On Friday, 1st December the Ukrainian Crisis Media Centre held presentation event of analytics report titled “War without Rules: Gender-Based Violence in the Context of the Armed Conflict in Eastern Ukraine”. During the presentation, the authors of the report revealed that there are over twenty places of illegal detention on the temporarily occupied territory. People who happened to be detained systematically and purposefully went through gender, namely sexual, violence.

Recently a presentation of graphic novel ‘The Crossroad: 9 Stories About the War and Violence’ took place at Start, former movie theatre in Toretsk. The publication is the first graphic novel in Ukraine, which tells about tough life stories of people in Crimea and Donbas living along both sides of the demarcation line.

Within the framework of ‘Use of evaluation processes for efficient management of united communities’ project we conducted two seminars. 24 participants from 7 regions of Ukraine participated in the event; we invited representatives of 8 communities and 8 evaluators from Ukraine, we made evaluation researches within 8 communities, and finally, we invited all concerned to join the conference titled ‘Efficient Communities Management Through Evaluation Processes’.

Today, on 20th December presentation of analytics report titled “War without Rules: Gender-Based Violence in the Context of the Armed Conflict in Eastern Ukraine” took place at Siverskyi Donets Crisis Media Centre.

‘Use of Evaluation Processes for Efficient Management of United Communities’ conference took place On Monday 20th November in Kyiv, organized by the Democratic Society East (DSE) (Warsaw, Poland) and the East Ukrainian Centre for Civic Initiatives (Kyiv, Ukraine). Nearly 50 people from united territorial communities in the East of Ukraine participated in the conference. Some of the participants also took part in the ‘Use of Evaluation Processes for Efficient Management of United Communities’ project.

The launch of graphic novel consisting of short stories titled ‘The Crossroad: 9 Stories About the War and Violence’ took place on Monday, 23rd October in Kiev. Project coordinators, community leaders and artists who contributed to the creation of the graphic novel, as well as stakeholders took part in the event.

A workshop for Ukrainian evaluation experts took place on 30 July-1 August in Chernihiv. A year earlier, the same experts participated in ‘Evaluation of Public Policies in Action’ - a joint Ukrainian-Polish project. Eight evaluators from Poltava, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions took part in the event. This year’s workshop was dedicated to ex-ante evaluation of the projects.