🏙️ The State Regional Development Strategy for the period until 2027, which was approved in 2020, became the main planning document of the state regional policy of Ukraine for 7 years, but it was not designed to overcome the challenges caused by a full-scale invasion of the territory of Ukraine.
Among the main challenges of the municipal governments, the following can be distinguished:
🔹 a lack of regulatory and legal support, which causes legal uncertainty of the functions and powers of the municipal governments;
🔹the growing level of corruption risks in the new processes of the local government in the wartime, namely: fundraising for needs, obtaining, accounting and use of humanitarian aid funds for the restoration of infrastructure; interaction with public organizations and charitable foundations;
🔹institutional unpreparedness to manage identified corruption risks due to the lack of an effective anti-corruption compliance system.
In order to solve this problem, the project proposed a number of measures to study the environment of local self-government bodies and develop a set of measures and internal policies to build a risk management system, which, with quality implementation, in the future can significantly reduce the level of corruption risks and make the work of local government organizations more transparent.
Public representatives also play an important role in this process, who:
1️. First, they must form a demand and supervise the use of these resources, which are constantly arriving.
2️. Secondly, they themselves can be participants in the process of rebuilding their cities by attracting funds for material and technical aid and humanitarian aid for the implementation of reconstruction projects.
At the same time, it's important that the public directs its efforts not only to the restoration of infrastructure, but also to projects aimed at psychological, legal, and sociocultural assistance to the population in the restored territories. That is why work with the public is a key part of our project.
The project is supported by the EU Anti-Corruption Initiative (EUACI) – the leading anti-corruption support program in Ukraine funded by the EU, co-funded, and implemented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.
