Alchevsk Public and Private Sectors Reps Learn about U.S. Waste Management Practices
Ten Alchevsk residents have just returned from a U.S. tour on waste management practices, sponsored by the USAID Community Connections Program, and are ready to help their hometown to implement them. The participants, who represented both Alchevsk’s private and public sectors, spent three weeks seeing for themselves how the creation, disposal and treatment of waste have entered the American national cultural consciousness. More ...
Koryukivka Mayor: "It's Important to Know Which Way You Go"
Koryukivka is a small town of nearly 13,500 residents in Chernihiv Oblast. It is the home of the Koryukivka Technical Paper Factory, a public corporation that claims to be Europe's largest wallpaper manufacturer. According to Koryukivka Mayor Ihor Matyukha, the factory has always helped the town in some way or other. This public-private collaboration has much intensified since September 2007, when the town adopted its Economic Development Strategic Plan drafted with assistance from the USAID LED project. More ...
NGOs and the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine Team up to Combat Human Trafficking
USAID/Ukraine works to build and fortify existing relationships and partnerships between non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and state bodies to ensure a concerted national response to trafficking in human beings.
The USAID’s Improvement of the System for Identification and Rehabilitation of Trafficking Victims among Deported Persons in Border Regions of Ukraine project engages NGOs and the State Border Guard Service (SBGS) of Ukraine to jointly address the problem of human trafficking.
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Entrepreneurship Support Fund Builds Souvenir Businesses
Praskovia Tanova, disabled from birth, had few job prospects in her hometown
of Bolgrad in southern Ukraine. Craft-making had been her life-long hobby, but she had never considered it a viable career option until she read in a local newspaper about an organization that was training people to develop small businesses. Together with some friends from the Bolgrad Association of Disabled Persons, Praskovia attended the training. Later, she and her friends used what they learned to launch their own small business selling dolls and ceramics they made by hand. More ...
Willingness to Pay – a Litmus Test for Sustainability
Sustainability is the ultimate goal of any technical assistance project. There are various criteria to determine whether a project has been able to survive without USAID or other donor funding. Willingness to pay for services similar to those once developed under the project and delivered to other recipients free of charge can be one of them.
In the spring of 2007, the Rivne Oblast State Administration approved an action plan to create the Rivne Regional Industrial Park. InvestInRivne, an agency established in 2005 to attract investments to the oblast, was put in charge of its implementation.
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E-Scissors for Red Tape
There are two things - the Internet and red tape - that are ubiquitous and thus stitch together the present-day globalized world, irrespective of ethnic, cultural, religious or other differences. And though the latter seems to be invincible, certain Internet applications, and other information and communication technologies (ICT) can at least ease bureaucratic procedures and help civil servants better serve citizens. More ...
Information Campaigns Help to Save More Children’s Lives in Ukraine
Alyona still shivers with fear when she recalls seeing her daughter lying on her stomach in her bed and not breathing. “She was an absolutely healthy child, and I left her unattended for just five minutes,” Alyona told a Maternal & Infant Health Project (MIHP) consultant in a Luhansk pediatric polyclinic.
Home deaths account for a large portion of overall infant mortality in Ukraine. Of 33 home deaths that occurred in Luhansk Oblast in 2007, 14 were diagnosed as caused by Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). More ...
USAID/Ukraine and Donbass Fuel and Energy Company Sign a Memorandum of Understanding for Cooperation
USAID/Ukraine Deputy Director Peter Argo and Donbass Fuel and Energy Company (DTEC) Chief Executive Officer Maxym Tymchenko signed a public – private partnership memorandum of cooperation covering a two-year period. More ...
Lviv Issues $18.4 Million Municipal Bond to Attract Funds for Infrastructure Development
Ukraine’s cities need massive amounts of investment to modernize their infrastructure, and municipal bonds are the means to help them attract long-term capital. In late 2004, the USAID-funded Access To Credit Initiative (ATCI) began working with selected cities to demonstrate just how municipal bonds can do so. ATCI selected four cities, Ivano-Frankivsk, Berdyansk, Lviv and Luhansk, it would assist in issuing pilot bonds. More ...
Relief Nursery Helps Families at Risk
Sashko, 6, can count, knows the alphabet, and can write his first and last names. More ...
USAID: 15 Years of Assistance
USAID has addressed the critical needs of orphaned children since 1994. Through its Community and Humanitarian Assistance Program it provided over $9 mln worth of clothing, bedding, furniture and footwear to the 280 orphanages and boarding homes under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Social Protection. More ...
Ukrainian Philanthropy Emerging to Provide New Opportunities for Civil Society Organizations
Ukraine’s nonprofit sector has made tremendous strides over the past decade. More ...
MAMA+ Brings Children Back to the Family
Svitlana’s parents divorced when she was three. Some time later, her mother remarried, but Svitlana’s relations with her stepfather were tense. So upon completion of the 9th grade, Svitlana left home to begin her own life. More ...
Disabled Woman Fights to Remove Barriers
For seven years now, Anna Harchenko has used a wheelchair to get around in her native town of Cherkasy. At the age of 15, Anna fell and injured her spine while riding a horse. More ...
"Thank you!"
Ten representatives from several Crimea-based medical and educational institutions and NGOs, visited Charlotte, North Carolina, in mid-July as participants of USAID’s Community Connections Program. More ...
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