Here you may find useful publications of the ACTION Project and its grantees

Project Publications 

Project One-Pager

Project Brochure (available in Ukrainian)

The ACTION project Quarterly Bulletin is issued to report about project's achievements and current activities. It might be interesting to the wide range of Ukrainian civil society organizations, media, international organizations and Ukrainian Governemnt.

ISSUE # 1, July 2007 (available in Ukrainian, PDF, 273 Kb) 

ISSUE # 2, July-September 2007 (available in Ukrainian, PDF, 610 kB) 

ISSUE # 3, October-December 2007 (available in Ukrainian, PDF, 714 Kb) 

ISSUE # 4, February 2007 - April 2008  (PDF, 480 KB) 

ISSUE #5, May - July 2008 (PDF, 459 KB)

ISSUE# 6, August - October 2008 (PDF, 511 KB)

ISSUE # 7, December 2008 - March 2009 (PDF, 1.29 MB) 

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Grantee Publicaitons

1. National report on the monitoring results of the One Stop Shop System, 2009 (in Ukrainian only) 

   The Coalition of civic society organizations on monitoring of the one stop shop system united six NGOs from different parts of Ukraine and worked between September 2008 – March 2009.    The objective of the Coalition was to improve the operation of OSS by conducting civic monitoring.  The Coalition selected 17 OSS in Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Luhansk, Mykolayiv, Khmelnytskyy, Chernihiv oblasts and ARC.    Results of the civic monitoring were used to make changes in local regulatory acts concerning permit system and functioning OSS.  In each region an advocacy campaign was held, which aimed at public presentation of the monitoring results and endorsement of local legislative acts.

    

2. FORMS AND METHODS OF PUBLIC INFLUENCE ON REALIZATION OF THE REGULATORY POLICIES, METHODOLOGIC MANUAL, BUKOVYNSKY FOUNDATION FOR SUPPORT OF REGULATORY REFORM IN UKRIANE, 2007

This manual is meant to provide methodological assistance to the subjects of entrepreneurship in rural areas as to the application of the Law of Ukraine on the State Regulatory Policies in Economics in order to influence regulatory institutions. We hope that, these methodological materials will be useful to and effectively employed by the entrepreneurs.

1. CORRUPTION IN THE SYSTEM PERMITS: METHODS OF OPPOSITION, METHODOLOGICAL GUIDEBOOK, BUKOVYNSKY FOUNDATION FOR SUPPORT OF REGULATORY REFORM IN UKRIANE, 2007

Complicacy and opacity of permit procedures are the main reasons behind the spread of corruption in the permit system. Numerous gaps in the procedural matters give officials an opportunity to make subjective decisions, which are often not based on the legislative norms. In such a system corruption became an instrument, which precipitates the process of receiving permits. We hope that this guidebook will be useful to you and will help you effectively counter bureaucratic obstacles and corrupt actions, which you often face in your entrepreneurial business.

1. COUNTERING CORRUTPION, TRAINING VOURSE FOR YOUTH, © DONETSK DEBATE CENTER FOR YOUTH, 2007

Young generation tolerates bribery and considers it a quick convenient way of solving problems. This position of young people, who ought to create future, surely moves further away a possibility of overcoming corrupt relations in the society.

We are offering a training course for your attention.  It was developed based on practical experience and with taking into consideration contemporary forms and methods of prevention of negative phenomena  in the society. Exercises are diverse and mostly active use and are aimed at gaining practical skills.

1. Corruption in the Traffic Police: Results of the Sociological Monitoring, Monograph, Kharkiv Institute for Social Researches, 2007

This scientific monograph presents the first attempt of a complex scientific monitoring of such a latent phenomenon as corruption in the traffic police of Ukraine.  We have researched theoretical and methodological foundations of corruption monitoring, developed methodology of corruption monitoring in the trafficking police and probated it in the Kharkiv region.

1. Plaintiff's Primer, Poltava Regional Media Club, 2007

If an official is attentive and polite, treats you almost like a relation, is doing his best to help you, gives good advice - you are very lucky.

However, experience of human rights NGOs, including Poltava Regional Media Club, is to the contrary.

How to act in this situation? How can a common citizen withstand arrays of officials, armed with multitude of means of bureaucratic procrastination? About the latter, read in a practical guidebook you behold.  Do remember: we do not get what we deserve, but merely what we strive for.