2015 annual report of NGO "Centre UA"

Contents
FOREWORD 4
MAJOR AREAS OF ACTIVITY AND PROJECTS OF THE ORGANIZATION 8
INFORMATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES 10
Civic movement CHESNO 11
Strong communities of Donetsk Region 16
Freedom of speech and access to public information 22
Reanimation Package of Reforms (RPR) 26
Stronger together 32
UNCLOSING INFORMATION ABOUT POLITICIANS 42
ADVOCACY FOR THE ADOPTION OF NORMATIVE LEGAL ACTS 50
NEW ON-LINE TOOLS 54
THE ORGANIZATION’S DEVELOPMENT AND STRATEGIC PLANNING 60
FINANCIAL REPORT AND AUDIT CONCLUSIONS 64

5FOREWORD
Oleh Rybachuk,
Chairman of the Organization
Without a doubt, the year that past
will be remembered for several
key global-scale events: the Minsk
agreements, which, although not fully
successful, allowed to significantly
reduce the number of deaths of
civilians and servicemen in Donbas;
the reschedulingof Ukrainian debts
that secured us from a default; a
significant decline in oil prices that
has shaken the main enemy and
aggressor of Ukraine.
However, despite some stabilization
of the situation in the country and
the creation of preconditions for the
necessary reforms it is extremely early
to speak about systemic changes and
sustainable economic development of
Ukraine.
In 2015, the Center UA team made
great efforts for the development
and adoption of the necessary laws;
we got considerably involved in
the promotion of the Association
Agreement and paid great attention
to the activization of communities
for controlling the policymakers
and participation in the country's
governance.
However, we clearly understand that
it is still too early to talk about the
inevitability of the positive changes.
Therefore, our primary objective
remains the same: to ensure the
fundamental changes in the system,
its maximal transparency and
accountability to citizens.
FOREWORD

76 FOREWORD
Inna Borzylo,
Executive Director
The 2015 was a year of great hopes
for quick victories after the Revolution
of dignity. Unfortunately, the reality
has forced many Ukrainians to get
disappointed � we still have not
won any decisive victory neither
at the battle-front nor in reforming
the country. Despite all the efforts
of the volunteers, experts, activists,
progressive politicians and
international partners � the point
of no return is still not passed. The
system resists, the system is trying to
play by the old rules, and the system is
abstracted from the reality.
However, the most important task
in the Ukrainian «a glass of water»
dilemma is to understand the main
trend � is the level of water actually
raising or lowering? And the answer is
simple � raising, positive changes are
taking place in our country! Step by
step, not as comprehensively as one
would expect, but every day we are
fighting the Darkness for centimeters
of new Ukraine.
Our team has dedicated the whole
year to this fight: advocating for
reforms, restarting of the local
governments and changing the
citizens's worldview. We are on the
right track and there is still much work
to do!

9ОСНОВНІ НАПРЯМКИ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ ТА ПРОЕКТИ ОРГАНІЗАЦІЇ
MAJOR AREAS OF ACTIVITY
AND PROJECTS
OF THE ORGANIZATION
1.
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4.
Increasing the accountability and
transparency of public authorities. In
particular, increasing the integrity of the
Parliament, government, candidates for
MPs and deputies at various levels.
Promoting a demand for high quality
policies through:
• strengthening the influence of
the civil society on the process of
developing and making decisions in
the country
• promoting public demand for
measurable political programs
• promoting the ratification and
subsequent implementation of the
Association Agreement
The development of freedom of speech
and access to information of public
importance. Actions aimed at fighting
gender stereotypes and increasing
tolerance in the society became a
separate component of this area of
work.
Ensuring sustainable institutional
development of the Organization
based on the principles of financial
transparency, further optimization of all
areas of management and compliance
with the highest international
standards.
In 2015 the Organisation
continued implementing the
strategic plan in four major
areas of activity:
The teams of 5 projects
worked on the implementation
of these areas of activity:
CHESNO
Strong communities
of Donetsk Region
Freedom of speech and access
to public information
Reanimation Package
of Reforms (RPR)
Stronger together

INFORMATIONAL
AND EDUCATIONAL
ACTIVITIES
Civic movement
CHESNO

12 INFORMATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES 13
More than 1 300 candidates supported our
requirements to increase the transparency of
political finances by signing the Declaration of
responsibility.
More than 94% of candidates for local
councilors and 81% of candidates for mayors
who signed the Declaration have fulfilled the
basic requirements.
A number of victories were gained in the Parliament. The publication of lists of the
MPs' assistants, the increase in transparency of parliamentary committees, the
reduction of the amount of so-called «button pushers», progress in the adoption
of the bill 1895, that is a punishment for anyone who violates the constitutional
provision of personal voting. The CHESNO team created a number of tools that
make our Parliament closer to people � «The public reception offices of MPs»,
«A Board of Shame for the button-pushers», «Interest groups».
To improve the financial transparency of political parties and election campaigns
CHESNO Movement together with the Institute «The Republic» started a national
campaign «Follow the money». In this struggle for transparency in political finances
we managed to engage more than 10 000 citizens, interested in influencing the
newly elected councils, monitoring the implementation of election promises and
doing everything to ensure that political finances in Ukraine were transparent
and the politicians were
responsible for their words
and ready to implement
what was promised.
Between August and
October we held 33 public
forums and workshops
on monitoring political
finances, and this topic
has become a standard
for building a political
dialogue. The campaign
succeeded in establishing a
multilevel dialogue between
politicians, citizens, civil
society organizations and
media.
In 2015, the CHESNO movement accepted a new
challenge � to help citizens to make an informed
choice of local representatives and majors. In
more than 20 regions of Ukraine we carried out
3 parallel campaigns � «Fair Spring � Responsible
Autumn», «Follow the money» and «Why do we need
our local representative?». They answered the
key questions: what have local representatives
done, how much they have earned and how much
the candidates have spent on their campaigns, why
we elect local representatives and what to do
with them after the elections?
The main success of the Movement is the
increase in the capacity of local activists to
influence their elected representatives. More
and more local representatives agree to meet
the requirements of CHESNO. The hope for a new
quality politics is also provided by a significant
renewal of municipal and regional councils. The
next expectation is for the new people to change
the old rules and practices.
- Andrew Kruglashev
coordinator of the movement CHESNO

1514 INFORMATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
To disseminate information about
the candidates the activists of the
campaign «FollowFollow the money»
placed infopoints next to the tents of
political parties in 10 cities of Ukraine.
Public debates were carried out in
Ivano-Frankivsk within the framework
of the campaign «Follow the money».
Four rounds of debates were held
during the pre-election week and the
finalists of the second round debated
live. The residents of Ivano-Frankivsk
were able to address the candidates
for the mayor’s seat straight from the
central square of the city.
On October 16, Kiev hosted the
National Public Forum that brought
together 150 participants from all
regions of Ukraine: top politicians,
civil society activists, experts and
concerned citizens. The key issues
included the transparency of political
finances, the responsible conduct
of election campaigns and proper
reporting.
The goal of campaigns «Why do we
need our local representative?» and
«Why do we need our Mayor?» were
to explain the role, importance and
competences of local representatives
and how to «use» local authorities.
The leaflets «Why do we need our
mayor?» and «Why do we need
our deputy» were released both in
electronic and printed forms.
At the end of the year a video «Why
do we need our local representative?»
was presented � a two-minute
animation, which in an entertaining
and a comprehensive way explains
how to «use» local representatives.
8 candidates, 680 000 audience,
450 min. on air
Overall, during the year CHESNO
movement issued more than 100
analytical materials to help the
citizens, such as a
«Voter cheat sheet»
Follow the project: chesno.org

17INFORMATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Strong communities
of Donetsk Region
To intensify the activities of local government
(hereinafter - LG) the project team together with
community members carried out a series of public
events, advocacy actions, and round tables on the
following topics:
advocating for decisions aimed at improving the
transparency and quality of LGs;
developing a consolidated position concerning the
question of holding elections in Donetsk region
(link 1, link 2);
presentation of the research results on the activities of
the local councils and deputy corps;
public analysis of the
electoral lists of political
parties and the candidates
for city mayors;
public monitoring
of the work of MPs of
Ukraine, elected under the
majority system, in their
constituencies;
public control over the
actions of the officials
of military and civil
administrations.
The 2015 became a year of tectonic
shifts in Donbas. For the first time in
the region the team of «Strong commu-
nities of Donetsk region» (SRS) was able
to give a new and quality push to the
social activism by systematically sup-
porting local initiatives, implementing
new practices and instruments to con-
trol and influence the athorities. The
public sector in Donetsk region has not
only intensified but also its work got
filled with real content which we con-
sider as the main victory.
- Valentin KRASNOPEROV,
Project Manager

The team of the movement «Strong
communities of Donetsk region» be-
came an international coordinator
of the forum «Donbass-Ukraine. The
agenda», which was held in Slov'yansk
on July 5 and was timed to the an-
niversary of liberation of the northern
part of Donetsk region. The Forum
aimed to provide answers to urgent
problems the residents of Donbas are
facing, to elaborate and to determine
their solutions and communicating
this vision to the authorities.
including the Ambassador of Canada
to Ukraine Roman Vashchuk, the
head of the State Treasury of Ukraine
Tatyana Sliuz, Deputy Minister of Re-
gional Development, Construction, and
Communal Living Vyacheslav Nehoda,
the head of Donetsk Regional Admin-
istration Pavlo Zhebrivskyi, a political
analyst Andrei Illarionov, a sociolo-
gist Irina Bekeshkina, a writer Andrey
Kurkov, deputies of Ukrainian Parlia-
On October 17, 2015 the forum «Lo-
cal choice of Donetsk Region-2015»
was held. It brought together about
100 participants of the political pro-
cess in Donetsk region. The Forum
participants learned about the latest
measurements of public opinion and
discussed perspectives of the region
after the elections and ways to ensure
a transparent vote count.
An important part of work was to
establish partner relationships with
mass media in the region. The team
of the movement «Strong communi-
ties of Donetsk region» managed to
establish friendly partnership com-
munication with a number of regional
and national media. Our research and
our journalists’ materials concerning
local problems were actively published
online by the following media: «News
of Donbass», «The Island», «Ukrainska
Pravda» (The Ukrainian Truth), «The
Fourth power», «Depo.Donbas», «Non-
political news portal», the web-sites
of the cities Slov'yanka, Kramatorsk,
Mariupol, Druzhkovka, Dobropole, the
newspaper «Donbass Speaking» «Our
Druzhkivka», «Provincia», «Lyman
side» and other media.
During the campaign the activists of
«Strong communities of of Donetsk
region» traveled almost the entire un-
occupied part of the Donetsk region,
talked to local politicians, activists and
journalists, distributed informational
materials With an active participa-
tion of our team, for the first time in
Donetsk region TV-debates between
the candidates for a Mayor’s seat and
representatives of parties were held in
Slov’yansk, Krasnoarmiisk and Dobro-
pillia. On the Election Day, the activists
of «Strong communities of Donetsk
Region» in Krasnoarmiysk presented
a situational room for rapid response
to problem situations. On the election
night our activists carried out a paral-
lel vote count in Druzhkivka, Mariupol
and Krasnoarmiysk. The post-election
monitoring of violations that affected
the outcome of the elections was
equally important � the SRS activists
discovered incidents of gross manipu-
lation of the election results in the cit-
ies of Solodove and Hirnyk. After the
activists’ remarks in Hyrnyk the lists
of candidates were checked and the
voilations were removed.
The forum was conducted by
more than 20 NGOs and media
organizations. It gathered more
than 350 participants
Through a network of civic activists we managed to distribute
more than 70 000 copies of informational materials about
the activities of MPs of Ukraine and local representatives.
In addition, our findings were destributed on a regular basis
among the readers of the regional newspaper
«Donbass is speaking», with a circulation of 100 000 copies
ment, representatives of international
organizations, civil society, experts,
employees of local governments. Ac-
cording to the results of the Forum,
participants of seven thematic pan-
els prepared a roadmap for changes
which the region needs.
Our representatives were frequent
guests onair of the Public Radio, the
First National TV Channel, the channel
112 Ukraine, the Public TV and Public
TV of Donetsk region, Internet TV «Ex-
plorer», TV company «The Orbit» and
others.

20 21INFORMATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
For more effective communication
the team of «Strong communities of
Donetsk region» launched a web site
gromady.dn.ua, which highlights the
most important events of the region
and the publications of authors from
the cities of Donetsk region. Along
with that, the popularity of our page
on Facebook is growing � over 1140
readers are following it. These re-
sources have become an important
platform for exchange of information
about government transparency and
efficiency in the Donetsk region, as
well as a place for discussions and
new ideas.
Over 250 active citizens participated in trainings.
They represented Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Krasny
Liman, Druzhkovka, Artemovsk, Dzerzhinsk, Dobropole,
Krasnoarmeysk, Dimitrov, Novogrodovka, Vugledar,
Mariupol and others. 10 of such trainings were held
During the final stage of studies the
participants received a manual «How
to contron new local governments»,
developed by the experts of «Strong
communities of Donetsk region».
An important focus of «Strong com-
munities of Donetsk region» consti-
tuted the organization of trainings for
activists, journalists and public figures
of Donetsk region. The subjects of the
exercises were the following: monitor-
ing and controlling deputies and local
governments, financial control instru-
ments, local elections, building effec-
tive communication with the media.
Follow the project:
gromady.dn.ua

Freedom of speech
and access to public
information
As a part of the activities promoting the resource «Access to the truth»
a short video «All citizens do it.». was designed. To improve the quality
of responses to requests for public information a competition «The Star
of Bureaucratese» was launched.
To promote the resource among older citizens an information video,
was created. From May till August it was broadcasted on the channel
«UA: First National» and the TV channels that are a part of the National
Association of Broadcasters.
In 2015, the project’s team produced 126 publications
for the updated webpage «Access to the truth»:
94 news stories, 8 blogs, 1 publication for a «digest»
dostup.pravda.com.ua
ДОСТУП
ДО ПРАВДИ
ДОСТУП
ДО ПРАВДИ
Все, що не є таємним,
має бути публичним.
ДОСТУП
ДО ПРАВДИ
Все, що не є таємним,
має бути публичним.
ДОСТУП
ДО ПРАВДИ
In order to popularize the Law of Ukraine
«On Access to Public Information» the project team
held 15 discussions on the subject of access to public
information with
public activists,
journalists,
students, officials
in Kiev and in
regions.
The team of «Freedom of Speech and Access to
Public Information» project in 2015 consistently
worked to achieve qualitative changes in reform-
ing the country's information environment and
access to public information, which is a key factor
for sustainable democracy.
In order to popularize the Law of Ukraine «On Ac-
cess to Public Information» the project team held
15 discussions on the subject of access to public
information with public activists, journalists, stu-
dents, officials in Kiev and in regions.
- Aksinia KURINA,
Project Manager

