On July 12, 2019, a working meeting was held with the participation of representatives of ministries, central executive authorities, civil society organizations and the United Nations Development Program in Ukraine.
Within the framework of the meeting, the CCC Creative Center presented general results of evaluation of a number of central executive authorities in the field of "interaction with the public". This assessment was carried out by a group of trained experts from different regions of Ukraine.
During the presentation, a methodology for evaluating the activities of central executive authorities in the field of "interaction with the public" was presented, which analyzes four levels of interaction, namely: information, public consultation, public involvement in the policy-making process, and partnership.
According to this methodology, experts assessed the activities of the National Agency of Ukraine for Civil Service, the State Agency for E-Governance, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, the Ministry of Youth and Sport, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Information Policy , The Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Infrastructure, the Ministry of Justice, the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption, the State Committee on Television and Broadcasting of Ukraine.
During the meeting, representatives of the state authorities together with civil society organizations, also worked out the recommendations that were received as a result of the assessment of the authorities, shared the most successful practices of the ministries and selected the priority directions for further implementation within the framework of the advocacy campaigns.
Within the framework of such campaigns, it is expected that policies, instructions on information and interaction with the public, concepts of communication strategies, manuals, procedures, information templates for use by all subdivisions of executive power bodies and other relevant ministries products will be developed.
The participants of the meeting also discussed other relevant issues of interaction between civil society organizations and central executive authorities and got acquainted with the new on-line course on the Prometheus platform «Interaction of public authorities and the public”.
The event was held within the framework of the project "Promoting Civil Service Reform through Increased Cooperation between Public Authorities and the Public", implemented by UNDP in partnership with the National Agency of Ukraine for Civil Service with the financial support of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.