U-LEAD invites you to participate in the new Training program "Steps for Specialists. Budget stabilization plan"
U-LEAD invites you to participate in the new Training program "Steps for Specialists. Budget stabilization plan"

Date: 02.05.2023

Author: Inna Sviatna

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Make more efficient spending of budget funds, improve your reactions to management challenges and establish cooperation with colleagues from other areas! The new U-LEAD with Europe Training Programme will help you.

What is this program about?

On urgent response and stabilization of budgetary capacity; formation of action plans for effective use of resources and rational spending of budget funds; involvement of additional sources; assessment of the level of influence of external and internal factors and identification of possible reserves.

Who is it for?

For 100 officials elected through the open selection among local financial bodies of municipalities.

What is the uniqueness of this training program?

In the improvement of skills and abilities to respond effectively and efficiently to the challenges of managerial activity on the basis of real cases; opportunities to work out joint solutions while working in mini-groups on the formation of a plan of budget stabilization measures; exchange of experience and building partnerships with colleagues from all over Ukraine; an opportunity to ask questions to representatives of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine.

What is the learning outcome?
  • Knowledge of the main approaches to the analysis of budgetary indicators in the municipality.

  • Developed skills and abilities to assess possible reserves, develop measures for effective use of resources and rational spending of budget funds.

  • Readiness to overcome the consequences of external factors and ensure the financial stability of the municipality.

  • Recommendations on budget stabilization.

"Steps for specialists. Budget Stabilization Plan" is a unique training program for employees of local financial bodies.

The duration is 6 weeks, beginning on June 1.

Participants who successfully complete the training will receive a certificate.

How to participate?

To participate in the selection, it is necessary to fill out the attached application and send it to the email address: regops.u-lead@giz.de by 18:00 on May 15, 2023, indicating "Budget Stabilization_Name of the municipality_Oblast" in the subject of the message.

You can find out the details of participation in the Study Program at the presentation event, which will take place on May 10, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., you can participate in it by following this link.

