The project “Strengthening the capacity of legal clinics for people’s access to legal services in Ukrainian communities” was attended by 13 teams

Publication date: May 29, 2025

We are pleased to inform you that the competition committee has completed the selection of teams participating in the project “Strengthening the capacity of legal clinics for people’s access to legal services in Ukrainian communities”.

In total, we received 16 applications from human rights organizations and legal clinics at higher education institutions from 9 regions of Ukraine.

We are grateful to each team for their motivation, desire to develop and professionally help people in times full of challenges and trials.

After a detailed study of the information about the applied teams, the competition committee recommended inviting the following to participate in the project:

• NGO “Sumy region. The Frontier of Opportunities“;
• Luhansk Regional Public Human Rights Women’s Organization ‘Chaika’;
• Legal Clinic of Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University;
• NGO ”Mіst Azov“;
• Legal Clinic of Kherson State University;
• NGO ”All-Ukrainian Independent Human Rights Council”;
• Legal Clinic of Sumy Branch of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs;
• Legal Clinic of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University;
• Specialized Legal Clinic on War-related Issues of Sumy State University;
• Legal Clinic “EQUILIBRIUM” of the Penitentiary Academy of Ukraine;
• Legal Clinic of the Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding;
• Legal Clinic of Zaporizhzhia National University;
• Legal Clinic of Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University.

The teams have already met each other and the mentors who will accompany them throughout the project. Next, they will have networking meetings, an interesting and intensive training program that will help them reach a new level of providing legal aid to those in need.

The initiative “Strengthening the capacity of legal clinics to provide people with access to legal services in Ukrainian communities” is being implemented by the Legal Development Network NGO with the assistance of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Ukraine and financial support from the Government of Denmark.

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