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 ImplementationPhases-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 ImplementationPhases -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 ImplementationPhases -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 ImplementationPhases - 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 pre-commissioning 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

• 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

Tangible LDF membership:

Community Association

Project proposal

community

Village/town

council

Project

community community

community

Project proposal evaluation commission

Agreement between the

PROJECT and community

Approval

Rayon

Project implementation into the local

development plan

Rayon Forum Project proposal

Recommendation

Location

Community Project Planning and Approval Procedure

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