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20.11.2024
Soft skills development: completing of the programme and two techniques for our readers
The training programme “Steps for Specialists. Soft skills development” for the local self-government officials aimed at mastering the skills of effective functioning and psychological balance, has come to an end.
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06.11.2024
Project activities in the Ternopil Oblast: first steps and achievements
The team of the Regional Office of U-LEAD with Europe in the Ternopil U-LEAD organised a dialogue event for municipal leaders of the region to explore tools for attracting additional resources.
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25.10.2024
Why is public engagement vital during reconstruction?
U-LEAD’s new training programme, “Steps for Specialists. Management of Reconstruction Projects in Municipalities”, has reached its end. The last unit focused on public engagement in reconstruction processes.
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18.10.2024
"Entering professional activity": assistance to beginners of the LSG
The training program, designed to help new specialists of local self-government bodies effectively enter the profession, has successfully come to an end.
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15.10.2024
Local budgets 2025: features, priorities, prospects
The main insights into budget planning for municipalities for 2025: changes in the horizontal equalisation of local budgets, the return of medium-term budget planning and the reverse subsidy, as well as new types of interbudgetary transfers.
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11.10.2024
From online courses to real projects: internships open up new opportunities
In September, six project managers from different parts of Ukraine took U-LEAD internships in the municipalities of Zakarpattia Oblast. They studied the experience of local self-government bodies in the implementation of their current projects and learned about pitfalls and first steps, as well as how to apply theory to solve practical problems.
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04.10.2024
Learn to manage natural resources!
The course from U-LEAD will reveal to the participants the concept of sustainable development, the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to resource management, and will help to acquire land use planning skills. In particular, participants learn about water, forest, land and other resources.
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02.10.2024
100 Ukrainian municipalities are moving towards effective property management
“Steps for Specialists. Bringing Property under Municipal Ownership” 100 municipalities representing 20 oblasts of Ukraine joined this ambitious training programme organised for local self-government officials in charge of municipal property management.
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24.09.2024
We invite you to participate in a new support programme "Implementation of a model of support for war veterans and their families in the municipality"
U-LEAD with Europe announces a new support program that will help local government choose a support model for war veterans and their family members and establish cooperation with colleagues from other oblasts of Ukraine.
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23.09.2024
Accessibility in practice: accessibility audit in 8 municipalities
The audit of the accessibility of communal buildings and public spaces became a continuation of the training of municipalities participating in the U-LEAD support program "Creating an institution for barrier-free access in a territorial municipality." During the expert's visits to the municipality, local government specialists learned to use the method of inspecting facilities for accessibility for groups of the population with reduced mobility.
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17.09.2024
We invite you to “Steps for Specialists. Soft Skills Development"!
Join our unique training programme and take confident steps towards professional and personal growth
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10.09.2024
10 municipalites have developed their charters
U-LEAD completed the implementation of a new initiative on the development of statutes, the participants of which were representatives of ten municipalities from all over Ukraine.
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10.09.2024
The final event of the course "Establishment of youth councils in territorial municipalities" took place
Representatives of local self-government and municipality youth studied for 4 months how to create a youth council and develop a youth movement in the municipality. The training program ended with a youth camp.
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04.09.2024
U-LEAD launches interactive online course “Household Waste Management in Municipality”
Join to learn the general principles of waste management, to plan, create and develop household waste management systems at the local level and to properly conduct information and educational activities in this area.
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04.09.2024
Local budgets during a full-scale war: a discussion in the Rivne region
Berezniv municipality became a meeting place for village and city municipalities of the Rivne oblast, where LSGs exchanged experience in effective filling and rational use of the local budget in martial law conditions.
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30.08.2024
Monitoring and evaluation of development strategies: U-LEAD introduced a support programme
The main focus of the programme is on the increased capacity of local self-government officials to monitor and evaluate the progress of the Municipal Development Strategy and the Action Plan for its implementation.
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29.08.2024
Opportunities opened for municipalities by Erasmus+
U-LEAD continues to introduce local self-government to capacity-building opportunities. This time, more than 50 participants of the event learned about the activities of the EU Erasmus+ programme and discussed how the implementation of European practices contributed to the development of municipalities.
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29.08.2024
U-LEAD completes “Steps for Specialists. Remuneration of Local Self-Government Employees”
The war and martial law have had a significant impact on human resources, as the large-scale displacement created an acute shortage of professionals, especially in rural municipalities. That is why the U-LEAD Program offers training programmes to support and train municipal officials on various issues.
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20.08.2024
Director of the Kozyatyn Hospital: We decided to focus on implementing KPIs
For seven weeks, 89 municipal officials from different oblasts of Ukraine participated in the training programme on improving the healthcare management system. Doctors and managers strategised about the development of healthcare facilities and communication while making management decisions. Finally, they visited some municipalities of the Poltava Oblast.
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19.08.2024
Acqiusition of property to municipal ownership: U-LEAD announces call for participants for the new training program
If your municipality works to grow own resources, if it receives various types of support, if it struggles to make municipal property documents in order, then new U-LEAD with Europe training program is just for you!
