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Within the cooperation in methodological support, aimed at reasonable decision development, related to setting off personal income tax to local budgets, U-LEAD and SKL International have initiated a survey, targeted to investigating consequences for local budgets (in terms of the personal income tax), arising due to discrepancies between the place of residence, place of work and a place of getting infrastructure services.
The report considers the issue of rural municipality paying capacity via population participation in the economic activity. Rural municipalities of three types have been studied with the help of population in-depth interviews and representative survey.
The report highlights the main aspects of typical municipality residents’ participation, peculiarities of their paying a personal income tax and makes an attempt to assess the consequences of changing an approach to the tax setting off for local budgets.

This publication has been produced by UN Women project “Gender equality at the center of reforms, peace and security”, enabled by the financial support from Sweden. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the position of UN Women, the United Nations Organization, any of its associated organizations or the official position of the Government of Sweden.

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UN Women is the UN organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide. UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to implement these standards. It stands behind women’s equal participation in all aspects of life, focusing on five priority areas: increasing women’s leadership and participation; ending violence against women; engaging women in all aspects of peace and security processes; enhancing women’s economic empowerment; and making gender equality central to national development planning and budgeting. UN Women also coordinates and promotes the UN system’s work in advancing gender equality. This publication is produced from certified recycled materials. UN Women Ukraine fully supports the sustainable environment and contributes to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. We implement the Environmental Sustainability Code of Conduct and “green” procurement selecting the goods and services that minimize environmental impact.

The report was prepared by the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine, Ministry of Social Policy in Ukraine and State Statistics Service of Ukraine under the coordination of Natalia Gorshkova and approved by the High-Level Interministerial Working Group for implementing the SDGs in Ukraine under the chairmanship of the First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine – the Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine. Scientific support was provided by Institute for Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) office in Ukraine.

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The “Sustainable Development Goals for the Children of Ukraine” national report provides a vision of benchmarks for the development of children and youth in the context of Ukraine’s efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report provides 31 strategic targets opening valuable opportunities to take action and to strengthen efforts for the advancement of the rights of the child. In 2019, the world community marks the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is therefore advisable for the suggested first thematic report to draw the special attention of Ukrainian society to issues such as creation of conditions for harmonious development of children and youth.

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

British Embassy Kyiv

Ukrainian Centre for Social Reforms

Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine

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Gender inequality is one of the main human rights violations that manifests itself in the unequal opportunities of women and men in various domains of public life, including political representation and decision-making, economic opportunities and access to resources, empowerment in the family and vulnerability to discrimination and violence. The reasons for the unequal distribution of powers of women and men should be sought in the patriarchal norms that establish gender-based social roles and behaviour patterns accepted by the society. In the past, the gender inequality problems were perceived mostly as the ‘women’s issues’, while gender programs focused on improving the well-being of women. However, over the past decades, there has been a growing recognition of the need to involve men in promoting gender equality, in particular, through active participation in policies to combat and prevent gender-based violence. One of the ways to start the discussion about the role, responsibilities and potential of men in advancing gender equality is to study the culture of masculinity, as it is responsible for determining and entrenchment of the prevailing men’s roles, patterns of behaviour and attitudes. In this way, we recognize that the evolvement of masculine identity is under the permanent pressure of society requiring that men’s behaviour should meet certain expectations and norms. Men’s socialization starts in the early childhood and faces many impacts, including upbringing and observation of marital relations in the parents’ family, school environment and relations with peers, information environment and the mass media. Widely accepted norms of male behaviour also determine what traits, attitudes and lifestyle patterns are expected from modern men by the society; these norms are not always favourable to their social well-being and quality of life. In particular, aggression and predisposition to violence are often perceived by most people as the negative aspects of manhood and masculine identity. This research and publication of the report were supported by the UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund and the UK Government in cooperation with the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine. The findings, conclusions and recommendations. in this report do not necessarily coincide with the official positions of UNFPA or the UK Government.

