Larysa Zhygun

Government Relations Manager, UNIC.

Larysa has 8 years of GR experience as an Advisor for Children’s Rights and Advocacy at the SOS Children’s Towns Ukraine Charitable Foundation Ukraine and an advocacy campaign coordinator at the Ukrainian Forum of Philanthropists, and extensive experience working with public authorities.

Among her main achievements, Larysa includes: coordination of development and adoption by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of a package of amendments to the current legislation of Ukraine on creating favorable conditions for the implementation of charitable telecommunications and simplification of some issues of charitable taxation, as well as close cooperation of civil society on the provision of social services, as well as participation in advocacy for the adoption of the UN General Assembly Resolution on the Rights of the Child 2019 with a focus on children left without parental care and much more.