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16.08.2024
We invite you to "Steps for specialists. Formation and approval of the local budget 2025"!
This training program will prepare you to form a budget in conditions of uncertainty and urgent changes, as well as for a turbulent budget process.
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15.08.2024
Management of reconstruction projects: U-LEAD will train municipal professionals
U-LEAD’s new training programme “Steps for Specialists. Management of Reconstruction Projects in Municipalities” will help local self-government officials improve their professional competences to ensure the high-quality reconstruction of war-torn infrastructure.
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15.08.2024
U-LEAD experts presented the new Steps
At the promotional event, more than 50 participants learned about the timeline and features of this training cycle of the course “Steps for Specialists. Geographic Information Systems for the Development of Municipalities”. Among its key outcomes is the creation of an address register of toponyms in a municipality.
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06.08.2024
Public budgeting in wartime: to be or not to be?
Liudmyla Hurba, Adviser on Decentralisation and Local Self-Government at the Regional Office of U-LEAD in the Vinnytsia Oblast, shared her thoughts on public budgeting in wartime.
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02.08.2024
We invite you to “Business Environment of the Municipality”!
This is an evaluation and development program from U-LEAD with Europe, which will help to identify the real state and existing problems of the business environment in your municipality, establish cooperation with businesses and understand how to build further cooperation.
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30.07.2024
“Steps for Specialists. Geographic Information Systems for the Development of Municipalities”
The new training program from U-LEAD will familiarize participants with geographic information systems, their application possibilities, sources of geospatial data about the community, and skills to use them.
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29.07.2024
U-LEAD invites you to participate in the unique training program "Steps for Specialists. Onboarding into Municipal Service"
This unique onboarding program will teach about the legal basis of local self-government and everything necessary to comfortably enter the professional activity and carry it out effectively.
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23.07.2024
Join the Management of Corruption Risks Webinar
On July 31 as part of the House of Integrity project, a webinar will be held, the participants will receive comprehensive material on the principles of corruption risk management, and upon its completion, online certificates.
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22.07.2024
Join Training Program "Steps for Specialists. Reconstruction projects in municipalities"!
Join the Program that will help you to train competent specialists for high-quality planning and implementation of reconstruction projects in municipality.
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22.07.2024
Return of medium-term budget planning: municipalities’ financial managers received support from U-LEAD experts
More than 660 municipal officials learned about preparation for medium-term planning of local budgets for 2025–2027 and received guidance and advice from experts. They talked about the formation of the local budget forecasts and how to organise this process using the LOGICA Information and Analytical System.
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19.07.2024
U-LEAD implemented a support programme for municipalities on public budget development and implementation
At the final seminar, participants made an intermediate summary and discussed their achievements, challenges and further goals.
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16.07.2024
Municipalities of the Sumy Oblast are developing local waste management plans
Comprehensiva Advisory Programme “Develoipment of Local Waste Management Plans” continues. Interim results of the Konotop-Romny Cluster of Sumy Oblast.
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12.07.2024
30 municipalities are being trained as part of the “Steps for Specialists. Remuneration of Local Self-Government Employees”
These Steps are an intensive online training course for officials in charge of accounting and HR in local self-government.
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10.07.2024
U-LEAD launches interactive online course "Business Friendly Municipality: from Challenge to Project Idea"
The course will provide municipalities with practical tools for generating quality project ideas in the field of entrepreneurship support and development. The course will be especially relevant for those municipalities that already understand the benefits of cooperation and support for local businesses and their crucial role in local economic development.
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09.07.2024
U-LEAD’s new support programme: supporting rural development according to EU standards
The first seminar discussed the models of supporting rural development in EU countries and changing approaches to the development of rural areas in Ukraine aimed at harmonising them with the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU.
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08.07.2024
Access to public information in local self-government bodies: how to set it up efficiently?
Even though the Law “On Access to Public Information” has been in effect for more than a decade, its implementation is still fraught with many difficulties. What are these difficulties and how to ensure the sustainable and capable performance of local self-government bodies in this direction? This was discussed at the final event of STEPS, the training programme by U-LEAD with Europe.
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02.07.2024
The training programme “Steps for Specialists. Local Self-Government Communication” has come to an end
U-LEAD completed a training programme for local self-government officials, designed to increase their professional knowledge and competence in communication. The final event of the initiative focused on effective communication approaches and building success stories.
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01.07.2024
Barrier-free environment in municipalities: from communication to universal design of spaces and services
The U-LEARN platform launched the support programme “Creating an Institution for Barrier-Free Access in Municipalities”. At the first seminar, U-LEAD experts talked about the basic principles and legal framework for creating a barrier-free environment in Ukraine.
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17.06.2024
The Petrove municipality has changed its approach to working with abandoned property
Its experts who joined U-LEAD’s Support Programme have developed packages of documents and step-by-step procedures for identifying, accounting of abandoned property and bringing it under municipal property.
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10.06.2024
U-LEAD with Europe launches an online course "Spatial planning in a territorial community"
The online course is tailored for a diverse audience, including representatives of local self-government bodies such as city councils and mayors' offices, experts who assist communities with spatial planning, and community members interested in local planning processes.
