Field of Service: Governance
Client: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Region: Europe
Country: Ukraine

RUSSIA

BELARUSPOLANDSLOVAKIA

Organizing Seminars on Knowledge and Experience Sharing(Assistance for Ukraine's Democratization)

UKRAINE

MOLDOVAHUNGARY
ROMANIA

TURKEY

Attendees in Kick-off Workshop

Kick-off Workshop in Kiev

Anti-Corruption Workshop in Kiev

Study Tour in Fukushima

Project Overview:After the Maidan Revolution in 2014, efforts to resolve theinternal and external problems including the eastern region ofthe country were begun under the President Poroshenko.
Strengthening the governance is one of the priority issues of theGovernment for improving the current situation. In order tosupport the efforts, the Japanese government announced toincrease the technical assistance for the Ukraine's "Restorationof Democracy" particularly in the field of ‘judicial system
reform and corruption prevention.’ In response above, Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA) carried out thesurvey in September 2014¸ to confirm the need for governanceassistance, which has led to the plan to implement the ‘Packageof Assistance for Ukraine's Democratization’ from 2015.
Under JICA, Gyros carried out the project which provided
assistance to the Ukrainian Government for its self-help efforts
to restore democracy. The project tried to provide Ukraine analternative of democracy system, by presenting its structure andmechanism in administration, legislation, judicature and localgovernments; election system; common values shared amonggovernment officials; public broadcasting system and itsregulations; and the role of media. For that reason, series oftrainings/workshops in Japan and Ukraine were implemented
targeting media, legislature and election-related bodies as wellas the government administration related to corruption
prevention. A survey was also conducted for collecting basic
information on the issues of governance in Ukraine in order tounderstand the current situation and background. As a result of
the assistance package, a report was published with initiative of
the National Institute for Strategic Studies in Ukraine.

Study Tour of National Diet Building in Tokyo

Formation: Main Contract
Type of Work: Study, Seminar Organization
Project Term: March 2015 - May 2016
Outline of Project:[Objectives]
Governance Structure of Ukrainian Government is improved[Outputs and Activities]
1. Collecting political, economic and social information
2. Collecting information on Japanese experiences and the othercountries in the relevant area of targeted sectors
3. Organising workshops in Ukraine(Kick-off/Review and Anti-Corruption)
4. Assisting in the implementation of Study Tours in Japan
5. Interviewing Trainees of Study tours in Japan after returning fromJapan in order to analyse the impact of the trainings
6. Organising a media debriefing on the assistance package to media at
Japan Press Centre
7. Assisting for publishing JICA-NISS Final report as review of theassistance package
8. Assisting launching ceremony for JICA-NISS Report(in Ukraine)
Project Outcome:Government reforms to restore democracy in Ukraine are promotedwith the Japanese experiences of democratisation through workshops
and seminars for media(public broadcasting services), the legislatureand election related agencies (members of parliament, secretariat ofparliament electoral commission), government agencies which areresponsible to anti-corruption.