At the 1st International Conference on Public Administration Reform in Lviv, organized and held by the EU-funded EU4PAR Project implemented by CPM, the world-renowned Director of the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, Dr. Francis Fukuyama, attended as special guest speaker and presented his new book ‘Identity’. The Conference was aimed at public-private dialogue activization for transforming the public administration of Ukraine, primarily through exchange of international best practices and their advocacy on the national and regional level, raising awareness of innovative instruments for the engagement of citizens in the decision-making process, and ensuring accountability and transparency of governance.

Among the 200 participants were representatives of the Diplomatic corpus, several Government and regional officials, representatives of international organizations and the non-governmental sector, representatives of international technical assistance and leading international experts from Georgia, Estonia, Norway and the USA.