How did the formats of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities change and what needs did it cover?

09 April 2024, 17:45 | Policy
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When the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities was first launched, it was assigned only one role - a platform for dialogue where everyone can hear everyone. But this format quickly dried up and needed a more rigid system capable of identifying problems and prompting quick solutions. People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 9th convocation Vitaly Bezgin writes about this in the article “Anticrisis platform for decentralization: what can the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities decide” on the ZN website. U.A..

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That is why a regional format was launched in 2023, in which meetings were held several times a month on the issues of a specific deoccupied region or territory suffering from active hostilities. This made it possible to receive real feedback from communities and promptly issue instructions to eliminate problems.

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This also made it possible to launch one of the projects of real regional cohesion - the Presidential initiative “Plіch o plіch”, within the framework of which 15 conditionally safe regions were involved in the restoration of settlements on the liberated right bank of the Kherson region.

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Thus, a tool was found for a high-quality solution to certain problems, but this did not allow us to more systematically assess the situation and begin to formulate policies for local self-government, which received two new, seemingly incompatible challenges at once:.

physical survival of territories during war;

European integration, where the leading place is given to the regions.

Therefore, at the beginning of 2024, it was decided to create six standing commissions under the Congress, which were distributed in the following relevant areas:.

good management;

community safety policy;

policy of heroes and support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;

humanitarian policy;

infrastructure policy;



European integration of communities and regions.

Let us remind you that April 1 marks the 10th anniversary of the start of the decentralization reform in Ukraine.. The EU recognized the reform as one of the most successful in Ukraine, and the war tested its strength. The communities survived the full-scale invasion, and now continue their fight for Ukraine. However, its further implementation is hampered by the current government’s lack of understanding of the concept of change.




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