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Municipal Governance and Sustainable Development Programme
Address
01021, Kyiv, Hrushevskoho Str., 34a, of. 46.
Phones
tel./fax +38 (044) 501-42-03, 537-22-93, 253 82 90
e-mail
mgsdp.info@undp.org.ua
Management
Project Manager:
Jaysingh Sah

UNDP Programme Manager:
Oksana Remiga
Duration
April 2004
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April 2007

WHAT IS THE SITUATION?

Ukraine is going through a period of transition. Building upon lessons and valuable practices of the past, it is heading towards achieving sound social, economic and ecological dimensions.

Over 60% of the Ukrainian population lives in cities with potential opportunities for employment and conducive living. But they face many difficulties amidst these opportunities. These difficulties are reflected in social, economic and ecological problems that have a deep influence on quality of life, such as quality of environment, quality of health and educational services, access to public and municipal services, and obstacles to economic development and job creation. Responsibility to ensure delivery of services for quality living conditions lies mainly with the municipalities, which are constrained by experience, skills and resources in tackling these problems within a decentralized environment.

HOW ARE WE CARRYING OUT OUR MISSION?

UNDP/MGSDP, formerly known as Municipal Sustainable Development Programme or MSDP, carries out activities to strengthen the institutional capacity of local partners from public-private sectors enabling them to make practical local sustainable development plans; take a participatory approach to the realization of such plans; raise public awareness on the agenda of sustainable development and integrate the principles of sustainable development in the local/national policy/legal framework based on experience from the ground.

Each partner municipality establishes a Municipal Support Unit (MSU) to implement local level activities. MSU mobilizes men, women, and youth in the neighbourhoods, NGO, academia and business communities to create support structures founded on elements of good governance and sustainable development. These support structures prepare local specific sustainable development plans, prioritise them and generate resources to implement them.

The Programme provides training and seed capital to implement plans under a partnership arrangement. The partners such as the municipality, the beneficiaries themselves, or other private and public sectors also contribute resources as a back up to the seed capital. The plans are implemented by the partner on a self-help basis. Implementation work and quality is monitored through a participatory monitoring system.

Roundtables, conferences, workshops and other tools are used to raise public awareness on sustainable development. Assessment studies and process documentations are carried out periodically to take stock of experience gained and utilize findings for policy recommendations.

The Quarterly Progress Report of the Municipal Governance and Sustainable Development Programme of UNDP in Ukraine covering January-March 2006 is available here.


HOW WILL UKRAINE BENEFIT?

Capacity built at the local level, with support of the Programme, will enhance the quality of municipal governance and create an environment that enables local stakeholders to jointly address local development problems.

Programme activities are implemented with technical and financial support from the Programme by local partners. As a result, the infrastructure built and the experience gained in the process will remain with them contributing to improvement in their living quality on sustained basis.

The lessons learned will contribute to continued improvements in the local/national policies/legal framework.

OUR PARTNERS

Our National Partners:

- Municipality of Ivano-Frankivsk

- Municipality of Rivne

- Municipality of Zhytomyr

- Municipality of Mykolayiv

- Municipality of Halych

- Municipality of Novohrad-Volynskyy

 

Our International Partners:

-    Swiss Agency on Development and Cooperation

-    United Nations Volunteer Programme

-    “Capacity 2015” Project

WHAT IS RESOURCE PROVISION?

Indicative budgetary provision for UNDP/MGSDP from all sources/partners for 2006 is $856 400. Sources include UNDP/Ukraine, SDC, UNV, and partner municipalities.

For more information please visit the project web-site: http://msdp.undp.org.ua/?&lang=eng


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