After the failed attempt of deputies of Skadovsk City Council to liquidate public institution "Centre for the provision of free primary legal aid in Skadovsk City Council of Skadovsk district, Kherson region" (hereinafter – the Center), it continues to operate successfully and provide local residents with quality legal aid.

Continuing the practice of community policing, on January 6, 2017 in the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi a regular joint advanced reception of citizens was held, in which the head of Kamyanets-Podilskyi Police Department Borys Sushytskyi and his deputies, the head of the Investigation Department Volodymyr Neguliaev, chief inspectors Valeryi Fridrich, Serhyi Prybaten, as well as the lawyer of Kamianets-Podilskyi office of the Legal Development Network Maksym Romaniuk participated.

Reform of power decentralization in Ukraine is a great concern of professional lawyers of Legal Development Network: in January, Stanislav human rights group became an active participant in the events dedicated to the creation of the United Territorial Community (UTC) in Ivano-Frankivsk region.

Lawyers of Kovel Office of Legal Development Network help the pensioner pursue justice for the years of problems, which the woman suffered through the fault of two municipal agencies. The first victory is a moral compensation in the amount of 7 thousand UAH.

The deceived inhabitant of the Carpathian region managed to recover the funds he had paid the fraudulent organization allegedly for the purchase of a tractor on credit only in the court.

Within 5 years the specialists of Chuhuiv human rights group provided legal aid to a man of venerable age, who fought for his right to preferential pension. 

In December of last year a first-year student of the faculty of physical education of the Donbass State Pedagogical University Dmytro Vasilishyn* addressed Slovyansk office of the Legal Development Network.

The workers of the Chernihiv NGO "Bahtalo Drom" helped the Roma pensioner avoid deportation and obtain a document that allows her to legally stay on the territory of Ukraine.

On December 17, 2016 the delegation of human rights defenders visited the city of Zmiyiv and Shelud'kivka village, Kharkiv region. The visit was planned and focused on the detailed study of the situation around one of the Roma families, which the local residents threatened with eviction

The staff of the Center for legal aid to Roma*, which operates in Pervomaisk Charity Fund "Nivo Drom" helped the family with many children obtain a birth certificate of a little boy, to make the adoption process by his father and undergo treatment.

OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine will present the first in the state public online course "How to effectively plan and conduct a dialogue". A course is developed with the support of donor governments of the project "Dialogue for reforms and social cohesion in Ukraine".

Kovel students received the necessary knowledge and motivation to resolve conflicts between students in a nonviolent way and improve the atmosphere in schools in the framework of the training "School Agreement Service". Participants received basic skills of mediation and prepared to resolve disputes in an academic environment.

Disputes over land boundaries between neighbours are one of the most difficult to resolve, because the parties to the conflict primarily are guided by emotions. Therefore, in resolving such situations lawyers of Legal Development Network prefer tre-trial method - mediation.

Payment of cost of training for the ATO participants is carried out according to the Program 2505170 "Activities for social and professional adaptation of the participants of the antiterrorist operation (except for the military men transferred to the reserve or resignation)" and the order of use of funds is envisaged in the state budget for implementation of measures for social and professional adaptation of the participants of the antiterrorist operation (except for the military men transferred to the reserve or resignation), the approved resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine from 31.03.2015, No. 179.

On January 25, 2017 in Bila Tserkva a training for employees of local centers providing free secondary legal aid and Legal Aid Bureau office in Kyiv region on the theme: "Providing legal aid to ATO participants and their families: current issues, problems and ways of their solution" was held.