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QUARTERLY ACTIVITIES REPORT of Civic Network OPORA for the Period 1 July – 30 September, 2014 01103, Kyiv, Pidvysotskoho St. 10/10, office 3 www.oporaua.org, [email protected] +38 044 286 26 70 QUARTERLY ACTIVITIES REPORT of Civic Network OPORA For the Period 1 July – 30 September, 2014 1 01103, Kyiv, Pidvysotskoho St. 10/10, office 3 www.oporaua.org, [email protected] +38 044 286 26 70 CONTENT SUMMARY ..................................................................................................................................................... 4 Political framework ................................................................................................................................... 4 PROGRAM ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................................... 5 Objective 1: Fairness and integrity of key Ukrainian elections improved through domestic monitoring … 4 Long-term observation ............................................................................................................................. 5 Public reports covering long-term parliamentary observation: ............................................................... 6 Preparation of a questionnaire ................................................................................................................. 6 Software development ............................................................................................................................. 7 REPORT ON OPORA’s PUBLIC OUTREACH AND INFORMATION STRATEGYINFORMATION REPORT OF THE CIVIC NETWORK OPORA FROM 1 JULY TO 30 SEPTEMBER 2014 ................................................................. 7 PUBLIC EVENTS .......................................................................................................................................... 8 INFORMATION MESSAGES ........................................................................................................................ 9 Major information trends in the period from 1 July to 30 September 2014 ...................................... 9 Information provided by the Civic Network OPORA for mass media ............................................... 10 RECOGNIZABILITY OF THE ORGANIZATION IN MASS MEDIA .................................................................. 10 The course of information campaign ...................................................................................................... 10 Regional division of references ............................................................................................................... 11 Web-resources ........................................................................................................................................ 12 Social media, Facebook,Twitter, and Youtube ................................................................................... 12 TV program "Before You Vote" ........................................................................................................... 12 The evaluation of OPORA's website ....................................................................................................... 13 Results of public outreach and information strategy activitiesResults of activities ............................... 14 Objective 2: Political process legislation developed and implemented in a more inclusive and transparent manner and better conforms to European standards…………………………………………………………….………….. 14 Objective 3: Increased organizational and technical capacity of Civic Network OPORA……………………..… 15 Training for NGOs in Berlin ................................................................................................................. 18 Professional training for organization members for election program activities ............................... 19 Updating the organization's website .................................................................................................. 20 RESULTS FOR THE REPORTING PERIOD ....................................................................................................... 20 PLANS FOR THE THIRD FOURTH QUARTER OF 2014 ................................................................................... 21 2 01103, Kyiv, Pidvysotskoho St. 10/10, office 3 www.oporaua.org, [email protected] +38 044 286 26 70 Comment [U1]: Please adjust in accordance with the changes base on USAID’s comments. 3 01103, Kyiv, Pidvysotskoho St. 10/10, office 3 www.oporaua.org, [email protected] +38 044 286 26 70 SUMMARY Civic Network OPORA, which implements the project under Cooperative Agreement No.: AID-121-A-12-00004 with Modification #2 of 22 December 2013, presents a quarterly report on its activities for the period from 01.07.2014 to 30.09.14. During this period, OPORA has been realizing major project tasks and objectives set forth in the agreement. Within the reporting period, Civic Network OPORA has prepared and launched a long-term observation of 2014 early parliamentary elections, was developing amendments to election procedures, particularly simplification of the procedure for temporary change of voting location available for IDPs from Donbas, and lobbying for amendments to the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Besides that, the organization has developed training materials and manuals for observers, conducted a number of trainings for long-term observers. OPORA started building network capacit, and has already planned major tasks for a year of its activities. Under the third component of the project (Objective 3: Increased organizational and technical capacity), representatives of the central and some regional offices took part in a weekly training in Deutche Welle office in Berlin. The training aimed to increase the capacity of organization in informational activities and reaching high-quality communication with foreign media. OPORA used the latest means of spreading materials about the election observation results. The organization was filling in the Map of Violations (map.oporaua.org), developing visualization of future turnout and election results, creating infographic materials to tell the target audience about electoral procedures, campaign, and interim results in a simple and accessible form. OPORA's observers were actively cooperating with international observation missions, particularly the OSCE- ODIHR and ENEMO, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, with Canadian observers etc. Political framework For the first time in Ukrainian history, the parliamentary election campaign was held under the pressure of vast economic and political challenges, and with an armed conflict on the territory of Ukraine. However, despite the socio-political and safety situation in the country is tense and unpredicted, the election campaign is relatively stable and intensive. The political competition in this parliamentary election campaign is quite high. Most of candidates are former allies that were in opposition to ex-President V. Yanukovych, and a number of "young" political parties that became extremely popular for a short period. We can see an unprecedented peculiarity of these elections — high public demand for renewal of Ukrainian politicians. Thus, according to social polls, two of five current parliamentary parties are on the edge of getting into the Parliament (the CPU and the AUU Svoboda), and the former pro-power party (the Party of Regions) has absolutely lost its influence in Ukrainian politics and refused to participate in the elections. Despite a "truce" was announced, armed confrontations with illegal armed groups backed-up by the Russian Federation continue in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts. Due to the occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and a number of territorial units in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, it's impossible to conduct elections there. According to OPORA's assessment, Donbas citizens will be able to vote in half of electoral districts at best. Besides that, in the context of the armed conflict and possible major risks, election administration includes extra safety measures at all stages of the election process: organization, voting process, vote count, and transportation of the election documentation. Another challenge than wasn't typical for Ukraine was a need to guarantee personal safety for the voters, especially those living in the operational area, and protect them from 4 01103, Kyiv, Pidvysotskoho St. 10/10, office 3 www.oporaua.org, [email protected] +38 044 286 26 70 any pressure during the voting. Reports of the SBU security service about the detention of diversionary groups which were going to disrupt elections in some raions. Taking into consideration the abovementioned facts, Ukraine needs to successfully hold parliamentary elections and unite politicians and the public facing socio- political, economic, and military threats. PROGRAM ACTIVITIES OBJECTIVE 1: Fairness and integrity of key Ukrainian elections improved through domestic monitoring OPORA has launched long-term observation of early parliamentary elections on 28 August, the official start of election campaign. From the very beginning of the observation, 213 long-term observers were attracted. As long as nobody knew in September how the election campaign is going to be held in Eastern regions of Ukraine, OPORA was preparing the maximal number of observers. The organization conducted 2-day trainings for all LTOs in Kyiv and developed special manuals containing all amendments to the electoral legislation adopted in 2013 and 2014, instructions, and information about safety of an observer in current
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