UNIC held final three seminars in the framework of Business Integrity Week in 2018
A series of regional seminars “Business Integrity: Join, Implement and Win” is organized by the Ukrainian Network of Integrity and Compliance (UNIC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ukraine with the support of the Business Ombudsman Council (BOC) and the National Agency of Corruption Prevention (NACP). During July-August 2018 five seminars were held in the following cities of Ukraine: Kharkiv, Lviv, Odesa, Vinnytsia and Dnipro. In September 2018 UNIC presented its operations and practices of implementing compliance systems in other three regions of Ukraine: Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne and Chernihiv.
"The conduction of the seminars in eight regions of Ukraine showed that there was a request for encouragement and promotion of business integrity regardless location. The audience is thankful for receiving practical knowledge, recommendations on compliance systems implementation, as well as for covering the topic of certification. A series of events will be continued next year and we hope that we will reach out to more business representatives interested in and ready to pass certification. It is also worth noting that we have received a positive feedback regarding the speakers’ presentations and are proud to have members of a variety of industry sectors ready to share their successful case studies on business integrity in Ukraine."– states Head of the UNIC Secretariat Ganna Gerasymchuk.
Overall, the seminars in Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne and Chernihiv reached about 150 participants. The events gathered representatives of state- and municipality-owned companies, local state authorities, civil society organizations and media. The key topic of the seminars included discussion on the issues of fighting corruption and doing business transparently in the regions. The participants had a chance to learn theories on how transparent business can help fight corruption, as well as to participate in the training aimed at improving business integrity and compliance implementation skills.
The presentations of the speakers also included the case studies of implementing compliance programmes. Among the speakers – 15 leading experts in Ukraine in the areas of business protection, compliance and anti-corruption programmes, business management and law: Marcus Brand and Nazar Grom, UNDP in Ukraine, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Denmark to Ukraine Mr. Ruben Madsen, Kristian Brokop and Lubov Bogachevska, GoodValley Ukraine, Kateryna Panasyuk, NACP, Andriy Volos, ELEKS, Victoria Fokina, SKF, Oleksandr Rozhnov, KKNK “Tehnobud”, Kateryna Rybachenko, Agro Region Ukraine, Oleg Lagodienko, Ethicontrol, as well as Deputy Business Ombudsman Yaroslav Gregirchak and BOC Investigators Oleg Krykavskyi and Oleksiy Spivak.
In 2019 UNIC plans to hold the second series of events in the framework of Business Integrity Week in Kyiv and regions of Ukraine.
