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EEF and the Zelenodolsk City Council havelaunched joint two-year Partnership for Energy

Efficiency project. Thanks to a Є250,000 grant from anEU-funded competition "Support to energy efficiencymeasures in small Ukrainian cities", the partners willput into place an energy management system, modern-ize the municipal heating supply and raise awarenesson energy-saving measures. The project will conductenergy audits of the municipal heating system andcommunal infrastructure buildings, analyze energyconsumption by the city’s budget-funded infrastructureand install automatic energy-monitoring software inthe city. Project experts will also develop an energy-efficiency plan for Zelenodolsk. In addition, more than600 meters of the city’s heating mainline will bereplaced, and an automatic temperature control systemat the city heat exchange station will be introduced.The project will be accompanied by an informationcampaign to promote individual heat control in cityhouseholds.

The spring-summer of 2012 was espe-cially busy with events and activities

conducted as part of the Partnerships forCleaner Energy project.

In particular, on 4 April the 2012 Energo-prom National Exhibition took place. Thisexhibition aims to promote modern energyefficiency technologies and to help estab-lish cooperation between local authorities,businesses, other potential users and tech-nology producers. The Partnerships forCleaner Energy project is supporting Ener-goprom for the second year in a row todemonstrate to oblast enterprises and localauthorities best practices and technologiesthroughout Ukraine. This year the exhibi-tion was opened by Janina Jaruzelski,Director of the U.S. Agency for Interna-tional Development (USAID) RegionalMission for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldo-va, and Yevhen Udod, head of the

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council. It wasattended by approximately 3,000 visitors.

“Energy efficiency is critical for sustain-able economic growth and for energy secu-rity. This exhibition highlights the benefitsthat energy efficiency technologies canpotentially bring to Ukrainian industry, thepublic sector and to the households ofaverage Ukrainian citizens,” Jaruzelskisaid.

A training program is an important com-ponent of the project, providing represen-tatives of business and local governmentwith in-depth knowledge and practicalskills on how to use renewable energyresources in their enterprises and commu-nities that will enable them to decrease CO2

emissions, increase energy efficiency andimprove profitability. Taking this intoaccount, the Partnerships for Cleaner Ener-gy project focused on training

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Partnership for Energy Efficiencyin Zelenodolsk

Clean Energy Project Gaining Momentum

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In order to help the public appreciate theimportance of introducing energy efficiency

technologies, EEF and the DnipropetrovskOblast Council at the beginning of 2012announced a competition open to all media forthe best analytical articles on energy efficien-cy. The competition was a part of the Partner-ship for Cleaner Energy project, which isbeing implemented by EEF in partnership withthe Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council, theDnipropetrovsk Oblast State Administrationand DTEK company.

Twenty eight proposals were submitted to theClean Energy – The Choice of the Future cam-paign, which aimed to increase public aware-ness on the introduction of renewable energyresources and energy efficiency technologiesas an effective tool for improving the environ-ment, slowing climate change and providingenergy security.

The contest winners were acknowledged on4 April 2012 during the opening of the Ener-goprom National Exhibition, which is also apart of the Clean Energy project. The exhibi-tion which the project has supported for thesecond year in a row, looks to promote modernenergy efficiency technologies and to helpestablish cooperation in this field betweenlocal authorities, businesses, other potentialenergy users and producers of energy efficien-cy technology.

The winners received their awards from thedirector of the U.S. Agency for InternationalDevelopment (USAID) Regional Mission forUkraine, Belarus, Moldova, Ms. JaninaJaruzelski, Yevhen Udod, head of the

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council, and EEFPresident Victor Liakh.

A regional newspaper, Bereg Nadezhdy fromSynelnykovo district, was named for its practi-cal recommendation and promotion of simpleand useful technologies that could be duplicat-ed in other communities without the need forhuge financing.

Kateryna Vasylyeva of the Sodruzhestvo TVand radio company received an award for themost expert and professional work among TVreporters.

Another winner, Hennadiy Senkevich of theDnipropetrovsk-based newspaper Zorya,received a prize for his fervent interest andsystematic approach in coverage of the topic.

