukrainian mass media and making public the data on the coverage of various social and political events in news programs, preparation of an analytic report based on the results of the research.
Total: $ 71 170

Grantee: Institute of Mass Information, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Nataliya Nilova.
Project Summary: Regular monitoring of observance of freedom of speech regulations in Ukraine: collection, verification, analysis and publication of the facts on any pressure on journalists and media, provision of legal consultations to journalists and media, organization of active journalist missions in order to study the most resonance facts of violation of journalists’ rights in Ukraine.
Total: $ 49 100

Grantee: Kyiv Independent Media Trade Unions of Ukraine, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Serhiy Huz.
Project Summary: Conducting of the Second Forum of Ukrainian Journalists “Mass Media for Elections without Censorship and Persecution” with the participation of the leading Ukrainian central and regional mass media, representatives of Ukrainian government authorities, and international organizations.
Total: $ 25 173




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Other

Number of Projects: 4
Grant Amount: $ 26 869
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 0,51 %


Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
All-Ukrainian Projects	4	$ 26 869
Total:	4	$ 26 869




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: "Respoublika", Institute for Economic & Social Problems, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Chemerys.
Project Summary: Presentation and public discussion of the documentary “Faces of the Protest” devoted to the events of the protest actions “Ukraine without Kuchma” which took place in 2000-2001 in Kyiv.
Total: $ 1 000

Grantee: "Geneza", Social & Humanitarian Consortium, Lviv.
Project Manager: Mariya Kryvenko.
Project Summary: Systematized and preserved heritage of Oleksandr Kryvenko, renowned Ukrainian journalist, President of Charity Fund “Public Radio”. Creation of bibliography and anthology of his works.
Total: $ 7 500

Grantee: "Respoublika", Institute for Economic & Social Problems, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Chemerys.
Project Summary: Presentations and public discussions of the documentary film “The Protest Face” participated by journalists, politicians and NGO leaders in Lviv, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Odesa.
Total: $ 13 890

Grantee: "Mytets" (Artist), Charitable Organization, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Kazanevsky.
Project Summary: Conducting of the All-Ukrainian Seminar of caricaturists and caricature exhibition "Freedom of Speech" in commemoration of Georgiy Gongadze.
Total: $ 4 479




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Information Society Development

Number of Projects: 106
Grant Amount: $ 950 421
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 17,88 %

The International Renaissance Foundation supports the information policy development, dissemination of knowledge and communication resources, provision of access to information to increase influence of the civil society, as well as applied initiatives in the domain of information and communication technologies (ICT). In particular, the Foundation supports public initiatives at the following:

• Establishing favorable legislative environment and efficient institutional structure to circulate information and develop Ukrainian sector of Internet resources; as well as at developing e-governance mechanisms using ICT;
• Publishing in Ukrainian the most important works of contemporary and classic foreign authors disseminating information on values of a democratic civil society.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Information Program

Number of Projects: 22
Grant Amount: $ 570 092
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 10,73 %


The Program assists in establishing an open public dialogue between representatives of the Government, NGOs and business in order to increase efficiency of informational interaction between the public authorities, civil society institutions, and the private sector, and promotes free access to information by implementation and use of new information and communication technologies.

The following are 2003 Program priorities: information policy, consolidation of efforts of the ICT NGOs, preparation and presentation of Ukraine at the World Summit on Information Society, use of ICT and access to information.

The program initiated establishment of the Forum of Telecommunication and ICT NGOs. Among its members are the leading and the most influential NGOs operating in the Ukrainian telecommunication sector of Ukraine that signed the Joint Memorandum and Regulation of Actions.

The Program continued its support of the Civic Space Portal [ http://www.civicua.org ] — a powerful information and technological Internet resource aimed at providing Ukrainian third sector participants with a common platform and instruments for interaction and communication.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Crimean Region	1	$ 7 900
Dnipropetrovsk Region	1	$ 6 000
Ivano-Frankivsk Region	1	$ 7 900
Kherson Region	1	$ 7 900
Kirovohrad Region	1	$ 7 200
Kyiv City	2	$ 21 900
Luhansk Region	1	$ 7 900
Rivne Region	1	$ 7 900
Transcarpathian Region	1	$ 6 900
Vinnytsia Region	1	$ 6 000
All-Ukrainian Projects	11	$ 482 592
Total:	22	$ 570 092




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Information Policy

Number of Projects: 4
Grant Amount: $ 63 950
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 1,20 %


The Program supported development of a concept of the Law "On the state information policy", heard and approved at a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Science and Education and the Parliamentary Advisory Council on information technologies and, in the framework of the National Strategy of Information Society Development in Ukraine, assisted in organization of activities of the E-Ukraine Public Workgroup. The program initiated development of a draft of the National Strategy for Information Society Development of Ukraine, discussed at the Public Forum "Public Sector FOR" (December 3, 2003, Kyiv) and presented during the World Summit on Information Society (December 10-12, 2003, Geneva).

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
All-Ukrainian Projects	4	$ 63 950
Total:	4	$ 63 950




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: Information Society Institute, NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Yaroslav Pavlovsky.
Project Summary: Conducting a conference "Specifics of the Regulatory Policy in the ICT Domain in Ukraine" to summarize the international experience and develop recommendation documents for the Government and Parliament.
Total: $ 2 500

Grantee: All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation "Information Society of Ukraine", Kyiv.
Project Manager: Andriy Kolodiuk.
Project Summary: Creating, and support for the activities of, a public workgroup E-Ukraine to develop a draft of the National Strategy for Information Society Development in Ukraine. Supporting participation of the workgroup in the World Summit on Information Society, December 9–12, 2003, Geneva.
Total: $ 36 000

Grantee: All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation "Information Society of Ukraine", Kyiv.
Project Manager: Yevhenyi Drobkov.
Project Summary: Conducting an open “Public Forum” to present and to discuss a draft of the National Strategy for Information Society Development of Ukraine, December 4, 2003, Kyiv.
Total: $ 13 550

Grantee: All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation "Information Society of Ukraine", Kyiv.
Project Manager: Andriy Kolodiuk.
Project Summary: Supporting public discussion of the draft of the National Strategy for Information Society Development of Ukraine, publishing a brochure "Towards the Information Society: Ukraine at the World Summit on Information Society, December 9–12, 2003, Geneva".
Total: $ 11 900




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E-Governance

Number of Projects: 1
Grant Amount: $ 17 678
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 0,33 %


The Program supported organization of an international conference on e-governance "Transparence and E-Governance", special trainings for the local specialists responsible for implementation of e-governance in order to make participation of citizens in the public affairs more active; as well as conduct of public expertise and public discussion of the Information Code in order to introduce transparency in politics, legislation and e-governance projects.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
All-Ukrainian Projects	1	$ 17 678
Total:	1	$ 17 678




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: "Privacy Ukraine", City Youth NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Andriy Paziuk.
Project Summary: Organizing and conducting an international conference "Transparency and E-Governance", publishing a brochure on legal transparency standards and international experience in e-transparency; supporting public expertise of the Information Code law draft.
Total: $ 17 678




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Regional Information Portals Based on Public Libraries

Number of Projects: 13
Grant Amount: $ 417 660
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 7,86 %


The idea of the project was suggested and initiated by the Information Program and is now under implementation as a joint project of the Program, OSI–Budapest, Ministry for Culture and Arts of Ukraine, and a number of public and international organizations, in particular, the Delegation of the European Commission to Ukraine, IREX, World Bank Country Office, NATO Information and Documentation Centre in Kyiv, British Council in Ukraine, Goethe Institut Inter Nationes in Kiev, and International Alliance "Library and Information Technologies — XXI Century". As of today, the National Expert Board was established, agreements with the first stage libraries were signed, closed tender to supply hardware and software was carried out; the May School was organized and conducted; and the preliminary project results were presented during the 10th International Conference "Crimea 2003". On the initiative of the OSI–Budapest, the project monitoring was successfully carried out in September–October.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Crimean Region	1	$ 7 900
Dnipropetrovsk Region	1	$ 6 000
Ivano-Frankivsk Region	1	$ 7 900
Kherson Region	1	$ 7 900
Kirovohrad Region	1	$ 7 200
Kyiv City	1	$ 7 900
Luhansk Region	1	$ 7 900
Rivne Region	1	$ 7 900
Transcarpathian Region	1	$ 6 900
Vinnytsia Region	1	$ 6 000
All-Ukrainian Projects	3	$ 344 160
Total:	13	$ 417 660




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: National Parliament Library of Ukraine, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Tamara Vylehzhanina.
Project Summary: Supporting activities of the National Parliamentary Library of Ukraine workgroup, working on development of the Kyiv regional information portal in the framework of the "Development of regional information portals and information centers based on public libraries in Ukraine" project.
Total: $ 7 900

Grantee: I. Franko Crimean Republican Universal Scientific Library, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Liudmyla Drozdova.
Project Summary: Supporting activities of the Crimean Republican Universal Scientific Library workgroup, working on development of the Crimean regional information portal in the framework of the "Development of regional information portals and information centers based on public libraries in Ukraine" project.
Total: $ 7 900

