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| During the round table well-known public characters, international experts and representatives of public authorities have outlined the urgent necessity to determine a government body to be responsible for exercising the state policy of assistance to the civil society development. During discussion the participants conducted evaluation of state policy concerning civil society. It should be recalled that the first step in forming state policy of civil society development in Ukraine was the Concept of Executive Power Bodies Assistance in Civil Society Development adopted by the Cabinet of Ministers in May 2008. On May 28, 2008 the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted the Plan of Activities for Implementation of the Concept of Executive Power Bodies Assistance in Civil Society Development for 2008. The function of the main civil society builder was put on the Ministry of Justice obliged to implement 30% of the Plan. According to the monitoring data presented, the Concept of Executive Power Bodies Assistance in Civil Society Development is implemented by 62.5%, though it doesn't provide systematic improvement of conditions for public sector activities. The participants have underlined that unified criteria and concepts are still not determined to solve foremost problems of public organizations' activities, including legal capacity status acknowledgement and state financial support providing. One of the reasons of this fact was supposed to be in the absence of power bodies' coordination related to public sector and absence of a unified executive power body to be responsible for forming and monitoring of state policy concerning civil society development. The experts attracted attention to the fact that in most of the former USSR states, Estonia, Hungary and Moldova in particular, as well as stable democratic states like Great Britain, the systematic and coordinated character of state policy concerning the civil society development is provided by corresponding power body. Meanwhile public leaders have cautioned against potential excessive delegation of regulative powers to such a body, which can result in the establishment of irrelevant state control after public sector. The participants of the round table agreed that the responsible body must be delegated the competency to form proper policy and coordinate its observance, and the right to exercise state control after the activities of other state bodies concerning civil society. Two general models of such a body were determined: interdepartmental coordination body under the Cabinet of Ministers under the guidance of Vice Prime Minister in humanitarian affairs or the Minister of Justice and coordination deliberative body under the Ministry of Justice. Essential attention was paid to resolving potential mechanisms of cooperation between such a body and local autonomous bodies on the one hand and territory subdivisions of executive power bodies and local autonomous bodies for state policy on the other hand; and a mechanism of cooperation between public and such a body. The participants of the discussion also accentuated attention at the necessity of building the National Fund of Civil Society Development that would provide state financial support to the programs of public organizations on an open competitive basis. The summary of the discussion will be used to formulate recommendations on determination of the power body to be responsible for state assistance in civil society development. The recommendations will be submitted for consideration to the government. We invite all the non-governmental organizations to join the discussion of the ways for establishment of state policy concerning civil society development and to fill the form applied. Please, send the application forms before November 9, 2009 to Anastasia Krasnopilska by E-mail anastasia@ucipr.org.ua or by fax (044) 279-2435. Yours faithfully, Maxim Latsyba, Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research Contacts: Maxim Latsyba |
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