International Center for Policy Studies (ICPS)

International Center for Policy Studies (ICPS)

The International Center for Policy Studies (ICPS) is one of Ukraine’s top independent think-tanks involved in developing and analyzing public policy.
The ICPS Mission is to promote reforms, democratic principles of government, and social transformations in Ukraine on the basis of European integration. ICPS specializes in such areas a democratic governance, foreign policy, economic analysis and energy policy.
Founded in 1994, ICPS was an initiative of the Prague-based Open Society Institute (OSI) to be the first independent think-tank in Ukraine. Its mission was to analyze economic policy and prepare long-term forecasts for the Government and President of Ukraine. Over the last 19 years, ICPS has successfully completed a large number of projects, key among the more recent being:

 

• 2005: ICPS facilitated the submission to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine two bills: one to change state policy regarding the illegal dissemination of narcotic substances and the second to change the rules in existing anti-discrimination laws regarding race, nationality and ethnicity from merely declarative to effective.
• 2006 – 2009: Together with the Conference Board of Canada, ICPS carried out a series of projects to train government officials to use benchmarking methods in order to assess potential and evaluate performance.
• 2007: ICPS’s proposed vision of policy to combat illegal migration in Ukraine, especially with regard to establishing a transition period and sharing the financial burden with the EU, was taken into account when Ukraine signed a readmission treaty with the EU.
• Starting in 2001, ICPS analysts have regularly held workshops on policy analysis for government officials and NGOs in Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
• Since 2008, ICPS has been involved in developing Ukraine’s positions during Association Agreement negotiations with the EU.
• 2011: ICPS analysts developed a universal algorithm for effective implementation of reforms in Ukraine. On this basis, they prepared maps of the land, pension, education and labor reforms and a series of recommendations for regional integration and consumer protection.
• 2012: At the initiative of ICPS and in cooperation with the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council, a Civic Platform for the support of land reform was set up in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

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Current ICPS Projects

• Impact analysis on what signing an Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU and setting up a Deep Free Trade Area will do for Ukraine’s economy and individual sectors.
• Research and impact analysis of the tax reform initiatives of the Ministry of Revenues and Charges.
• A cycle of public consultations on the socio-economic transformations that will bring Ukraine more in line with the Copenhagen criteria for membership in the European Union.
• School for Leaders of Reforms, which involves setting up a network of individuals with leadership qualities who can potentially carry out reforms in the country and facilitate European integration in Ukraine.

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• The economic situation in Ukraine and forecasts for further developments;
• Eurointegration processes and the economic impact on Ukraine of the Deep Free Trade Area with the EU;
• Energy policy.

ICPS COOPERATION WITH YOUNG PROFESSIONALS: INTERNSHIPS AND RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Internships
• Fellowships

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