OSCE launches public awareness campaign on citizen-state interaction in Ukraine

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) launched a public awareness campaign on communicating with public officials on 22 December 2011.

The two-week campaign is aimed at informing citizens about the available means for communicating with state authorities, and the responsibility of public servants to respond to citizens’ requests and appeals.

Two social video ads produced as part of a project on raising public awareness of human rights and human rights protection mechanisms, will be screened at more than 30 cinemas in six major cities - Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Donetsk and Lviv. 

The cinema campaign is part of a wider initiative that also includes awareness-raising activities for young people as well as training programmes for public servants and representatives of civil society organizations aimed at strengthening their capacity to effectively interact with each other. 

It is expected that the public awareness campaign will increase the knowledge of more than 250,000 people on the mechanisms for interaction between citizens and civil servants.

The social ads are available on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkyJ0RIySiY