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Strategic area:

Facilitating community
development
the project objective is strengthening ca- • In October-november, each community had
pacity of local self-government bodies and 3 meetings of the working groups, carried
civil society organizations in the strategic out survey among community residents to
planning sphere using successful practic- take their opinion into consideration for for-
es of Polish local self-government bodies. mulating concepts of the strategies

supporting local • For members of the working groups as well
as proactive community members, a one-day
Within the framework of the project:
self-government training on participation was held in no-
• Regional forums on strategic planning and vember
reform – an all-Ukrainian conference were held • On December 2-6, six representatives of the

introducing • Consultative and trainer work was carried communities visited communities in Lublin
out in the communities for drafting commu- voivodeship, Poland.
participatory nity development strategies
model of • Study visits to Poland were organized for Regional partners of the project in Ukraine:
representatives of Ukrainian communities
strategic • CSO European Dialog (Lviv)
planning in • Siverskii Institute of Regional Studies
The project encompassed rural, village and (Chernihiv)
communities town united territorial communities – 20 UTCs
in total (4 communities from each of Lviv, Kyiv, • CSO POlicy Analysis Bureau (Sumy)
of northern, Poltava, Sumy, and Chernihiv regions).
• Charity organization Foundation for Re-
southern, central The project partner was the Foundation for Lo- gional and Local Development “Synergy”
cal Democracy Development (Poland). (Poltava).
and western
• As a result of the project implementation:
Ukraine The project was co-funded within the frame-
• Two communities in Kyiv region (Divych- work of the Program for Cooperation in the
kivska and Studenykivska united commu- Development Sphere Polish Assistant of the
nities) created working groups for drafting Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of
community development strategies Poland.

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