UNDP ‘Green Caucus’ Secretariat Support to the Ukrainian Parliament UNDP ‘Green Caucus’ Secretariat Support to the Ukrainian Parliament The UNDP office in Ukraine has applied to the Embassy for the funding of 5 million SEK to help establish and support the work of the sustainable energy and environment secretariat in the Parliament of Ukraine during the period of 2018-2020. 
The intervention aims at strengthening the work of the Parliament of Ukraine on environmental and energy issues and also at increasing the visibility of these issues during the 2019 election campaigns in Ukraine. The UNDP will implement the intervention using the resources of the country office and will be responsible for the overall management of the project. UNDP-kontoret i Ukraina har ansökt om finansiering om 5 miljoner kronor för att hjälpa till att etablera och stödja arbetet i det ukrainska parlamentets sekretariat för hållbar energi och miljö under perioden 2018-2020. Insatsen syftar till att stärka det ukrainska parlamentets arbete med miljö- och energifrågor samt att öka synligheten av dessa frågor under 2019 års valkampanjer i Ukraina (presidentval och parlamentsval ska hållas) . UNDP kommer att implementera projektet med hjälp av resurser från  landskontoret och ansvarar för projektets övergripande hantering. To speed up the Sustainable Energy and Environment (SEE) related reforms and ensure representation of the SEE issues in the programmes of the President and the Parliament (Verhovna Rada of Ukraine (VRU)) in 2019, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with the funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), initiated the project “Sustainable Energy and Environment Secretariat to Support the Parliament of Ukraine in Sustainable Energy and Environment Area (‘Green Caucus’ Secretariat)” starting from July 2018 with the planned two year duration.
The ultimate goal of the project is to align with and contribute to the implementation of Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The project was launched with the objective to:
• improve the capacity of the VRU by (a) supporting the Members of Parliament (MPs), relevant parliamentarian committees (specifically, those dealing with environmental policy and natural resource management as well as energy policy) and inter-faction union (IFU) of MPs “Energy and Environment” (Green Caucus, called “Green Power Shift in the 8th Convocation) with quality analytical materials on the legislation-making, and organizing stakeholders’ consultations, roundtables, development of communication products, and promotion of engagement of various stakeholders into the debates on SEE issues; and (b) increasing the awareness among MPs on the principles of development and status of implementation of the key obligations of Ukraine in the field of SEE, including Association Agreement (AA) between Ukraine and the EU and other international environmental and climate processes; and
• increasing the visibility of SEE issues during the Presidential and Parliamentary elections through environmental advocacy among politicians, mass media and the public, more specifically by developing and implementing advocacy strategy on the green component in the pre-election programmes.