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10.06.2024
U-LEAD invites you to participate in the training program "Steps for Specialists. Remuneration of Labor in LSG"
Would you like the specifics of calculating and paying salaries, as well as other incentive and compensation payments to be simple, clear and logical for you? Do you want to create the decent conditions for remuneration? Is your goal to make effective decisions on the usage of budget funds? Then join the new training program!
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07.06.2024
Municipalities participating in the “Creating a Project Office in the Municipality” programme will get additional opportunities
The support programme “Creating a Project Office in the Municipality”, which ended in May, will have a practical follow-up. Even though the scheduled activities on the U-LEARN educational platform have been completed, its participants will get further support and additional opportunities for development.
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05.06.2024
The Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is selecting municipalities to join the project on the creation of micro- and smallholders
The Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is launching a project that will affect the development of the rural population and territories. Only 15 municipalities will be selected to participate in the IPRSA pilot project.
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05.06.2024
U-LEAD invites to participate in a new comprehensive support programme ”Development of a network of authorised representatives of local self-government bodies to support rural development of municipalities”
Find out how municipalities can organise the activities of local self-government bodies and increase their level of knowledge to support the rural development of communities.
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03.06.2024
The training programme for local self-government bodies “Project Cycle Management” was launched for the fourth time
Participating municipalities of the fourth wave of U-LEAD’s “Steps for Specialists. Project Cycle Management” embarked on an online training course. At the first seminar, they talked about the main changes in education, new formats and offline classes, as well as obtaining accreditation from the National Agency of Ukraine on Civil Service.
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30.05.2024
Client-oriented approach and service management in the social sector: experience of the municipalities of the Poltava Oblast
Participants of the U-LEAD training programme “Steps for Specialists. Organising Social Services in Municipalities” learned about best practices of municipalities in the Poltava Oblast.
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17.05.2024
The Vyhoda municipality has developed a Municipal Energy Plan
Municipal officials worked for 6 months under the expert support of U-LEAD as part of the Experience Sharing Network “Development of Municipal Energy Plans”.
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07.05.2024
The support programme “Monitoring and Evaluation of the Municipal Development Strategy and the Action Plan for Its Implementation” was launched
Participants from 12 municipalities will study tools for evaluating and monitoring development strategies. From April to August 2024, experts of U-LEAD with Europe will work with them as part of training sessions and consultations.
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23.04.2024
Join the training program "Steps for Specialists. Project Cycle Management 2024" by U-LEAD with Europe!
Are you new to project management? Do you want to strengthen your skills in writing and implementing projects, introduce yourself to the latest approaches and methodology for elaborating project proposals, and analyse key mistakes that occur in the process of project preparation and implementation? Join the training program by U-LEAD with Europe!
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22.04.2024
New Training program: "Development of the Statute of the Municipality"
Do you want to normalize relations with the public and strengthen interaction with citizens? Do you have to regulate the tools of local democracy at the local level? Do you want to openly, transparently and effectively involve citizens in decision-making at the local level? Join the training program from "U-LEAD with Europe"!
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19.04.2024
Municipalities of the Sumy Oblast will develop local waste management plans
U-LEAD experts will help 16 municipalities of the Sumy region develop local waste management plans, carry out a strategic environmental assessment, harmonise local waste management plans between municipalities and coordinate them with the regional plan.
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19.04.2024
U-LEAD is inviting you to take part in the new Training program «Steps for Specialists. Healthcare Management in the Municipality»
It will help to introduce a systematic approach to strategic planning for the development of a network of healthcare facilities, improve coordination between owners of municipal healthcare facilities, governing bodies and management of healthcare facilities, ensure the provision of quality healthcare services.
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18.04.2024
The Ovruch municipality relies on project activities
To create a project management sector — this decision was made by the municipality of Ovruch which joined U-LEAD’s support programme “Creating a Project Office in the Municipality”.
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16.04.2024
We invite you to "Steps for specialists. Introduction of medium-term budget planning in municipalities"
The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine will resume medium-term budget planning in 2024. Do you want to prepare a high-quality local budget forecast? Then U-LEAD with Europe is initiating a new training programme!
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16.04.2024
The new "Steps" train a client-oriented approach
90 employees of local self-government bodies from all over Ukraine will learn to be client-oriented in the provision of social services. Read more to find out why this approach is important and which basic premises started the training.
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09.04.2024
U-LEAD invites you to participate in the new Training Program "Steps for Specialists. Organisation of access to public information in local self-government bodies"
Does your local authority receive a lot of requests for information and find it difficult to deal with them? Do you have any difficulties with the «three-fold test»? Are you not sure if information on your website is disclosed in accordance with the law? If you have these and other questions related to providing access to public information, we invite you to join our Training Program.
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08.04.2024
“Steps for Specialists. Human Resource Management”: a new opportunity for municipalities
U-LEAD has launched a new training programme, “Steps for Specialists. Human Resource Management”. The programme will help local self-government officials prepare for the development and creation of effective HR management services and the implementation of the Law “On Service in Local Self-Government Bodies” as amended.
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02.04.2024
“Steps for Specialists. Administrative Procedure”: results of the training programme