Grantee: O.M. Horky Luhansk Oblast Universal Scientific Library, Luhansk.
Project Manager: Svitlana Moiseyeva.
Project Summary: Supporting activities of the Luhansk Regional Universal Library workgroup, working on development of the Luhansk regional information portal in the framework of the "Development of regional information portals and information centers based on public libraries in Ukraine" project.
Total: $ 7 900

Grantee: I. Franko State Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Universal Scientific Library, Ivano-Frankivsk.
Project Manager: Nina Motchuk.
Project Summary: Supporting activities of Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Universal Scientific Library workgroup, working on development of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional information portal in the framework of the "Development of regional information portals and information centers based on public libraries in Ukraine" project.
Total: $ 7 900

Grantee: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Universal Scientific Library, Dnipropetrovsk.
Project Manager: Tetiana Abrayimova.
Project Summary: Supporting activities of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Universal Scientific Library workgroup, working on development of the Dnipropetrovsk regional information portal in the framework of the "Development of regional information portals and information centers based on public libraries in Ukraine" project.
Total: $ 6 000

Grantee: State Transcarpathian Oblast Universal Scientific Library, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Halyna Kovalchuk.
Project Summary: Supporting activities of the Zakarpattia Regional Universal Scientific Library workgroup, working on development of the Zakarpattia regional information portal in the framework of the "Development of regional information portals and information centers based on public libraries in Ukraine" project.
Total: $ 6 900

Grantee: Oles Honchar Kherson Regional Universal Scientific Library, Kherson.
Project Manager: Nadiya Korotun.
Project Summary: Supporting activities of the Honchar Kherson Regional Universal Scientific Library workgroup, working on development of the Kherson regional information portal in the framework of the "Development of regional information portals and information centers based on public libraries in Ukraine" project.
Total: $ 7 900

Grantee: D.I. Chyzhevsky Kirovohrad Oblast Universal Scientific Library, Kirovohrad.
Project Manager: Oleh Volokhin.
Project Summary: Supporting activities of the Kirovohrad Regional Universal Scientific Library workgroup, working on development of the Kirovohrad regional information portal in the framework of the "Development of regional information portals and information centers based on public libraries in Ukraine" project.
Total: $ 7 200

Grantee: Rivne Oblast Universal Scientific Library, Rivne.
Project Manager: Valentyna Yaroschuk.
Project Summary: Supporting activities of the Rivne Regional Universal Scientific Library workgroup, working on development of the Rivne regional information portal in the framework of the "Development of regional information portals and information centers based on public libraries in Ukraine" project.
Total: $ 7 900

Grantee: M. Ostrovsky Khmelnytsky Oblast Universal Scientific Library, Khmelnytsky.
Project Manager: .
Project Summary: Supporting activities of the Khmelnytsky Regional Universal Scientific Library workgroup, working on development of the Khmelnytsky regional information portal in the framework of the "Development of regional information portals and information centers based on public libraries in Ukraine" project.
Total: $ 7 900

Grantee: State Transcarpathian Oblast Universal Scientific Library, Uzhhorod.
Project Manager: Halyna Kovalchuk.
Project Summary: Organizing and conducting the May School in the framework of the "Development of regional portals and regional information centers on the basis of regional public libraries of Ukraine" project.
Total: $ 6 700

Grantee: T.A. Timiryazev Vinnytsa Oblast Universal Scientific Library, Vinnytsia.
Project Manager: Nataliya Morozova.
Project Summary: Supporting activities of the Timiriazev Regional Universal Scientific Library workgroup, working on development of the Vinnytsia regional information portal in the framework of the "Development of regional information portals and information centers based on public libraries in Ukraine" project.
Total: $ 6 000

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Developing and support for the regional information portals and information centers in 27 administrative areas of Ukraine, financing the libraries (payment for Internet channel, workgroup honoraria; purchase and installation of computer equipment and software in the libraries), conducting special workshops and conferences for the workgroups.
Total: $ 329 560




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Other

Number of Projects: 4
Grant Amount: $ 70 804
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 1,33 %


Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Kyiv City	1	$ 14 000
All-Ukrainian Projects	3	$ 56 804
Total:	4	$ 70 804




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Implementing the Pushkin Library Project in Ukraine: organizing delivery and dissemination of the remaining titles according to the previous catalogues.
Total: $ 844

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the handbook "Information and Communication Technology. Training of Trainers: Computer and Internet Use for Development. Participant Handbook", disseminating it among the NGOs, training centers, educational institutions and libraries.
Total: $ 3 500

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Supporting development of the Civic Space Portal [www.civicua.org] as an independent Internet Center for social information, conducting an information and educational campaign to expand social influence of the Portal information and services.
Total: $ 52 460

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Creating an open electronic archive of the International Renaissance Foundation to provide active Ukrainian third sector players and international community with fast and open access to the organized information on the experience gained during the entire IRF operation period.
Total: $ 14 000




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Social Capital and Academic Publications

Number of Projects: 67
Grant Amount: $ 239 660
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 4,51 %


The Program was launched in 2003 as a consolidation of predecessor programs on translation, publishing and electronic publishing.

The Program’s priorities are:

• Publishing in Ukrainian (for the first time) the works of contemporary and classic foreign authors on social sciences and humanities crucial for transforming higher education in Ukraine, promoting democratic civil society values, enriching vocabularies used by citizens in new democracies.
• Supporting the growth of independent and sustainable publishing sector as a vital civil society institution.
• Supporting the growth of Ukrainian scholar's translation school.
• Transforming academic and public discourses in Ukraine.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Kyiv City	2	$ 2 195
All-Ukrainian Projects	65	$ 237 465
Total:	67	$ 239 660




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Competition "Translating into Ukrainian Foreign Titles in Social Sciences and Humanities"

Number of Projects: 62
Grant Amount: $ 221 405
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 4,17 %


Translation Project network program is a joint initiative of the IRF, Information program of Open Society Institute-Budapest and Next Page Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria. The program was launched in Ukraine in 1998. Since 1998 till February 2004 238 book titles were translated into Ukrainian and published by Ukrainian publishing houses with the partial IRF support and 220 titles are going to be translated and published.

Grants are provided on the basis of annual open competition Translating into Ukrainian Foreign Titles in Social Sciences and Humanities for Ukrainian publishing houses. In 2003 the preferences were given to the projects that start or continue book series, contain polemic articles in academic editions or questions for discussions in civil society titles and envisage open access electronic publication of at least one book chapter.

The competition was conducted in co-operation with the Goethe-Institut-Kyiv; Public Affairs section of the Embassy of the United States of America in Ukraine; Skovoroda program of the Embassy of the French Republic in Ukraine; Embassy of Austria in Ukraine; Royal Netherlands Embassy in Ukraine; Czech cultural center in Ukraine; Center for the Study of Democracy, Queen's University, Canada; Fund for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature—Amsterdam; Central and East European Book Project — Amsterdam; Books from Lithuania and Lithuanian Ministry of Arts and Culture, Lithuania.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
All-Ukrainian Projects	62	$ 221 405
Total:	62	$ 221 405




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: Alterpress Publishers, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Serhiy Proleyev.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Badinet E. Paroles d'hommes.
Total: $ 3 500

Grantee: KM Academia Publishing House, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Olena Rud.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Colebatch H.K. Policy.
Total: $ 1 500

Grantee: Charitable Foundation "Calvaria Publishers", Lviv.
Project Manager: Halyna Zavaliy.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Sassen, Saskia, Appiah, Kwame Anthony. Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money.
Total: $ 3 000

Grantee: "Sphera Publishers ", International Charitable Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Oksana Khlopova.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Gilligan, James. Preventing Violence. (Prospects for Tomorrow).
Total: $ 2 000

Grantee: Alternatyvy (Alternatives) Publishing House, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Vasyl Parkhomenko.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Beck, Ulrich. Was ist Globalisierung: Irrtumer des Globalismus — Antworten auf Globalisierung.
Total: $ 2 400

Grantee: Alterpress Publishers, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Serhiy Proleyev.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Horkheimer M. Zur Kritik der instrumentellen Vernunft und Notizen 1949–1969.
Total: $ 4 500

Grantee: Alterpress Publishers, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Serhiy Proleyev.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: De l'egalite des sexes.
Total: $ 4 000

Grantee: Alterpress Publishers, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Serhiy Proleyev.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Höffe O. Demokratie im Zeitalter der Globalisierung.
Total: $ 5 500

Grantee: Context Publishers, LLC, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Yuriy Rybachuk.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Kracauer, Siegfried. Theorie des Films.
Total: $ 3 500

Grantee: Kyiv-Svyatoshyn Division of the Children’s Foundation of Ukraine, Boyarka.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Samoylenko.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Frankel, Boris. The Post-Industrial Utopians.
Total: $ 3 000

Grantee: Kyiv-Svyatoshyn Division of the Children’s Foundation of Ukraine, Boyarka.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Samoylenko.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Norgaard O. Economic Institutions and Democratic Reform: a Comparative Analysis of Post-Сommunist Countries.
Total: $ 3 800

