Legislative Policy Development Program II (PDP II)

$20.5M USD

Funder	U.S. Agency for International Development
Recipient Organization	University/Research Institute - United States Redacted
Country	Ukraine
Start Date	Apr 18, 2009
End Date	Dec 21, 2012
Duration	1,343 days
Number of Grantees	86
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`172676-76`

Grant Description

Since 1994, the Parliamentary Development Project for Ukraine (PDP) has been providing deputies and staff of the Verkhovna Rada - Ukraines parliament - with comparative information, training and consultations on parliamentary institutions, procedures and legislative capacity building.

The PDP also provides assistance to the parliament on increasing transparency and public participation in the legislative process, especially cooperation with the leadership and committees of the Verkhovna Rada.

Building on the 14-year experience of PDP, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) extended the project until May 2011 as PDP II.

Within the framework of the new three-year project, PDP II continues to provide technical assistance to the parliament and extends it also to the presidential administration, the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and individual ministries.

PDP II focuses on efficient mechanisms of legislative policy development and respective capacity building of the legislative and executive branches. In 2009, PDP II initiated a sub-program with the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (VR ARC).