Data Collection
Working with open sources, public statements, official communications, and available datasets.
The organization applies a structured approach to collecting, verifying, analyzing, and publicly presenting information. The work is based on open sources, ensuring transparency and verifiability of results.
The methodology includes several consecutive stages: fact collection, information verification, data structuring, analytical processing, and preparation of materials for public use.
Special attention is given not only to individual events, but also to identifying patterns, causal relationships, and long-term trends. This approach allows the organization to create outputs that have both informational and analytical value.
Verification
Validating information, clarifying context, and checking against primary sources.
Structuring
Turning scattered facts into databases, rankings, timelines, and analytical categories.
Analysis
Identifying trends, comparisons, dynamics, and causal relationships.
Publication
Presenting results through articles, infographics, ratings, and visual explainers.
Monitoring Rules
How Public Promise Tracking Works
The monitoring methodology is based on publicity, verifiability, and systematic tracking of public statements. Public commitments by officials and politicians are analyzed when they contain specific content and can be verified through open sources or official data.
Recording a Promise
Analysts monitor official websites, public statements, media, social networks, election programs, coalition agreements, government programs, and action plans. A promise is a statement in which a person undertakes to do or not do a specific action within their official, political, party, moral, or civic position.
Inclusion Criteria
Statements are included when they are specific enough for further verification. Announcements of actions already taken, humorous or ironic wording, and vague statements without a defined role of the subject are not treated as promises, except when they are part of a program document.
Tracking Implementation
After a promise is recorded, its actual implementation status is checked. If wording requires clarification, the content may be assessed through additional context, program documents, official decisions, or expert evaluation of available actions.
Statuses and Deadlines
Promises may receive the statuses “fulfilled”, “in progress”, “not fulfilled”, or be moved to the archive. For statements with a defined deadline, meeting that deadline is essential. For statements without a clear date, monitoring continues within the subject’s term of office or until sufficient grounds appear to change the status.
Archive and Appeals
Promises may be moved to the archive when their fulfillment depends on circumstances that have not occurred, cannot be verified due to access restrictions, or has lost its subject of verification. A promise status may be reviewed when documented evidence is provided.
Key Provisions of the Rules
“Slovo i Dilo” tracks promises by the President of Ukraine and the leadership of the Office of the President, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, the Prime Minister, Cabinet members, heads of key law-enforcement and anti-corruption bodies, the heads of the Security Service and National Bank, members of parliament, regional state administration heads, regional council heads, and mayors of regional centers. Research subjects may change depending on public interest.
A promise is a public statement according to which a person is expected to do or not do something based on their official duties, political, party, moral, or civic position. To find and record promises, analysts systematically monitor party websites, personal websites, politicians’ social media pages, public media statements, election programs, coalition agreements, government programs, and Cabinet action plans.
Only promises that contain specific content and can be verified are recorded. If fulfillment is outside the subject’s authority, this is noted separately. Announcements of actions already taken, humorous, sarcastic, or ironic statements, and vague statements without a defined role of the subject are not counted as promises, except when they appear in a program document.
After a promise is recorded, analysts track its implementation. If a vague promise requires clarification, a request to the author or expert assessment based on available actions, documents, and context may be used. Government officials’ promises are detailed with reference to government programs and action plans.
A promise with a specific implementation date is considered fulfilled only if the deadline is met. For statements without precise chronological boundaries, working rules are applied: “several days” is treated as a working week, “a week” as seven working days, “a month” as 31 days, “a quarter” as three months, “half a year” as six months, and “a year” as 365 days from the date of the statement.
A promise status may change during the subject’s term of office. If there are signs of real movement toward fulfillment, such as a working group, documentation, an estimate, or a registered bill, the promise may receive the status “in progress”. If there are no such signs, it may receive the preliminary status “not fulfilled”.
The final status “fulfilled” is assigned when the promised result has actually been implemented or can be used. For promises connected with parliamentary voting, each reading is considered separately, while the final vote on the decision as a whole is decisive. Alternative bills and amendments are also taken into account.
Promises may be moved to the archive if their fulfillment depends on circumstances that have not occurred, if the person has left office, if it becomes clear that the necessary actions were taken before the statement was made, or if verification is impossible due to legal restrictions on access to information. Appeals may challenge only the implementation status, and the final status decision remains with the platform’s editorial team.