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"

It was published an article prepared by Irina Zapatrina: The Ukraine Continues Development of PPP Regulation, But Still Needs Improving Institutional Capacity – European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review 1/2018

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