International Renaissance Foundation • 2007 Annual Report

Project Manager:
 Petro Burlachenko 
Project Summary:
 Introducing a strategy for joint actions 
by government bodies and representatives of the 
Roma community in the town of Zvenyhorodka and 
the Zvenyhorodka raion. Developing drafts of the Town 
and Raion Program for Social Adaptation of the Roma 
Population and lobbying for its approval. Conducting 
an extensive information campaign publicizing project 
activities. 
Total:
 $ 5,000 
Grantee: 
Sumy City Association “Public Office 
“Pravozakhyst” (40030, Sumy, Chervona Sq., 6,  
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Ihor Rekun 
Project Summary:
 Monitoring and informing the public 
of the pre-elections promises made by the mayor and 
deputy corps elected in the city of Sumy in 2006 with the 
goal of establishing constant control by the electorate 
over the activities of deputies and political forces. 
Total:
 $ 5,000 
Grantee: 
Cherkasy Oblast Organization of the Committee of 
Voters of Ukraine (18000, Cherkasy, PO Box 106,  
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Yuriy Sas 
Project Summary:
 Improving the regulatory and legal base 
that regulates procedures for public participation in 
solving local development problems in five cities in the 
Cherkasy oblast. Introducing mechanisms for public 
control over the government and public influence over 
decision-making by a representative government. 
Total:
 $ 15,000 
Grantee: 
Lviv NGO "Center for the Study of Local Self-
Government" (79000, Lviv, Kryva Lypa Dr., 6, 3rd Floor, 
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Vitaliy Zahayny 
Project Summary:
 Preparing, publicly discussing and 
presenting a new version of the Statute and relevant 
regulations through the media. Fostering the “Local 
Government – Community” dialogue and public 
participation in solving problems of city management. 
Setting clear rules in relevant documents regulating 
relations between local self-government bodies and 
members of the territorial community in the city of Lviv, 
which would guarantee that the rights and interests of 
the city’s residents are protected.
Total:
 $ 10,000 
Grantee: 
“Yevpatoriya Center for Regional Development” 
NGO (97400, AR Crimea, Yevpatoriya, Lenin Ave., 18, 
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Arkadiy Sharapov 
Project Summary:
 Public monitoring of the fulfillment of 
socioeconomic and sociopolitical promises made by 
parties and blocs that made it into the Yevpatoriya city 
council in their election programs in order to determine 
the relevance of their activities to pressing local 
development problems. Holding public discussions 
and comparing the activities of different political parties 
and blocs aimed at solving pressing local development 
problems. Creating preconditions for public control over 
the activities of political parties and blocs in solving local 
socioeconomic and sociopolitical problems.       
Total:
 $ 8,000 
Grantee: 
Agency for Sambir Region Development (81400, 
Lviv Oblast, Sambir, Valova St., 26,  
tel. [phone]).
Project Manager:
 Mykola Shyyko 
Project Summary:
 Involving village communities in the 
Sambir raion in the creation of local policy and control 
over government activities by introducing mechanisms 
and procedures directed at increasing the role of the 
public in building effective, responsible and open 
government on the local level. Developing Rules for the 
Work of the Public Council and Regulation on Public 
Hearings, lobbying their approval, and conducting an 
information campaign.  
Total:
 $ 6,000 
Grantee: 
Ternopil Oblast Public Organization “Union of 
Land Owners” (46001, Ternopil, Zamkova St., 14, Room 
312, tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Larysa Rymar 
Project Summary:
 Providing constant public control over 
the actions of government and creating mechanisms 
for public monitoring of the activities of local self-
government bodies in the Ternopil oblast. Disseminating 
information about the work of political forces delegated 
to local councils. Conducting an expert analysis of 
the expediency of holding local council elections on a 
party basis. Developing and introducing mechanisms 
for continuous control over elected government 
representatives by creating public advisory bodies 
under the Ternopil oblast council and 16 raion councils. 
Total:
 $ 15,000 

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Grantee: 
Chernivtsi Oblast Organization of the Committee 
of Voters of Ukraine (58000, Chernivtsi, Lomonosova 
St., 2, tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Oleksandr Mostipaka 
Project Summary:
 Public monitoring of the activities of 
the Chernivtsi city council, executive committee and 
departments of the Chernivtsi city council handling the 
preparations and celebration of the 600th anniversary 
of Chernivtsi, and the effectiveness of the work of 
the municipal government on involving the public in 
preparations for the city’s jubilee. 
