The International Renaissance Foundation (IRF) is one of Ukraine’s largest charities, aiming at fostering an open, participatory, pluralist society based on democratic values. IRF is part of the Open Society Foundations network, established by investor and philanthropist George Soros.
IRF provides support to civil society’s contributions to fighting corruption, protecting human rights and civil liberties, designing, implementing, and monitoring reforms in the areas of decentralization, deregulation, education, and public health ), improving quality of public policy-making, facilitating access to justice and unpaid legal aid, and access to public information.
Honorary Member of the Centre for European Policy Analysis, YES Special gathering in Kyiv on February 24th, 2025 “Three Years — Time to Win”
«The root causes of this war are Vladimir Putin’s false historical narrative that Ukraine does not exist and that Russia has a right as an imperial power to rule other countries and deny other people their own agency. That is an imperial and genocidal mania, and that is the reason we have this war.»