The USAID Partnership for Cleaner Energyproject promotes energy saving and CO2

reduction by building the capacities of localgovernment and business to design, evaluate,implement and measure community-drivenstrategies and projects related to energy effi-ciency and reducing CO2 emissions.

Dnipropetrovsk Media Promotes Energy Efficiency

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seminars that helped more than 150 represen-tatives of target groups successfully pass thetraining course.

In order to show the benefits of using energyefficiency technologies, the project imple-mented several demonstration projects,installing modern equipment on communalproperties. Over 2011-2012 the project helpedto install LED street lighting in Zelenodolskand Bohdanivka, and to introduce basic energyefficiency measures (roof and wall insulation,

replace windows and doors to improve com-fort and save resources) in the kindergartens ofNovooleksandrivka, Tomakivka, Loboikivkaand Mezhova and at a library in Devladove.

In April 2012 solar panels and recuperationtechnology were installed to supply hot waterat Pavlohrad Kindergarden #47. As a result, aswimming pool that has not functioned fornearly 20 years is now open for children.Pavlohrad was one of eight cities and towns ofDnipropetrovsk oblast selected for demonstra-

tion projects that have since been implement-ed.

In the nearest future the project plans to con-duct a broad information campaign, developrecommendations for the Dnipropetrovskoblast strategic energy plan regarding imple-mentation of innovative energy efficiencytechnologies and implementing energy-savingequipment on communal infrastructure build-ings.

Award ceremony of the “Clean Energy – A Choice for the Future” contest for the media.

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UNITER Project Initiates National Reforms

Partners of the UNITER project which isnow into its third year, are continuing with

their activities which look to unite Ukrainiancivil society organizations on the national andlocal levels in order to push national and localreforms.

The first phase of the project was implement-ed over 2009-20101 and resulted in 59 grantsto local NGOs, supporting advocacy initiativesfocused on issues such as governmentaccountability, municipal housing reform, citi-zen participation and their effectiveinput intolocal development planning, empowerment fordisadvantaged groups, consumer rights protec-tion and monitoring of campaign promisesmade by elected officials. A full list of sup-ported projects can be found atwww.uniter.org.ua.

The results achieved and their impact taskedproject partners to consider new, more ambi-tious objectives—to increase the influence ofcivil society on forming national policy agen-da and to initiate reforms in priority areas forsociety at the national level.

This is one of the features of the latest stageof the project: to unite the efforts of local- andnational-level civil society organizations inUkraine to advocate on behalf of citizens anddrive national reforms. Project partners haveprovided support to complex projects devel-oped by coalitions of NGOs that push forreforms to solve problems critical for Ukrain-ian society.

In spring 2012, as part of the second stage ofthe UNITER project, 26 projects received a

total of nearly UAH 3 mln in support. Overall,61 coalitions uniting 299 civil society organi-zations have submitted applications for partic-ipation in this latest round of the grants com-petition. Before the grants were awarded, allwinners completed an intensive training pro-gram on how to build coalitions and workeffectively within them.

Coalition winners will work on a variety oftopics important for Ukrainian society, ones inwhich reforms have been deemed critical.

Thus, Agency for Legislative Initiatives willlead the coalition efforts to ensure participa-tion of local communities in local level deci-sion-making through advocating the instituteof local referendum and expanding the role ofcommunities in local self-governance. Thepolicy recommendations to improve an insti-tute of local referendum will be channeled tothe Parliament committee and discussed. It isexpected that the project will institutionalizethe local referendum as a method of efficientcitizen participation in local governance.

In turn, the National Association for Com-munity Self-organization Assistance in coop-eration with local partners will develop andadvocate national- and local-level regulationsto ensure public control of self-organized citi-zens’ bodies over the utilities sector. Such pol-icy recommendations will be discussed widelyand national level policy recommendationsand amendments to existing legal acts will besubmitted to the Ministry of Regional Devel-opment, Construction and Housing Utilitiesfor its adoption. It is expected that citizens will

soon receive efficient mechanisms of controlover the utilities sector in this way.

Ukraine is currently undertaking reforms inthe public health system, and the first stage ofimplementing the reforms includes piloting ofthe proposed changes in Vinnytsia,Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk oblasts and inKyiv.