Grantee: Kyiv-Svyatoshyn Division of the Children’s Foundation of Ukraine, Boyarka.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Samoylenko.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Smith, Anthony. Nations and Nationalism in a Global Era.
Total: $ 2 900

Grantee: Kyiv-Svyatoshyn Division of the Children’s Foundation of Ukraine, Boyarka.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Samoylenko.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Hobsbawm, Eric and Terence Ranger, eds. The Invention of Tradition.
Total: $ 3 500

Grantee: Vakler Publishers, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Serhiy Udovyk.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Castells, Manuel, Himanen, Pekka. The Information Society and the Business Environment: Finnish Model.
Total: $ 2 500

Grantee: Vakler Publishers, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Serhiy Udovyk.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Cameron, Rondo. A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present.
Total: $ 5 000

Grantee: Vakler Publishers, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Serhiy Udovyk.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Castells, Manuel. The Internet Galaxy.
Total: $ 3 200

Grantee: Litopys Publishers, LLC, Lviv.
Project Manager: Myroslava Oliynyk.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Hagoort, Giep. Art Management. Entrepreneurial Style.
Total: $ 3 500

Grantee: Litopys Publishers, LLC, Lviv.
Project Manager: Myroslava Oliynyk.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Waidacher, Friedrich. Handbuch der Allgemeinen Museologie.
Total: $ 5 300

Grantee: Litopys Publishers, LLC, Lviv.
Project Manager: Myroslava Oliynyk.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Kaku, Michio. Visions: How Science will Revolutionize the 21-st Century.
Total: $ 1 250

Grantee: KM Academia Publishing House, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Olena Rud.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Parsons, Wayne. Public Policy: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Policy Analysis.
Total: $ 8 000

Grantee: KM Academia Publishing House, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Olena Rud.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Perkins, David. Is Literary History Possible?
Total: $ 2 000

Grantee: KM Academia Publishing House, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Olena Rud.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Arquilla, John, Ronfeldt, David, eds. Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime and Militancy.
Total: $ 4 500

Grantee: "Krytyka" Journal, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Andriy Mokrousov.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Martin, Terry. Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939.
Total: $ 4 500

Grantee: Achilles Publishers, LLC, Lviv.
Project Manager: Anna Shakhoval.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Cornford, James, Pollock, Neil. Putting the University Online: Information, Technology and Organizational Сhange.
Total: $ 1 500

Grantee: "Dukh i Litera" (Spirit & Letter), Scientific & Publishing Association, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Leonid Finberg.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Koselleck, Reinhard. Vergangene Zukunft. Zur Semantik geschichtlicher Zeiten.
Total: $ 2 945

Grantee: Initsiatyva Publishing House, Lviv.
Project Manager: Stanislav Plotnikov.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Eliade, Mircea. Myths, Rites, Symbols.
Total: $ 6 000

Grantee: Astrolabe Publishers, LLC, Lviv.
Project Manager: Andriy Dakhniy.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Habermas J. Die Einbeziehung des Anderen. 1. Aufl.
Total: $ 4 000

Grantee: Astrolabe Publishers, LLC, Lviv.
Project Manager: Andriy Dakhniy.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Habermas J. Die Postnationale Konstellation.
Total: $ 2 200

Grantee: Achilles Publishers, LLC, Lviv.
Project Manager: Ihor Maliuha.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Beveridge, Fiona, Nott, Sue and Stephen, Kylie. Making Women Count. Integrating Gender into Law and Policy-Making.
Total: $ 3 500

Grantee: Achilles Publishers, LLC, Lviv.
Project Manager: Ihor Maliuha.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: De Lauretis, Teresa. Technologies of Gender.
Total: $ 1 500

Grantee: Achilles Publishers, LLC, Lviv.
Project Manager: Ihor Maliuha.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Butler, Judith. Antigona's Claim.
Total: $ 1 200

Grantee: Achilles Publishers, LLC, Lviv.
Project Manager: Ihor Maliuha.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Shachar, Ayelet. Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights.
Total: $ 2 800

Grantee: Achilles Publishers, LLC, Lviv.
Project Manager: Anna Shakhoval.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Light, Paul C. Pathway to Nonprofit Excellence.
Total: $ 2 000

Grantee: Achilles Publishers, LLC, Lviv.
Project Manager: Ihor Maliuha.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Schoeber, Peter. Kommunale Selbstverwaltung. Die Idee der Modernen Gemeinde.
Total: $ 2 500

Grantee: Achilles Publishers, LLC, Lviv.
Project Manager: Ihor Maliuha.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Buchanan, James M. The Limit of Liberty. Between Anarchy and Leviathan.
Total: $ 2 800

Grantee: "Osnovy", All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Tetiana Solomakha.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Philosophy of Law. Ed. by Joel Feinberg and Hyman Gross.
Total: $ 9 000

Grantee: "Osnovy", All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Tetiana Solomakha.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Morgenstern O., Neumann J. Theory of Games and Economic Behavior.
Total: $ 8 500

Grantee: Libra Publishers, LLC, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Sofiya Hemborovska.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Varian, Hal. Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach.
Total: $ 6 500

Grantee: Summy Oblast Printing House, JSC, Sumy.
Project Manager: Olena Dryzheruk.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Carbaugh, Robert. International Economics.
Total: $ 5 650

Grantee: Limited Liability Company "Kurs", Kyiv.
Project Manager: Andriy Bohachov.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Kripke S. Naming and Necessity.
Total: $ 1 500

Grantee: Limited Liability Company "FetM", Kyiv.
Project Manager: Vakhtanh Kebuladze.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Luhmann N. Zweckbegriff und Systemrationalitaet.
Total: $ 4 000

Grantee: Ukrainian Center of Spiritual Culture, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Valentyna Rybak.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Condition of Citizenship. Edited by Bart van Steenbergen.
Total: $ 1 800

Grantee: K.I.S. "Kyiv. Information. Service." Publishers, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Yuriy Marchenko.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Hall, Jim. Online Journalism. A Critical Primer.
Total: $ 3 050

Grantee: K.I.S. "Kyiv. Information. Service." Publishers, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Yuriy Marchenko.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Held, David, McGrew, Anthony. Globalization. / Anti-Globalization.
Total: $ 1 600

Grantee: K.I.S. "Kyiv. Information. Service." Publishers, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Yuriy Marchenko.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Ethique de l'information.
Total: $ 1 000

Grantee: "Maccabi" Jewish Cultural & Sports Club, Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Vira Blyzniuk.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Gilpin, Robert. The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the 21-st Century.
Total: $ 4 600

Grantee: Budivelnyk Publishers, small enterprise, Odesa.
Project Manager: Yuriy Semenov.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Boswell, John. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century.
Total: $ 4 300

Grantee: Budivelnyk Publishers, small enterprise, Odesa.
Project Manager: Yuriy Semenov.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Ingarden, Roman. Untersuchungen zur Ontologie der Kunst: Musikwerk, Bild, Architektur, Film.
Total: $ 3 500

Grantee: Charitable Foundation "Calvaria Publishers", Lviv.
Project Manager: Halyna Zavaliy.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Todd, Emmanuel. Apres l'Empire. Essai sur la Decomposition du Systeme Americain.
Total: $ 2 400

Grantee: Charitable Foundation "Calvaria Publishers", Lviv.
Project Manager: Halyna Zavaliy.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Baudrillard, Jean. La Gauche Divine.
Total: $ 2 500

Grantee: Charitable Foundation "Calvaria Publishers", Lviv.
Project Manager: Halyna Zavaliy.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Billig, Michael. Banal Nationalism.
Total: $ 1 500

Grantee: Charitable Foundation "Calvaria Publishers", Lviv.
Project Manager: Halyna Zavaliy.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Eriksen, Thomas H. Tyranny of the Moment. Fast and Slow Times in the Information Age.
Total: $ 1 500

Grantee: Charitable Foundation "Calvaria Publishers", Lviv.
Project Manager: Halyna Zavaliy.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Sontag, Susan. Against Interpretation and Other Essays.
Total: $ 3 300

Grantee: Vsesvit (Universe) Publishing House, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Oleh Mykytenko.
Project Summary: Additional support for translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. In Other Words. Essays in Cultural Politics.
Total: $ 1 000

Grantee: "Krytyka" Journal, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Andriy Mokrousov.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Kenney, Padriac. A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989.
Total: $ 5 540

Grantee: BAKHVA Publishers JSC, Odessa.
Project Manager: Mykola Khalikyan.
Project Summary: Additional support for translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Dunn, William N. Public Policy Analysis. An Introduction.
Total: $ 1 500

Grantee: Limited Liability Company "Kurs", Kyiv.
Project Manager: Vakhtanh Kebuladze.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Schuetz A. Der sinnhafte Aufbau der sozialen Welt.
Total: $ 3 500

Grantee: Limited Liability Company "Kurs", Kyiv.
Project Manager: Andriy Bohachov.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Klassiker der Sprachphilosophie: von Platon bis Noam Chomsky / hrsg. von Tilman Borsche.
Total: $ 7 000

Grantee: KM Academia Publishing House, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Olena Rud.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Buchanan, James M., Musgrave, Richard A. Public Finance and Public Choice.
Total: $ 3 500

