---
title: Civil Network OPORA
type: advocacy
status: active
country: UA
website: https://oporaua.org/en
logo: /assets/org-logos/opora.png
contact:
  checked: 2026-08-01
  email: info@opora.org.ua
  source: https://oporaua.org/en/page/contacts
summary: Ukraine's leading non-partisan election observation organisation — monitoring
  elections since 2006, conducting parliamentary oversight, and co-founding the European
  Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE).
concepts:
- representative-democracy
- accountability-sink
- radical-transparency
location:
  latitude: 50.4501
  longitude: 30.5234
  name: Kyiv, Ukraine
news_page: https://oporaua.org/en/announce
events:
- date: '2004-01-01'
  title: Founded as an independent civil network for election observation and civic
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PORA
  quote: The group was established in 2004 (as only a civic youth organization) to
    coordinate young people's opposition to the Kuchma government
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-20'
  notable: true
- date: '2004-11-21'
  title: Deployed 1,000+ observers for Ukraine's presidential election, documenting
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PORA
  quote: pro-democracy movements such as Pora! had created political networks throughout
    Ukraine, including 150 groups responsible for spreading information and coordinating
    election monitoring, 72 regional centers, and 30,000 registered participants.
    This allowed Pora! to mobilize protesters after widespread reports of electoral
    fraud.
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-20'
  notable: true
activity:
  dod:
    checked: 2026-06-29
    date: 2026-06-29
    note: Website confirmed active, with recent reports on voter registration amid
      wartime migration and a January 2026 analysis of the challenges of holding a
      referendum on territorial changes.
    url: https://oporaua.org/en/announce
  rss:
    checked: 2026-08-17
    note: No feed found
  scrape:
    date: 2026-08-06
    note: Latest news page scraped
    url: https://oporaua.org/en/announce
    checked: 2026-08-17
last_checked: '2026-06-29'
---

Civil Network OPORA is Ukraine's primary independent election observation and civic oversight organisation, founded in 2006. It conducts comprehensive long-term and short-term election observation for presidential, parliamentary, and local elections, and publishes detailed analytical reports on each electoral cycle.

OPORA co-founded the **European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE)** in 2012, a network of Eastern European and Eurasian election observation organisations. Alongside election monitoring, OPORA conducts parliamentary activity analysis and advocacy for electoral reforms aligned with international democratic standards.

## What they do

- Long-term election observation and monitoring
- Parliamentary activity analysis
- Electoral reform advocacy
- Social media analysis and documentation of information environment
- Post-war election preparation advocacy

## Links

- Website: [oporaua.org/en](https://oporaua.org/en)

## See also

- [Representative Democracy](../concepts/representative-democracy.md)
- [Accountability Sink](../concepts/accountability-sink.md)
- [Radical Transparency](../concepts/radical-transparency.md)