ABC of Democratic Governance Donor: Hanns Seidel Foundation Partner: Bavarian Administration School (BVS), Germany

– workshop on developing an in-service training cycle for public servants training cycle for public servants Results: Public servants of 3 d and 4 th categories were defined as a target group of the training program “ABC of Democratic Governance” Draft two-week program (modules) for public servants was developed in the following areas : 1.Law 2.Human Resources 3.Management 4.Finance

– workshop on developing in-service training modules – pilot trainings for trainers in the disciplines “Law” and “Human Resources” Results: A subject plan, objective, goals and tasks of training modules were drawn up A working meeting of the Vice-President of the National Academy Anatoliy Chemerys with representatives of the Institute for In-Service Training for Senior Executives and the International Projects Department was proposed in order to coordinate further work on the project

Results: Participants’ suggestions, recommendations and comments were taken into account Pilot version of the training program was completed Suggestions concerning teaching methodology were offered – summer school for developers and trainers of the training program – Pilot launch of the in-service training program “ABC of Democratic Governance”

New Public Management Donor: Friedrich-Naumann Stiftung Partner: International E-Academy for Leadership, Germany

Participants’ suggestions: Quality analysis of service provision at municipalities taking into account suggestions of local government bodies Establishment of an Information Centre / Forum at the National Academy for consulting on implementation of new public management Involvement of representatives from all central and local government bodies in introducing a training course “New Public Management” – workshop, presentation and development of the training module “New Public Management”

– p – pilot training for trainers of the in-service training module “New public Management” Results: A subject plan, objective, goals and tasks of training modules were suggested Draft subject plan was drawn up Working group was set up: Liudmyla Pryhodchenko (Odesa) Tetiana Pahomova (Odesa) Igor Stupnytskii (Lviv) Anzhela Lelechenko (Kyiv) Olha Antonova (Dnipropetrovsk) Julia Bokovikova (Kharkiv)

Support to the Development of Civic Education in Ukraine Partner: Institute of International Projects in Education (IPE), Zurich University of Teacher Education, Switzerland

– round table “Status of Civic Education in the Educational System of Ukraine” the Educational System of Ukraine” with the participation of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine, the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine – visit of representatives of the Institute for International Projects in Education (IPE), International Projects in Education (IPE), Zurich University of Teacher Education Zurich University of Teacher Education in order to discuss the joint project “Support to in order to discuss the joint project “Support to the Development of Civic Education in Ukraine” the Development of Civic Education in Ukraine”

Results: Project implementation period was fixed: January- December 2009 Project organigram was drawn up Agreement about two visits (Ukrainian experts to Switzerland and Swiss experts to Ukraine) was reached Expected project products: 1.Textbook for pupils of middle school; 2.Textbook for school teachers and directors; 3.Textbook for trainers; 4.Concept of development of civic education in Ukraine.

Twinning Institutional reform of the NAPA Donor: Delegation of the European Commission to Ukraine

Project purpose: Support to the NAPA in development and improvement of the public servants training system in order to facilitate Ukrainian integration into European administrative space; de-emphasis of academic component and focus on the development of professional skills and attitudes of public servants at both central and local (including regional) levels instead enabling provision of high quality services to citizens and decision makers’ Overall Objective: Improved quality of the Public Administration in Ukraine, up to international and EU standards both at central and regional levels.

– presentation and discussion with stakeholders of draft Twinning fiche – setting-up a working group at the National Academy for project implementation – 1 st mission of experts of the European Commission – 2 nd mission of experts of the European Commission – 3 d mission of experts of the European Commission – 4 th mission of experts of the European Commission Experts of the European Commission: Marc van den Muyzenberg (head of mission, Netherlands) Angela Kwok (member of mission, Netherlands) – final version of Twinning fiche was agreed upon with the European Commission

Expected project products: 1.Development of coordination mechanism between the NAPA and the Main Department for Civil Service (MDCS) accordingly to requirements of the European Commission 2.Strengthened organization and management of the NAPA and the regional institutes, with a focus on the Institute for In-Service Training for Senior Executives 3.Enhanced training capacity of the NAPA to facilitate the Government capacity to integrate into European space

Analysis and Management of Public Policies Partner: Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP), Partner: Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP), Switzerland Switzerland

first stage of the workshop “Making and implementation of public policy” – first stage of the workshop “Making and implementation of public policy” Results: Results: Professor of the IDHEAP Peter Knoepfel presented the European approach to analysis of public policy Setting-up working groups of workshop participants (Secretariat of the President of Ukraine, Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, Ministry of Labor and Social Policy of Ukraine, Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine) for task fulfillment

econd stage of the workshop“Making and implementation of public policy” – second stage of the workshop “Making and implementation of public policy” Results: Results: Members of working groups made presentations (analyses of public policy) Professor Peter Knoepfel analyzed the presentations A live example of making and implementation of public policy in Switzerland was given