|
Activity on issues of constitutional order, public administration, access to the public information and e-governance, judiciary and criminal justice consists of such four forms of work: 1. Policy development and supporting policy cycle, which lies in: detection of problems in development of democratic institutions and procedures; examination of the problem; analytical prediction; development of the concept of reform; drafting of law or other legal act; participation in state commissions on the draft of law; initiation of public campaign in support of implementing the policy by authorities; monitoring realization of the policy; examination of the outputs of law or other legal act.2. Research work aiming at finding and theoretical argumentation of necessary changes. This work lies in: writing manuals, monographs, articles other publications; assisting in translation and publicizing of outstanding works of American and European Legal science; translation and publicizing foreign laws that could be useful in development of Ukrainian legislation; giving legal positions on requests of judges of Constitutional Court of Ukraine; preparing an expert opinions on requests of ministries, others authorities. 3. Educational work aiming at mobilization of stakeholders to solve a problem of democracy development or aiming at teaching specific target audience. That is: holding conferences, seminars, roundtables on some issue; conducting press conferences; participation in TV programs on these problems; analytical essays for press; conducting trainings on specific applied questions (for example electronic document flow in public bodies, etc); preparing short practical manuals and spreading them between citizens about their rights in court, in relations with officials and so on.4. Public monitoring that includes: monitoring the actions of authorities on compliance with Constitution and liabilities of European integration; monitoring of court decisions (Constitutional Court and High Administrative Court – constant, other courts – in volume needed to performance of particular project); monitoring of development of public law; publication regular reports on the results of the monitoring; providing commentaries with legal assessment of political decisions for mass-media. |