The proposed reforms will amend the systemof healthcare by adding family doctors as thefirst and main medical focal point for all citi-zens, including people with mental disabilities.

Another coalition, led by the National NGOCoalition for People with Intellectual Disabil-ities, will work to ensure that these reformshave a positive impact on people with mentaldisabilities in the abovementioned areas ofUkraine as well as monitor the situation inKyiv.

As a result of the monitoring, the coalitionexpects to propose changes and amendmentsto reforms and legal acts that guide healthcarereforms in order to improve the quality ofservices that are to be provided to people withmental disabilities after healthcare reform isimplemented nationwide.

For additional information on the supportedprojects please visit www.eef.org.ua.

The Ukraine National Initiatives to EnhanceReforms (UNITER) project is being imple-mented by Pact Inc. with funding from theU.S. Agency for International Development(USAID) and supported by the InternationalRenaissance Foundation (IRF). EEF is admin-istrating UNITER’s local grant program.

EEF Helps Develop Corporate Volunteering in Ukraine

For the second time EEF has conducted its National CorporateVolunteer Contest in partnership with the UN Global Compact

Network in Ukraine, the UN Volunteers Programme, the EuropeanBusiness Association, the American Chamber of Commerce inUkraine, the U.S. PeaceCorps and the Ukrainian PhilanthropistsForum.

The contest, which aims to recognize and celebrate businesses withemployee volunteer programs working to help solve vital problemsin society, resulted in approximately 20 applicatons describing cor-porate volunteering programs being implemented by local and inter-national companies in Ukraine. Such programs help to solve socialand economic problems faced by Ukrainian communities by con-tributing the company’s expertise in addition to the experience, ener-gy, skills and time of company employees.

Employees of companies help to assist orphans and vulnerableyouth better integrate into society and to look confidently towardsthe future. They provide students new knowledge and skills nottaught in school or in institutes of higher learning. These programsnow involve thousands of people promoting healthy lifestyles, envi-ronmental protection, and the restoration of historical and culturalmonuments.

The winners by categories were as follows:1) Life Quality Improvement: PwC (large businesses) and BDO

(small businesses);

2) Education and Culture: Kyivstar and Ernst&Young Ukraine(large businesses) and Perspektiva M (small business);

3) Health and Sports: Prykarpattyaoblenergo (large businesses)and Amway (small businesses);

4) Environment: Coca-Cola Beverages and Kraft Foods Ukraine(large businesses);

5) Joint initiatives involving businesses and NGOs: DobrotaDonetsk City Charitable Foundation.

Award ceremony of the National Corporate Volunteering contest.

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Over May 23-24, EEF and the DobrochynCenter held a conference in Chernihiv

entitled “Electronic Democracy in Ukraine:Regional Dimensions.” The conferencequickly proved to be an effective platform forestablishing constructive cooperationbetween civil society and government asregards introducing e-governance and pro-moting e-democracy nationwide.

The conference also summarized the results ofthe Your Local Representative: StrengtheningCitizen Participation in Ukraine project, an 18-month endeavor that helped create an effectivetool for public interaction with government.

Approximately 80 participants, includingrepresentatives of local NGOs, local councildeputies and local government officials,learned about best international practices andsuccessful examples from Ukrainians in thisarea. Presentations and discussions of nation-al experts and practitioners enabled confer-ence participants to return to their communi-ties with ideas on how they can start introduc-ing e-democracy in their communities.

In her written address to conference partici-pants, Ms. Maryna Stavniychuk, a presiden-tial adviser and head of both the PresidentialAdministration’s Main Office for Constitu-tional and Legal Modernization Affairs andCoordination Council on Civil Society Devel-opment, noted that the “issue of introducinge-democracy is important not merely for thestate, but primarily for its citizens. In this con-text, the cooperation of authorities and citi-zens to create efficient national, regional andlocal policy is a serious task which is veryimportant at present.”

While presenting the achievements of theproject, EEF and its local partners empha-

sized that it helped toexpand the impact ofcommunity towards localpolitical process by usingcivil society to monitorthe work of local deputiesand imp-rove publicaccess to information ontheir work.

