RANG strengthens the capacity of MPs and their teams to report to voters

On June 7-9, the USAID RADA: Next Generation Program conducted training on "Activities and Reporting of a Member of Parliament of Ukraine" for MP teams in Lviv Oblast.

35 people, including MPs Natalya Pipa, Halyna Vasylchenko, Pavlo Bakunets and their assistants, as well as Roman Lozynskyi's team, participated in the workshops.

The Program's training aims to strengthen the representative function of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Under martial law, it is crucial for parliamentarians to maintain active communication and interaction with voters, so the training focused on reporting.

During the 3-days workshop, participants:

• deepened their knowledge of the legal framework for MPs' activities, in particular, in constituencies;
• discussed the peculiarities of the lawmaking process and legislative technique in Ukraine;
• analyzed the tools for interaction with voters;
• learned foreign approaches and examples of MPs' reporting;
• worked out the matrix for preparing the report.

The teams of MPs also identified the merits and demerits of different types of reporting and practiced planning and implementing such reports during interactive and group tasks.