ZERO CORRUPTION CONFERENCE, KYIV, APRIL 25–27, 2020
Zero Corruption Conference aims to bring together agents of change from civil society, media, government, law enforcement and judiciary agencies, as well as broader international anti-corruption community. Scheduled from April 25-27, 2020 in Kyiv, and including a visit to Chornobyl, the conference will provide a venue for a high-profile international discussion on issues of corruption and money laundering, and their intersection with global security, environmental and public health challenges.
During Day 1 of the conference, agents of change will gather to share success stories, challenges and failures of their journey to the zero corruption future in the form of 10-minutes speeches.
Afterwards, participants will split into several parallel workshop groups to dive deeper into specific topics:
- Judicial and anticorruption reforms in transition democracies: how to build independent zero corruption institutions?
- Asset declarations of public officials, state registries and other open data: 10 must haves to make this data an effective watchdog tool.
- Advocacy campaigns: non-conventional approaches and secrets which make national, regional or global campaigns successful.
- Cracking down the organized crime and kleptocratic trans-border networks together: how can investigative journalists, watchdogs and law enforcement agencies cooperate?
- Whitewashing reputation of kleptocrats and oligarchs: why it is dangerous and how to tackle the problem?
- Protect the asset - protect yourself. How to run a change-makers marathon and meantime survive and even thrive.
- Illicit financial flows and illegal trade in grey zones of military conflicts and occupation: how to track and expose. Cases of Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova.
During Day 2 all participants will visit Chornobyl and participate in the discussion “Has the World Learned from Chornobyl?” and during Day 3 they will join high level discussions with heads of state, decision makers and change makers from Ukraine and overseas.
Issues to address during the political high-level panel discussions:
- Corruption as a global security risk.
- Reforming national and international criminal justice systems.
- Strengthening global anti-money laundering efforts.
- Corruption impacting national and global energy reforms.
- Regional and global environmental threats and corruption.
- Public health reform and how to manage vested interests in the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries.
- Woman in action for Zero Corruption Future: strengthening gender perspectives.
- Church against сorruption: strengthening moral power for better world.