As part of the project,eight interactive web por-tals were created: inVolyn, Donetsk, Cherni-hiv, Luhansk, Kharkiv,Ternopil and Odesaoblasts, plus theAutonomous Republic ofCrimea. Local officialsare able to use thisresource to inform citizens about their work,and citizens in turn can leave comments andrecommendations regarding the work of pub-lic officials. Web resources include informa-tion on the composition and ongoing work of87 local pilot councils at the oblast, city anddistrict levels as well as deputies’ reports,contact information and working hours formeeting with citizens. In addition, these web-sites cover other important communityissues; local partners have collected a hugeamount of data, in particular establishing4,671 pages on individual deputies. To learnmore, please visit www.dep.org.ua.

In addition, the project has conducted aseries of training sessions in areas such as e-democracy, and cooperation between author-ities and the public using new media. Notsurprisingly, local partners from eight oblastsof Ukraine now actively use this powerful

resource as a kind of social network. In par-ticular, groups created on facebook haveunited more than 900 active participants,including ordinary citizens, media, represen-tatives of other NGOs and local councildeputies.

Despite the fact that funding from the UNDemocracy Fund (UNDEF) and the U.S.Agency for International Development(USAID) has ended, the project continues togain momentum. Partners have created acoalition of NGOs called The MonitoringGroup, which is open to new members andalready includes eight regional project part-ners and 13 organizations in total, three ofthem joined the Group during the conference.But it is only the beginning: NGOs are confi-dent that the mechanism created as part of aproject to influence the work of governmentis an effective tool.

EEF and Partners Promote E-democracy

EEF and Partners Award Winners of ‘Sunny Caravan’ Contest

On 20 June EEF and its partnersannounced the winners of their “Sunny

Caravan” contest, which was held duringEuropean Days of the Sun, an internationalcampaign aimed at promoting the use of solarenergy.

The main aim of the competition was toincrease awareness among Ukrainian stu-dents and their parents about the use of solarenergy in everyday life. The contest wasorganized by the Green Dossier InformationCenter, EEF, the OSCE Project Coordinatorin Ukraine, the State Agency on Energy Effi-ciency and Energy Saving, Activ Solar andothers.

The contest included prizes in two cate-gories for individuals and organizations:technical and humanitarian. On the technicalside, participating students joined with their

parents, teachers or friends to create a devicethat enables solar energy to be used in every-day life. The humanitarian element taskedparticipants to organize an educational cam-paign to promote the use of solar energy.

In the technical category, the jury namedKonstantin Mikhailov of Sevastopol the indi-vidual winner. He created a mechanism andtools for heating communal water supplies inLyubimovka, a village near Sevastopol.Organizers presented him with tickets for theUkraine-England match at Euro 2012 as aspecial prize. The winner in the humanitariancategory was Vladimir Ivanchuk, a studentfrom the Kosiv Institute of Arts and Crafts inIvano-Frankivsk oblast. He designed specialinformational posters and received a netbookfrom contest partner Activ Solar.

Web resources created in eight oblasts of Ukraine help Ukrainians communicate with local officials.

The poster by contest winner V. Ivanchuk.

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Receiving administrative services anddifferent kinds of documents from gov-

ernment offices remains a major headachefor ordinary citizens and for business peoplein Ukraine. To date, the procedure forobtaining certain administrative services formost Ukrainians remains overly complicat-ed, unclear and confusing. To increase thecredibility of and trust in governmentamong citizens, ensure the transparency andaccountability of public officials, and allowUkrainians to receive documents and servic-es on time EEF has continued its Best Prac-tices in E-governance project, which intro-duces modern information technologies inthe daily work of local authorities toincrease the transparency and accountabilityof their activities and improve services pro-vided to citizens.

In 2012, in Dnipropetrovsk, EEF hasfocused on creating a unique portal to provideadministrative services to local residents, andit is designed to simplify communicationbetween citizens and local authorities. Untilnow, the internal portion of this project hasbeen designed as tested, with internal docu-ment flows completely digitalized. Currently,the work on the exterior portion of the portal– a special platform that will enable citizens

of Dnipropetrovsk to send requests to govern-ment officials for certain documents, infor-mation or services – is ongoing.

