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The European Pro Bono Week 2020 is over in Kyiv; during this time the best lawyers of the country have advised free of charge representatives of public organizations. The topic of the final on-line meeting was the Code of Ethics in a Public Organization. During the webinar, senior lawyer of the world’s international law firm Dentons Kyiv Office, Head of the task force on counteraction to corruption of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine Ihor Svitlyk told what this document is required for and how to make it persistently enforceable by both your employees and partners. The Ukrainian Legal Aid

Five KyivLEPP2020 paticipating teams had been developing projects intended to enhance access to justice in five countries of the world throughout the previous week. Last Friday, experts assessed feasibility of these ideas. KyivLEPP is referred to Kyiv Legal Empowerment Practical Program, the incubator of innovative ideas in access to justice in Ukraine and worldwide. KyivLEPP 2020 has been implemented due to joint cooperation of colleagues from the Ukrainian Legal Aid Foundation , Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision , Legal Development Network, Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, legal club PRAVOKATOR.Kyiv and expert and financial support by The Human Rights and Justice program of the International Renaissance

Participants of #KyivLEPP2020 Idea Incubator had been developing projects intended to enhance access to justice in five countries of the world throughout the previous week. They “passed” their ideas through the design-thinking methodology which which you can immerse in an issue of access to justice, define target groups, focus yourself, review alternatives to the problem solving, secure your ideas with crash test, and make presentation of the same upon the cycle completion.  On Monday, the last day of the program, teams presented ultimate versions of the decision prototypes that have been worked out during training. Kenya has developed the promotion

Members of the Human Rights Friendly Community Program who joined to its implementation in 2019 capture the first substantial victories. The Shyroke community (Zaporizhzhia region) became the first among members of the Human Rights Friendly Community which secured the adoption of the local legal aid program. It is especially valuable because this has been the first-ever project of such scope for the local organisation STEP which is the principal program administrator. It should be reminded that the main task of the Human Rights Friendly Community training practical Program is researching and working up the findings-based solution which will most meet

Why the Ukrainians still often prefer corruptive ways to solve their problems? This phenomenon has some fundamental reasons: cultural traditions and the Soviet legacy to social behaviour belief that justice is always costly wish to solve the issue as soon as possible and effortlessly But the most common is the reason which in our overloaded with information time seems to be odd: ignorance of own rights and available opportunities to protect the same. Just a minor share of the population may say for sure where they can get legal advice, where they can be assisted with writing application or claim,

Now, over 140 community advisers can be counted all over Ukraine. And another 95 can join them by early next year. Just as many as that were selected among the most active residents of various regions of the country to take a special training program. Training for advisers to-be will start this week and take three months.  They will learn how to better understand people’s problems and where to look for assistance to solve them out, how self-government works, what tools for influencing authorities are available, how the budgeting is effected and many other things. Training is given by the

Over the past year, the School has made a great contribution to the field of access to justice not only in Ukraine but also in Poland, Kyrgyzstan, Kenya, North Macedonia, the United States and Georgia. At the beginning of the new year, we decided to recall our successes in order to take up the implementation of new initiatives with even more energy. KyivLEPP Kyiv Legal Empowerment Practical Program has helped five countries of the world bring access to public services and justice closer to residents. Due to participation in the KyivLEPP-2020 training course: Kenya has developed a promotion plan for

We are glad to introduce you to the KyivLEPP 2020 participants. Kyrgyzstan team Develops a model of paralegal network

We are glad to introduce you to the KyivLEPP 2020 participants. North Macedonian team Team works on a model of Mobile office for paralegal aid:

We are glad to introduce you to KyivLEPP 2020 participants. Innovators team from the North Macedonia North Macedonian team is looking for a systemic solution to prevent the blocking of social bank accounts, which will allow vulnerable communities not to remain below the poverty line during quarantine:

We are glad to introduce you to the KyivLEPP 2020 participants. Polish-Ukrainian team of innovators The team works on the communication platform for students, curators and clients of legal clinics of both countries:

We are glad to introduce you to the KyivLEPP 2020 participants. The team of Kenya the team works on promoting a communication platform for alternative dispute resolution: