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

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