“E-governance technologies are recognizedworldwide as an effective tool of modernpublic administration, with a focus on qualityservice to satisfy the needs of citizens andbusinesses. The positive indicators that wereceived after testing of the newly createdresource confirm the need for introducingsuch technologies in the daily work of publicservants and for furthering their develop-ment,” said Natalia Piskoha, the head of thepermit issuing center of the DnipropetrovskCity Council.

According to preliminary results, the pro-cess has already become twice as fast com-pared with last year, and some documents arenow made ready even ahead of schedule.

Simultaneously, in Odesa oblast the projecthas helped to develop and test administrativeservices for the Oblast State Administration toprovide services on registering foreigninvestors, developing investment proposals, andsupporting and monitoring the implementationof investments plans. A newly developed web-site, http://invest.odessa.gov.ua, now provideshelp to investors and those interested in invest-ing as well as significantly decreases the timeneeded to receive government services. In addi-tion, the circulation of documents betweenlocal officials has been digitalized, therebymaking their work more efficient.

EEF and Partners Continueto Introduce E-governancein Dnipropetrovsk andOdesa Oblasts

A unique portal for providing administrative services in Dnipropetrovsk oblast and a web-portalin Odesa oblast offer new steps for implementing e-governance across Ukraine.

EEF and World Childhood Foundation Help Zhytomyr Oblast Orphans Prepare forAdulthood

In late March EEF and the World Child-hood Foundation launched a new stage of

their Everyone Has a Right to Work: Part-nerships to Improve Employment Opportu-nities for Vulnerable Youth project. The one-year initiative helps orphans better integrateinto society by introducing initiatives thatpromote broad access to employment forsuch vulnerable youth, especially orphansenrolled in the technical and vocationalschools of Zhytomyr oblast.

In Zhytomyr oblast approximately 4,000children are deprived of parental care andare considered orphans. After leaving thestate’s care, orphans lack the necessary lifeskills for integration into society, includingcommunication skills, financial literacy,how to search and apply for a job, how towrite a CV, and how to present themselves atjob interviews.

The project consists of various components,including improving the quality of employ-ment-related services for vulnerable youth bytraining social care specialists and teachers ofthe vocational schools. The project also devel-

ops mechanisms for sustainable cooperationbetween NGOs, social service agencies andlocal employers to improve job accessibilityfor vulnerable youth.

One of the main components of the project isan intensive training program for vulnerableyouth. Topics to be covered during upcomingtraining sessions include time management,human rights, healthy lifestyles, and profes-sional orientation and employment.

The Zhytomyr Oblast Association ofSocial Workers and EEF will work to estab-lish partnerships between local stakeholdersto improve job accessibility for vulnerableyouth. This will be done by organizing pub-lic discussions among stakeholders, job fairsand study visits for vulnerable youth.

EEF will also provide modern equipmentto ensure orphans have access to computers,the internet and other equipment necessaryfor the preparation of homework and self-education after school as well as education-al literature.

In 2011 alone project partners managed toprovide more than 250 orphans from 16 voca-

tional schools in Zhytomyr oblast with social,information and consulting assistance in thearea of employment and education.

To promote healthy life style among vul-nerable youth EEF and METRO con-ducted an oblast football championshipamong orphans from Zhytomyr oblast infall 2012

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Social Entrepreneurship Reaches Ukrainian Regions

The Lviv-based civic organization “Naro-dna dopomoha” (“People’s Help”) has

been taking care of Lviv residents for severalyears now. The Center of Integral Support forWomen in Crisis Situations, which was estab-lished by this NGO, helps those who have lostofficial documents, or found themselveshomeless or in a difficult situation. To financethis project, the NGO established a bakerycalled “Horikhovyi Dim”.

Yurii Lopatynskyi, an executive director atNarodna dopomoha, mentioned that the bak-ery is premised on raising revenues to financeother non-profit projects. It is also a trainingcenter where their clients – their consumers –can get the support they need.

Another example of national social entre-preneurship is Liudmyla Chorykova, directorof the “Zdorovya” (“Health”) Medical Reha-bilitation Center and SpektrPlus, an enter-prise. Every day her medical center receivesvisits from more than 20 children and adultswith disabilities coming from Ukraine andeven abroad, offering them fully qualifiedmedical care or rehabilitation as needed. Italso provides discounts on a variety of thingsfor patients from poor families.

