As the President of Ukraine has mentioned delivering his speech devoted to 11-th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence on August 24, 2002 – “shift to parliamentary-presidential model of governance and strengthening of local government is our European choice”. Strategic priority for Ukraine - to guarantee “sustainable local and regional development” through development of democracy, decentralization of power and resources to local and regional communities – has been repeated by Leonid Kuchma while having a speech before participants of the All-Ukrainian meeting of representatives from central and local authorities, self-government bodies and public. At the meeting he, also, reminds that there is some experience of regional and local strategic planning in Ukraine, but we need further conceptualization and modernization of applied non-systematic approaches.

 Project on Community and Regional Development in Ukraine (PCaRD) has, since June 1998, been EWI leading initiative in promoting community and regional development in Ukraine. During the period of time from January1, 2002 till September 15, 2002 PCaRD’s efforts have concentrated on development of institutional tools for community economic development. Project’s main focus is on supporting “bottom-up” approaches to economic development, in particular through the mobilization of citizens and private sector initiatives, strengthening of cross-sector and cross-border cooperation by providing the key local and regional development actors with analytical materials and practical tools in the field.

 For that purposes, PCaRD’s experts have combined Ukrainian and European experience in local strategic development planning and prepared Integrated Methodology for City Development Strategy. Other PCaRD’s output, aimed at regional and local development actors is analytical study of the history of Regional Development Agencies and their role in local economic development and cross-border cooperation in Europe and Ukraine. This study has been recognized by participants of above mentioned All-Ukrainian meeting as an impressive and valuable support on State regional Policy realization.

 As cross-border cooperation was realized by Ukrainian authorities, as widely recognized tool for economic development Serhiy Maksymenko, PCaRD’s project manager, was invited as an expert to participate in working group on improvement of the Cross-Border Cooperation Law draft.

PCaRD publications: 

     1.          REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES 

                    IN UKRAINE: FORMATION AND PROSPECTS,

                    Kyiv.: Millennium, 2002.– 302 pp. (in Ukrainian)   

      2.           ELABORATION AND REALIZATION OF 

                    COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES:

                    DOMESTIC EXPERIENCE, edited by Serhiy

                    Maksymenko, Volodymyr Nudelman and Ihor 

                    Sanzharovsky, Kyiv.: Data Bank Ukraina, 2003

                   – 272 pp. (in Ukrainian)

                    ( DOWNLOAD PUBLICATION (PDF) - 2,85 MB)

      3.           ELABORATION OF COMMUNITY 

                    DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY: BASICS OF 

                    METHODOLOGY,edited by Volodymyr Nudelman, 

                    Ihor Sanzharovsky, Kyiv.: Data Bank Ukraina 2002.

                     – 232 pp. (in Ukrainian)  

                    ( DOWNLOAD PUBLICATION (PDF) - 2,07 MB)

      4.           INSTITUTES AND INSTRUMENTS OF 

                    TERRITORY DEVELOPMENT. TOWARDS 

                    EUROPEAN PRINCIPLES, edited by Serhiy 

                    Maksymenko, Kyiv.:"Millenium, 2001.- 244 pp.

                    (in Ukrainian)

                    ( DOWNLOAD PUBLICATION (Word) - 430 KB)

      5.           TOWARDS EUROPE. UKRAINIAN 

                    EXPERIENCE OF EUROREGIONS, Y. Kish, 

                    O.Vishniakov and others, edited by S. Maksymenko,

                    I. Studennikov, Kyiv.: Logos, 2000. - 224pp.

                    (in Ukrainian)  

                    ( DOWNLOAD PUBLICATION (Word) - 1,04 MB)

       6.          LOCAL AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN

                    UKRAINE: ZAKARPATTIA EXPERIENCE, edited 

                    by M. Lendiel, Kyiv.: "Millenium, 2001.-152 pp.    

                    (in Ukrainian)  

                    ( DOWNLOAD PUBLICATION (PDF) - 730 KB)

       7.          LOCAL AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN 

                    UKRAINE: POLTAVA EXPERIENCE, edited  by

                    Serhiy Maksymenko, Kyiv.: "Millenium", 2001.

                    - 286 pp. (in Ukrainian)

                    ( DOWNLOAD PUBLICATION (PDF) - 1,3 MB)

  
Financial Source: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and The Marit and Hans     Rausing Charitable


Project Expert - Mr. Ihor Sanzharovsky (e-mail: isanzharovsky@iews.org ).

Research Assistant - Mr. Taras Mykhalniuk (e-mail: tmykhalniuk@iews.kiev.ua ).

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