Results achieved as of March 2016 include: (1) the project promoted greater access to election polling stations for people with disabilities through an evidence-based electoral analysis of all 1,269 polling stations in the Poltava region. The analysis was conducted by 50 monitors, including 32 women, many of whom with disabilities. An audit revealed that most polling stations are partially (41.6%) or completely (58.2%) inaccessible. The findings will be presented in a report, which will be shared with the Poltava regional state administration, the Central Electoral Commission, and other stakeholders, to provide them with recommendations on how to improve access to electoral processes for people with disabilities; (2) the project promoted transparency in political finance by working with Members of Parliament, key Parliamentary committees and civil society partners to draft a political finance reform law. The draft received positive feedback from the Parliament's Committee on Preventing and Countering Corruption, the Venice Commission, and OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and was adopted into law by Parliament on October 8, 2015. The legislation provides Ukraine with a leading political finance framework, and the project is reinforcing it with monitoring training to domestic organizations to ensure continued oversight in the future; (3) with local elections held in October 2015, a number of activities were organized to prepare election commissioners, local authorities, civil society, and the voting public for the new electoral system for local elections; (4) the project was able to train over 34,000 commissioners all over the country, produced 60,000 copies of its training video for Territorial Election Commissions (TEC) and Precinct Election Commissions (PEC), and 49,000 manuals for PEC members and; (5) a series of public discussions on election law reform were held in collaboration with local civil society organizations, and involving political parties, Members of Parliament, the Central Elections Commission and academics. These expert roundtables were intended to generate inputs for electoral law reform process, culminating in a national conference on electoral reform, held in June 2015. As a result, the project put forward a draft law on local elections to the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Policy and Judiciary.
