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In 2018, the UNIC Secretariat, with the support of the United Nations Development Program in Ukraine, had been implemented the Project "Strengthening the Principles of Integrity in the Interaction between the State and Business", in which was conducted the first survey among public representatives.

Starting from December 2018 UNIC Secretariat has been implementing Project "Making Clean Business a Norm", funding by funded by the Kingdom of the Netherlands. One of the measures to be taken as part of the implementation of the project is to repeat studying the spread of corrupt practices in relations between the authorities and private companies "Corruption Risks in the Government Work: Business Point of View", which will also include conducting a survey among the UNIC members.

One of the objectives of the implementation of the MATRA (the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands) supported Project “Making Clean Business a Norm" is to develop the UNIC’s Secretariat organizational and expert capacities. The Project team and UNIC Secretariat will require an assistance of an external facilitator to organize a Strategic Planning process.

On 29 July 2019, UNIC signed the Memorandum of partnership with the State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety. The Memorandum was signed by the Director of SSTCNRS and Ivan Sakal, Financial Director at Organic Systems, Head of the UNIC Executive Committee, and Gaiane Karakashian, Head of the UNIC Secretariat.

On 29 July 2019, UNIC has signed the Memorandum on partnership with NNEGC "Energoatom". The official signing event took plae at the offices of Energoatom in Kyiv with the participation of President of Energoatom Yuriy Nedashkovsky, as well as Ivan Sakal, Financial Director at Organic Systems and a member of the Executive Commitee and Gaiane Karakashian, Head of the Secretariat, on the UNIC side.

Fresh new UNIC Annual Report for 2018 is already available on our website - "Our documents" section.  

Gaiane Karakashian is a qualified leader in Business Management. Gaiane’s skills, valuable to UNIC, include building long-term relationships with stakeholders, developing and modifying business concept, policies and internal processes, finding win-win solutions in negotiations and during cooperation, as well as risk management.

The Business Ombudsman Council has developed a "Business Lessons" special project in partnership with LIGA.net – a series of video interviews with the Council's complainants – Ukrainian top managers and business owners.