The center, which was founded in 2009,reinvests its profits into its own development.At present the center needs a new building toexpand the range of its services due to theincreasing number of people seeking help.

Such examples of a business that aims tohelp people are rare, but thankfully the prac-tice of social entrepreneurship has alreadybecome well recognized around the worldand continues to make strides in Ukraine.

The partners of the Social Enterprise Devel-opment project do everything possible to makesocial enterprises a normal practice in nationalbusiness and categorize “social enterprises” asfor-profit businesses that reinvest in their socialor charitable objectives for the sake of the com-munity. The project aims to share ideas, createboth the necessary conditions for the develop-

ment of sociale n t e r p r i s e samong Ukraini-ans and a favor-able environmentto further developthe social enter-prise sector, plusprovide thosewho want to runa social enter-prise with thelegal, financialand consultingsupport to do so.

The partners ofthe Social Enter-prise Develop-ment project arenow conductingspecial educa-tional programsabout the legaland financial aspects of implementation socialbusiness projects. In addition, EEF awardedthree grants to establish resource centers in ARCrimea, Lviv and Donetsk. Each providesthose who want to run a social enterprise withthe consulting support they need as well as pro-motes the idea during different public events.

Despite the fact that this field is rather new,social entrepreneurship has been steadily gain-ing adherents among the public and particular-ly those who care about the welfare of others.

In 2012, the project continued to reachspread: to Mikolayiv, at the RUSAL Centerfor Social Programs and to Sevastopol, at theFoundation for Social and Economic Devel-opment of Sevastopol. Both have conductedintensive training programs for those whowant to become social entrepreneurs. In addi-tion, these new partners will provide fundingto support the best business plans of socialentrepreneurs in their respective territories.

In turn, the EEF – with support from the U.S.

Agency for International Development(USAID), Erste Stiftung and the AmericanChamber of Commerce in Ukraine – continue tosupport projects initiated by social entrepreneursfrom other regions. One of the main obstaclesfor their development in Ukraine is the low levelof awareness and lack of knowledge in this areaamong the public. To solve these problems, EEFand partners created a promotional film aboutsocial enterprises, what social entrepreneurshipmeans and how other can join this movement.

In May, project partners organized an edu-cational media tour entitled “Social Entrepre-neurship in Ukraine and Central and EasternEurope” for national journalists. Its aim wasto raise public awareness on social enterpris-es, and it gave journalists a unique opportuni-ty to learn about the daily work of such busi-nesses in Lviv and in Romania.

Please visit www.eef.org.ua or follow socialentrepreneurship on facebook to learn moreabout the project.

The Zdorovya (“Health”) Medical Rehabilitation Center gives hope for its littlepatients.

EEF and JTI to Open New Centers for Seniors in Crimea

EEF and Japan Tobacco International(JTI) have again united their efforts to

create news centers for seniors in Crimea.This cooperation has already helped to cre-ate three centers in Cherkasy oblast lastyear.

These centers – in Cherkasy, Zolotonoshaand the village of Prydniprovske – havecreated opportunities for social engage-ment among seniors and provided venuesfor popular pastimes/social activities sothat local seniors can gather to sing, danceand spend time with each other, plus gainnew skills offered in several specificgroups at these centers. The project has

also helped improve the standard of livingof local seniors by offering such servicesas laundry, hairdressing, and medical, psy-chological and legal consultations.

In 2012 two centers will be established inCrimea to improve the quality of life ofand access to social services for senior cit-izens in that region. In particular, theDistrict Councils of Veterans will renovateand launch a center in Rоzdolne for theelderly and people with disabilities, organ-ize a variety of hobby clubs for music,knitting, embroidery and other activities,plus organize community events.

In Bakhchisarai, a local veterans’ organi-

zation will establish a seniors’ center at aBakhchisarai center for the elderly andpeople with disabilities as well as at twolocations of a territorial center in the vil-lages of Kuybyshevo and Vilino. They willorganize a wide range of hobby clubs inthese centers, including those focused onsinging, theater, health, crafts and more.As part of the health club, seniors willreceive access to gym equipment and lec-tures from medical specialists.

