Community Based Approach
to Local Development
Project:
Project Implementation Plan
and Principal Activities
Project Implementation
Particularities
• Project is implemented by: UN Development Programme on
the basis of an Agreement with European Commission
• Project coordinator from Ukraine: Deputy Prime Minister of
Ukraine for Regional Policy, Urban Development and
Housing and Public Utilities
• Organisation, information and monitoring support by:
Department of Regional Policy of the Secretariat of the
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
Ministry for Housing and Public Utilities of Ukraine
Project Activities Coordination
• The Coordination Centre in Kyiv, also oblast
implementation units in all oblasts and the ARC
• National-level coordination within the framework of the
Project Coordination Council and Regional Cooperation
Governmental and Donor Coordination Group A4
• Local-level coordination within the framework of
cooperation agreements between the UNDP and local
government bodies (OSA, RSA, local councils)
• Cooperation with international donor community to
attract additional resources for co-financing of local
initiatives and increase the number of communities
involved in the Project
Project Implementation
Phases-1
• Informing national partners about Project inception,
identification of national-level coordination mechanism
• Project launching conference
• Establishment of the Project Coordination Centre;
Project office set up
• Establishment of oblast project implementation units/
community resource centres
• Training of Project personnel and national partners
• Development of national and local media strategies,
promotion campaign
Project Implementation
Phases -2
• Establishment of cooperation with local government
bodies, signing of partnership agreements
• Selection of target rayons (8 per Oblast on average)
• Selection of target communities (5 per rayon on
average);
• Implementation of Rayon Local Development Forums
(LDF) in 200 target rayons
Project Implementation
Phases -3
• Support of community self-organisation and social
integration of participating communities through early
information, general meetings and subsequent training
and organisation measures
• Training of representatives of participating communities
• Preparation of participating community development
plans
• Detailed technical development of selected priority
community initiative projects
• Approval of priority projects, co-financing, selection of
contractors
Project Implementation
Phases - 4
• Implementation of priority projects and joint
monitoring
• Pre-commission transfer of completed facilities
• Evaluation/systemisation/discussion of acquired
experience
• Dissemination of Project methodologies among
other communities concerned
• Assistance to necessary reforms in the field of
local self-governance and formation of a
decentralised model of government
Basic Criteria for Selection of
Rayons and Communities
• High poverty level; need for improvement of local
infrastructure and services
• Interest, organisation and technical support by local
governments (tenders, assistance in precommissioning transfer of completed projects etc.)
• Guarantees of community initiative co-financing
from the central and local budgets
Additional criteria for selection of
pilot rayons/communities
• Access to water supply (number of communities
without access to water supply and/or quality of water
supplied)
• Access to primary medical assistance services (number
of communities without access to primary medical
assistance services, current status of village first aid
station network)
• Environmental situation in the rayon
• Rayon accessibility (number of children in need of bus
transportation to schools)
• Oblast state bodies and the Project team may further
suggest a maximum of three additional criteria
Location/Community Selection
Procedure
• Collection of information on locations and their
development potential
• Location assessment as per jointly identified criteria
• Selection of locations by joint efforts with rayon
governments based on the performed assessment
Project Implementation Plan for
2008
• Project launching conference: beginning of December
• Establishment of project management team : Mid-
November 2007
• Establishment of the Project Coordination Council : Mid-
November 2008
• Establishment of oblast implementation teams :
December-March 2008
• Establishment of cooperation with local governments :
January-April 2008
• Selection of target rayons: January-May2008
• Selection of target communities: February-July 2008
• Start of work with communities: July-December 2008
Project Coordination Council
• Coordination of Project implementation
according to priorities of social and economic
development of Ukraine
• Assistance to involvement and participation of
national partners
• Ensuring proper awareness of regional and
local governments
• Strategic advice on Project implementation
• Assistance to use of Project outputs for national
strategy and policy development
Rayon Local Development
Forum
Objective:
• To assure social, environmental and economic
development by joint planning and decision
making with participation of communities, and via
more efficient allocation of financial resources
• To assist decentralised planning and democratic
governance at the regional level
Rayon Local Development
Forum
Forum tasks:
• Coordination of Project implementation at the rayon level;
• Presentation of plans and strategies of location and rayon
development;
• Agreement on plans of community, location and rayon
development plans;
• Identifying rayon development priorities;
• Discussion and elimination of issues arising in the process
of Project implementation;
• Development of plans of technical and financial resource
attraction for implementation of community initiatives
Rayon Local Development
Forum
Tangible LDF membership:
• Head of rayon state administration
• Head of rayon council
• Head of village/town council of pilot communities
• Head of respective rayon administration units
• Oblast government official representatives
• Head of community organisations formed by IWG
• Incidental/other participants (to be invited on an
as-necessary basis)
• Commercial banks representative
• Municipal utility company representatives
• Other organisations
Community Project Planning and
Approval Procedure
Project
Project proposal
evaluation commission
Rayon Forum
Agreement
between the
PROJECT and
community
Recommendation
Project proposal
Rayon
Village/tow
n council
Project implementation
into the local
development plan
Project proposal
Community
Association
Location
community
communit
y
communit
y
community
Points for Discussion in
Workgroups
•
Agreements between the UNDP and local
governments
• Mechanism and criteria of rayon/community
selection
• Possible mechanisms for co-financing of
community initiatives
Points for Discussion in
Workgroups
-Procedure of Project presentation at the rayon and oblast
levels
-Terms and conditions of partnership by and between the
UNDP and local governments within the framework of the
Project
-Criteria and procedure of selection of target rayons and
communities
- Project coordination at the oblast and rayon levels
- Possible mechanisms of co-financing initiatives of
participating communities