Round Table “Mechanisms for Engaging the Public in Anti-Corruption Efforts”

On April 15, 2016, a round table discussion titled “Mechanisms for Engaging the Public in Anti-Corruption Efforts” was held. The event was organized by the Chernivtsi Regional Center for Retraining and Professional Development of Civil Servants, Local Self-Government Officials, State Enterprises, Institutions, and Organizations; the Charitable Foundation “Public Resources and Initiatives”; and the Anti-Corruption Prevention and Detection Unit of the Chernivtsi Regional State Administration.

The round table addressed the following topics:

• Legal and organizational foundations of anti-corruption in the context of systemic reforms and decentralization in Ukraine;
• Transparency of public information as a basis for preventing corruption;
• Cooperation between authorities and civil society in effective anti-corruption efforts.

Participants included civil servants, local self-government officials, representatives of civil society institutions, and scholars from Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University.

After keynote speeches by:

• Andriy Kuchuran, regional coordinator of the civic movement “Chesno” in Chernivtsi,
• Oksana Ogdanska (Vashchuk), expert from the Institute of Media Law, Deputy Director of the Laboratory of Democratic Transformations,
• and Valeriy Rusnak, head of the civic organization “Anti-Corruption Commission of the People’s Council in Chernivtsi Region”,
  an active discussion followed.

Contributors to the discussion included:

• Andriy Hev’yuk, Assistant at the Department of International Relations, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University,
• Vitalii Savkin, Head of the Anti-Corruption Sector of the Chernivtsi Regional State Administration,
• and Bohdan Storoshchuk, Associate Professor of the Department of Economic Theory and Management at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, PhD in Economics.