Topics: Institutional Development, Policy

Implementation period: January 2024 - March 2025.

Client: The European Union

Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine (MCIP) capacity-building project

RES-POL focuses on 4 sectors: cultural heritage, arts and culture, creative industries, and media, as well as 10 material issues of cultural development.

Expected Outcomes

• Institutional readiness of the MCIP and its Agencies to leverage Ukraine’s EU pre-accession
• Improved functional policy making capabilities of the MCIP

Specific Objectives

• Update policy profiles for key policy areas (arts, heritage, creative industries, and media), outline critical intervention areas and the role of the Ministry and partners in ecosystem.
• Design development pathways for the key sectors (arts, cultural heritage, creative industries, and media) to be supported by the respective operational programmes linked to Ukraine's EU accession, updated policy tools, and monitoring, evaluation, and learning system.
• Elaborate implementation roadmaps for the policies, strategies, and operational programmes, and increase implementation capacity of the Ministry.

The RES-POL team aims to consolidate the voice of the expert community in the process of developing media and cultural policy. The experts will also work on proposals for legislative changes. The project is implemented in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy.

The project already involves:

• Yulia Fediv, expert on policy harmonization, cultural and media manager, UNESCO consultant, advisor to the chairman of the board of the Public, director of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation (2018-2021)
• Volodymyr Vorobey, head of the project expert group, director of the PPV Economic Development Agency;
• Alona Karavai, key expert in the culture and arts sector, art manager, co-founder of the Insha Osvita;
• Olga Sahaidak, key expert in the cultural heritage sector, cultural manager and producer of art projects, co-founder of the DOFA Fund.
• Halyna Shyyan, key expert in the creative industries sector, writer, translator, strategic communications specialist, entrepreneur;
• Olena Pravylo, key expert on stakeholder engagement, head of the Congress of Cultural Activists.

To participate in the project, please fill out this form, we will definitely consider it.

 Budget of the project is 802 297 euros

Read more about RES-POL at

• the RES-POL page on Facebook,
• Project news (UA);

The project is implemented by the "Center for Regional Development", a public union of the Economic Development Agency PPV.

This publication was produced with the financial support of the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of the Public Union "Center for Regional Development" and do not necessarily reflect the  views of the European Union.