Grants to advance national and local level advocacy
2009 Local Advocacy Grantees in partnership with East Europe Foundation
2010 Local Advocacy Grantes in Partnership with East Europe Foundation
UNITER applies Pact’s proven grants management system - blending sub-grant support, technical assistance and capacity building - to support reform efforts in Ukraine at the national and sub-national levels. Proposals are inclusively solicited and transparently awarded to NGOs initiating policy change at both the national and local levels. As a result of the mentoring and support received under the program, campaigns achieve their stated goals and partner organizations will emerge stronger and better positioned to continue work into the future. Pact has teamed with East Europe Foundation (EEF) to administer the local level advocacy grants.
UNITER Partners Select Projects to Implement Government Reform
Ukrainian National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms together with its partners have selected 28 projects through a competition on local-level initiatives for government reform. The competition was held to support local-level changes and influence public policy, ensure public participation at the grassroots level in policy and reform planning, protect citizen rights and hold government accountable. More than 220 projects from throughout Ukraine were submitted for consideration. A panel of independent experts reviewed the projects and chose 19 of them to be administered be East Europe Foundation and nine projects to be administered by the International Renaissance Foundation. The total amount of USD 343 thousand dollars was awarded to selected 28 organizations.
Report on Baseline Assessment of the UNITER CSOs Grantees
In September 2009, CCC Creative Center conducted an annual poll of active civil society organizations in Ukraine. This research has been carried out annually for the last eight years. Polling was accomplished using a single filling method that required respondents to complete a personal questionnaire under supervision and support of regional coordinators.
The goal of the survey in 2009 was to define the level of Ukrainian CSO development according to the main principles of sustainable development. The Ukrainian CSO sector was the primary object of the research. The research subject was the development of CSO sector of Ukraine.
That was evaluated according to the following criteria:
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Sustainability as a level of organizational capacity;
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External CSO networks (cooperation with government, businesses, mass media, and communities);
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Efficiency of program related activities;
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Level of CSO capacity and efficiency in representing and protecting interests;
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Diversity of CSO funding sources;
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Level of professionalism;
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Degree of familiarity with current laws and regulations that affect CSOs and the development of ethical norms.
The organizations whose leaders participated in the research were selected from all of Ukraine's oblasts, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and Kyiv. In 2009 the poll was financed by the UNITER project.
The research is available here.
Civil Society Organizations in Ukraine: The State and Dynamics in 2002-2009
The current report, prepared by CCC Creative Center for the UNITER Project, summarizes the findings from the 2009 annual survey of a sample of CSOs operating in Ukraine and tracks changes in Ukrainian CSO development over the period of 2002-2009. Additionally, the report includes an evaluation of Ukrainian CSO websites, a problem and needs analysis of Ukrainian CSOs, a study of regional trends in the Ukrainian third sector, and an analysis of gender divisions in NGO development.
The goal of the research is to define the level of CSO sector development in Ukraine.
Within the framework of the current research, the following objectives have been implemented:
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To define the level of CSO organizational capacity;
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To define the external networks in which these organizations participate (including their cooperation with government, business, mass media, communities, and other CSOs);
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To define the effectiveness of their program related activities;
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To define the level of CSO capacity and efficiency in the area of representation and protection of interests;
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To define the level of CSO legitimacy;
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To define the level of CSO participation in coalitions;
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To define the trends in CSO activities for the last eight years in the above areas.
The object of the research is the CSO sector in Ukraine.
The subject of the research is the development of CSO sector in Ukraine. According to the research tasks, each civil society organization should be considered as a separate unit for this activity. The source of the information for each CSO should be organization representatives who have (i) all information regarding their activities (these should be CSO management representatives: the Head of the CSO or his/her Deputy), (ii) information about the development of the CSO sector in general, and (iii) knowledge of the legal frameworks regulating CSO sector activities in Ukraine. The research is available here.
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