Grantee: Alterpress Publishers, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Serhiy Proleyev.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Waldenfels B. Topographie des Fremden: Studien zur Phaenomenologie des Fremden.
Total: $ 3 000

Grantee: "Osnovy", All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Tetiana Solomakha.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Economics of Regulation and Antitrust by Kip Viscusi, John M. Vernon and Joseph Harrington, Jr.
Total: $ 7 370

Grantee: "Nashe Zhyttya" (Our Life) International Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Viktor Riabchun.
Project Summary: Translating and publishing in Ukrainian the book: Klassiker der Theologie. Hrg. Heinrich Fries und Georg Kretschmar.
Total: $ 7 000




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Operational Projects

Number of Projects: 1
Grant Amount: $ 1 000
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 0,02 %


Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
All-Ukrainian Projects	1	$ 1 000
Total:	1	$ 1 000




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Expertise of samples of translation supported by IRF.
Total: $ 1 000




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Other

Number of Projects: 4
Grant Amount: $ 17 255
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 0,32 %


Scholar's Translation Laboratory project was initiated to help translators (who are mainly professional philologists) to understand and master modern terminology of the humanities and social sciences. It provides biweekly workshops for translators and editors working on the translations supported by IRF. The project is being implemented by NGO Youth Humanities Center in 2 directions: scholars translation laboratory in the field of social sciences and humanities and IRF—UNDP—European Union Delegation of the European Commission joint project Scholar’s Translation Laboratory in Education Policy.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Kyiv City	2	$ 2 195
All-Ukrainian Projects	2	$ 15 060
Total:	4	$ 17 255




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Olena Vakarenko’s and Olexandr Zelnichenko’s participation in the Meeting of the Academies of Sciences "Open Access as a Means to Promote Academic Publishing", Budapest, Hungary.
Total: $ 508

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Y.Bazhal's participation in Knowledge Economy Forum II.
Total: $ 1 687

Grantee: Pulsary Publishers, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Larysa Kopan.
Project Summary: Publishing in Ukrainian the book: Vasyl Lisovyj. Philosophical lexicon: Elements of contemporary philosophy.
Total: $ 1 000

Grantee: Youth Humanities Center, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Andriy Kulakov.
Project Summary: Supporting "Scholar's Translations Laboratory" project which provides space and conditions to enable cooperation between translators and academicians working over the editions supported by IRF. Translators and editors from publishing houses, experts in humanitarian and social disciplines, linguists and translators are invited to participate in the workshops. The results of the projects were thematic English-French-German-Ukrainian vocabularies of terminology; web-cite Scholar's translation laboratory: www.pereklad.kiev.ua with information on the workshops, guidelines for translators, forums and market place for translators.
Total: $ 14 060




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Culture

Number of Projects: 17
Grant Amount: $ 140 669
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 2,65 %


Since 1994, having actively promoted development of culture in the period of building an open, democratic society in Ukraine, the Program supported various art projects, such as international festivals, theatrical stagings, visual art exhibitions, literary event, art workshops and conferences on topic issues in the sphere of culture management.

In 2003, the Program reviewed the results of its activities and worked as a consultative and advisory body only. IRF provided expert and analytical assistance on culture-related issues as well as consultations on preparation and implementation of the projects to the culture and art organizations.

Up to June 2003, the Program continued implementing the initiatives, launched earlier and administered the last projects of the Arts and Culture Network Program, Open Society Institute–Budapest.

In 2003, the Program initiated the All-Ukrainian Competition of Young Artists in order to bring to light and to support the new tendencies in the sphere of culture and to assist young talented persons in their artistic development and formation.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Cherkasy Region	1	$ 1 200
Kherson Region	1	$ 1 500
Kyiv City	3	$ 4 820
Odesa Region	3	$ 22 400
All-Ukrainian Projects	9	$ 110 749
Total:	17	$ 140 669




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: Producers Charitable Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Kateryna Zholdak.
Project Summary: Staging of the play "Sexual Revolution in Ukraine" based on works of I. Turgenyev and O. Solzhenitsyn (Director A. Zholdak).
Total: $ 13 500

Grantee: Ukrainian Art Forum, NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Olena Afanasyeva.
Project Summary: Organization and conduct of the all-Ukrainian Competition on Support of Young Artists "StART".
Total: $ 35 000

Grantee: "Democracy Through Culture", Information & Analytical Center, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Yaroslava Babenchuk.
Project Summary: Familiarizing the heads of cultural departments of self-government with modern methods and means of cultural development of regions, formation of regional cultural policy and development of interregional and international cultural cooperation.
Total: $ 4 300

Grantee: "Democracy Through Culture", Information & Analytical Center, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Butsenko.
Project Summary: Supporting of the activity of advisory and counselling units – Gromads’ka Rada ("Public Council") – under the Culture and Spirituality Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, elaboration of proposals to the Concept of the state policy in the sphere of culture and drafts of the corresponding normative and legislative acts.
Total: $ 5 500

Grantee: Association of Modern Art Workers of Ukraine, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Yevhen Karas.
Project Summary: Technical maintenance and file for information on Artportal "Contemporary Ukrainian Art".
Total: $ 3 020

Grantee: Alternative Visual Studies, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Liudmyla Motsiuk.
Project Summary: Presentation of modern Ukrainian art within the project of "Manifesto" curator Marta Kuz’ma "Extra Schengen" at Venice Biennale 2003.
Total: $ 2 920

Grantee: Tereschenkivsky Foundation, NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Viktor Sydorenko.
Project Summary: Lending informational support to the national presentation of Ukraine at the 50th Venice Biennale 2003.
Total: $ 7 174

Grantee: Ukrainian Philosophical Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Serhiy Proleyev.
Project Summary: Publication of the book "Ukrainian Cinema: Euroformat" (chronicles of public discussions of matters related to Ukrainian cinema).
Total: $ 2 355




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Competition "Capacity Building" under the Arts and Culture Network Program, Open Society Institute, Budapest

Number of Projects: 1
Grant Amount: $ 20 000
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 0,38 %


The international competition was announced in the framework of the closure of the Arts and Culture Network Program, Open Society Institute, Budapest, in order to strengthen regional art organizations in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Middle Asia, the Caucasus, and Mongolia by allocating the institutional grants.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Odesa Region	1	$ 20 000
Total:	1	$ 20 000




Projects Supported by the Competition:

Grantee: New Music Association, Odesa.
Project Manager: Karmela Tsepkolenko.
Project Summary: Lending institutional support to the "Nova Muzyka" ("New Music") Association, which is active in the development and support of the newest musical tendencies.
Total: $ 20 000




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Competition "Looking Inside" under the Arts and Culture Network Program, Open Society Institute, Budapest

Number of Projects: 6
Grant Amount: $ 6 900
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 0,13 %


The competition supported an internship program for art managers and heads of artistic and cultural organizations in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Middle Asia, the Caucasus, and Mongolia.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Cherkasy Region	1	$ 1 200
Kherson Region	1	$ 1 500
Kyiv City	2	$ 1 800
Odesa Region	2	$ 2 400
Total:	6	$ 6 900




Projects Supported by the Competition:

Grantee: Tereschenkivsky Foundation, NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Oksana Chepelyk.
Project Summary: Supporting of the trainеeship of O. Chepelyk at the Center of Contemporary Art in Prague, the Czech Republic
Total: $ 1 500

Grantee: "TOTEM" Kherson City Youth Initiatives Center, Kherson.
Project Manager: Olena Afanasyeva.
Project Summary: Supporting of the trainеeship of O. Afanasieva at "WRO" (Center for Media Art) in Wroclaw, Poland.
Total: $ 1 500

Grantee: "Lyudyna i Conflict" (Man and a Conflict), Cherkassy Oblast Youth NGO, Cherkasy.
Project Manager: Viktoriya Panasenko.
Project Summary: Supporting of the trainеeship of V. Panasenko at the "Wybrzezak Theatre", Gdansk, Poland.
Total: $ 1 200

Grantee: New Music Association, Odesa.
Project Manager: Olha Veselina.
Project Summary: Supporting of the trainеeship of O. Veselina at the Lithuanian International Association of Modern Music, Vilnus, Lithuania.
Total: $ 1 200

Grantee: New Music Association, Odesa.
Project Manager: Vadym Larchikov.
Project Summary: Supporting of the trainеeship of V. Larchikov at Czech Music Information Center, Prague, Czech Republic.
Total: $ 1 200

Grantee: Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Yezhy Onukh.
Project Summary: Supporting of the trainеeship of M. Karicha at the Center of Contemporary Art, Kyiv.
Total: $ 300




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Centers for Contemporary Art

Number of Projects: 2
Grant Amount: $ 40 000
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 0,75 %


The Centers for Contemporary Art were established to promote development of Ukrainian art environment by providing informational, educational, technical and coordination support to artists and art agencies to provide them with opportunities to implement individual innovative projects, to participate in contemporary art exhibitions, to share experiences and to make artistic contacts. Exhibition activities of the Centers are aimed at the presenting the best achievements of the contemporary art to the wide public.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
All-Ukrainian Projects	2	$ 40 000
Total:	2	$ 40 000