24 INFORMATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES 25
To fight against censorship the Or-
ganisation implemented the 3rd
International Competition «Stop
Censorship! Citizens for Free
countries». A special topic was cho-
sen considering the conditions of a
military conflict and informational
war - «Human rights above all else». In
addition to the expert jury and the jury
of Internet users, the jury of members
of human rights organizations was
involved in rating the participants’
works.
The 3rd International Competition
«Stop Censorship! Citizens for Free
countries» got into the long-list
Freedom of Expression Awards of the
International organization Index on
Censorship.
In addition, the team of the project
Freedom of speech and access to
public information implemented the
following informational events:
an exhibition and a public discussion
«Freedom of speech vs Propaganda»
at the Documentary Film Festival on
Human Rights the Docudays UA;
a presentation and a public
discussion with the jury members at
the Book Arsenal (Kyiv);
street exhibitions and workshops
on art activism at the festival of
social innovations Ucrazyans (Kyiv,
Zaporizhzhya, Chernivtsi);
exhibition of the best posters in the
lobby of the Kiev metro station «Zoloti
vorota» (Kyiv);
an exhibition contest posters in the
public space of Lviv;
a public event devoted to the
award ceremony for the competition
winners and a civic poetry evening in
MediaHub open space (Kyiv);
the exhibition was also presented by
partners - the Travelling Documentary
Film Festival on Human Rights
the Docudays UA - in Kremenchug
(Poltava region) in the premises of
«Space of Ideas».
The following activities were
implemented in cooperation with
partners:
supporting the mediareform
(participation in the media group
of «RPR» and movement «Stop
censorship!»);
overcoming gender stereotypes in
media (link 1, link 2);
information campaign for the
elimination of the National Expert
Committee on Public Ethics.
participation in the work of the
Coordinating group carrying out the
all-Ukrainian action devoted to the
In total the competition organizers
received 630 works from 356 participants
from Ukraine, Russia, China, Morocco,
Poland, the Philippines, Iran, Ecuador,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 331 pictures,
100 poems, 150 slogans, 40 essays and
9 multimedia works. Internet users from
127 countries followed the competition
throughout its duration.
Memory Day of Gongadze and all the
journalists who were killed. At the
initiative and with the participation
of the groups a working group on
the protection of journalists' rights
was created at The Presidential
Administration of Ukraine.
a meeting about media self-
regulation «The standards of
journalism in the conditions of
a military conflict» at the forum
«Donbass-Ukraine. The agenda» in
Slov'yansk.
Follow the project:
stop-censorship.net

Reanimation package
of reforms (RPR)
For the whole community of RPR and for the communications team of this
public platform the 2015 became the first year of a systematic activity in
the area of changes in Ukrainian legislation. Coordinated activities stood
behind each of the 55 approved laws. They included preparation of publi-
cations, launching a wave of discussions in the media. In addition, more
than a hundred media events were held during which the experts explained
to the audience of Ukrainian media some complex legal provisions. The
media-breakfasts for international journalists and representatives of foreign
diplomatic institutions have become an important source of information for
the international community about the reformation process in Ukraine. This
and dozens of street actions of direct effect, where the requirements were
announced, become
headlines to evening
news. Much work on
social networks was
done every day for
communication in an
environment of thou-
sands of people. Behind
each adopted law there
lies daily effort on the
formation of public de-
mand and public pres-
sure in every area of
media space.
Politicians do just what is requested
by society. Each, even a «technical», law
became an issue of the political elites’
agenda only after a public pressure was
applied. The remelting of complex laws
into headlines, slogans for posters, thesis
for press-conferences, infographics and
pictures for social networks � that is a
continuous work of dozens of experts and
specialists in communication of RPR member
organizations and the communications
team of the secretariat. Each new session
week became a new challenge for us and
we jointly overcame it together preparing
press materials, decorations for street
actions, infographics that changed voting
process in the Parliament, together voicing
the suggestions of RPR at all possible media
platforms
- Andrew Andrushkiv,
Project Manager,
responsible for communication
direction RPR

Throughout the year the NGO «Center
UA» carried out communication
support of activities of the largest
public platform «Reanimation
package of reforms.» The team
performed the development and
implementation of long-term com-
munications support to advocacy for
legislative changes and permanent ad
hoc response.
Media-breakfasts for foreign journal-
ists, experts from embassies and rep-
resentatives of international organiza-
tions that provide technical support
to Ukraine in the process of reforms
became new communication tools in
2015.
Actions of direct effect became one
of the most effective ways to deliver
information to the media, society and
authorities.
Last year the office of RPR hosted
10 events on the topics of
anticorruption, constitutional, judicial,
and electoral reforms, reforms in
public finance and public service.
As a part of implementation of its
communication strategy RPR organized
or provided support to 106 events
with the participation of experts,
government officials and media
For public presentation of the RPR’s position on
government's actions in the process of legislative
support of reforms or of the implementation of
adopted laws, a statement of 71 experts of the
initiative was published and disseminated in the media
During the year the community of
RPR together with activists and
experts of the most powerful
NGOs held 26 actions
The voiced requirements included:
reducing the political influence on
judges,
the actual reform of Prosecution,
the adoption of new legislation about
the National Police,
a new electoral law for local
elections,
the civil service reform,
autonomization of medical
institutions,
new legislation for ACMH
(associations of co-owners of multi-
apartment houses),
the law on public broadcasting and
media deregulation.
Actions of direct effect became the
most popular tool for presentation of
the position of RPR in Ukrainian TV
space. For example, during the cam-
paign «Judges in chocolate», where
activists demanded to reduce the in-
fluence of the Presidential Administra-
tion on the corps of judges, 18 crews
were filming the action.
Round tables, press-conferences and
briefings were held at the premises of
both powerful information agencies
(UKMC, UNIAN, Ukrinform) and at the
press-point of Parliament as well as at
the office of RPR.
Another new tool used by RPR for
communicating the projects of legisla-
tive changes was the public discus-
sion of draft laws involving all stake-
Statements on the process of forming
of the National Agency for Prevention
of Corruption (NAPC) and anticorrup-
tion prosecution, on the preparation of
the Law on Civil Service, on the adop-
tion of antitrust laws, on the formation
of the Constitutional Commission, on
the amendments to the Constitution
became not just the reasons for news
in printed and electronic media, but
also influenced the legislative and im-
plementation processes.
holders in a form of a roundtable. An
important novelty worth mentioning:
the stakeholders and the media were
not presented with drafts of laws and
documents that have already been
registered at the Parliament or are
already at the stage of revision. This
allowed to involve all points of view to
the formulation of the final text of a
law.

