CBA aims to establish a resource centre within the oblast framework and train at least one of its staffs in the methodology propagated by the Project. This way, the oblast body will retain institutional memory and use the centre more widely even after the Project ends. Therefore, CBA Project insists that the office premises should be located within the premises of the oblast or any of its departments that is located in the city

Framework of CBA Project allows the money to go directly to the community organizations

CBA expects technical departments to assist community organizations in preparing project documents. In case, such capacity does not exist then community can look for external sources. Cost of such a source may be included in the project proposal. The cost could be borne by the community as a part of its share or CBA can pay it

CBA requires community organization to have its own account. It is mandatory

It is not necessary to create additional community organization, if already there exists one. CBA Project adopts the principle of grafting to adopt such existing organizations, after making an assessment. If the existing organization satisfies all the requirements, then it can be adopted for CBA support

In general it is not possible for CBA Project to accept already identified projects. CBA Project needs to ensure that the community has gone through proper process to reach the level of financing. Thus, strict assessment must be done before making any commitment from the Project side

Yes, provision is there for joint decision making during rayon selection

Cost sharing from community is mandatory. It should not be substituted by someone else. Because cost sharing creates ownership among the community members towards the project and they will be motivated to maintain it in future. Moreover, community members in CIDP, CRDP, and MGSDP area share 13% - 40% of the project cost. It shows that people will be able to share 5%

Support of UAH 50,000 per community project up to 5 projects/rayon or 40 projects/oblast is concrete support from the CBA Project. Besides, there is capacity building support including training, visits, equipments etc

It depends on complexity of the project. It could be less than or more than a year. However, it is always better to complete the work in a year

The amount per project is fixed as UAH 50,000. It could be less than UAH 50,000 for projects costing less than UAH 100,000 while it will be UAH 50,000 for projects costing more than UAH 100,000. Also, additional project possible under strict conditions

It could any form provided the CO will be eligible to receive fund into its account, handover the communal property to related department as necessary and be able to raise income, through users’ fee, to maintain the system/infrastructure

It should be in Hryvnias

It will be done through mainstreaming of community plans, parallel funding, cost sharing arrangement