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: Center for Contemporary Art, Odesa.
Project Manager: Myroslav Kulchytsky.
Project Summary: Honoraria to the Center of Contemporary Arts in Odesa: financing of outcoming strategy.
Total: $ 5 000

Grantee: Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Yezhy Onukh.
Project Summary: Supporting of the exhibitions, development of network projects, international artistic exchanges, residences and publishing of the catalogue of CCA events.
Total: $ 35 000




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Education

Number of Projects: 41
Grant Amount: $ 431 758
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 8,12 %

Educational programs work in three interconnected directions: educational policy, supporting educational NGOs, integrating the Ukrainian educational system with that of Europe and the world. The main tasks of educational programs include establishing joint activity and cooperation between state bodies, institutes, and educational NGOs. An example illustrating successful cooperation in this regard includes the "Education, Innovation and Renewal for Improved Well-Being and Poverty Reduction" Project, involving the IRF, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the UN Development Program, Open Society Institute (Budapest), and the publishing house "School World". The project produced the National Doctrine on Educational Development, a strategic document, which was approved at the Second working meeting of educational personnel and passed into law by decree of the President of Ukraine. Political proposals on modernizing Ukraine’s educational policy were also developed. A political proposal developed by leading experts on current day problems in education and possible solutions to overcoming them was produced under the name "Reform Strategy for Education in Ukraine. Educational Policy Recommendations". The publication may be viewed as the first "book" in the educational sector in Ukraine, which was compiled by independent experts addressing the problems of equal access to quality education, administration and finance, content and quality monitoring. Thanks to the activity of the IRF’s educational programs, educational policy in Ukraine became a subject of lively discussion in broad societal circles for the first time.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Higher Education Support

Number of Projects: 4
Grant Amount: $ 41 953
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 0,79 %


Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
All-Ukrainian Projects	4	$ 41 953
Total:	4	$ 41 953




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Conferences, Workshops and Summer Schools

Number of Projects: 2
Grant Amount: $ 17 950
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 0,34 %


The International Renaissance Foundation in conjunction with the Open Society Institute (Budapest) supported organization of summer schools and research competitions to train professors in educational institutions and develop modern research ideas in the social sciences.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
All-Ukrainian Projects	2	$ 17 950
Total:	2	$ 17 950




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: "Culture Center", Dnipropetrovsk City NGO, Dnipropetrovsk.
Project Manager: Natalia Boytsun.
Project Summary: Conducting of a three-week Summer School "Teaching International Relations and European Studies: experience, development, new approaches".
Total: $ 14 500

Grantee: Eastern Ukraine Foundation for Social Research (EUFSR), Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Valeriy Nikolaievsky.
Project Summary: Holding of the 9th International Scientific Conference “Kharkiv Sociological Readings”.
Total: $ 3 450




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Other

Number of Projects: 2
Grant Amount: $ 24 003
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 0,45 %


Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
All-Ukrainian Projects	2	$ 24 003
Total:	2	$ 24 003




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Conducting of the all-Ukrainian competition among post-graduates who are engaged in political studies. Supported three Ukrainian students at Harvard University Summer School, USA.
Total: $ 13 230

Grantee: "INKOS", International Education Program Innovation Center, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Ihor Minhazutdinov.
Project Summary: Creation of an electronic database of national and international donor organizations, publication of the methodical manual on fundraising in the sphere of higher education and its distributed it free of charge in regions, conducting of a training seminar devoted to the applied aspects of fundraising.
Total: $ 10 773




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Education Development Program

Number of Projects: 14
Grant Amount: $ 317 156
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 5,97 %


Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Kyiv City	5	$ 66 648
All-Ukrainian Projects	9	$ 250 508
Total:	14	$ 317 156




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Educational Policy Analysis and Reform of Education

Number of Projects: 3
Grant Amount: $ 60 000
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 1,13 %


The "Educational Policy Centers Network" Project has become an important step in facilitating systematic reform in education and activating the participation of the educational community in solving problems in education. Using the State Standards Project for basic and higher education, pilot models of systems and systematic influence in the area of educational policy in Ukraine were developed. A network of educational policy centers facilitating educational reform were developed, and a functional model for analyzing educational policy and its results was developed and introduced. During the project’s implementation phase, expert and societal input was incorporated.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
All-Ukrainian Projects	3	$ 60 000
Total:	3	$ 60 000




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: Charitable Foundation "Pershe Veresnya", Kyiv.
Project Manager: Serhiy Andriyash.
Project Summary: Conducting of the forum "Dialogue on Standards" in cooperation with the International Renaissance Foundation, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the British Council, UNISEF, UNDP and the Academy of Pedagogical Science of Ukraine. Conducting of the training seminar for regional groups of the created Educational Policy Centers Network.
Total: $ 14 971

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Development and and running of piloted systemic and systematic analytical model of educational policy in Ukraine. Creation of a network of educational policy centers to promote educational reform. Elaboration and implementation of the functional model of educational policy analysis and its expertise by the example of the State Standards.
Total: $ 36 226

Grantee: Charitable Foundation "Pershe Veresnya", Kyiv.
Project Manager: Maryna Mosiyenko.
Project Summary: Organization and conducting of a guidance seminar "Teaching programs for the 12-year school" upon the initiative of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, city of Kyiv, December 8–11, 2003.
Total: $ 8 803




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Testing Technologies Center

Number of Projects: 7
Grant Amount: $ 214 530
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 4,04 %


This project facilitates the implementation of an external standardized testing system to ensure equal access to higher education and to monitor education in Ukraine. This project is being implemented with the tight cooperation of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. The ministry provides normative and legal support within the framework of the experimental external testing system of student knowledge and legitimizes the certificates bearing the results of the external tests. Participation in the project is not obligatory and based on the availability of additional resources. Under the external testing system, graduates partake in the tests on their own accord, and higher educational institutions also independently decide whether to approve the external testing results. If the graduate decides to use the results, the tests results can be used as a state report card and serve as their entrance exams to a defined institution, which is participating in the project, faculty or another specialization.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Kyiv City	5	$ 66 648
All-Ukrainian Projects	2	$ 147 882
Total:	7	$ 214 530




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Conducting of an evaluation of the IMF operational project "Center of Testing Technologies" by an international team of experts.
Total: $ 4 248

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Liliya Hrynevych.
Project Summary: Institutional support of the Test Technologies Center’s scheduled activities. Development of and the testing of the model of standardized testing by outside examiners for ensuring monitoring of education quality and equal access to the higher education. Creation of conditions for the development of testing by outside examiners at the national level aimed at ensuring a continuous connection between secondary and higher education.
Total: $ 137 600

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Liliya Hrynevych.
Project Summary: Supporting of the activities of Lviv regional testing center activity at the Lviv Franko National University: formation of the infrastructure of a testing system by outside examiners in the region, working out of a testing database, performance of testing by outside examiners at the location.
Total: $ 15 600

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Liliya Hrynevych.
Project Summary: Supporting of the activities of the Regional testing center based at the Odesa Mechnykov National University: formation of the infrastructure of a testing system by outside examiners in the region, working out of a testing database, performance of testing by outside examiners at the location.
Total: $ 15 600

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Liliya Hrynevych.
Project Summary: Supporting of the activities of a Regional testing center based at the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy": formation of the infrastructure of a testing system by outside examiners in the region, working out of a testing database, performance of testing by outside examiners at the location.
Total: $ 15 600

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Liliya Hrynevych.
Project Summary: Supporting of the activities of Regional testing center based at the Kharkiv Skovoroda State Pedagogical University: formation of the infrastructure of a testing system by outside examiners in the region, working out of a testing database, performance of testing by outside examiners at the location.
Total: $ 15 600

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Liliya Hrynevych.
Project Summary: Conducting of an International Conference called “Measuring Students' and Pupils' Educational Attainments: Methodological, Humanitarian, Method, Technological Aspects” aimed at summarizing Ukrainian experience of testing educational achievements Students' and Pupils' by means of testing and promoting dissemination of the knowledge about testology.
Total: $ 10 282




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European Studies Teaching Course for Schools

Number of Projects: 1
Grant Amount: $ 14 950
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 0,28 %


This project is geared towards developing a conceptual framework for assessing education in Ukraine on a European level and developing an educational methodology. The project is being implemented in conjunction with the Association of Kyiv School Principals. A working group has been established, which is comprised of experts from the Ministry of Education and Science, the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, the Association of Kyiv School Principals and teachers in general education institutions. Within the framework of this project, a working meeting with Ukrainian and foreign experts took place entitled "Problems of Introducing a "European Studies" Course in General Schools", an international conference entitled "European Studies in Ukrainian Schools" took place, and a countrywide competition for developing an educational methodology for teachers and students was carried out, and a countrywide drawing competition entitled "Europe—For Every Day". "I am European", "Ukraine and Europe for Students" was conducted. Educational and methodological materials were developed for the integrative course on "European Studies" which includes a course outline, an educational handbook for students, methodological recommendations for teachers of the course, and methodological recommendations for activities outside of school entitled "How to Organize a School European Club". The course will be recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science for grades 8–12. The project entirely meets the standards of state program on informing society on issues of Ukraine’s integration into Europe 2003–2007 (was approved by the State Committee on the Issues of European and Euro-Atlantic Integration No.5 in December 2003).

