The Sahaidachnyi Security Center team took part in the XIV Annual Civil Society Forum [with]STAND (ukr: «[ви]СТОЇМО») in Kyiv.
The Center’s Director, Lesia Ogryzko, spoke on December 5 in the session “WORLD, LISTEN CAREFULLY!”, sharing international advocacy practices, principles, and case studies that help Ukraine speak loudly and convincingly on the global stage, particularly on matters of security and defense.
The Annual Civil Society Development Forum is one of the largest and renown platforms in Ukraine for communication and exchange of ideas between civil society and donor organizations, charitable foundations, government institutions, public activists, volunteers, and fundraisers.
THE XIV ANNUAL CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM is conducted by the Initiative Center to Support Social Action Ednannia (ISAR Ednannia), with the financial support of the Askold and Dir Fund, funded by Norway and Sweden; funded by the European Union; with the financial support the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ukraine projects with financial support from the Government of Denmark and the flagship UNDP–EU partnership “EU4Recovery – Empowering Communities in Ukraine”; funded by the UK Government under the SPIRIT project, implemented in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Policy, Family and Unity of Ukraine, the Fund for Social Protection of Persons with Disabilities, and UNICEF Ukraine, with administration by ISAR Ednannia; with the financial support of the EU Anti-Corruption Initiative (EUACI), funded by the EU, and co-funded and implemented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark; the International Renaissance Foundation; IREX; the Partnership Fund for a Resilient Ukraine (PFRU), funded by aid from the governments of Canada, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom; in partnership with the Ministry for Veterans Affairs and the Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
