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President’s

greetings
Dear friends and colleagues! aspects, identification of best practice of cooperation
between civil society organizations and executive bod-
ies, and study needs of state authorities in such areas
For 22 years we have been working for the sake of as gender equality. Furthermore, for the second year
development of civil society in Ukraine. These two in a row, CCC trains experts on evaluation of state
years were filled with new solutions, achievements authorities with regard to their cooperation with the
and challenges. In 2018, we continued our activities public. Based on the results of their activities, state
and have some achievements, which we would like to authorities have a possibility to hear opinions of the
share with you. public and improve their communications with civ-
In 2018, we continued our cooperation with the UNDP il society as well as public involvement in the deci-
for supporting the existing and launching new busi- sion-making process as well as joint activities on the
nesses by internally displaced persons from Donetsk partnership basis.
and Luhansk regions, helping UTCs to prevent in- Implementation of the tasks related to improving con-
stance of corruption in management of communities ditions and influence of Ukrainians CSOs is impor-
and improving the reporting on programmatic and tant in the CCC activities. In 2018, CCC together with
financial activities of UTCs. Furthermore, last year the partners from the State Statistic Service and the
we carried out regular survey of the status of develop- State Fiscal Service participated in a practical semi-
ment of civil society, continued work on implementing nar in Johns Hopkins University (USA) on approxi-
specific tasks of the National Strategy for Support- mating reporting on the CCC activities in compliance
ing Development of Civil Society in Ukraine for 2016- with the UN standards. Proper CCC reporting will
2020, facilitated development of civil society experts, give us a possibility not only to identify active organ-
and cooperated actively with state authorities and lo- izations, but also to measure their input in the social
cal self-government bodies. and economic development as well as Ukraine’s GDP.
We are happy to see strengthening of civil society in There are a lot of plans ahead, but before we start im-
Ukraine, how the CCC members and their organiza- plementing them, we have to realize what we achieved,
tions spread their activities over the entire territory and which challenges we dealt with during the previ-
of the country and set pace for development of region- ous year. This is what our 2018 Report is about!
al and local civil society organizations, and how they We thank all our friends, colleagues, and donors with
participate in implementation of priority reforms, in-
cluding the decentralization reform, in communities whom we cooperated and who supported us in 2018.
Special thanks to the CCC members and employees
all over Ukraine.
for their work and professionalism!
CCC cooperates actively with state authorities and lo- Sincerely yours,
cal self-government bodies at various levels. Such co-
operation includes conducting research on individual Lyubov Palyvoda

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