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
All-Ukrainian Projects	1	$ 14 950
Total:	1	$ 14 950




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Conducting of an all-Ukrainian competition of methodical projects on "European Studies" course among teachers and students and all-Ukrainian competition of children’s picture among pupils "I am a European", "Ukraine and Europe", "Europe Daily". Formation of an author’s group and preparation of an educational and methodical provision for "European Studies" course for schools, conducting of two seminars for authors of manuals with the participation of national and foreign experts.
Total: $ 14 950




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Other

Number of Projects: 3
Grant Amount: $ 27 676
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 0,52 %


Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
All-Ukrainian Projects	3	$ 27 676
Total:	3	$ 27 676




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: "Step by Step", All-Ukrainian Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Nataliya Sofiy.
Project Summary: Publication of books for children who are of pre-school and junior high school age for distribution through educational institutions.
Total: $ 6 000

Grantee: Charity Foundation "Art, Culture & Science", Kyiv.
Project Manager: Tetiana Lebedieva.
Project Summary: Publication of book of children’s fairy tales written by orphanage inmates, as well as adapted new educational and brought up methods of work with elements of art therapy and fairy-tale therapy to the category of children staying at orphanage institutions. Popularizing such methods in Ukraine.
Total: $ 4 850

Grantee: "Nash Stanislaviv" (Our Stanislaviv), Charitable Foundation for Renaissance & Development, Ivano-Frankivsk.
Project Manager: Olena Rubanovska.
Project Summary: Supporting of a new children’s publishing house that produces educational books for children: preparation and publication of three books, presentation of the publishing house at the "Publishers Forum", Lviv, September 2004.
Total: $ 16 826




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International Education

Number of Projects: 23
Grant Amount: $ 72 649
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 1,37 %


Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Dnipropetrovsk Region	1	$ 600
Kharkiv Region	3	$ 1 740
Kyiv City	4	$ 2 500
All-Ukrainian Projects	15	$ 67 809
Total:	23	$ 72 649




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Information and Consulting Centers for Education Abroad (Student Advising Centers)

Number of Projects: 7
Grant Amount: $ 49 900
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 0,94 %


The "Osvita" network of information and consulting centers, which exist in virtually every region of Ukraine, has been active since 2000. Its aim is to integrate the Ukrainian educational system into European and world structures. Thanks to it, Ukrainian students and researchers have the unique opportunity to obtain study abroad scholarships by participating in open scholarship competitions and receiving professional consultations from the center’s personnel. The Osvita centers are registered by the Association of Osvita Consulting Centers and the coordinating centre is located in Kyiv. The media-libraries at the centers are a popular source of information on country profiles, information on education abroad and contain a unique English-language collection of materials on standardizes testing systems.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
All-Ukrainian Projects	7	$ 49 900
Total:	7	$ 49 900




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Supporting of the operational activities of the Kyiv "Osvita" Center.
Total: $ 6 670

Grantee: "Osvita" Information & Consulting Center, Dnipropetrovsk.
Project Manager: Serhiy Papuk.
Project Summary: Supporting of the activities of "Osvita" Informational and Consulting Center in Dnipropetrovsk Region.
Total: $ 7 000

Grantee: "Osvita", Center for International Education, Simferopol.
Project Manager: Yuriy Bulavintsev.
Project Summary: Supporting of the activities of "Osvita" Informational and Consulting Center in the Crimea.
Total: $ 6 840

Grantee: "Osvita", Center for International Education, Odesa.
Project Manager: Larysa Shevchenko.
Project Summary: Supporting of the activities of "Osvita" Informational and Consulting Center in Odesa region.
Total: $ 7 100

Grantee: Kharkiv Public Center "Osvita", Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Nataliya Bulhakova.
Project Summary: Supporting of the activities of "Osvita" Informational and Consulting Center in Kharkiv region.
Total: $ 7 300

Grantee: "Osvita" Information & Consulting Center, Lviv.
Project Manager: Andriy Hataliak.
Project Summary: Supporting of the development of Informational and Consulting services for students’ and academic community in the West Ukraine.
Total: $ 8 100

Grantee: Center for Political Studies, Donetsk.
Project Manager: Hanna Zorina.
Project Summary: Supporting of the activities of "Osvita" Informational and Consulting Center in Donetsk region.
Total: $ 6 890




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Central European University

Number of Projects: 1
Grant Amount: $ 3 230
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 0,06 %


The Central European University (CEU) is a renowned post-graduate educational institution for social sciences. It promotes the development of an open society in Central and Eastern Europe and in countries of the former Soviet Union by introducing educational systems based on creativity, and a critical and analytical approach. The CEU’s education institutions are located in Budapest (Hungary) and Warsaw (Poland).

The CEU offers masters programs in the following areas: gender and culture, ecology, economics, history, medieval studies, international commercial law, international relations and European studies, nationalism studies, South-East European studies, political science, comparative constitutional law, human rights and sociology.

The CEU offers masters programs for students undertaking research in other educational institutions, but wish to take advantage of the resources provided by the CEU, including innovational programs and international level professors as they write their dissertations. A single or double semester for a master’s student at the CEU is supported by a particular faculty or specific program.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
All-Ukrainian Projects	1	$ 3 230
Total:	1	$ 3 230




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Administration of the scholarship programs of the Center European University.
Total: $ 3 230




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Network Scholarship Programs

Number of Projects: 15
Grant Amount: $ 19 519
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 0,37 %


In 2003, the scholarships winners under the network scholarships program administered in Ukraine by the IRF included:

OSI/FCO Cambridge Chevening Program

1. Viktoriya Kukovenkova
2. Natalia Moroz
3. Anastasiya Holovina

OSI/FCO Oxford Chevening Program

1. Nazar Fedorchuk
2. Rostyslav Herasymov
3. Nadiya Ivanenko
4. Liudmyla Slobodianuk
5. Oleksandr Svyryd

OSI/FCO Edinburgh Chevening Program

1. Tetiana Bureychak
2. Natalia Lashkova

Cambridge Hospitality Scheme

1. Yuriy Kholin
2. Oleksandr Korobov
3. Iryna Pysmenetska

Oxford Hospitality Scheme

1. Iryna Korneyko
2. Volodymyr Skoblyk

CEU Summer School

1. Myroslava Antonovych
2. Yuliya Chervonooka
3. Andriy Kovalenko
4. Yuriy Kovbasiuk
5. Olesia Oleshko
6. Oleksandr Osipian
7. Yuliya Podobna
8. Tanara Prykhodko
9. Fuziya Abliakimova
10. Olha Dobrodum
11. Oleh Habrielian
12. Natalia Khoteyeva
13. Mykhaylo Kizilov
14. Natalia Mischenko
15. Polina Sinovets
16. Leonid Krasnozhon
17. Vitaliy Razumny
18. Ihor Ustiuzhyn
19. Iryna Yaroschuk

Soros Supplementary Grant Program

1. Vitaliya Bella
2. Liliya Beltek
3. Karolina Dorchi
4. Svitlana Mykhaylova
5. Vitaliy Peychev
6. Yeva Puka
7. Zoya Sarandi
8. Yevhen Stotyka
9. Olena Vodynchar
10. Olena Zlatyieva
11. Volodymyr Zymovets

Global Supplementary Grant Program

1. Leonid Krasnozhon
2. Roman Sysuyev

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Dnipropetrovsk Region	1	$ 600
Kharkiv Region	3	$ 1 740
Kyiv City	4	$ 2 500
All-Ukrainian Projects	7	$ 14 679
Total:	15	$ 19 519




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Supporting of the participation in network scholarships programs coordiantors in annual conference, Oxford, September 4–9, 2003.
Total: $ 1 000

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Administration of the Soros Supplementary Grants Program.
Total: $ 1 000

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Administration of the OSI/FCO Cambridge Chevening Scholarships Program.
Total: $ 3 250

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Administration of the OSI/FCO Edinburgh Chevening Scholarships Program.
Total: $ 3 200

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Administration of the OSI/FCO Oxford Chevening Scholarships Program.
Total: $ 2 900

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Administration of the Cambridge Hospitality Scheme Program.
Total: $ 1 550

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Administration of the Oxford Hospitality Scheme Program.
Total: $ 2 219

Grantee: Kyiv National Linguistic University, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Nadiya Hladush.
Project Summary: Supporting of the visit of N. Gladush to Oxford University, April 2003.
Total: $ 500

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Organization and conducting of English language exams for semi-finalists of the competition under OSI/FCO Oxford Chevening Scholarships Program.
Total: $ 700

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Organization and conducting of English language exams for semi-finalists of the competition under OSI/FCO Cambridge Chevening Scholarsips Program.
Total: $ 300

Grantee: Dnepropetrovsk State Medical Academy, Dnipropetrovsk.
Project Manager: Iryna Pysmenetska.
Project Summary: Supporting of the traineeship of I. Pismenets’ka at the University of Cambridge.
Total: $ 600

Grantee: Kharkiv State Medical University, Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Iryna Korneyko.
Project Summary: Supporting of the traineeship of I. Korneyko at Hertford College, Oxford.
Total: $ 590

Grantee: V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Yuriy Kholin.
Project Summary: Supporting of the traineeship of Yu. Kholin at the University of Cambridge.
Total: $ 550

Grantee: V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Korobov.
Project Summary: Supporting of the traineeship of O. Korobova at the University of Cambridge.
Total: $ 600

Grantee: Association of International Program Graduates, Uzhorod.
Project Manager: Volodymyr Skoblyk.
Project Summary: Supporting of the traineeship of V. Skoblyk at St. John’s College, University of Oxford.
Total: $ 560




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Public Health Initiatives

Number of Projects: 117
Grant Amount: $ 967 823
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 18,21 %

The Program started in 2000 with the overall goal of improving health status of Ukrainian people. During this period several important tasks were completed including the creation of a network of non-governmental organizations that take preventive measures on the spread of HIV among high-risk groups, helping to set up the School of Public Health at the National University of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. The Program favors an increase in the level of public health through further development of normative and professional bases. Between other projects it ensured citizens participation in the preparation and conduct of Parliamentary hearings and other public activities devoted to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, drug addiction and alcoholism.