Total:
 $ 10,000 
Grantee: 
Luhansk Oblast Organization “Eastern Ukrainian 
Center for Civic Initiatives” (“Total Action for the Support 
of Human Rights and Democracy”)” (91005, Luhansk, 
30th Quarter St., Building 2, Apt. 14,  
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Volodymyr Shcherbachenko 
Project Summary:
 Monitoring violations by local self-
government officials in the city of Luhansk of principles 
of legality and community interest when distributing city 
land and in relations with advocacy groups that raise 
these issues. Developing and distributing monitoring 
reports. Conducting a lobbying campaign for the 
approval and introduction of local regulatory and 
legal acts that will allow informal advocacy groups to 
be involved in decision-making and defending rights. 
Approval of the regulation “On the Community Board” 
and creating a working group for regulating land 
relations. 
Total:
 $ 15,000 
Grantee: 
All-Ukrainian Public Organization “Association for 
the Support of Public Self-Organization” (65014, Odesa, 
Marazliyivska St., 38, tel. [phone]) 
Project Manager:
 Andriy Krupnyk 
Project Summary:
 Detecting, surveying and providing 
coverage of factors that hamper the development of 
NGOs due to the regulatory and practical activities of 
local self-government bodies in the cities of Zhytomyr, 
Kirovohrad, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy and Poltava. 
Developing and lobbying local regulatory acts that 
will foster the development of NGOs and support their 
participation in the decision-making process. 
Total:
 $ 16,000 
Grantee: 
Committee for Public Self-Organization in the 
Zhevakhovsky Microraion of the City of Odesa (65096, 
Odesa, Holovna St., 18а, tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Andriy Sydorenko 
Project Summary:
 Creating a Public Council under the 
Suvorivsky Raion Administration that will help establish 
dialogue and cooperation between bodies of public 
self-organization, NGOs, and representatives of the 
Suvorivsky Raion Administration, which will help solve 
problems of the territorial community of the Suvorivsky 
raion in the city of Odesa.
Total:
 $ 10,000 
Grantee: 
Public Youth Organization “Volyn Association for 
the Protection of Volyn’s Youth Rights” (43000, Lutsk, 
Shopena St., 18, Office 13,  
tel. [phone], 456-73)
Project Manager:
 Yulia Byelovytska 
Project Summary:
 Establishing a mechanism for public 
control over the activities of local self-government 
bodies in the Volyn oblast by analyzing the fulfillment 
of election programs by factions and deputy groups 
in the city councils in Lutsk, Kovel, Novovolynsk and 
Volodymyr-Volynsk. 
Total:
 $ 11,000 
Grantee: 
Western Ukrainian Regional Non-Profit Public 
Organization “Volyn Resource Center” (33028, Rivne, 
PO Box 201, tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Ruslana Stasyuk 
Project Summary:
 Developing an effective mechanism 
for continuous public monitoring of the implementation 
of strategic plans of territorial communities and using 
the example of two cities in the northwestern region of 
Ukraine to spread the gained experience to all Ukrainian 
cities and regional development agencies. 
Total:
 $ 10,000 
Grantee: 
Chernihiv Oblast Public Organization “Chernihiv 
Human Rights Center” (14017, Chernihiv, Zhabynsky 
St., 13, Office 42, tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Oleksandr Pidhorny 
Project Summary:
 Assessing the effectiveness of the 
activities of the city council deputies elected according 
to political party and bloc lists by monitoring their 
positions on programs and activities while in their post. 
Conducting an information campaign to publicize the 
results of the monitoring. 
Total:
 $ 10,000 

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Grantee: 
“Center for the Union of European Youth “For 
a Common Future” NGO (79006, Lviv Oblast, Lviv, 
Soborna Sq., 10/1, tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Taras Donenko 
Project Summary:
 Strengthening public control over the 
fulfillment by political parties and blocs that represent 
local communities in the Kharkiv and Lviv city councils 
of their declared election programs. Reviewing the 
activities of political forces in local self-government 
bodies and the compliance of these activities with their 
election programs. Establishing open dialogue between 
local self-government bodes and local communities 
and consolidating their efforts for the joint solution of 
problems facing the local communities. Developing 
a strategy for local community influence over political 
forces that represent their interests in local self-
government bodies. 
Total:
 $ 5,000 
Grantee: 
“Local Self-Government Support Association” 
NGO (91493, Luhansk; Village of Yuvileyne, Tsementna 
St., 3, tel. [phone], 34-60-56) 
Project Manager:
 Natalia Nekrasova 
Project Summary:
 Searching for and introducing effective 
mechanisms for continuous public monitoring of the 
activities of political forces and officials elected to 
the Luhansk city council. Developing and approving 
instruments for public participation in the solution of 
local development problems. 