30 31INFORMATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
As in 2015, this year one of the most
effective tools for presenting the
priorities and requirements of RPR
regarding the adoption of laws during
each parliamentary session week was
the «Agenda by RPR» – the special-
ized infographics that was received by
the heads of fractions and members
of the Presidium of Parliament and
the parliamentary journalists on the
day when the the conciliatory council
is held. Also, these documents are
publicly available on the pages of the
most popular socio-political edition
«Ukrayinska Pravda (Ukrainian Truth)».
In total during the year more than 20
of such «agendas» were developed.
During critical votings with the as-
sistance of deputies belonging to an
informal association «The Reform
Club» every parliamentarian received
a specialized infographics explaining
the importance of the bill, which is rec-
ommended to be supported by RPR.
Blogging platforms for communicat-
ing the positions of experts were
provided to RPR by the most popular
online editions: the Ukrainska Pravda,
the Left Bank, Ukrinform, LIGABusi-
nessInform, the 24 channel. 50 unique
publications explaining the adopted
laws and the developed reformation
laws were prepared under a joint pro-
The daily audience of the Facebook-page of
RPR ranges from 9 000 to 35 000 readers.
On average the monthly audience of RPR’s
Twitter account is over 450 000ject of RPR and the edition Platfor.ma.
Last year the communications team
of RPR managed to capture more
than 8,500 medianotices about RPR
in printed and electronic media using
expert commentaries and theses from
informational materials of RPR.
Systematic cooperation was estab-
lished with the editors of the leading
TV channels (UA: THE FIRST, the 5th
channel, the 24 channel, the 112 chan-
nel, News ONE, ICTV, Public TV) and
radio stations (Public Radio, National
Radio, Radio Era, Voice of the Capital,
Vesti) which provides permanent pres-
ence of RPR experts in talk shows and
guest studios of these media.
Active work in social media enabled
the pages of RPR on Facebook and
Twitter to become not only a tool for
mobilization of civil society and draw-
ing attention to the legislative process,
but also a source of information for
media: the news on the pages of the
most popular socio-political editions
have often been published with a ref-
erence to the Facebook and Twitter
accounts of RPR.
Follow the project:
rpr.org.ua

Stronger
together
Consequently, the main attention of the project YOUKRAINE.EU (Stronger together)
was paid to the implementation of the Association Agreement. During the period from
January till June 2015, we continued to work actively on popularization of the contents
of the Agreement, its advantages and benefits for different groups of people, including
small and medium enterpreneurs, journalists, students and government officials.
A comprehensive information
campaign involving national and
regional media, aimed at promoting
the benefits of implementation of the
Association Agreement, raising aware-
ness of the business community and the
society (especially in the south-eastern
regions of Ukraine) about the benefits
of European integration to the economy,
business and society overall. Thanks to
objective and interesting materials that
were produced within the campaign,
even the traditionally pro-Russian media
published articles about the Eurointegra-
tion processes in Ukraine. Articles about
the experience of Ukrainian companies
at the European market that were pub-
lished on the «Europeiska pravda (Euro-
pean truth)» became virtually the only
source of information for other media
about the positive impact of the FTZ on
the Ukrainian manufacturers. Creation of
a regional press center contributed to the
growth of professional skills of regional
journalists who barely understood earlier
the topic on European integration.
A Consulting platform for sup-
porting Ukrainian small and medium
businesses that start entering perspec-
tive EU markets. Business seminars in
the framework of the campaign were
the only ones with the most extensive
program that covered almost all the is-
sues of export of Ukrainian goods to the
EU and attracted leading Ukrainian and
international experts from the World
Bank, the Big Four and European pro-
jects on technical assistance. It was the
only unique platform for business that
provided free legal advice concerning all
product groups. Also 5 companies were
selected to be assisted in finding busi-
ness partners in the EU. At the end of
2015 two companies already signed the
first contracts for supplying of goods to
the EU.
These tasks were implemented in two directions:
Ukraine ensured an incredibly quick ratification of the
Association Agreement, which has never happened before. A
free trade zone encourages Ukraine to switch to European
standards in all areas of idustry.
- Lubov AKULENKO,
Project Manager
1. 2.

Infographic materials about the European integration were prepared in
cooperation with ТЕКСТИ.org.ua and published in the leading national and
regional media.
What is the meaning of the pension reform?
Who will pay for public broadcasting: the experience of European countries
How do small and medium companies survive in European Union?
How are public money spent in Europe?
7 myths about utility rates
A prison rather than medical treatment
The copyright materials on the topic of European integration.
The coal reforms in Germany. Slowly, but without social upheavals
A Simple anticrisis recipe
The reform program. The path of saving the country
What has fallen, except for hryvna
The pension reform: how do other countries handle it
and what to do in Ukraine
The Holy War against monopolies: how it is done in EU
A no-exit situation
Which recipe for the fight against corruption will suit Ukraine
In Ukraine an entrepreneur has to wait 26 days to get
all the necessary customs permits
A new requirement №1: appointment of the Deputy Prime Minister
for European Integration
Ukrainian European integration. A ship without a steering wheel?
Dmytro Naumenko about the natural gas market. The new council
Who is sabotaging the European integration?
Comments and suggestions of the leading politicians and experts from CEE
countries concerning the European integration course of reforms in Ukraine
(as a part of the project #UkraineReforms implemented in cooperation with the
Wilfred Mertens Center and RPR). The tentative coverage of the audience for the
publication:
Ivan Miklos on the use of Slovak experience for reforms in Ukraine
The former Prime Minister of Lithuania: «There will be a political chaos if there
is no anchor of reforms»
Janez Janša: The problem of Ukraine - is crucial for the European Union,
and it is well aware of that
The former Slovenian Prime minister: Sanctions should not only remain
but also strengthen
The Polish experience in reforms by Jan Bielecki
Leszek Balcerowicz: Demonopolisation and liberalization - the foundation
for long-term growth of Ukraine
Advices from Leszek Balcerowicz
the Left Bank – up to 20 000 views, Europeiska Pravda –
up to 500 000 views, Dyelo.UA – 7 000 views
A series of analytical materials on the experience of the CEE countries in joining
the EU (with an emphasis on the forecasts and recommendations for Ukraine).
A tentative coverage of the audience per publication:
The neighbors’ experience: how did Poland, Romania and the Baltic
countries live through the reforms?
How were mines closed in different countries
How does a european pension look like
Who will pay for public broadcasting? The experience of European countries
How do small and medium companies survive in the European Union
Column: How are small and medium enterprizes supported
in the EU and in Ukraine
Victory or memory: how is the end of World War II celebrated in Europe
the Focus magazine – 5 000 views, the Left Bank –
up to 20 000 views, Europeiska Pravda – up to 500 000
views, AIF – 1 000 views
The average audience coverage – from 1 500
to 20 000 views for each graphics:
A comprehensive information campaign1.
The average outreach: the Ukrainska Pravda –
500 000 views, the Europeiska Pravda – 450 000
views, the New time – 10 000 views, the Today
newspaper – 20 000 views:

A series of publications on successful examples of Ukrainian manufacturers
entering the EU market (together with the website Europeiska Pravda).
Inexhaustible. How did the Ukrainian exporters use the European quota?
An uneasy european integration of the light industry
Heady export: will the Ukrainian wine become a brand in Europe?
Export 2014: a sad trend. Where has Europe won and where has it lost?
Export for protection. Ukrainian equipment for the purposes of NATO
The very juice: how did Ukrainian manufacturer enter an elite segment
of the EU market
«To get to the mice»: what's waiting for an exporter of agricultural
products in the EU?
Seminars on the topic "Eurobusiness: access to the EU markets" were held in
Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Lviv.
«Eurobusiness: access to the EU markets»
On February 14 and 15 in Lviv experts will talk about legal,
financial and commercial aspects of doing business in the EU
Seminar «Eurobusiness: access to the EU markets»
Businessmen are invited to learn about the EU
Eurobusiness: access to the EU markets
Hromadske.Europe with Olha Tokariuk
«Eurobusiness: access to the EU markets»
Maintaining an active Facebook page StrongerTogether-doingbusinessinEU
and popularization of the initiative in the social media.
Free targeted counseling for small and medium enterpreneurs that already
export or are preparing to export to the EU markets. Together with partners
from UCAB and a law firm of Saienko Kharenko 23 requests from business
were processed for 80 headings (List of requests).
Providing targeted consulting to five Ukrainian companies on finding
European partners (in collaboration with «IBIsgroup», Finland). As a result,
one IT company found a partner and has signed a contract (JBScompany),
and another company that produces confectioneries, at the end of 2015 was
at the final stages of concluding a contract with a potential partner from the
EU (the company SHOKOBUM). The other three companies were still at the
stage of preparation of marketing proposals for potential European partners.
The number of views – from 6 000 to 30 000
per article
Each session was attended by 300 representatives
of small and medium businesses. Also, 6 Ukrainian
enterprises were chosen through an open competition
to be mentored by a well-known consultant Peter Zashev
who helps them to enter the European Union markets
The work of the regional press center. It established a systematic cooperation
with the regional reporters from all over Ukraine, who systematically prepared
and published materials on the subject of European integration in local
media:
The after-new-year reflections on the benefits of rest to the economy
How is Chernihiv business going through the New Year holidays?
How the market reforms may affect the Volyn region
What should be done to save the "black gold" of Volyn and the miners
who extract it?
Is the juvenile justice as terrible as it is frightening?
The economic future of the unpredictable Lugansk region
The investment freezing: when will the summer come?
Having a baby here and in Europe: a factor of stability or social benefits
Identical violations and different punishment
European standards in Volynian business
A series of TV programs called «Made in Europe».
The average number of views – from 1 500
(on Youtube) to several million (broadcast on
the First National TV Channel): Poland, Estonia,
Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia
A Consulting platform2.

Stronger together – EAST
From July till November 2015 within the information campaign Stronger Together we
focused our activities on the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine, where the sup-
port for European integration and public awareness of the opportunities offered by
the Association Agreement are the lowest.
Based on a social survey on the perception of European integration and the reforms in
Ukraine, that was conducted jointly with GfK Ukraine in 6 regions of East and South,
Centre UA held a complex information campaign involving national and regional TV,
radio, online and printed media with a total outreach of 3 million. The research identi-
fied the topics about the EU that are of the most interest to the residents of the East
as well as the most comprehensive presentation formats. As a result the campaign
was the only one that provided information on European integration processes in
Ukraine in the form, which is accepted in the East and South of Ukraine. All informa-
tion materials produced within the campaign enjoyed great popularity, as evidenced
by the large number of views.
A series of weekly radio show «The European Wave» on the National Radio
(Public Radio, evening, prime time) on conducting the European integration reforms
in Ukraine with the participation of relevant Deputy Ministers of European Integration
and public experts.
The Association Agreement - an opportunity to prove to the world
the quality of Ukrainian products
Elimination of bureaucracy in action: «they did not imagine that a certificate
can be a certificate without a wet seal»
Ukrainians are the leaders among those who win scholarships of the
«Erasmus+» exchange program
«Overcoming corruption we increase our GDP at least twice» - Deputy Minister
of Economy Nefiodov
How much did local budgets enriche in the year of finencial decentralization reform?
Talking about the successes and challenges of European integration
The government should not only increase social payments to overcome poverty
We have to pay the full price for gas, as well as for mobile communications
Energy Enterprises are the largest polluters of air in Ukraine - Ministry of Environment
By 2019 food producers have to move to European quality standards
The EU market is interesting for Ukraine, but we should think globally
Why is Ukrainian government delaying the adoption of laws for the visa free regime
The European way of Vaccination - a state financing of procurement
of vaccines for 3-5 years
If the Antimonopoly Committee works under the new laws it be transparent
A series of radio programs «Stronger Together» on the Russian-speaking
radio Donbass about success stories of Ukrainian citizens and companies in the EU,
about those who were able to get access to the EU market with their own businesses,
those who joined research projects, achieved some heights in art, those who adopt
and implement European experience in Ukraine.
Ukraine could beсome China for Italians � an entrepreneur from Zaporizhzhya
« Living according to the European rules is more interesting,» �
a factory director in Slavyansk
«We created system that predicts a person’s behavior on the Internet», �
Dmitry Tomchuk
«The time of singles has passed, only a strong international team can
create a quality product,» � a coach of a start-up center in Kharkov
We are so hungry that we are able to adapt to any rules, � an enterpreneur
from Dniepropetrovsk
Noncompetitive market of Ukraine creates the conditions for entering
the EU market
«Before Maidan Ukraine was not able to buy its own language copyrights
and publish a book for its readers. This was done by Russia», � Yulia Orlova
How Ukraine implements the European principle of lifelong learning
«Everything is necessary for everyone in today's world � the main thing
is to deliver your idea to the buyer», � Bob Basset
The primary way for us to find customers in the EU is to participate
in exhibitions � Anna Bogatyrevа
Weekly TV series «Made in Europe» on how the perspective of joining the EU by
the countries of Eastern and Central Europe became an impetus for reforms.
Made in Europe. Poland: EU loans, investors and small towns
Made in Europe. Poland: education, Ukrainian «brains» and stray animals
Made in Europe. How Poland has become a European tourist mecca
Made in Europe. Poland: cheap cars and the stadiums everyday life after
Euro 2012
Made in Europe. Bulgaria
Made in Europe. Sweden: trams, kronas and socialism
Sweden: eco-paradise and shared cars
Sweden: education and creativity
The audience of Public Radio at this time of day reached
from 100 000 to 300 000 listeners
The average number of views – from 1 500 (on Youtube) –
up to several million (broadcast on the First National):

Information leaflets «Where our money goes» with the information
about the most topical reforms in Ukraine and their visualization, as well as useful
information for internally displaced persons
Where our money goes. Debureaucratization
Where our money goes. Decentralization
Where our money goes. Living standards
Where our money goes. Utility rates
Where our money goes. Medical reform
The support of a regional press center
Infographics prepared in cooperation with ТЕКСТИ.org.ua and placed in leading
central and regional media and informational editions.
Papers against the Internet: debureaucratization
Give the authority to local councils
Get Modernized and the state will help
Medical reform
A Profitable Post
were developed and distributed by mail in 29 towns and
cities of Donetsk, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Mykolaiv and Odessa
regions. The circulation of each postcard – 80 000
Authors' blogs – summarizing the monitoring of public perception of the
«conflict» issues in the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine, including the
European integration reforms:
Internet is against papers.The East
Financial decentralization: the first results in the East
The incomes of our fellow citizens in the East: couldn’t be worse,
when will it get better
The rates fever: how to survive this winter in the East
Health care Reanimation in the East: how, when and by whom
A regional A regional tour to the East – Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv re-
gions - in cooperation with the International Documentary Film Festival on
Human Rights the Docudays UA and with the participation of famous Ukrain-
ian journalists. Within the tour public discussions on "The road to reforms"
were held and the documentary film "The Stronghold" was demonstrated.
A sociological study in 8 eastern and southern regions of Ukraine called
"The Eurointegration attitudes of the residents of the frontline areas: evalua-
tion and trends", visualization and discussion of the results at a public debate
with the participation of the government officials, the public and journalists.
The results of the study can be found at the following link.
consisting of 28 journalists (from 7 regions of Ukraine)
who systematically prepared and published materials on
the subject of European integration in the local media
Average audience coverage reached from 1 500 to 80 000
views of each graphics:
Follow the project:
strongertogether.org.ua