The Program is affiliated with non-governmental organizations, public authorities and leading specialists in the field of health protection.

Program partners include:

• Ministry of Health Protection of Ukraine
• Ministry of Economy of Ukraine
• Profile Committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
• International HIV/AIDS Alliance
• East-West AIDS Fund
• British Council in Ukraine
• US Agency for International Development
• HIV/AIDS United Nations Program
• World Bank
• The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Harm Reduction Program

Number of Projects: 51
Grant Amount: $ 369 587
Share of the Total Grant Amount: 6,95 %


The Program has been in Ukraine since 1997 and cooperates closely with the Open Society Institute of New York. It aims at preventing the spread of HIV spread other dangerous diseases. It also helps to reduce the influence of negative social consequences of drug use.

The Program concluded the creation of a network of non-governmental organizations involved in HIV-infection risk reduction. It supported the idea of establishing the Ukrainian Harm Reduction Association and conducted the First Ukrainian Harm Reduction Conference. Leading experts, representatives of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, representatives of the Center of Social Services for Youth and others participated in it. The Program continued working on the introduction of substitution therapy in 2003. It also helped a group of non-governmental organizations, members of the Coordination Mechanism, to work with the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Large Ukrainian communities were attracted to the work of this international body.

Program Expenditures by Regions of Ukraine:

Region	Projects Supported	Amount
Cherkasy Region	2	$ 11 400
Chernihiv Region	1	$ 4 000
Chernivtsi Region	2	$ 10 440
Donetsk Region	3	$ 15 795
Ivano-Frankivsk Region	1	$ 3 708
Kirovohrad Region	2	$ 13 541
Kyiv City	13	$ 70 004
Luhansk Region	1	$ 4 000
Lviv Region	4	$ 40 676
Mykolaiv Region	3	$ 40 784
Odesa Region	3	$ 19 951
Poltava Region	4	$ 24 168
Sumy Region	1	$ 4 000
Vinnytsia Region	3	$ 24 767
Zaporizhia Region	2	$ 11 964
Zhytomyr Region	2	$ 12 600
All-Ukrainian Projects	4	$ 57 789
Total:	51	$ 369 587




Projects Supported by the Program:

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Working meeting of strategic planning group under the program "Harm Reduction" supported, Kyiv, March 10–11, 2003.
Total: $ 3 700

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Participation of A.Yakobchuk in the meeting of technical consultants devoted to monitoring and evaluation of projects under "Harm Reduction" program supported, New York, USA, February 28 – March 5, 2003.
Total: $ 870

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Participation of S. Dvoryak in the conference "Integration of scientifically-grounded methods of narcotics-abuse treatment", Washington, USA, April 11–17, 2003.
Total: $ 1 819

Grantee: "Unitus", Mykolayiv Local Charitable Foundation, Mykolayiv.
Project Manager: Tetiana Vanenkova.
Project Summary: Participation of Ukrainian trainers in the seminar "Preparation of trainers for the work at training centers", Moscow, Russia, December 7–14, 2002.
Total: $ 750

Grantee: "Shliakh do Domou" (Way Home), Odessa Charitable Foundation for Rehabilitation and Social Adaptation of Citizens without a Permanent Place of Residence, Odesa.
Project Manager: Yuliya Vasylyeva.
Project Summary: Participation of Ukrainian trainers for train the trainers supported, Moscow, Russia, February 9–15, 2003.
Total: $ 375

Grantee: All-Ukrainian Harm Reduction Association, All-Ukrainian NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Anatoliy Yakobchuk.
Project Summary: Participation of Ukrainian experts in XIV International Conference "Harm Reduction" supported, Chiang-Mau, Thailand, April 6–10, 2003.
Total: $ 7 588

Grantee: All-Ukrainian Harm Reduction Association, All-Ukrainian NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Andriy Tolopylo.
Project Summary: Free legal consultations to employees working under the projects on harm reduction, people living with HIV/AIDS, drug addicts provided. Initiatives for introducing changes to or creating new legislation for drug abuse and national policy regarding HIV/AIDS developed.
Total: $ 9 984

Grantee: Charitable Foundation "Insight", Cherkasy.
Project Manager: Andriy Korshun.
Project Summary: Supporting and teaching safe injection and sexual behavior for people living with HIV/AIDS, as well as providing them with necessary preventive means and information materials.
Total: $ 7 600

Grantee: "Nova Simya" (New Family) Chernivtsi Local Charitable Foundation, Chernivtsi.
Project Manager: Larysa Melanich.
Project Summary: Prevention of spread of HIV/AIDS intravenous drug users: distributed syringes at exchange points, provided educational and preventive activities, taught safe behavior practices, provided psychological and social support.
Total: $ 6 540

Grantee: Charitable Foundation "Krok Na Zustrich" (Step Towards), Sumy.
Project Manager: Tamara Tretska.
Project Summary: Preventive work among intravenous drug users performed: informational and educating activity, training and providing psychological support.
Total: $ 13 500

Grantee: Charitable Foundation "Spodivannya" (Belief), Zaporizhzhia.
Project Manager: Nataliya Dotsenko.
Project Summary: Preventive work among injection drug users performed: informational and educational activity, training and providing psychological support, investigating for HIV and providing of consulting, conducting of training and secondary exchange.
Total: $ 9 000

Grantee: Zhytomyr Oblast Charitable Foundation for Prevention of Socially Dangerous Diseases and AIDS, Zhytomyr.
Project Manager: Anatoliy Yakobchuk.
Project Summary: Preventive work among intravenous drug users performed: safe behavior practices developed, social workers and volunteers trained.
Total: $ 9 000

Grantee: "Usi Razom" (All Together), Socio-psychological Information Center – Charitable Non-governmental Fund, Lviv.
Project Manager: Halyna Kaminska.
Project Summary: Preventive work to increase level of safe injection and sexual behavior conducted: information, counseling, medical, social and legal support provided, detoxification facilitated.
Total: $ 13 000

Grantee: "Stupeni" (Steps) Center for Rehabilitation, NGO, Chernihiv.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Babich.
Project Summary: Preventive work among intravenous drug users performed: syringes at exchange points distributed, educational and preventive activities conducted, safe behavior practices taught, psychological and social support provided.
Total: $ 4 900

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Seminar, "Provision of Legal Advice to Clients of "Harm Reduction" Program" organized and conducted, Kyiv, May 20–25, 2003.
Total: $ 12 405

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Participation of T. Vanenkova in meeting of technical consultants of "Harm Reduction" Program supported, Prague, the Czech Republic, June 4–8, 2003.
Total: $ 426

Grantee: Podillya Center of Human Rights, Vinnytsia.
Project Manager: Mychaylo Bardyn.
Project Summary: Support for participation of representatives of law-enforcement agencies of Ukraine in the Eastern Europe law-enforcement agencies seminar aimed at discussing methods and models of partnership, as well as developing joint activity programs.
Total: $ 825

Grantee: All-Ukrainian Harm Reduction Association, All-Ukrainian NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Anatoliy Yakobchuk.
Project Summary: Support for participation of Ukrainian expert on harm reduction matters at conference devoted to the protection of human rights, Budapest, Hungary, June 28 – July 2, 2003.
Total: $ 369

Grantee: Charitable Foundation "Return to Life", Znamianka.
Project Manager: Nataliya Tiulenieva.
Project Summary: Preventive work among intravenous drug users performed: distributed syringes at exchange points, provided educational and preventive activities, taught safe behavior practices, provided psychological and social support.
Total: $ 9 941

Grantee: Anti-AIDS Luhansk Charitable Foundation, Luhansk.
Project Manager: Larysa Anokhina.
Project Summary: Risk reduction of infection amongst intravenous drug users: development of safe injection and sexual behavior practices, provision of psychological and medical assistance, distribution of information materials, conduction of seminars for employees of law-enforcement agencies and educational institutions.
Total: $ 13 800

