On September 17, 2018, the International Conference “Improving the Methodology, Practice and Quality of Legislative Process and Legal Drafting” initiated and supported by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, EU Delegation and EU funded Projects EU4PAR and Association4U. The topic concerned the effectiveness of the legislative process in Ukraine, methods of its improvement and sharing the experience of some of the EU Member States with the aim to get ideas of dealing with the major issues of Ukraine on its way to the legislative approximation with the European Union in the framework of the Association Agreement. 

Recently, SIGMA Programme has introduced the report on the performance of Ukraine in 2017 in approaching the Principles of Public Administration (in terms of the Public Administration Reform – PAR) for the EU candidate countries and potential candidates. The report covers both measurement reviews and short- and medium-term recommendations to improve PAR in Ukraine.

The report covers several issues:

• Strategic Framework of Public Administration Reform (PAR)
• Policy Development and Co-ordination
• Accountability
• Service Delivery

According to the SIGMA monitoring report, “overall, Ukraine has already made considerable progress in reforming some areas of its public administration”.

The baseline measurement report also covered the progress of Ukraine in the area of the European integration.

On June 1, 2018, the Association4U Training Team delivered a one-day training “Coordinating Effective Meetings” for Junior, Associate and Senior Fellows of the Project.

On May 30-31, the EU-funded project "Association4U" that provides technical assistance to Ukrainian government institutions on the effective implementation of the Association Agreement, organized a training for civil servants on the approximation of Ukrainian legislation to the European Union standards.

On May 21-24, 2018, the A4U Training Team delivered the “Evidence-Based Policy-Making” short training course for newly appointed experts from different ministries of Ukraine and A4U fellows. The aim of the course is to introduce the audience to the structured policy-making techniques and apply them to the real-life scenarios. This short course was hosted in the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

On April 11-12, 2018, the A4U Training Team delivered a two-day training “Introduction to AA/DCFTA” for civil servants of different state bodies and for Junior Fellows of the A4U Project. The training took place at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv basis. It was aimed to introduce the participants to general provisions of AA/DCFTA, its principles, tools and the way of implementation.

On March 22, the fourth Steering Committee Meeting of the EU-funded project Association4U gathered the key stakeholders to discuss the ongoing state of the project and its future.

On March 21-22, the EU-funded project Association4U with the support of the Ministry of Information Policy gathered representatives of the Ukrainian government institutions for a training on relations with the media.