43UNCLOSING INFORMATION ABOUT POLITICIANS
UNCLOSING INFORMATION
ABOUT POLITICIANS
CHESNO in cooperation with the Ukrainska Pravda launched an
on-line «Board of Shame», where one can keep track of the MPs' non-
personal voting: who, when, for what and how many times «pushed
the button».
Besides, thanks to the efforts other the CHESNO team and other initiative
groups the lists of deputies' assistants were published on the website of
Verkhovna Rada according to our established criteria. A number of analyti-
cal materials on this subject were issued, including information about the
assistants nominated by technical candidates at the elections.
In 2015, it was managed to catch 36 deputies «on
hot». Only during the first 30 minutes at work
the resource gained 80 000 views

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Within the campaign organized by the CHESNO movement «Fair spring –
responsible autumn»
MPs who during the tenure skipped more than 25% of the sessions or meetings of
their commissions. The monitoring results were widely distributed in media,
Half of the deputies-absentees decided to no longer run for their positions.
Before the elections CHESNO issued and spread in different regions of Ukraine
6 newsletters with the total circulation of 100 thousand copies. They included
infographics about the deputies-truants who were again nominated by parties for
local councils.
we conducted a monitoring of activities of the
deputies of 31 city and regional councils in 22
regions of Ukraine. Among nearly 3 000 of deputies
analyzed in regional centers – in city and regional
councils – we found almost 1 300 absentees
over 100 inforgraphics were issued and public
events were held in over 20 cities
Out of 667 deputies-absentees who ran for city
and regional councils, over 238 were elected again
Activists of CHESNO led the campaign
based on the methodology developed
jointly with the coalition partners - law-
yers of the NGO Media Law Institute.
The initiative of CHESNO social move-
ment was taken up by activists and
journalists in smaller communities.
The methodology created by CHESNO
for analysis of the deputies’s attend-
ing their councils was carried out in
district centers and towns. This was
a unique nationwide monitoring in the
whole history of independence, which
managed to involve activists from all
over Ukraine.
In addition to all that was mentioned
above, in 2015 the CHESNO team
began to explore the history of the
candidates’ previous participation in
local elections from 1998 till 2010.
The study established when and to
which local councils more than 40
000 people tried to be elected. This
data formed the basis for a tool «politi-
cal trajectories» currently displayed on
the website vybory.chesno.org.
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Providing systematic control
of the deputies of Verkhovna
Rada of Ukraine elected from
Donbass
We explored the work of 28 MPs,
whose establishment and interests
were linked to Donetsk and Lu-
gansk regions. By means of articles,
blogs and infographics the activists
of «Strong communities of Donetsk
region» covered:
Attending and activity of deputies’
voting
Individual voting for most relevant
laws: on Donbas, the laws concerning
social and economic development,
foreign policy and legal aspects, as
well as contry’s security
Analysis of the MP’s financial
declarations.
Using direct actions urged the re-
gional MPs to work.
The campaign on the MPs' reporting
to the community was launched in
5-majoritarian constituencies out of 9
cities involved in the project (Krasny
Lyman, Artemivsk, Slavyansk, Krama-
torsk, Druzhkivka, Kostiantynivka,
Dobropillia, Dymytrov, Krasnoarmiisk).
Activists together with community
representatives gathered signatures,
wrote articles and addressed the
deputies of the region requesting to
report about six months of their work.
As a result of this campaign the MPs
Kostiantyn Mateichenko and Maksym
Iefimov prepared a series of reports.
The work of MP Iurii Solod was also
discussed in public.
1.
A special focus of Center UA’s attention was aimed at the east of Ukraine,
where the team of project “Strong communities of Donetsk region” (SCD)
worked in three areas:
The analysis of work of the MPs'
public reception offices
The activists of SCD were actively
engaged in checking the work of re-
ception offices of MPs' from Donetsk
region. Many investigations, video
materials and articles were published,
aimed at updating the format of work
of MPs with voters and informing the
residents of the region about the op-
portunity to contact their representa-
tive.
2.

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Openness and quality of work
of local governments in
Donetsk region
One of the activities of the «Strong
communities of Donetsk region» team
during 2015 was investigating, inform-
ing and changing the openness and
quality of work of local governments
(LG) in 9 cities of Donetsk region. The
work was implemented in three areas:
(1) exploring and analyzing the open-
ness, (2) supporting and coordinating
social activities on improving quality
and transparency and (3) advocating
for decisions that have to empower
communities to control and influence
the LGs.
Beyond the main activities, in the
context of the election campaign for
elections of deputies of local councils
and mayors in the autumn of 2015 the
SCD also supported the work of civil
society initiatives aimed at increas-
ing the openness and transparency of
electoral process, and public monitor-
ing of the observance of electoral law.
Also a series of educational materials
for voters was published: the expla-
nations in the form of leaflets and
articles.
Within the analysis of transparency
and quality of work the team «Strong
communities of Donetsk region»
investigated the openness of local
councils in the mentioned cities of the
region according to a special list of
criteria. A created methodology coverd
the availability and quality of perfor-
mance of the interaction mechanisms
between members of local communi-
ties and LGs; the efficiency of com-
munication channels, the nature of in-
forming by various means; the quality
of feedback given by employees and
local government officials. According
to this technique the analysis was fol-
lowed by a public presentation of its
results at a roundtable involving repre-
sentatives of civil society and LG pub-
lic officials. A relevant study allowed
to identify the potential problem fields
and to optimize the tools for further
activities, to form a series of specific
actions to change the quality of LGs.
The results were presented to the pub-
lic and local authorities.
Special attention was paid by the
team to adoption and content аnalysis
of the regulations of local councils
as special normative legal acts that
3.
could allow expansion of interaction
between local communities and LGs
beyond statutory documents of the
community.
In order to ensure the legitimacy and
transparency of the local election
campaign, joint monitoring centers
were established at local levels to
ensure the control over the voting
procedures on the Election Day, and
to hold parallel vote count. Thanks to
the teams of «Strong communities
of Donetsk region» in Krasnoarmiysk
and Mariupol the so-called Situational
rooms were provided as platforms for
interaction of civil society representa-
tives, political parties and media to
communicate on the election day and
during the vote count, which allowed
to consolidate efforts and to prevent
crime and ensure transparency of the
election results. Also, the team imple-
mented a number of communication
meetings where publicly presented
the results of the candidates’ analysis,
and organized the first ever regional
public debates between the candi-
dates.
Also our activists in the East
investigated the revenues of
the representatives of regional
administrations, city mayors, deputies
and even of the representatives the
of law enforcement agencies in the
region.

