Leaflet of the USAID RADA Program: Responsible, Accountable, Democratic Assembly.

1. USAID RADA Program:
Responsible Accountable
Democratic Assembly
How we ensure fulfillment
by MPs of their representative
function
How we teach citizens
Our address:
How we help to increase
the Parliament’s openness
We help to establish MPs’ communi­
cation with voters and local authorities.
This is done through the Model District
Project, which strengthens cooperation
between MPs and voters for addressing
problems of importance to the district.
Participants in the Project include
seven MPs of Ukraine – from majority
districts as well as those elected under
party lists – that represent different factions
of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
Through the conduct of Town
Halls – meetings of urban community
representatives at which important
problems are discussed and resolved.
– Educational campaigns
– Videos highlighting the functions and work of the
Parliament and the MPs
– The educational game “AGORA: a democratic
procedure for law adoption at the Verkhovna Rada
of Ukraine” that imitates the legislative process in
Ukraine, and educational films for students
– TV programs “Expensive MPs” and “RE:forma”
– Daily educational work on interaction with the MPs
and the VRU through OPORA consultants in all
oblasts of Ukraine
– Trainings of the Program for public activists on
interaction with the Parliament and involvement in
the legislative process
7a, office 2, Shovkovychna St.
01021, Kyiv
tel.: +380 044 253 27 65
+380 50 443 61 97
e-mail: office@radaprogram.org
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For more than 50 years, the American people provide economic and
humanitarian assistance to many countries through the United States
Agency for International Development (USAID). USAID has been providing
such assistance to Ukraine since 1992. Today, USAID/Ukraine implements
a focused development assistance program to support more participatory,
transparent, and accountable governance; citizen inclusion in democratic,
economic, and social reforms; broad-based resilient economic development;
enhanced energy security; and improved health services for Ukrainians.
For additional information, please call the USAID/Ukraine Information and
Public Relations Office
at +380 11 521-5741 or visit its web site at http://ukraine.usaid.gov
or Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/USAIDUkraine/
– Ensuring participation of citizens and mass media in
press conferences of the Chairman of the VRU
– Press tours to VRU for regional journalists
– Development of practical manuals for providing
information on the reforms

2. Our goal
How we help the Parliament
How we provide for citizens’
­involvement in the legislative process
How we ensure the Parliament’s
accountability
Time frame:
is to promote a responsible,
accountable, democratic assembly:
Parliament of Ukraine
November 2013 – November 2018
This is a consortium of Ukrainian nongovernmental
organizations consisting of East Europe Foundation,
Civil Network OPORA, Internews Ukraine NGO,
and Agency for Legislative Initiatives NGO
• Participation in the creation and examination of a
parliamentary reform roadmap, parliamentary ethics
issues
• Through the Training Center of the USAID RADA
Program – advanced training of VRU staff
• Training of MPs and their aides – at the Training
Center of the USAID RADA Program
• The only official Youth Internship Program at the
Parliament
• Information and Research Center at the VRU, respon­
sible for preparing analytical materials concerning
formation of state policy and legislation
• Searching, analytical and exploratory activities
concer­ning sectoral policies and law of foreign states
• Regular meetings of representatives of technical
assistance projects with Committees’ secretariats
for establishing cooperation and developing joint
initiatives
• E-Parliament: e-agenda for meetings of VRU
Committees and e-agenda for VRU plenary sessions,
provision of Wi-Fi in all buildings of the VRU
• Platform for e-petitions to the Verkhovna Rada
https://itd.rada.gov.ua/services/Petitions
• We have created tools for analyzing the activities
of the Verkhovna Rada
– rada.oporaua.org/instrumenty/holosy-z-rady and
komitet-stenograma.oporaua.org – search by
transcripts of parliamentary meetings
– rada.oporaua.org/map – All-Ukrainian map
of contacts of reception offices of MPs and
parliamentary parties
– rada4you.org – platform for analysis of MPs’
voting
• 24 regional consultants of OPORA have been regularly
monitoring the work of majoritarian MPs for three years
• Regular reports and analytical materials based on results
of monitoring the work of VRU Committees
• We provide for live streaming of meetings of VRU
Committees, thus promoting accountability and openness
of their work
• Platform “Portal for public discussions of draft laws” which
enables ordinary citizens and experts to get involved
in commenting on draft laws being discussed in the
Committees
https://itd.rada.gov.ua/services/pubd/Info/Index
• Electronic register of NGOs, serving as a source of
information on NGOs with which Committees can
cooperate
http://ngo.radaprogram.org/