15 April 2016
Kyiv 22 Mykhayla Hrushevskoho Street, Reception Lounge at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
AGENDA 09.00 – 09.30
Registration of conference participants, welcoming coffee
09.30 – 10.30
Opening of the conference Moderator: Igor Kogut, USAID RADA Program - Opening speech on behalf of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine - Greeting. George Kent, Acting Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the United States in Ukraine - Greeting. Neal Walker, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Ukraine - Greeting. Marcin Vałecki, Head of Democratisation Department, Bureau of OSCE/ODIHR - Greeting. Victor Lyakh, President of East Europe Foundation
10.30 – 10.50 -
10.50 – 11.10
Keynote speech Pat Cox, former President of the European Parliament, Head of the European Parliament’s Needs Assessment Mission to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine - - Recommendations by the European Parliament’s Needs Assessment Mission on the reform and capacities of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
Keynote speech Andrej Plenković, Chair of the EP delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee, Lead member on the EP parliamentary support and capacity-building programme for the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine - Role of the European Parliament in securing institutional reform in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
11.10 – 11.30
Question-and-answer session on keynote speeches
11.30 – 12.00
Coffee break
12.00 – 13.20
Panel discussion: Quality of parliamentarianism and parliamentary ethics Moderator: Svitlana Matviyenko, Agency for legislative Initiatives - Jonathan Murphy, UNDP Advisor in parliamentary development, Senior Advisor of the European Parliament's Needs Assessment Mission to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine - Olena Sotnyk, member of Parliament of Ukraine, Samopomich - Pavlo Pynzenyk, member of Parliament of Ukraine, People’s Front - Iryna Suslova, member of Parliament of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko Bloc - Yehor Sobolyev, member of Parliament of Ukraine, Samopomich - Kateryna Ryabiko, OSCE/ODIHR - Yuliya Kazdobina, UCIPR
13.20 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 – 15.15
Panel discussion: Citizens and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine: today and tomorrow. The path of reform Moderator: Andriy Kulakov, Internews-Ukraine - Volodymyr Slyshynskyi/Volodymyr Bondarenko, Secretariat of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine - Svitlana Zalishchuk, member of Parliament of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko Bloc - Igor Popov, member of Parliament of Ukraine, Oleh Liashko Radical Party - Oleksandr Zaslavskyi, Agency for legislative Initiatives - Oleksandr Vinnikov, European Law network, expert of OSCE
15.15 – 15.30
Break
15.30 – 16.45
Panel discussion: Parliamentary oversight and control of parliament Moderator: Edward Rakhimkulov, USAID RADA Program - Dmytro Lubinets, member of Parliament of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko Bloc - Ivan Krulko, member of Parliament of Ukraine, Batkivshchyna - Jonathan Murphy, UNDP Advisor in parliamentary development, Senior Advisor of the European Parliament's Needs Assessment Mission to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine - Olha Ayvazovska, Civil Network OPORA - Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, Reanimation Package of Reforms - Inna Borzylo, CHESNO civil movement
16.45
Final remarks
17.00
Concluding coffee break