Capacity Building and Development

Target audiences

  • Public servants and self-governance authorities
  • National power structures representatives
  • State administrations’ representatives
  • Rayon working groups
  • Oblast, rayon and village council deputies
  • Community leaders and activists
  • Journalists



Types of  activities
 

  • Trainings for different target groups on project management and social mobilization
  • Special trainings on institutional, legal, financial and technical aspects on project implementation Explosure visits, exchange visits
  • Seminars for public servants on development and implementing the public policies based on the Swiss experience and project best practices
  • Capacity building of project partners in facts and figures

In 2008 DESPRO held 17 training sessions, including:

-4 trainings in target rayons for community leaders
-10 trainings for different target audiences – local and regional administrations, rayon working groups, accountants and technical staff of community based organizations.
-2 exchange visits between target regions
-1 explosure visit to Switzerland
A special training course, based on DESPRO best practices for public servants has been developed.
DESPRO experts provided more than 250 consultations to communities, executing the local water supply projects.

As a result, 320 target groups’ representatives have improved their knowledge and skills.

News
13:59 | 03.05.2012 During the Press-Conference, Which Took Place on 3rd May in Kyiv, DESPRO, UNDP/MGSDP and MINREGION Experts Discussed the Problems Related to Solid Waste Management
Press-Conference dedicated to “Solid Waste. Dumps in Ukraine. Does waste disaster threatens Ukraine?” took place in Information Agency “Ukrainian National News”. Mr. Oleksandr Ihnatenko, Director of the Department of Territories’ Landscaping and Communal Services, MINREGION of Ukraine, Mr. Leonid Tulovsky, Expert on Quality Control, UNDP Project “Municipal Governance and Sustainable Development Program” and Mr. Vyacheslav Sorokovsky, Expert on Decentralization, Swiss-Ukrainian project “Decentralization Support in Ukraine” took part in the press-conference.
 12:55 | 26.04.2012 DESPRO Has Conducted Training For Accountants of Service Cooperatives Dealing with Water Supply
On 25 – 26 April Swiss-Ukrainian Project “Decentralization Support in Ukraine” (DESPRO) has conducted a training “Follow-up operation of service cooperatives: metering the water; maintaining the water supply networks; relations with regulatory bodies; questions and answers” for accountants of water supply service cooperatives. 
 12:19 | 24.04.2012 Decentralization and governance
On 24th April the workshop “Decentralization and Governance” aimed at presenting and discussing of the training modules for public servants and local self-government officials took place in Hotel Complex “Puscha Lisova” (Moschun village, Kyiv Oblast).
 12:23 | 20.04.2012 Swiss-Ukrainian Project “Decentralization Support in Ukraine” (DESPRO) and Coordination Centre for Economic Reforms under the President of Ukraine have signed Memorandum on Mutual Understanding
On 20th April 2012 Swiss-Ukrainian Project “Decentralization Support in Ukraine” (DESPRO) and Coordination Centre for Economic Reforms under the President of Ukraine have signed Memorandum on Mutual Understanding.