The Chairman of the Board of the Center Irina Zapatrina has participated in the meeting of the Working Group on the Preparation of the Model Public-Private Partnership Law, which took place on February 11, 2019 in Vienna with participation of UNCITRAL experts

The working group was created in the framework of the joint project of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.

On January 17-18, 2019 in Leiden University, Amsterdam (the Netherlands) took place a meeting on the development of the UN ECE Model Concessions Law

The Chairman of the Board of the Center Irina Zapatrina took part in the meeting as a member of the working group.

On 20-21 November 2018 in Geneva (Switzerland) took place the Second session of the Working Party on Public-Private Partnerships of the UNECE Committee on Innovation, Competitiveness and Public-Private Partnerships

The delegation of Ukraine informed the Working Party of its intention to set up an International Specialist Centre of Excellence on PPPs in e-government, data security and accountability, affiliated to the UNECE International PPP Centre of Excellence. The Centre will be hosted at the Kiev City State Administration. A letter will be sent by the Government to the Executive Secretary of UNECE and plan to launch the Centre at the forthcoming Business for Smart City Congress in Kiev in January 2019.

Upon the results of the meeting the Report was issued.  Its Conclusion 2018 – 5.4 specifies: “The Working Party took note of the request by Ukraine to set up a Specialist Centre on PPPs in e-government, data security and accountability affiliated to the UNECE International PPP Centre of Excellence, to be hosted by the Kiev City State Administration.”

On October 22, 2018 in London in headquarters of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development took place a meeting on the development of the UN ECE Model Concessions Law

The Chairman of the Board of the Center Irina Zapatrina took part in the meeting as a member of the working group.

On June 5-6, 2018 in the Column Hall of the Kyiv City State Administration took place International Conference " Implementing People First PPPs: best international practice and recommendations for Ukraine and neighboring countries"

The conference was organized by the UNECE, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine, the Kyiv City State Administration and Ukrainian PPP Development Support Center in partnership with the IFC and the Swiss Cooperation Office in Ukraine with the support of LLC Safe Roads of Ukraine , Baker & McKenzie and PPP Academy.

Irina Zapatrina, the Chairman of the Board of the Center has made a presentation "Cooperation of business and authorities in achieving Sustainable Development Goals: international experience and lessons for Ukraine" and moderated Panel 4 "Emerging international infrastructure programs: opportunities for Ukraine and neighboring countries".

On June 6, after the conference, the participants had an opportunity to visit the Data Processing Center (KP "Informatics") and the Oleksandrivka Clinical Hospital in Kyiv.

A photo report and presentations from the event can be downloaded at the following links:

Day 1 / KCSA

Day 2 / Data center

Presentations

It was published a monograph of the Chaiman of the Board of the Center Iryna Zapatrina "Public-Private Partnership for Sustainable Development Goals"

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According to the Decree of the President of Ukraine No.138 /2018 I. Zapatrina was awarded the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technique in 2017 for the work "Institutional transformation of the financial and economic system of Ukraine in the conditions of globalization"

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On May 7-9, 2018 in Geneva (Switzerland) took place International PPP Forum “Scaling up: Meeting the challenges of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through People-First Public-Private Partnerships”

This Forum is the third event organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) on this topic. The purpose of the Forum is to exchange experience and create conditions for strengthening the role of private business in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through the application of a new PPP generation - the so-called People-First PPPs.

In the framework of this activity UNECE is working on improvement of approaches to initiating and implementing PPP projects, and also forms the Compendium of the best 500 PPP projects in the world that can be attributed to People-First PPPs. Over the last year, 60 projects from all over the world were selected to this list (published on the UNECE website), 15 of them were presented at Geneva.

These 15 projects include the project "Implementation of the system for fixation of violations in the field of road safety in the automatic mode in the city of Kyiv" developed by the Academy of PPP and submitted to the KCSA on the initiative of a private partner - LLC Safe Roads of Ukraine.

On May 8, this project was presented at the Forum in Geneva by Mykola Povoroznyk, the First Deputy Head of Kyiv City State Administration, and Irina Zapatrina, the Chairman of the Board of the Center.

It was published Manual "Strengthening the Role of Business in Achieving the SDGs in Ukraine" prepared by Irina Zapatrina, the Chairman of the Board of the Center

The Manual reviews business opportunities in achieving Sustainable Development Goals, assessed its potential in this area, considered the advantages for business from active participation in this process. It is also presented forms and mechanisms of business participation in achieving Sustainable Development Goals, analyzed how to apply the best world practices in this sphere in Ukraine. It is evaluated the role of public authorities in this process, provided recommendations for the development of partnerships between business and government in achieving national SDG indicators for Ukraine.

The publication was prepared under the support of the German Government's Green Economy Program implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and in cooperation with the United Nations Development Program in Ukraine (UNDP) in the framework of the UNDP / GIZ Project "Support to the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in Ukraine".

On April 18, 2018 in the conference hall of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine took place Workshop on National Emissions Reductions Plan"

The Chairman of the Board of the Center Irina Zapatrina spoke at the seminar on "NERP macro-economic framework and potential sources of financing" and "A market oriented model for NERP implementation"