51ADVOCACY FOR THE ADOPTION OF NORMATIVE LEGAL ACTS
ADVOCACY FOR THE ADOPTION
OF NORMATIVE LEGAL ACTS
Together with the experts of the Anti-
Corruption group of the Reanimation
Package of Reforms and the Media
Law Institute the team of CHESNO
developed and advocated for the adop-
tion in the first reading (253 votes «in
favor») of a draft law 1895 to impose
penalties on an MP for the violation of
requirements regarding personal vot-
ing. The law provides serious penalties
for violators, including deprivation of
the right to take part in 10 meetings
and deprivation of the leading positions
in the committees of Verkhovna Rada.
After the first reading the draft law was
sent back for revision by the regulation
committee. Activists and authors of
the law are making efforts for it to be
submitted for the second reading and
adopted as soon as possible.
The activists of CHESNO managed
to influence a number of provisions
to the law on public funding of par-
ties and to achieve a higher level of
compliance with the electoral law,
which previously did not include a part
on sanctions and the transparency
requirements were not fixed by the
legislation,in particular, the publication
of financial declarations of the can-
didates for deputies and for the posi-
tions of city mayors.
The decree of the Head of Verkhovna
Rada Volodymyr Groisman On some
issues concerning the coverage of
activities of the committees of the
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and of the
members of Parliament of Ukraine
became a powerful shift towards
transparency of the parliamentary
committees and was a step forward
to meet the demands of the activists
of CHESNO and other public initia-
tives. Also the Parliament adopted in
the first reading the law supported
by CHESNO and RPR regarding the
ensuring of transparency and access
to information about the activity of
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, its com-
mittees and members of Parliament of
Ukraine. However, there is still a long
way to go to ensure full transparency
and openness of the committees.
The team of «Access to the truth» col-
laborated with partner NGOs on advo-
cating for the draft law № 2913 «On
Introducing Amendments to Certain
Laws of Ukraine on access to public
information concerning the improve-
ment of separate provisions».
Improving the integrity of the Parliament
Increasing the financial transparency of political
parties and election campaigns
Increasing the transparency of parliamentary committees
Expanding access to public information

53ADVOCACY FOR THE ADOPTION OF NORMATIVE LEGAL ACTS
The team of «Strong communities of
Donetsk Region» conducted an advo-
cacy campaign on enhancing transpar-
ency and efficiency of local govern-
ments.
After the «relaunch» of the local coun-
cils the team of «Strong communities
of Donetsk region» together with local
activists and representatives of some
deputies suggested project documents
for the introduction of a mechanism
of interaction and control over the
decision-making processes on a local
level. In particular, they proposed draft
regulations on local initiatives, public
hearings, e-petitions, the procedure for
reporting of the Mayor and City Council
deputies, the procedure for publishing
information about municipal compa-
nies and institutions and so on. Some
of these proposals - as, for example,
the electronic petitions in Krasnoarmi-
ysk - were implemented in 2015, the
process of promoting and public dis-
cussions on other initiatives continues.
As part of the campaign «Stronger
Together» the political dialogue was
established and a number of important
eurointegration laws were advocated for
effective implementation of the Associa-
tion Agreement and the Free Trade Zone.
With professional Ukrainian and interna-
tional experts and consultants in Febru-
ary 2015 we developed and presented
the Roadmap of European integration
reforms and signed the Memorandum
of cooperation for the joint execution of
the European integration agenda in the
Parliament.
Rada adopted the European
integration law on technical
regulations
Members of the Parliament
introduced draft laws on reforms in the
energy sector
The Roadmap of European
integration reforms -2015
During the reporting period the following
laws from the Roadmap of European
integration reforms were adopted and
registered:
1065 «On technical regulations and
assessment of compliance» (as a
whole)
2250 «On the natural gas market» (as
a whole)
2591 «On transparency in extractive
industries» (as a whole)
2845 «On the safety and hygiene of
forages» (registered)
2431 «On transparent rules for
imposing fines» (registered, at of end of
the year - adopted in the first reading)
2168а «On Increasing the
Efficiency of Control over Economic
Concentrations» (registered, at of end of
the year - adopted in the first reading)
A comprehensive and complex com-
munication support of Centre UA greatly
contributed to the success of RPR in ad-
vocating for laws and establishing part-
nerships with the entities of legislative
and executive power. Thus, in 2015 55
laws supported by of RPR were passed.
Among them there are some crucialy
important ones for supporting democ-
racy in Ukraine: the civil service laws, the
laws on deregulation of the media, on
establishment of the State Bureau of In-
vestigations, on prevention and fighting
political corruption and etc.
The campaign on communication sup-
port of advocacy for adoption of the Law
on Public Service was the longest and
most successful. During the year three
round tables, five press conferences,
two street actions were held, twelve
materials were published in the most
popular social and political issues, a
media-breakfast was held for journalists
and foreign diplomatic missions. Com-
munication activities accompanied each
stage of adoption of the law: its registra-
tion, the first reading, the revision pro-
cess in the committee and the second
reading.
Increasing the transparency of local governments Advocationg for the European integration legislation
Advocating for laws of the «Roadmap of reforms of RPR»

55NEW ON-LINE TOOLS
NEW ON-LINE TOOLS
In addition to the alreaady available informational and interactive websites
ofprojects in 2015 we launched several new online tools which substantially
increased the level of audience engagement in public activities and
simplified access to the socially important information.
The team of CHESNO developed four new online tools to improve the
financial transparency of political parties and election campaigns:
the first in Ukraine mobile app that
allows to capture political advertising
(billboards, city lights and other
outdoor media) and immediately
place it on the map. The app enabled
to turn the process of tracking
election campaign funds spent on
outdoor advertising into an interesting
activity. In the first two weeks of the
application’s operation citizens
1. Advertising Hunter
registered more than 2 000 examples of outdoor
political advertising. The residents of Kyiv region
were the most active having taken 900 photos

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NEW ON-LINE TOOLS
which gathers information about the
corruption schemes and the names
of those who «were detected» in jour-
nalistic investigations conducted by
«Our Money», «Ukrainska Pravda», The
Anti-Corruption Action Centre , Slidstvo.
Info and other leading anti-corruption
initiatives. In 2015 the catalog started
working in a test mode, the read were
able to get acquainted with the first
100 cases.
The tool was developed as part of the
idea of institutionalization of political
memory in Ukraine. Its main purpose
is to unite, organize and expand the
results of work of investigative-journal-
ists on a single website. Thus, in the
future, voters, journalists and activists
will be able to find information about
people and legal entities potentially
involved in corruption more quickly and
with less effort.
For the convenience of voters the
CHESNO movement created an inter-
active map with the addresses of the
parliamentary deputies’ reception of-
fices. This tool allows citizens to find
the nearest to them reception office
of an MP, the reception of an MP they
are interested in or the receptions of all
members of a particular parliamentary
faction. Information for creating this
map was collected from the official
deputy and party websites as well as
from the analysis of electoral districts
made by OPORA. In addition, the CHES-
NO movement asked the Verkhovna
Rada factions to provide addresses of
the reception offices of parliamentary
deputies.
2.
3.
Anticorruption online tool Catalog of PUAI
(persons under the anti-corruption investigations)
Interactive map of the reception offices of the members of
Parliament (pryjmalni.chesno.org)
At the time of the app launch the data on 226
reception offices of 88 Members of Parliament
was collected

