Research Center for Regional Security joined the Swiss-Ukrainian project "Support of Decentralization in Ukraine".
Project Background
By signing the European Charter of Local Self-Government in 1997, Ukraine declared its recognition not only of the European principles of democratic governance, but has assumed certain obligations related to reforms in the field and their legislative support. Practical implementation of European principles of good governance and promote further decentralization of power implies active involvement of international best practices. In 2005 a formal request to the President of Ukraine Government of Switzerland for Swiss assistance in decentralization Swiss Cooperation Office (SCO / SDC) supported the project "Decentralization Support in Ukraine» DESPRO.
DESPRO - a Swiss-Ukrainian project "Decentralization Support in Ukraine", funded by the Swiss Confederation through the Swiss Cooperation Office (SCO / SDC) and implemented by the Swiss Resource Centre and Consultancies for Development (Skat).
The mission of the project is to optimize the management system and promoting effective local development in Ukraine, which in turn will create a new momentum for democratic processes and service delivery at the community level.
The project involves three phases: phase I (2007-2010), Phase II (2010-2013) and Phase III (2013-2017).
The aim of the first phase of the project consisted in establishing models for decentralized public services at district, village and municipal levels that can be played and should be adopted and approved at the region and state as a whole.
The task of the second phase of the project DESPRO:
• Improvement of service quality and access in the target areas.
• Implementation of effective models of management experience / knowledge sector of decentralization and local governance.
• Support for the development of national reform of decentralization and local governance.
Phase III of the project DESPRO:
Objective 1. Implement sustainable models of decentralized service delivery, development of mechanisms for decentralized service delivery at the level of small towns and villages targeted locations, their integration into national processes in decentralization reforms to further spread to other regions.
Task 2. Promoting the implementation of reforms on decentralization and local governance in Ukraine, providing advisory support for decentralization and local government reform key institutions and national associations of local governments, based on the accumulated during the project implementation experience to provide services at the local level cooperation between different levels of government and community involvement in the reform process.
DESPRO provides technical assistance and helps to improve public services in villages of Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Poltava and Sumy regions. Given this regionally DESPRO partners are the regional administrations and regional councils, district administrations, district and village councils, non-governmental organizations in the target regions. During the first two phases (2007-2013) one of the targets of the project was DESPRO ARC. Currently there activity is suspended.
On February 17th, the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center hosted a briefing "Resilience and Security: What Ukraine Can Learn from NATO?" The event was co-organized by the Research Center for Regional Security and the Department of Psychology, Political Science and Sociocultural Technologies of Sumy State University.
Read more ...On 18 February, Vineta Kleine, Director of the NATO Information and Documentation Center in Ukraine conduct an online lecture on "NATO in terms of public diplomacy". During the lecture for Ukrainian students, Ms. Kleine shared the main areas of work of the NATO Information and Documentation Center in Ukraine and stressed the importance of information and education.
Read more ...A series of lectures with NATO Headquarters was held in February. In particular, Dr. Petr Lunak shared with students the history of the Alliance's formation, key events over the past 70 years and NATO's current priorities. According to Dr. Lunak, NATO remains a highly effective and efficient bloc, and the tense security situation in the world only reinforces this thesis.
Read more ...On 10 February, Research Centre for Regional Security hosted a lecture by Tanya Hartmann, an expert at the Political Affairs and Security Policy Division at NATO Headquarters. During the discussion with students from different universities of Ukraine, they discussed the prospects of providing Ukraine with an Action Plan for NATO membership and the importance of implementing the Annual National Program Ukraine-NATO for membership in the Alliance.
Read more ...On December 11 the Ukraine-NATO Public League organized a press conference on the results of bilateral Ukraine-NATO cooperation in 2020. During the event, the speakers highlighted the most significant achievements of the year and discussed work plans for 2021.
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