The comprehensive training program “Steps for Specialists. Administrative Procedure” developed and implemented by the U-LEAD with Europe Programme has come to an end. It gave us about 100 motivated representatives of municipalities and developed document templates for implementing the Law of Ukraine “On Administrative Procedure” in the operation of local self-government.
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01.04.2024
Join the training program "Steps for Specialists. Communication of local self-government bodies"
How does the availability of a communication strategy affect the quality of information and the level of trust of residents in the authorities? How to take into account the specifics of certain social groups that have emerged because of the war and build the right communication with them? The answers to these and many other questions are in the new U-LEAD initiative!
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25.03.2024
Joint municipal companies: join forces to get results
Where should joint municipal companies start? How to become profitable and how to benefit the municipality? How to interact with the founders and what services should they offer to businesses? U-LEAD experts got together with the teams that established joint municipal companies with the support of the Programme to answer these questions.
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15.03.2024
U-LEAD will teach municipalities to develop and use public budgets
For five months, 16 teams from 10 oblasts of Ukraine will work on the implementation of the public budget in their municipalities. U-LEAD experts will help them with everything from the development of a package of documents to the selection of competition winners.
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13.03.2024
Municipal property: turning the burden of maintenance into income for the municipal budget?
As part of U-LEAD’s programme “STEPS for Specialists. Municipal Property Management”, specialised specialists will learn how to ensure effective management of municipal property, optimise the costs of its maintenance and receive income from it for the municipality budget.
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27.02.2024
Training Program "Steps for specialists. Implementation of the control and audit system in municipalities"
Do you want to minimize management risks? Protect resources from loss or misuse? To achieve the mission and development goals of the municipality in the most economical, efficient, and effective way?
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23.02.2024
Join the Training Program “Steps for Specialists. Arranging Social Services in Municipalities”
Complete this online training course and learn how to properly arrange and provide social services to your population.
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21.02.2024
Public budget: plan for development and relieving social tension
U-LEAD seeks to increase the level of citizen involvement in the budget process. One of the instruments of such involvement is the public budget.
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15.02.2024
Municipalities must assess the budget programme performance despite martial law
From 24 February 2022, the primary administrators of local budget funds operate under martial law. Despite this, the law requires an assessment of the performance of the previous year’s budget programmes and providing its results to local financial authorities.
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14.02.2024
1,500 participants study the rules of ethical behavior for work as Local self-government
The educational project is implemented by the RMTeam with the comprehensive support provided by the U-LEAD with Europe Programme and in partnership with the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine.
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05.02.2024
Communal property management: U-LEAD announces enrollment for the new Training Program
Make the work on communal property management more efficient in your local self-government body and establish cooperation with colleagues from other oblasts! The new U-LEAD with Europe Training Program will help you.
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29.01.2024
U-LEAD invites you to participate in the new Training program «Development and implementation of local budget»
We are announcing a new initiative, thanks to which financial specialists of communities will learn how to implement and effectively use local budgets.
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22.12.2023
Pro.Communities: a safe educational environment
Report on a large-scale project that brought together almost 8000 educators, allowing 250,000 children to study in safer educational institutions.
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13.12.2023
Municipal Energy Plan: Necessity and challenges
The Experience Sharing Network on the development of municipal energy plans has been completed. The municipalities, together with U-LEAD experts, summarised the results and discussed the improvement of the methodology of the Ministry of Infrastructure.
#energy security
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08.12.2023
U-LEAD assists municipal financial authorities in budgeting for 2024
This article provides our experts with practical recommendations for solving the most frequently asked problems by the participants of the training programme "Steps for Specialists. Formation and Approval of the Local Budget for 2024".
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07.12.2023
The training cycle of the “Steps for Specialists. Designing a Municipal Development Strategy” is complete
For seven months, teams of 70 municipalities from all over Ukraine worked on designing development strategies. In this, they were supported by U-LEAD experts.
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28.11.2023
“An internship in Poland provided insight into the changes in Ukraine after the acquisition of EU membership”
Anna Lutsenko, a representative of the Novyi Buh municipality, was selected for an internship in Poland, where she studied the Polish experience of transformations, division of responsibilities in municipalities and environmental protection.
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28.11.2023
Expert: Municipalities can allocate the free balance of the budget only to certain directions
The President of Ukraine signed Law No. 3428-IX “On Amendments to Section VI of the Budget Code of Ukraine on Ensuring the Support of the State’s Defence Capabilities and the Development of the Defence and Industrial Complex of Ukraine” dated 8 November 2023. This Law lists directions for the municipalities to allocate free local budget balances under martial law.
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20.11.2023
U-LEAD invites for participation in the educational programme “Steps for specialists. Administrative procedure”
On January 16, 2024, a new initiative from U-LEAD will start. Is is designed to help hundred of local self-government officials deepen their understanding of the Law of Ukraine "On Administrative Procedure", as well as to develop their skills and abilities.
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16.11.2023
Successes of the municipalities of Poltava Oblast in attracting investments
How to attract international investments to the municipality? In Poltava Oblast, specialists of the U-LEAD with Europe Programme teach this, and all 60 municipalities of the region are encouraged to cooperate. And the municipalities of Karliv and Nekhvoroshcha on a competitive basis won the opportunity to study at the program "Steps for specialists. Project cycle management".
