During the last three months, Pro Bono Lab program team of the Ukrainian Access to Justice School of Practice together with experts in law business worked on the creation of the first Ukrainian training course for public organizations from law business.
Legal Empowerment for NGOs is an educational online video course that involves the cooperation of NGOs, law firms and experts in order to improve the internal operational processes of NGOs.
The participants of the course are NGOs-champions, which have passed the competitive selection for training under separate thematic blocks.
Thematic blocks were formed on the basis of requests submitted by NGOs during the competitive selection. The thematic blocks were developed and filled jointly by the Program team and course mentors – experts from law and audit firms.
Course mentors are law firms and experts who have joined the training course as tutors for NGOs. Each thematic block has its own mentor, who teaches a video lesson, gives educational material to it, checks homework and provides recommendations for further activities of the NGOs.
The educational process is as follows:
- the champion organizations get access to the video lesson on the corresponding thematic block.
- thematic educational material is attached to the video lesson. For 1 week, organizations work on materials.
- after that, the organizations receive homework from the mentor of the thematic block, which they have to complete within 2 weeks. Homework is an independent work of participants on the documents of their NGO, which is related to the thematic block. For example: development or revision of a Code of ethics, Personal data protection policy, organization agreements, etc.
- completed homework is checked by the mentor, after which the mentor provides his recommendations to the NGO on the document itself, or on individual processes that should be implemented in the activities of the organization.
We are pleased to introduce you to the thematic blocks of the educational online video course “Legal Empowerment for NGOs”, mentors from law firms and public organizations – champions:
Thematic block “Code of ethics”
Mentor: Ihor Svitlyk, senior lawyer at the international law firm Dentons Europe.
NGO-champions: “Center for Community Development”, “Perspectives of the Future”, “Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism”, “Renaissance of the Nation”, “Modern Woman”, “Initiative Group for the Association of Youth Councils of Ukraine”, “Youth of Dnipro”.
Thematic block “Conflict of interest management”
Lecturer: Olena Makarenko, Director, Leader of KPMG Insight Academy KPMG in Ukraine
NGO-champions: “Center for Community Development”, “Foreign Policy Council” Ukrainian Prism”, “Renaissance of the Nation”, “Modern Woman”, “Initiative Group to establish the Association of Youth Councils of Ukraine”, “Ecoclub”, “Youth of Dnipro”
Thematic block “Personal data protection”
Mentors: Vitalii Vlasiuk, Dmytro Vechir, ePravo Law Firm
NGO-champions: “Association of Displaced Persons “Common Cause”, “Renaissance of the Nation”, “Modern Woman”, “Initiative Group to establish the Association of Youth Councils of Ukraine”, “Youth of Dnipro”
Thematic block “Statutory documents”
Mentor: Victoriia Stavchuk, Senior Lawyer at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang in Ukraine
NGO-champions: “Community Development Center”, “Center for Development of Initiatives “InSource”, Ecocenter “Tepla Gora”, “Chernihiv Human Rights Union”, “Ukrainian Children’s Welfare Foundation”, “Zaporizhzhya Center for Investigation”, “PLATO”, “Renaissance of the Nation”, “Modern Woman”, “Development Together”, “Initiative Group for the Establishment of the Association of Youth Councils of Ukraine”, “Ecoclub”, “Youth of Dnipro”
Thematic block “Labor relations”
Mentor: Oleksandra Piskun, lawyer at the international law firm Dentons Europe
NGO-champions: “Center for Community Development”, “Center for Development of Initiatives “InSource”, “Social Synergy”, Ecocenter “Tepla Hora”, “BSD”, “Sheptytsky Hospital”, “Center for Social Development Charitable Foundation “Mist”, “Association of Wives and Mothers of ATO Fighters”, “Kremenets Center for Business Support and Community Development”, “Ukrainian Children’s Welfare Foundation”, “Ukrainian Prism ”Foreign Policy Council”, “PLATO”, “Renaissance of the Nation”, “Modern Woman”, “Development Together”, “Initiative Group for the Establishment of the Association of Youth Councils of Ukraine”, “Youth of Dnipro”
Thematic block “Contracts for NGOs”
Mentor: Zoiia Krasiuk, partner at Spensers Law Firm
NGO-champions: “Social Synergy”, “Council of Foreign Policy “Ukrainian Prism”, “PLATO”, “Renaissance of the Nation”, “Modern Woman”, “Initiative Group for the Association of Youth Councils of Ukraine”, “Emmaus”, “Ecoclub”
Thematic block “Procurements at NGOs”
Mentors: Oleksandr Marinchenko, Marinchenko & Partners Audit Firm, Mykola Sioma, Ukrainian Legal Aid Foundation
NGO-champions: “Community Development Center”, “BSD”, “Kremenets Center for Business Support and Community Development”, “Zaporizhzhya Investigation Center”, “Modern Woman”, “Initiative Group for the Establishment of the Association of Youth Councils of Ukraine”, “Youth of Dnipro”
Thematic block “External audit”
Mentor: Alexander Marinchenko, Marinchenko & Partners Audit Firm
NGO-champions: “Community Development Center”, “Pokrovskaya City Organization of Veterans and Disabled ATO Participants in Donetsk region”, “Mother’s Love” (FaMiLy), Public formation for the protection of public order “Haidamaki”, “Step into the World”, “Sheptytsky Hospital”, “Mist” Social Development Center Charitable Foundation”, “Kremenets Center for Business Support and Community Development”, “Ukrainian Welfare Fund for Children”, “Zaporizhzhya Investigation Center”, “Development together”, “Initiative group for the establishment of the Association of Youth Councils of Ukraine”, “ Youth of Dnipro ”
Thematic block “Internal document flow”
Mentor: Alyona Korotych, Senior Lawyer, Oleksiy Pukha & Partners Law Firm
NGO-champions: “Public Initiative of Galicia”, “Association of Displaced Persons” Common Cause”, “BSD”, CF “Center for Social Development “MIST”, “Renaissance of the Nation”, “Modern Woman”, “Development together”, “Initiative group for the establishment of the Association of Youth Councils of Ukraine”, “Ecoclub”, “Youth of Dnipro”, “Safe Hub “PravoPolice”
Thematic block “Social Entrepreneurship”
Mentor: Serhii Lysenko, partner of “Jurotat Law Firm”
NGO-champions: “Mother’s Love Foundation” (FaMiLy), “Cultural Center Ukraine-Lithuania”, “Country of Free Community”
