Local initiatives on communal services improvement support

The system of community mobilisation is established.

Communities of 30 villages in 6 DESPRO target rayons mobilize community members based on the social mobilization concept and communication and mobilization technologies acquired in the DESPRO capacity development events. While developing project proposals and implementing projects, and the concrete situations in the rayons and communities following types of CBOs are forming in target communities: (a)service cooperatives , (b) self-organized bodies of population, that will further  identify the concrete legal entity or person  acting  as service provider, so called “community based enterprise” (c)NGOs – public organizations /associations that are authorized to provide necessary services through establishing their own enterprise or to assign a community based enterprise/private entrepreneur to provide services. Among the 35 partner CBOs there are 6 service cooperatives, 16 self-organized bodies of population and 13 NGOs.

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.