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16.11.2023
The Bilenkiv municipality is engaged in the education of eco-conscious citizens
Despite the war, they care about the environment here and teach citizens to handle garbage with responsibility. The last bright promotion is a fashion show of clothes made from recycled materials.
#environment
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01.11.2023
Female Leadership School: Lectures, mentoring consultations and meetings to share experiences for municipality leaders
A project is launched, the participants of which are women who learn to support women in their municipalities, fight gender inequality and develop their own leadership.
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30.10.2023
How to appropriate abandoned property into municipal ownership: the possibilities of the Experience Exchange Network
The opportunities and support that municipalities will receive thanks to the participation of the Experience Exchange Network (Supporter Program) “Abandoned Property Management” were discussed during a promotional event at the base of the Vinnytsia regional office of the U-LEAD Programme.
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24.10.2023
Completion and results of the Programme “Steps for Specialists. Interaction of Local Self-Government Bodies and Volunteer Associations”
At the final event of the training programme, the experts summed up the results, and the participants of the initiative shared the development of volunteer spaces in their municipalities.
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19.10.2023
Experience Sharing Network “Creating a Plan for Communication of Changes in the Municipality” had its final event.
U-LEAD’s initiative helped 48 municipalities develop effective communication tools and create plans for communication of changes.
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17.10.2023
U-LEAD invites you to join the new Experience Exchange Network “Abandoned Property Management”
Organize the work of your local council in the field of identification, accounting and acquisition into municipal ownership of abandoned property.
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19.09.2023
9 steps for project cycle managers in project teams
On the first seminar of the new training program from U-LEAD "Steps for specialists: Project cycle management-2023" and about the nine steps into which our experts divided it.
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11.09.2023
Diagnostics of the local taxation system in Ukraine: analytical results
This extensive analytical report by our experts looks for ways to strengthen the financial capacity of local self-government bodies.
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29.08.2023
U-LEAD invites you to participate in the unique onboarding training program"Steps for Specialists. Entry to Professional Activity"
An intensive two-week program that contains answers to current questions of professional activity, is based on real cases and includes a theoretical and practical component
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21.08.2023
The war wrecks local budgets of municipalities of the Kherson oblast
U-LEAD experts analysed the budgets of 49 municipalities in the region over the period of 6 months of 2023: although some municipalities have more than met their targets, the overall situation is grim.
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09.08.2023
U-LEAD invites applications for "Steps for Specialists. Project cycle management - 2023"
Learn to form a goal, tasks and results, plan a project budget and present it to potential donors! As part of this training program, you will be able to develop your project idea into a full-fledged project proposal.
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08.08.2023
Communal property management in health care sphere: U-LEAD Programme announces call for applications for a new Municipal Experience Exchange Network (Support Program).
Joint communal non-profit enterprises: from the initiative to the start of effective work! Establish cooperation with other municipalities, create a joint utility non-profit enterprise for the development of your minicipalities! The new Support Program from "U-LEAD with Europe" will help you with this.
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07.08.2023
Communal property management in municipal development sphere: U-LEAD Programme announces call for applications for a new Municipal Experience Exchange Network (Support Program).
Joint communal enterprises: from the initiative to the start of effective work! Establish cooperation with other municipalities, create a joint utility enterprise for the development of your municipalities. The new Support Program from "U-LEAD with Europe" will help you with this.
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08.08.2023
Active volunteer environments are a must in municipalities
Participants of U-LEAD’s training programme “Steps for Specialists. Interaction of Local Self-Government Bodies and Volunteer Associations” told why this interaction is so important, shared their impressions of the course and expressed gratitude to colleagues and organizers.
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02.08.2023
First aid training
We invite municipality educators to participate in training on first aid for sudden cardiac arrest and life-threatening conditions.
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27.07.2023
Stabilisation of the local budget: The Vilnyanska municipality experience
As a result of participating in the U-LEAD with Europe's Budget Stabilisation Plan training programme for financiers, the Vilnyanska municipality of Zaporizhzhia Oblast managed to increase budget revenues for the first half of 2023 by 2.5% of the targets.
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17.07.2023
Andrii Bohdan, Mayor of Horodnia: To plan and reduce energy costs is to save budget funds
Why does the municipality need a Municipal Energy Plan? How to save on energy sources already today? How do energy-efficient innovations get adopted from the municipal infrastructure into everyday life? Find out the answers in this quick interview with Andrii Bohdan, Head of the Horodnia City Council in the Chernihiv Oblast.
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11.07.2023
U-LEAD helps municipalities to understand public procurement for budget funds
Read our material about public procurement for budget funds, authorised persons and municipalities' work with experts from the Institute for Budgetary and Socio-Economic Research (IBSER).
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23.06.2023
48 municipalities to develop municipal energy plans supported by U-LEAD experts
Follow our article to learn about the competitive selection to participate in the network for these plans' development, the winners and their opportunities from cooperation with U-LEAD.
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21.06.2023
U-LEAD with Europe jointly with tax authorities explains peculiarities of taxes and fees payment under martial law to municipalities of Kharkiv Oblast
During the joint information session, the U-LEAD with Europe Regional Office and the Main Department of the State Tax Service in Kharkiv Oblast discussed changes to the tax legislation under martial law and the ability of local self-government representatives to ensure the flow of their own resources to local budgets.
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06.06.2023
The second wave of the Experience Sharing Network “Development of Programmes for the Integration of IDPs into Municipalities” launched