Grantee: All-Ukrainian Harm Reduction Association, All-Ukrainian NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Anatoliy Yakobchuk.
Project Summary: Elaboration of proposals regarding the improvement of a legislative base to fight HIV/AIDS epidemic, development of professional basis and infrastructure of "Harm Reduction" program activity, initiation and conduction of research on "Harm Reduction" program efficiency.
Total: $ 17 005

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Support for monitoring visits of a "Harm Reduction" program coordinator to development sites of program projects in Ukraine, July 9–18, 2003.
Total: $ 2 685

Grantee: All-Ukrainian Harm Reduction Association, All-Ukrainian NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Olena Yakymenko.
Project Summary: Series of discussions organized regarding situation of compliance with the human rights and health and efficient and safe medical aid in connection with the spread of the epidemics of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and drug addiction with representatives of the Verkhovna Rada committees, governmental and non-governmental organizations for the purpose of supporting the process of elaborating respective decisions.
Total: $ 10 000

Grantee: "Usi Razom" (All Together), Socio-psychological Information Center – Charitable Non-governmental Fund, Lviv.
Project Manager: Halyna Kaminska.
Project Summary: Experience exchange on cooperation between the state health protection establishments and public organizations in Poland.
Total: $ 3 116

Grantee: "Shliakh do Domou" (Way Home), Odessa Charitable Foundation for Rehabilitation and Social Adaptation of Citizens without a Permanent Place of Residence, Odesa.
Project Manager: Yuliya Vasylyeva.
Project Summary: The additional selection of twenty candidates to the school of HIV/AIDS prevention trainers in Ukraine, teaching the Ukrainian team of trainers according to four levels, estimation of needs of the Ukrainian organizations in trainings.
Total: $ 1 600

Grantee: "Poryatunok", Kremenchuk City Public Organization for Support of Prevention of Socially Negative Phenomena, Kremenchuk.
Project Manager: Denys Tereschenko.
Project Summary: Support for participation of organization experts in the seminar, "Work with Population of Sex Industry Workers", Almaty, Kirghizia, November 4–6, 2003.
Total: $ 1 290

Grantee: All-Ukrainian Harm Reduction Association, All-Ukrainian NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Anatoliy Yakobchuk.
Project Summary: Second conference of the All-Ukrainian Harm Reduction Association, "Law-Enforcement Organizations and Harm Reduction: Working Together", Kyiv, November 25–27, 2003.
Total: $ 17 000

Grantee: Donetsk Oblast Society for Assistance to the HIV-infected, Donetsk.
Project Manager: Olha Kutova.
Project Summary: Support for participation of organization specialists in the seminar, "Work with Population of Sex Industry Workers", Almaty, Kirghizia, November 4–6, 2003.
Total: $ 1 150

Grantee: International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv.
Project Summary: Support for the visit of program coordinator A. Moshkova in order to attend meeting devoted to discussing "Harm Reduction" program strategy, Kyiv, November 22–28, 2003.
Total: $ 1 742

Grantee: "Shliakh do Domou" (Way Home), Odessa Charitable Foundation for Rehabilitation and Social Adaptation of Citizens without a Permanent Place of Residence, Odesa.
Project Manager: Oksana Ilchenko.
Project Summary: Preventive harm reduction programs for female sex workers (FSWs), trainings for newly employed project personnel.
Total: $ 17 976

Grantee: Donetsk Oblast Society for Assistance to the HIV-infected, Donetsk.
Project Manager: Olha Kutova.
Project Summary: Preventive activities in line with "Harm Reduction" program strategy, i.e. literature publishing and distribution, ensuring preventive activities among target groups, creating self-support groups and training the volunteers.
Total: $ 10 000

Grantee: Stalist (Permanence) Vinnytsia Public Congress, Vinnytsia.
Project Manager: Vitaliy Polonets.
Project Summary: Preventive activities among injecting drug users (IDUs): information provision, consulting and advocacy.
Total: $ 19 942

Grantee: "Poryatunok", Kremenchuk City Public Organization for Support of Prevention of Socially Negative Phenomena, Kremenchuk.
Project Manager: Roman Kats.
Project Summary: Preventive activities in line with "Harm Reduction" program strategy: information provision, medical consulting.
Total: $ 14 050

Grantee: Charitable Fund "Salus", Lviv.
Project Manager: Oleksandra Sluzhynska.
Project Summary: Promoting "Harm Reduction" program in Lviv region: preventive activities for FSWs.
Total: $ 20 960

Grantee: "Unitus", Mykolayiv Local Charitable Foundation, Mykolayiv.
Project Manager: Tetiana Vanenkova.
Project Summary: Preventive activities in line with "Harm Reduction" program strategy: information provision, training the volunteers, consulting.
Total: $ 19 560

Grantee: "Viktoria Club", NGO, Pavlohrad.
Project Manager: Tetiana Savchenko.
Project Summary: Preventive activities in line with "Harm Reduction" program strategy for IDUs.
Total: $ 4 645

Grantee: Christian Charitable Foundation "Solidarnist" (Solidarity), Ivano-Frankivsk.
Project Manager: Oksana Tanasiychuk.
Project Summary: Harm Reduction program in Ivano-Frankivsk and Oblast aimed at reducing the risk of HIV-infection among vulnerable groups.
Total: $ 3 708

Grantee: "Stupeni" (Steps) Center for Rehabilitation, NGO, Chernihiv.
Project Manager: Oleksandr Babich.
Project Summary: Preventive activities in line with "Harm Reduction" program strategy: information provision, consulting,
Total: $ 4 000

Grantee: Blahodiynist (Philanthropy) Charitable Foundation, Mykolayiv.
Project Manager: Yuriy Alekseyev.
Project Summary: Training the labor settlement personnel in line with "Harm Reduction" program strategy: training the volunteers and lobbing syringe exchange program among convicts.
Total: $ 20 474

Grantee: All-Ukrainian Harm Reduction Association, All-Ukrainian NGO, Kyiv.
Project Manager: Anatoliy Yakobchuk.
Project Summary: Ensuring management of All-Ukrainian Harm Reduction Association, i.e. co-work with financial consultant aimed at developing inner kit of documents.
Total: $ 10 000

Grantee: "Nova Simya" (New Family) Chernivtsi Local Charitable Foundation, Chernivtsi.
Project Manager: Larysa Melanich.
Project Summary: Preventive activities among IDUs within the framework of Harm Reduction program, i.e. raising information awareness of program clients and consulting.
Total: $ 3 900

Grantee: Charitable Foundation "Krok Na Zustrich" (Step Towards), Sumy.
Project Manager: Tamara Tretska.
Project Summary: Preventive activities among IDUs in accordance with "Harm Reduction" program strategy: information provision and counseling.
Total: $ 4 000

Grantee: Anti-AIDS Charitable Foundation, Poltava.
Project Manager: Anatoliy Volyk.
Project Summary: Preventive activities among IDUs in line with "Harm Reduction" program strategy: information provision and counseling.
Total: $ 4 816

Grantee: "Poryatunok", Kremenchuk City Public Organization for Support of Prevention of Socially Negative Phenomena, Kremenchuk.
Project Manager: Roman Kats.
Project Summary: Preventive activities and motivating the safe behavior practices among vulnerable groups.
Total: $ 4 012

Grantee: Charitable Foundation "Insight", Cherkasy.
Project Manager: Andriy Korshun.
Project Summary: Preventive activities among IDUs in line with "Harm Reduction" program strategy: information provision and counseling.
Total: $ 3 800

Grantee: Charitable Foundation "Return to Life", Znamianka.
Project Manager: Inna Banah.
Project Summary: Preventive activities among IDUs in line with "Harm Reduction" program strategy: information provision and counseling.
Total: $ 3 600

Grantee: "Usi Razom" (All Together), Socio-psychological Information Center – Charitable Non-governmental Fund, Lviv.
Project Manager: Yuliya Prus.
Project Summary: Preventive activities among IDUs in line with "Harm Reduction" program strategy: information provision and counseling.
Total: $ 3 600

Grantee: Anti-AIDS Luhansk Charitable Foundation, Luhansk.
Project Manager: Larysa Anokhina.
Project Summary: Preventive activities among IDUs in line with "Harm Reduction" program strategy: information provision and counseling.
Total: $ 4 000

Grantee: Stalist (Permanence) Vinnytsia Public Congress, Vinnytsia.
Project Manager: Vitaliy Polonets.
Project Summary: Preventive activities among IDUs in line with "Harm Reduction" program strategy: information provision and counseling.
Total: $ 4 000

Grantee: Zhytomyr Oblast Charitable Foundation for Prevention of Socially Dangerous Diseases and AIDS, Zhytomyr.
Project Manager: Anatoliy Yakobchuk.
Project Summary: Preventive activities among IDUs in line with "Harm Reduction" program strategy: information provision and counseling.
Total: $ 3 600

Grantee: Charitable Foundation "Spodivannya" (Belief), Zaporizhzhia.
Project Manager: Nataliya Dotsenko.
Project Summary: Preventive activities among IDUs and FSWs in line with "Harm Reduction" program strategy: information provision and counseling.
Total: $ 2 964




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