PROMOTING ACTIVE CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT (ACTION) IN COMBATING CORRUPTION IN UKRAINE

Donors:United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Management System International (MSI), Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).
Timeframe: December 2006 – September 2009
Program Managers: Sofia Golota, Natalia Kupriy
Location: Ukraine
Objective: independent public monitoring support, public interests representation and maintenance in priority spheres of corruption-fighting.

Project activity was mainly concentrated on problems defined by the Government of Ukraine in program of cooperation with Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), i.e.: judicial reform improvement; executive power monitoring, ethic and administrative standards introduction; regulative procedures collaboration and introduction; corruption-fighting in the field of higher education.

The Project consists of two main components:

• supporting public interests representation and maintenance; civil society monitoring;
• journalistic investigations and other anticorruption initiatives from mass media.