Read more to find out about the opportunities provided by the Experience Sharing Network “Development of Programmes for the Integration of IDPs into Municipalities” and the benefits that municipalities will receive from the development of the IDP Integration Programme.
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02.06.2023
U-LEAD helps municipalities stabilise budget processes in wartime
Over the course of six weeks, 100 employees of local financial bodies will learn how to manage municipal resources more effectively, analyse and identify reserves and propose steps to stabilise local budgets, and U-LEAD experts and the experience of other municipalities will help them in this.
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02.06.2023
New “Steps for Specialists” launched to help build cooperation between authorities and volunteers
120 people from 19 oblasts of Ukraine were chosen to participate in the new training programme “Steps for Specialists. Cooperation between Local Self-Government and Volunteer Associations” implemented by U-LEAD. Over the course of six weeks, the participants will learn the tools of effective communication between local self-government bodies and volunteers, as well as develop the skills of their application in various contexts.
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30.05.2023
Experience Sharing Network “Development of the Municipal Safe Environment Programme” has been launched
Over the course of four months, 24 municipalities, together with U-LEAD experts, will develop solutions for organising safe environments in their territories. This experience will become a road map for the implementation of safety measures for other municipalities.
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26.05.2023
The training programme “Steps for Specialists. Municipal Property Management” has been launched
Over 6 weeks, its participants will receive relevant expertise on the management of municipal property of the municipality and learn about the peculiarities of this process under martial law and how to dispose of and use the municipal property effectively.
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25.05.2023
U-LEAD invites to participate in a new initiative –Experience Exchange Network “Development of the Program for the Integration of IDPs into the Municipality”!
This Network is an opportunity to get expert support in learning the main approaches and methodology for developing IDPs integration programs, developing the skills of establishing interaction and coordinating efforts of all stakeholders, and especially in developing IDPs integration programs with due account of the municipality’s needs.
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23.05.2023
24 municipalities will exchange experience in creating a safe space
U-LEAD with Europe sincerely congratulates 24 municipalities-winners of the competitive selection for participation in the experience exchange network on creating a safe space.
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22.05.2023
Municipalities establish cooperation with the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine with the support of U-LEAD with Europe
The Programme helped their representatives to discuss potential avenues of interaction. The key directions of the cooperation should be economic security and an increase of revenues to local budgets.
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04.05.2023
48 municipalities are working on creating effective internal control and audit systems
With the help of U-LEAD, finance teams are preparing documents that will meet all up-to-date budget legislation requirements.
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03.05.2023
Development of Municipal Energy Plans: U-LEAD announces open call for the support programme.
From November 2024, the MEP will become a mandatory municipal document. U-LEAD offers support and expert guidance to municipalities selected in an open competition to develop this Plan. Municipalities will begin the development in June and present their MEPs at the national level in October.
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10.04.2023
Training programme “Steps for Specialists. Staffing Issues in Local Self-Government under Martial Law” has been launched
Participants from 100 municipalities from all over Ukraine, selected on a competitive basis, will spend the next 8 weeks in comprehensive training.
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25.04.2023
Updated initiative “Steps for Specialists. Designing a Municipal Development Strategy” is launched
U-LEAD is reviving the Municipal Development Strategy Programme, which was suspended due to the outbreak of full-scale war.
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24.04.2023
Communal property management: U-LEAD announces enrollment for the new Training Programme
Make the work on communal property management more efficient in your local self-government body and establish cooperation with colleagues from other oblasts! The new U-LEAD with Europe Training Programme will help you.
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18.04.2023
Expert support of municipalities in the development of a municipal energy plan — selection of participants has begun
U-LEAD is launching a four-month support program for municipalities that want to develop a quality Energy Plan with expert support.
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14.04.2023
Safety Experience Sharing Network: presentation of the competitive selection
What is this Network and how to participate in it? What are the requirements for participants and what should they expect? Fill out the application for competitive selection by April 30 and show your results and achievements as early as September.
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06.04.2023
Invitation for local self-government officials: Experience Sharing Network “Development of the Municipal Safe Environment Programme”
Learn how to improve safety and pool resources to create an appropriately safe environment, who are safety stakeholders and what kind of impact ensuring a safe environment of the municipality can have on its social and economic development.
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05.04.2023
48 municipalities joined the Network to learn proper communication
Participants are learning models of communication strategies and creating individual plans.
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03.04.2023
"IDPs - are our people!" - online visit to Nekhvoroshcha
Visit a municipality that has a strategic approach to working with IDPs.
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30.03.2023
In 2022, 14 municipalities of the Zhytomyr oblast received almost EUR 1,000,000 in aid from U-LEAD
These were mainly packages with equipment and materials for stabilising the energy system and assisting in housing IDPs.
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27.03.2023
U-LEAD announces the selection among officials of local self-government bodies to participate in the experience exchange Network
The topic of the Network: Activities of working groups on the creation of internal control and audit systems in municipalities"
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23.03.2023
The “Laboratories of Creative Dialogue” project was launched in the Chernihiv oblast
Local self-government and municipal residents rediscover communication with the help of U-LEAD
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21.03.2023
The Programme “Steps for Specialists. Organising Work with IDPs – 2023” has been launched and is in full swing
