On May 27, a public discussion "Access of youth and youth public organizations to information about the activities of local authorities on youth affairs" was held in the conference hall of the "Prosvita" people's house in Lutsk. \n \n40 representatives of youth public organizations and student self-government bodies from Volyn and Lviv regions, as well as authorities on youth affairs, took part in the event. \nWithin the framework of the event, issues of problems of access of youth and youth organizations to information about youth programs and their funding were discussed. \nProject manager "Implementation and protection of the right to information about youth programs" Yaroslav Khauliak presented the results of public monitoring of the content of websites of authorities on youth affairs, a list of "closed topics" on which authorities least want to inform in passive and active access to information. As Yaroslav Khauliak noted, "the trends are such that authorities either publish or provide general information, and the most closed is information about funding competitions, decision-making, implementation and reporting on budget funds designated for youth programs." \nHead of the Association of Young Reformers Mykhailo Shelep presented the results of the first and repeated monitoring of access of Volyn youth to information about youth programs and their funding. In particular, he pointed out shortcomings in the information content of websites that prevent organizations from obtaining information regarding participation in funding and implementation of programs for youth. Mykhailo also noted that in November, after conducting the first monitoring, the organization had already addressed proposals to the authorities regarding improving access to information, receiving assurances that the websites would be brought into compliance with the legislation of Ukraine. However, after six months, the authorities had actually done nothing. \nHead of the Department for Family and Youth Affairs of the Lutsk City Council Ihor Huz and Deputy Head of the Department for Family, Youth and Sports of the Volyn Regional State Administration Ihor Dmytryshyn pointed to the problems of funding programs for youth during the economic crisis, and assured that the proposals of public organizations and the results of monitoring would be taken into account. The Department for Family, Youth and Sports of the Volyn Regional State Administration is one of the few youth departments in Ukraine that has its own website, and therefore Ihor Dmytryshyn indicated that it is possible to improve its content. Ihor Huz emphasized that work is underway to update the section of the council's website on youth issues. He also assured that by June 28 of this year, a separate web page of the Department for Family and Youth Affairs of the Lutsk City Council would be presented, which would cover all issues that interest young people about the activities of authorities. \nIryna Omelchuk, executive director of the Association for the Protection of Youth Rights of Volyn, spoke about the experience of their public organization in obtaining information about the activities of local self-government bodies in the Volyn region. \nParticipant in the discussion, member of the Student Council of LNTU Bohdan Komodzynskyi indicated that "general information about the authority on youth affairs can still be found, it is known to everyone, but information about which programs exist, which funds are spent on their implementation from budgets would be very interesting." \nAlso, the head of the Committee for Support of Student Self-Government Tetiana Yatskiv noted that "youth and youth organizations, like other residents of the city or region, have the right to information held by the authority on youth affairs, including receiving information about where and for what the taxes they pay go. Authorities must publish such information independently on websites, because equality of access of youth and youth public organizations and participation in such programs depends on this. This should become a normal practice, so that youth organizations do not each time have the need to use active methods of obtaining information, including complaining to higher instances, challenging unlawful refusals in court." \nAmong the information that young people would like to see on websites, as well as receive in a timely manner and in full through active access to information, participants in the public discussion in groups identified the following: normative legal acts, provisions that determine the activities of authorities, as well as competitions and the procedure for implementing programs, work plans and events, at least announcements for each month, reports on implemented events and reports on funds, the budget provided for the implementation of programs and the work of authorities on youth issues, biographical information about the leadership, current contact data, including the possibility of communication via electronic mailbox, the procedure for holding competitions, transparent and understandable criteria and results of competitions and programs. \nThe event was held by the Committee for Support of Student Self-Government in partnership with the Association of Young Reformers (AMoRe) and the Center for Public Advocacy with the support of the "Rule of Law" program of the International Renaissance Foundation. \nThe project "Implementation and protection of the right to information about youth programs" aims to improve the implementation of the right of access to information about youth programs and their funding, training and activation of organizations in the implementation of the right to information