International Labour Organization

Ukrainian Centre for Social Reforms

State Statistics Service of Ukraine

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This report contains the results of the survey on child labour in Ukraine conducted by the Ukrainian Centre for Social Reforms1 jointly with the State Statistics Service of Ukraine2 and the Centre «Social Monitoring» (Annex F) with the technical assistance of the International Labour Organization (ILO). The purpose of the survey is to expand the knowledge base and improve data on child labour in Ukraine as a part of the national strategy of the elimination of child labour, especially its worst forms. The survey methodology is based on the Resolution concerning statistics of child labour approved at the 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (2008). The statistical basis of the survey is the results of the Modular Sample population (household) survey on child labour in Ukraine3 (hereinafter referred to as the Modular Child Labour Survey) conducted by the State Statistics Service of Ukraine in October-December 2014 as an attachment to the permanent population (households) sample survey on issues of economic activity (hereinafter referred to as the Labour Force Survey). Modular Sample population (household) survey provided the reliable quantitative estimate of child labour in Ukraine which is representative for the entire territory of Ukraine excluding the temporary occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol City. The second source of information for the estimates was the sociological survey of 402 children working on the street (hereinafter referred as a rapid assessment) was conducted by the Centre «Social Monitoring» in March 31-April 14, 2015 and May 08-28, 2015 in 13 regions of Ukraine. The results of the sociological survey yield information of prime importance on the situation with regard to child labour among the most vulnerable categories of children – children working on the street. However, the estimates obtained based on this information are qualitative characteristics and cannot be in absolute terms extrapolated to the entire sample of children in Ukraine who worked on the street.

This research and report publishing were supported by the UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund and Department for International Development of the Government of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (DFID). Report findings, conclusions and recommendations do not represent the official position of UNFPA or DFID.

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Violence against women is one of the most prevalent forms of discrimination and a major violation of human rights taking roots in historically unequal power relations between women and men. Besides being directly harmful to health and well-being of survivors, violence against women yields significant costs for the society measured by monetary, labour and non-material losses, and has short-term, long-term or postponed effects. The economic costs of violence against women are burdening different actors in a society, including survivors of violence, their abusers and family members, employers that face losses due to disability of employees, public and non-governmental organizations that provide services to survivors, insurance funds and budgets of different levels, all taxpayers, and all in all the entire economy. Indirect costs linked with negative emotional effects of violence (e.g. stress disorders, psychological damage to children who witnessed violence, broken survivors’ family relations and decreased quality of life) cannot be currently measured in terms of economic equivalent.

Gender-based violence (GBV) is regarded among the most common human rights violations, occurring all over the world. According to empirical evidence, GBV disproportionately affects women because of the unequal distribution of powers and resources between women and men, women’s economic vulnerability and their dependent position in the family. Women and girls are not only facing high risks of GBV, but suffer from a lack of capacity and resources needed to prevent or avoid situations of GBV, to seek justice and support. They are also particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of violence, including unwanted pregnancy, unsafe abortions and the issues of reproductive health, the risk of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV infection. Psychological stress and attributes of post-traumatic syndrome can lead to long-term negative consequences that affect all dimensions of women’s lives.

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The study was conducted by experts of the Ukrainian Centre for Social Reforms in the government-controlled areas of Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts, and in Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kharkiv oblasts hosting the main inflow of IDPs. The fieldwork was implemented by the permanent network of interviewers of the sociological agency “Centre for Social Monitoring” in September and October of 2015. To assess respondents’ personal experience of GBV and to estimate and compare their vulnerability to manifestations of violence during the conflict, two target groups of respondents were selected: women among IDPs and women among permanent population of the regions. The survey was conducted by specially trained interviewers in accordance with all technical standards and ethical considerations of similar surveys; to raise population awareness of GBV and provide referrals in cases of need, relevant information on the available services for GBV survivors was updated in all regions covered by the survey. The results of the study translated into a range of recommendations and proposals for further development of policies on GBV which can be applied at different levels of decision-making by representatives of various sectors and institutions of civil society involved in GBV response.

The Ukraine Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) was carried out in 2012 by the State Statistics Service in collaboration with the Ukrainian Institute for Social Reforms and StatInformConsulting. Financial and technical support was provided by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Swiss Cooperation Office in Ukraine (SDC) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). MICS is an international household survey programme developed by UNICEF. The Ukraine MICS was conducted as part of the fourth global round of MICS surveys (MICS4). MICS provides up-to-date information on the situation of children and women and measures key indicators that allow countries to monitor progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other internationally agreed upon commitments. Additional information on the global MICS project may be obtained from HYPERLINK www.childinfo.org.

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Suggested citation: State Statistics Service and Ukrainian Center for Social Reforms, 2013. Ukraine Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2012, Final Report. Kyiv, Ukraine: State Statistics Committee and the Ukrainian Center for Social Reforms.

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The main purpose of the research was to study features of the population ageing process in Ukraine as relevant to women, peculiarities and characteristics of the socio-economic situation of older women, to identify and substantiate their social and economic needs and challenges, to develop conceptual grounds and strategic directions of state policy concerning older women, to suggest practical and feasible actions at the policy and service delivery levels to improve the quality of life and social well-being of older women in Ukraine.