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The CHESNO tool the «Interest groups»
allows to see the connections between
the MPs based on joint initiation of
laws.
Although all the raw data is available
on the official website of the Parlia-
ment, a quick way to see the main
legislative partners among the deputies
did not exist prior to the emergence of
the CHESNO tool.
As described in the publication of
CHESNO, an intensive legislative inter-
action may indicate the relationships
between deputies beyond their belong-
ing to one faction or committee.
The team of the project «Freedom of Speech and Access to Public Information»
has optimized the website «Access to the truth»
located on the platform of Ukrainska Pravda. It was transformed from a service-
only into an information and service resource. In practice, this has opened up op-
portunities for carrying out and publishing journalistic investigations made based
on the requests for information, for updating the news feeds and for creating
blogs by the website users.
In 2015, the website «Access to the truth» became one of the Ukraine's largest
open data bases.
The «Stronger together» team developed the
Association Agreement Navigator
an online tool, created to monitor the adoption of European directives in the
framework of the Association Agreement (including the directives from sections
5 and 6 of the Agreement). The Navigator's main objective is to inform the public
about the progress and current challenges in implementation of the Association
Agreement by Ukraine.
4. Interest Groups (groups.chesno.org)
During the year its users sent more than 5 000
requests for public information. The number of
visitors reached almost 150 000 unique users, the
Facebook page of the project increased its number
of supporters to nearly 9 000 followers

61DEVELOPMENT OF THE ORGANIZATION AND STRATEGIC PLANNING
DEVELOPMENT
OF THE ORGANIZATION
AND STRATEGIC PLANNING
In the first half-year of 2015 in order
to optimize the Organization’s struc-
ture of the NGO Center UA and to di-
vide responsibilities among its Man-
agement, it was decided to eliminate
the control and revision commission
and to delegate all these functions to
an independent collective body - the
Supervisory Board. The correspond-
ing changes were approved by the
General Assembly of the Organiza-
tion and in April 2015 were registered
in the Department of Justice of
Podolskiy district in Kiev.
An important tool for running all
the management processes of the
Organization is the CRM-system spe-
cifically designed and implemented
this year. Its main options include
the possibility of online voting and
automatic generation of final proto-
cols; personal cabinets of the team
members with all the necessary
information for work; the projects
teams structure; electronic newslet-
ters; the book of internal rules and
procedures; the vocations account-
ing system and etc.
The operational plans of activities
were created for all the projects of
the Organization focusing on the
meeting the strategic plan indicators.
The monitoring and correction of the
plans’ implementation takes place
at least once a month at the working
meetings with the project managers.
On a daily basis all the activities and
internal processes are monitored to
be in accordance with the internal
policies and procedures of the Or-
ganization.
A subsystem of management ac-
counting was created, which allows
to perform accounting of planned
and actual costs depending on the
«Expenditures categories», «Donors»,
«Projects», «Currency», «Period» and
allows to analyze them over time.
The subsystem includes modified
documents of standard configuration
as well as new ones.

6362 DEVELOPMENT OF THE ORGANIZATION AND STRATEGIC PLANNING
The work on improving the internal
procedures continued together with
the control over their compliance
with international standards. Special
attention was paid to the external
audit, gender policy and procurement
procedure. Today the procurement
procedures are based on a multi-level
approval system to prevent any abuse
in this area.
In the beginning of 2015 an employee
survey was conducted, which included
analysis of environment within the
team, staff assessment of their un-
derstanding of the work approaches,
the range of competencies that need
expansion. As a result some measures
were taken to optimize the teamwork,
including specialized trainings for
the team members. Also in 2015, the
Organization completed the USAID
diagnostics of gender sensitivity.
Due to the new challenges and chang-
es in the priorities of the reforms for
the country’s development in Septem-
ber 2015 the Organization started to
work on developing a new strategic
plan for the next three years. As a re-
sult, series of strategic sessions and
workshops were held, both within the
team and with the involvement of ex-
ternal facilitators. All the results were
presented to a wide range of partners
and donors on December, 11. The
Organization identified its main task
for the years 2016-2018 as “directing
the energy of society in to a construc-
tive way for systematic progressive
changes”. The implementation of
these plans is expected in the frame-
work of the "National public policy-
campaign on reforms for democracy",
which includes but is not limited to:
Providing equal access of citizens to
politics;
Establishment of an independent
system for auditing public funds use
and a system for controling public of-
ficials.
To diversify the sources of funds for
the project activities the Organization
plans to increase the share of funds
from businesses and individuals.
With this purpose, some technical
tools were introduced. Thus, everyone
who wishes to support our projects
can take advantage of the convenient
services available at liqpay.com, which
is integrated into our webpage and the
facebook account. In addition, we cre-
ated personal on-line offices in the in-
ternal CRM system which are a quick
and easy tool for making contributions
to support project activities simply by
using a bank card.
During the year, we were able to at-
tract citizens and businesses funds
for the project activity in a total
amount of 100 thousand. and 27 hryv-
nas. However the most of the support
is still provided in the form of services
(free space for events, consultations
of experts etc.).
The management of the Organization
systematically reports to the Supervi-
sory Board and engages its members
to the development of strategic docu-
ments. Within the year two meetings
of the Supervisory Board and two Gen-
eral Assembly meetings were held.
An integral part of the Organization’s
reports to its members is the informa-
tion about the major initiatives and
upcoming projects.
In addition, the Organization has
passed the external audit, the results
of which are attached below.

65FINANCIAL REPORT AND AUDIT CONCLUSIONS
FINANCIAL REPORT
AND AUDIT CONCLUSIONS
n 2015, the Organization obtained financial
support from 6 international donors and from
donations of Ukrainian citizens. The total
amount of funds raised reached $ 1 428 141.29,
of which the citizens donations constituted
$ 4 586.26
SIDA
British Embassy
Omidyar
Pact
NDI
NED
Donation of citizens
Donors: Total budget, $
Total costs: $1 428 141.3
498 338.5
423 482.5
261 312.0
193 347.1
40 075.0
7 000.0
4 586.3
Project
274 745.6
Structure of the Organization’s expences, $
78%22%
Administrative
986 406.7

66 FINANCIAL REPORT AND AUDIT CONCLUSIONS
The LLC «Audit Company UHY Prostir
LTD» conducted independent audit of
general financial statements of NGO
Centre UA that comprise the accounting
Balance Sheet (form № 1-m) and Income
Statement (form № 2-m) for the year end-
ed on 31st December 2015 in accordance
with the national regulations (standards)
of accounting in Ukraine.
The audit of the financial statements
was conducted in accordance with the
Law of Ukraine: «On Audit Activity» dated
by April 22, 1993 № 3125 and with the
International Standards of Auditing is-
sued by the International Auditing and As-
surance Standards Board (IAASB) of the
International Federation of Accountants
(IFAC).
The audit also included the assessment
of conformity of used accounting policy,
accepted accounting estimates, made by
the management, and the general sub-
mission of financial statements.
No significant drawbacks or inaccord-
ance with the requirements of the Ukrain-
ian National Accounting Standards were
identified during the audit.
The results of the audit state that the fi-
nancial statements of the organization in
2015 in all essential aspects are prepared
in accordance with the Ukrainian National
Standards of Accounting (NSA).
Audit conclusions in 2015

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