Total:
 $ 10,000 
Grantee: 
Vinnytsia Oblast Public Organization “Podil Center 
for Social Technologies” (21018, Vinnytsia, PO Box 
4906, tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Oksana Yatsyuk 
Project Summary:
 Monitoring the execution of election 
programs by political parties that formed city councils in 
the following 8 populated areas in the Vinnytsia oblast: 
Bar, Koziatyn, Khmilnyk, Sharhorod, Pohrebyshche, 
Lypovets, Tulchyn and Vinnytsia. 
Total:
 $ 14,000 
Grantee: 
“European Dialogue” NGO (79019, Lviv, PO Box 
2833, tel. [phone])  
Project Manager:
 Ihor Kaspruk 
Project Summary:
 Fostering the development of village 
communities in two raions in the Lviv oblast (Mostysk 
and Zhovkivsk) by creating and supporting the regional 
network of local development agencies in order to 
overcome poverty in the village and realize the right of 
the village residents to obtain quality social and public 
services. 
Total:
 $ 12,500 
Grantee: 
Regional Charitable Organization “Center for 
Civic Initiatives” (78600, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Kosiv, 
Nezalezhnosti St., 1а, 78600,  
tel. [phone], 2-24-51)
Project Manager:
 Mykola Blyzniuk 
Project Summary:
 Increasing the impact of the residents of 
Kosiv (Ivano-Frankivsk oblast) on local self-government 
bodies’ decisions by developing a Strategic Sustainable 
Development Plan. 
Total:
 $ 5,000 

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Public Participation in Solving  
of Local Development Problems 
Number of Projects: 
15  
Total: 
$ 125,250 
Share of the Total Grant Amount:  1.94 %
Expenditures by Region of Ukraine:
Region
Projects 
Supported
All-Ukrainian 
Projects
Total 
Amount
Total for All-Ukrainian 
Projects
Volyn Oblast
1
-
$ 4,000
$ -
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
1
-
$ 3,000
$ -
Kyiv
1
1
$ 10,000
$ 10,000
Kyiv Oblast
1
-
$ 6,000
$ -
Luhansk Oblast
3
-
$ 30,650
$ -
Rivne Oblast
4
-
$ 39,100
$ -
Ternopil Oblast
2
-
$ 16,000
$ -
Kherson Oblast
1
-
$ 8,500
$ -
Khmelnytsky Oblast
1
-
$ 8,000
$ -
Total:
15
1
$ 125,250
$ 10,000
Projects Supported by the Program:
CIVIL SOCIETY IMPACT ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM 
Grantee: 
Rivne Regional Branch of the Association of 
Ukrainian Cities (33028, Rivne, Poshtova, 2,  
tel. [phone], 24-61-76)
Project Manager:
 Tetyana Hreshchuk 
Project Summary:
 Assisting 11 territorial communities 
in the Rivne oblast in solving their social problems 
by supporting NGO social projects, mobilizing local 
resources by setting up social partnership councils at 
city, town and oblast councils. 
Total:
 $ 12,000 
Grantee: 
Kherson Oblast Public Organization “Black Sea 
Center for Political and Social Research” (Kherson, 200 
Years of Kherson Ave. 32, Office 56,  
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Oleksandr Moshnyahul 
Project Summary:
 Creating favorable conditions for 
effective cooperation between state and local self-
government bodies and NGOs and initiative groups on 
the local level by introducing a competition for social 
youth initiatives in selected communities of the Kherson 
oblast. 
Total:
 $ 8,500 

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Grantee: 
Luhansk Charitable Foundation “Step to the 
Future” (91000, Luhansk, Pushkina St., 3, Office 217, 
tel. [phone]) 
Project Manager:
 Larysa Anokhina 
Project Summary:
 Increasing local community impact in 
solving pressing youth problems in the town of Rubizhne 
by creating a public advisory committee on youth 
policy in the town council. Developing and approving 
the “Concept for Youth Policy in the Town of Rubizhne 
for 2008-2011.” Developing and introducing innovative 
monitoring programs. 
Total:
 $ 10,000 
Grantee: 
Public Youth Organization “Volyn Association for 
the Protection of Volyn’s Youth Rights” (43000, Lutsk, 
Shopena St., 18, Office 13,  
tel. [phone], 456-73)
Project Manager:
 Andriy Havrychshuk 
Project Summary:
 Training experts in social investing and 
approbating the knowledge and skills gained by them 
in the implementation of the microproject “I. Stravinsky 
Museum-Estate.” Conducting an informational 
campaign to spread information about the I. F. 
Stravinsky Museum-Estate. 
Total:
 $ 4,000 
Grantee: 
Public Youth Organization “SMART” (34500, Rivne 
Oblast, Sarny, Zaliznychna St., 18,  
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Viktor Khomych 
Project Summary:
 Increasing the social activity of youth by 
establishing relations between the public and local self-
government bodies by way of coordinating the activities 
of the youth council in the city of Sarny. 