Participants from the Vinnytsia oblast talk about their experiences.
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21.03.2023
Stage 2 of the training programme “Steps for Specialists. Mobility” has been launched
U-LEAD is committed to training municipalities in writing mobility-related project proposals.
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21.03.2023
In 2022, the municipalities of the Chernihiv oblast received almost EUR 1 million in aid from U-LEAD
Equipment and materials to stabilise the energy infrastructure and assist in the housing of IDPs were the most expensive.
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20.03.2023
12 municipalities will improve their waste management systems
The project is part of the second stage of the training programme “Steps for Specialists”.
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06.03.2023
HR work in LSG: U-LEAD announces new recruitment for a new training program
Make work with personnel in your LSG more effective and establish cooperation with colleagues from other oblasts!
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01.03.2023
Assessing the effectiveness of budget programmes: procedure during martial law
This topic was discussed at the event “Implementation of Passports of Budget Programmes: Reporting and Performance Assessment” held by U-LEAD for the municipalities of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava and Cherkasy oblasts.
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27.02.2023
U-LEAD announces selection for the training program in municipality communication
How are residents' protests and the absence of a communications specialist in the municipality connected? Why is a communication strategy no less important than a development strategy? What is a communication plan and how to make one? The participants of the Experience Sharing Network "Creating a communication plan for changes in the municipality" will learn about all this, and will also prepare their communication plan for changes in the community in practice.
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13.02.2023
How to stabilise the municipal budget system? Tips from U-LEAD
Finance professionals of 40 municipalities from all over the country gained practical skills in developing and implementing measures to stabilise the financial situation of municipalities.
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31.01.2023
U-LEAD trains municipalities to create budget programme passports under martial law
The Programme experts are committed to providing advisory support in various areas of municipal life in wartime.
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30.01.2023
Working with IDPs: U-LEAD announces new recruitment for Steps for Specialists
Make work with internally displaced persons in your municipality more effective and establish cooperation with colleagues from other fields! U-LEAD’s new training programme will help you with this.
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18.01.2023
U-LEAD helps the municipality in Odesa to create a favourable business environment
Maintaining and improving the business climate remains an important priority for municipalities even in the face of war. A fair square project was developed in the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi municipality.
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12.01.2023
Support in formulation and development of reconstruction projects – new opportunity from U-LEAD with Europe
Ukrainian municipalities are facing major challenges because of a full-scale invasion of Russian Federation.
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28.12.2022
Municipality in Odesa region was able to save a quarter of a million hryvnias through participation in the U-LEAD project
Having received guidance and advice, as well as practical knowledge under the Budget Stabilisation Plan project implemented by U-LEAD with Europe, the finance professionals of the Marazliivka municipality (Odesa region) were able to cut local budget spending by UAH 250,000.
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08.11.2022
U-LEAD experts help municipalities draft local budgets for 2023
This was the topic of the info session that the team of the Regional Office of U-LEAD with Europe in the Cherkasy region recently organised for financial experts from the municipalities of the Cherkasy, Poltava, Sumy, Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
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31.10.2022
U-LEAD and tax service experts help the municipalities of the Dnipropetrovsk oblast to prepare for the new budget year
In wartime, it is important for municipalities to support the interaction of the local self-government and tax service bodies in the process of preparing draft local budgets for 2023.
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07.10.2022
U-LEAD launched a new waste management training initiative
Waste management is an important direction for local self-government bodies. For municipalities, this issue is becoming more and more relevant every year, requiring the development of a high-quality waste management system at the local level.
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05.10.2022
Municipality teams began the Spatial Planning and Natural Resource Management training course from U-LEAD
Due to the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, many spheres of municipal life have suffered significant damage. The process of restoring and rebuilding territories requires huge financial investments, as well as relevant knowledge and skills from municipality representatives in this area.
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30.09.2022
The winning municipalities started training as part of the "Steps for Project Management Specialists" program
The educational program is designed to provide specialists of municipalities with basic knowledge and practical skills in the development and implementation of projects in the fields of education, culture, and social protection.
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21.09.2022
U-LEAD launches training course “Steps for project managers”
On September 20, a new initiative of the U-LEAD with Europe Programme was launched, the training course “Steps for Project Managers”.
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07.09.2022
A municipality in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is developing entrepreneurship with U-LEAD’s support
Throughout the year, small businesses in Zelenodolsk municipality were building their capacity at the meetings and workshops. These events were part of the municipality’s project “Developing Entrepreneurship in the Zelenodolsk Municipality”.
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12.11.2021
Chernihiv Oblast municipal starostas complete U-LEAD training cycle
Municipal starostas are responsible for establishing sustainable communication and lobbying district interests at a municipality level, which is an essential component of working with the local residents. How can this be done effectively? What are the existing successful practices and what steps need to be taken for the starostas to grow professionally?
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26.10.2021
Vinnytsia oblast communities to pay national budget uah353 mln in reverse subsidies in 2022
Next year the communities that exist in the region will pay UAH353 million worth of reverse subsidies to the national budget. The base subsidies, however, will be twice as big, exceeding UAH539 million.
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