The Open Society Foundation is a Ukraine-based non-governmental organization, established and officially registered in March 2001.
Our goal is to contribute to the development of open civil society in Ukraine.
We have been doing our utmost to ensure that as it has taken a democratic way, Ukraine has powerful civil society capable of developing, impacting the social and political situation in the country and living up to new challenges.
Our main objectives are
to contribute to the building up of the institute of parliamentarism in Ukraine
to partake in solving legislative regulation issues
to stimulate social movement to urge democratic process in Ukrainian society
to guarantee the right of citizens to information
Key Focus Areas
Analysis and Research Studying political processes and civil society development in Ukraine, including collecting, processing and disseminating data.
Publishing
Collecting materials, compiling and publishing booklets, guides, articles, etc.
Coordination
Organizing conferences, roundtables, seminars, partaking in various Ukrainian and international projects.
We have successfully developed a number of professional and coordinating skills working in some new areas in partnership with other non-governmental organizations.
We are happy to work with all our partners and truly appreciate their experience, support and lessons they have been teaching us.
Our greatest value is the people that work with us and for us. Each and every member of our team for has proved to be highly professional, competent, tolerant and really hard-working.
We share the success we have had all these years with our donors as they have trusted us with their programs and contributed greatly to our further development.
We do believe it’s us and civil organizations like ours that the future of Ukraine’s civil society and Ukraine itself depends on.
This June, only the laziest of political experts or journalists did not cover the first 100 days of President Viktor Yanukovych in office. Traditionally, two parallel trends were formed with some materials presenting the positive side of the President’s achievements, putting emphasis on the pragmatic and rational approach of the new authorities, characterizing Yanukovych and his team as effective managers, while others tried to compare the situation to a virtually apocalyptic scenario of total corruption with strict censorship introduced and a new authoritarian regime established in the country.
The Open Society Foundation (OSF) and the Center for Regional Politics held the roundtable ‘Efficiency of the Ukrainian parliament’ on December 25, 2009, in the city of Sumy (VTB bank business center, 13-a, Voskresenska Str., Sumy). ...
The Open Society Foundation (OSF) and Chernihiv-based expert club “Fair Politics” held the roundtable ‘Efficiency of the Ukrainian parliament’ on December 9, 2009, in the city of Chernihiv (6A, Hetman Polubotko Str., Chernihiv). ...
The Open Society Foundation and Ukraine-based Polish Institute held a roundtable ‘On the Way to the European Union: Poland’s Experience’ on September 26 in Simferopol. ...