Total:
 $ 5,000 
Grantee: 
“Luhansk Region Civic Initiative” NGO (91034, 
Luhansk, Lomonosova St., 73, Office 507,  
tel. [phone], 35-72-32, 50-84-24)
Project Manager:
 Natalia Boyko 
Project Summary:
 Fostering public participation in solving 
territorial development problems by creating Public 
Coordinating Councils under the city (town) heads 
in the cities of Shchastya, Lutuhyne and the town of 
Stanychno-Luhanske in the Luhansk oblast. Introducing 
mechanisms for public participation in solving territorial 
development problems and continuous public control 
over the activities of local self-government bodies and 
officials in small cities and towns in the Luhansk region. 
Total:
 $ 9,000 
Grantee: 
Ternopil City Public Organization “Association 
of Consumers of Housing and Communal Services” 
(46024, Ternopil, B. Lepkoho St., 16, Office 21,  
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Petro Landyak 
Project Summary:
 Improving the quality of housing and 
communal services through systematic public control 
over their provision by enterprises in the housing and 
communal sector. 
Total:
 $ 7,000 
Grantee: 
City Public Organization “Small Business 
Laboratory” (07100, Kyiv Oblast, Slavutych, Heroyiv 
Dnipra St., 2, tel. [phone], 2-47-80)
Project Manager:
 Valentyna Darnopykh 
Project Summary:
 Introducing an effective practical 
mechanism for interregional relations between 
government, the public and business by creating an 
Interregional Public Coordinating Council “Slavutych – 
Chernihiv” as a body for lobbying process of integration 
and socioeconomic development processes of the 
regions. 
Total:
 $ 6,000 
Grantee: 
Environmental Youth Organization “Our 
Home is Maniava” (77772, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, 
Bohorodchansky Raion, Maniava Village, Nezalezhnosti 
St., 26, Office 4, tel. [phone], 68-023)
Project Manager:
 Mykola Skydanyuk 
Project Summary:
 Involving the public in solving 
environmental problems and decision-making on the 
territorial community level. Expert analysis of public 
participation in the solution of local development 
problems. Preparing draft recommendations 
“Mechanisms for public participation in the planning, 
implementation and control over the implementation of 
environmental decisions by local government bodies” 
and lobbying for the approval of the recommendations 
at a village council session. 
Total:
 $ 3,000 

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Grantee: 
Dukes Philanthrophists Charitable Foundation 
(33027, Rivne, Pukhova St., 85,  
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Ruslan Kraplych 
Project Summary:
 Creating public activity centers at 
existing cultural institutions in 20 towns and villages 
in 8 Ukrainian oblasts (Rivne, Volyn, Lviv, Chernivtsi, 
Khmelnytsky, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia and Ternopil). 
Creating an informal network of cultural institutions 
(public activity centers). Increasing the number of 
participants in the process of transforming cultural 
institutions into public activity centers and spreading the 
experience of their work to other regions of Ukraine. 
Total:
 $ 18,500 
Grantee: 
All-Ukrainian Public Organization “The Institute for 
Budgetary and Socio-Economic Research”  
(01004, Kyiv, Pushkinska St., 31-А,  
tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Iryna Shcherbyna 
Project Summary:
 Supporting an experiment on improving 
the effectiveness of financial management in the 
housing and communal services sector to ensure the 
sustainable development of the housing and communal 
services sector. 
Total:
 $ 10,000 
Grantee: 
Khmelnytsky Oblast Association “Podillya Pershyi” 
(29000, Khmelnytsky, Svobody St., 36, Office 601, tel. 
[phone])
Project Manager:
 Vyacheslav Tretyak 
Project Summary:
 Enhancing the institutional capacity to 
establish effective partnerships between civil society 
organizations and local government bodies for the 
joint effective implementation of socioeconomic 
development projects in the Khmelnytsky oblast by 
developing and introducing a regular course on project 
writing and management. 
Total:
 $ 8,000 
Grantee: 
Ternopil Regional Branch of the Association of 
Ukrainian Cities (46001, Ternopil, R. Barvinskykh St., 7, 
2nd Floor, tel. [phone])
Project Manager:
 Ihor Hirchak 
Project Summary:
 Increasing direct public participation 
in the development of the territorial community and 
economic and social development planning to more 
fully take advantage of the recreational potential of 
Koropets (Ternopil oblast). 
Total:
 $ 9,000 
Grantee: 
“Public Committee for the Protection of the 
Constitutional Rights and Freedoms of Citizens” NGO 
(91055, Luhansk, PO Box 98,  
tel. [phone], 55-34-27, 53-67-72) 
Project Manager:
 Mykola Kozyryev