VILLAGE COMMUNITY COMPLETES ITS FIRST JOINT PROJECT WITH UNDP
Yerkivtsi, Kyiv Region, 3 December: For many years Yerkivtsi villagers have been suffering from disruption of water supply due to pipe-leaks. Unable to solve this problem on their own expense, in summer 2008 the local village community eagerly applied to participate in a joint EU-funded and UNDP-led Community Based Approach to Local Development Project. A year on the community celebrated the completion of the village water supply system repairs
UNDP, EU support cooperation of local authorities and communities noting successful partnership results in 400 communities around Ukraine
Kyiv, 15 October 2009 - Two years after launching of joint EU and UNDP Community Based Approach to Local Development Project (CBA), more than 400 communities already received more than UAH 80 support for their local development initiatives, with more than 470 000 benefiting of these projects. CBA Project covers all regions of Ukraine
UNDP supports exchange of best practices in local self-governance between Eastern and Western Ukraine
Around 20 local councillors from Western Ukraine cities have visited Kirovske and Artemivsk municipalities during the East-West exchange visit organised by UNDP-led "Municipal Governance and Sustainable Development Programme" with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. The mayors and local councillors learned the experience of Kirovske in establishing Federation of Associations of Co-Owners of Multi-Apartment Buildings, local policies for establishing the effective owner of residential property and examples of corporate social responsibility at the local level
Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to Ukraine Visits CBA Community in Dnipropetrovska oblast
Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to Ukraine and representatives of Embassies of Hungary, Poland, Germany and the UK visited Vodiane village of Sofiyskyi rayon, Dnipropetrovska oblast to meet the local community - one of 1000 pilot communities of the EU-funded CBA project.
School Bus for Children of 8 Eight Villages Inaugurated in Ternopil Region
The first community of CBA project in Ternopilsky region accomplidshed its micro-project “School Bus”and invited UNDP and EC Delegation leadership to visit the inauguration ceremony.