During the International Conference “For Smarter Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements” organized in Geneva on 14-15 December 2015, Ukrainian delegation has presented the outputs of UNDP/EU Project “Community Based Approach to Local Development” (CBA) in the areas of sustainable development, fostering an effective dialog between the local communities and authorities, as well as demonstrated possible approaches to solving the issues of socially vulnerable groups and shared other project achievements. Oksana Remiga, Senior Programme Manager, and Oleksandr Riabyi, Community Development Specialist, were the members of Ukrainian delegation.

The Ukrainian delegation also learnt about successful experience of the partner countries in e-governance, administrative on-line services, real estate registration system, and housing and utilities sector management. Apart from that, the participating countries also discussed social housing, migration, and ways to reduce urban environmental stress.

An important topic discussed was sustainable development principles and indicators for the next ten years; it was recommended that these indicators to be employed as a basis when strategies and master plans on development of cities and countries are developed.

The follow-up step is to organize a national level conference on smart cities to make the best world practices of sustainable development known to wide Ukrainian public so that these practices could be applied in pilot projects by the partner cities.