Conference

Initiators: International Centre for Policy Studies (ICPS), Institute for Economic and Social Reforms (INEKO, Slovak Republic)

Date: March 3, 2017

Registration starts at 9:45; conference opening: at 10:00

Venue:  Intercontinental Hotel, meeting room ‘Maidan’, 2A Velyka Zhytomyrska St., Kyiv, Ukraine

Background: International Centre for Policy Studies together with Institute for Economic and Social Reforms presents three components of the online-platform in the framework of the project “Transparent, financially healthy and competitive local governments in Ukraine”.

1) Platform “Transparency of 50 largest cities in Ukraine” - the platform displays the data on transparency of 50 city councils, collected with the use of an extensive survey among city councils as well as the information from publicly available sources. The methodology provided by Transparency International Slovakia was used in the ranking development.

2) Platform “Competitive capability of regions and regional assessment of business climate in Ukraine” - the platform is aimed at assisting the government and governors in assessment and identification of competitive advantages and disadvantages of regions and improvement of their regional development strategies. The platform allows to analyze the quality of business environment and provides unique data for investors about business environment.

3) Platform “Transparency of local budgets” - the updated ranking of regions and their capital cities based on the budget transparency indices. The platform contains unique statistic data, convenient ranking allows to compare regional budgets and budgets of regional centres on a number of parameters.

The aim of the event: familiarization of stakeholders with the online platforms «Transparency of 50 largest cities in Ukraine», «Competitive capability of regions and regional assessment of business climate in Ukraine», «Transparency of local budgets» and their opportunities to study transparency, financial health and competitiveness of the regions.

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Issues to be discussed:

1. Presentation of the online platforms, review of methodology.

2. The Slovak experience of using the rankings in order to improve transparency, financial health and competitiveness of municipalities.

3. The position of state authorities and the public on the need for introduction of the online platforms on transparency, financial health and competitiveness of the regions of Ukraine.

Agenda:

09:45-10:00 – registration, welcome coffee

10:00-10:10 – welcome speeches of the ICPS and INEKO representatives

10:10-10:25 – presentation of the online platform “Transparency of 50 largest cities in Ukraine”, review of the methodology(Veronika Kharuk, ICPS)

10:25-10:40 – presentation of the online platform “Competitive capability of regions and regional assessment of business climate in Ukraine”, review of the methodology (Vasyl Povoroznyk, ICPS)

10:40-10:55 – presentation of the online platform “Transparency of local budgets”, review of the methodology (Anhela Bochi, ICPS)

10:55-11:40 – the Slovak experience (Peter Golias, INEKO)+two experts (tbc)

11:40-11:50 – the position of state authorities and the public on the need for introduction of the online platforms (tbc)

11:50-12:10 – discussion and concluding remarks

12:10 – stand-up buffet

Participants include state authorities, representatives of local authorities, NGOs, experts, the media and others.

Working languages: Ukrainian/English (with simultaneous translation)

Registration: for participation in the conference, please register via e-mail sent to y.gomeniuk@icps.kiev.ua, indicating your name, organization you represent, and contact details.

Registration of the media: for participation in the conference media representatives should register via e-mail sent to [email protected].ua.

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