Centre for Political and Legal Reforms (CPLR) is a Ukrainian think-tank, which was founded in 1996 after adoption of the Ukrainian Constitution. Its aim is to promote in carrying out reforms in political and law spheres for establishing democracy, rule of law in Ukraine.

CPLR is a non-governmental, non-profit organization, which is working on the national level. The central office is located in Kyiv. The organization also has a regional department in Lviv (Western Ukraine).

The mission of CPLR is to promote institutional organization of Ukraine as the state which ensures human rights and is responsible to the citizens. Although CPLR isn’t classical human rights organization, exactly the value of human rights defines the nature and purpose of the organization.

CPLR elaborates and promotes implementing reforms in Ukraine in such areas:

• Constitutional order;

• Public administration;

• Judiciary;

• Criminal justice;

• Access to public information and e-government.

The head of the board of CPLR is Ihor Koliushko.

The core expert staff of the CPLR has not been changed within over 10 years. Key experts of CPLR who are coordinators of research work in directions of our activities have PhD degrees and now are leading experts in these areas in Ukraine.

The work of CPLR is useful not only for Ukraine. CPLR’s experience in the areas of administrative justice and administrative offences is being evaluated by international organization such as OSCE/ODIHR and UNDP as worth to be shared with other post-soviet countries. So experts of CPLR have been involved in work on Code of Administrative Justice, Code of Administrative Offenses and Code of Administrative Procedures in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.