In total, EEF has invested in the creationof 11 such community centers for seniorsacross Ukraine.

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On 10 April EEF presented ideas devel-oped as a part of the USAID Local

Investment and National Competitiveness(LINC) project at a joint meeting of the Cor-porate Social Responsibility and Travel andTourism Committees of the European Busi-ness Association (EBA).

The main focus of the meeting was to sharethe experience of utilizing the Public-PrivatePartnership (PPP) mechanism in developinglocal tourism and to discuss the potential ofPPP-based project ideas developed by theOdesa, Yevpatoria and Lutsk city councils.The city councils that presented their ideaswere selected among other pilot regions for aUSAID LINC project wherein representativesfrom these cities, with help from projectexperts, prepared their own investment proj-ects, which once implemented will help toincrease the attractiveness of these cities andtheir regions for investors and therebyimprove the welfare of local citizens.

In particular, the idea of establishing anopen-air museum featuring old Odesa(Moldovanka) envisages the creation of amodel of sustainable development in one citydistrict by preserving the culture and histori-cal look of old Odesa. The project plans cre-ate opportunities for business to provide serv-ices as part of the project and will improve thequality and extent of tourism-related servicesin the city.

In Yevpatoria, the project aims to develop asports and wellness facility in the “MoinakiGolden Ring” recreational zone which bor-ders a salt lake. The facility will include spafacilities, hotels, restaurants, sports fields,tennis courts, a golf course and more, plusprovide resources for the construction, main-tenance and development of a multi-purpose

sports stadium.During project implementation approxi-

mately 150 representatives of local authori-ties and businesses from Chernivtsi, Volyn,Rivne, Luhansk and Odesa regions, plus theAutonomous Republic of Crimea completedtraining seminars and received practical skillson the use of the PPP mechanism as regardswaste management, heating supply, renderingof medical services, development of tourisminfrastructure and more.

EEF and its partners organized special studytours for project participants to betteracquaint them with successful examples ofPPPs. Representatives Lina Ostapchuk andNatalya Bunda from Lutsk City Councilbelieve that the project has been effective anduseful in their professional work. Participa-tion in the project has inspired them to comeup with new ideas and more fully developtheir city. EEF, in cooperation with theUSAID LINC project, is facilitating local

community development by identifying andstrengthening existing public-private partner-ships that support regional economic invest-ment, building the capacities of local andregional champions for PPP, and promotingthe measurable impacts of these partnershipsto fuel growth in various sectors of localeconomies.


Knowledge gained during implementation of the project helped pilot cities to develop business-plans andpresent them to potential investors.

EEF, Partners Continue Development of Public-Private Partnerships

The popularization and implementation ofthe public-private partnership (PPP)

model over the last years have demonstratedconvincingly for Ukrainian communities thatthis mechanism really works and the topicshould be made a priority. To that end, EEFcontinues to work actively in this field and hasbecome a partner of the USAID Public-PrivatePartnership Development Program (P3DP). Asa program partner EEF focuses its work con-

ducting training sessions and informing thepublic about the aspects of PPP. As part of acollaboration agreement between P3DP andEEF, the latter will provide special trainingseminars on PPP for local authorities, hostregional and national-level conferences, con-duct study-tours abroad and in Ukraine, plusput together an information campaign in part-ner cities of the program.

To date EEF has conducted training sessionsthat focus on developing strategies for financ-ing state/municipal projects in program part-ner cities Lviv, Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk,Simferopol and Zaporizhzhia. During theseseminars all participants (representatives oflocal government, business and citizens) havean opportunity to learn more about globalexperience with implementing PPP projects,especially with strategies of realization andfunding of them. Participants have alsolearned about the types, principles, results,

spheres and practices of PPP project imple-mentation in Ukraine, plus clarified issuessuch as joint activity with state and communalenterprises, concessions for the constructionand operation of communal infrastructure,rental of state/communal real estate, invest-ment activity with state /communal enterpriseand technologies to be used by such consor-tiums. Trainers have also shared with partici-pants complete theoretical information (areview of the main PPP elements and nationallegislation regulating collaboration betweenlocal authorities and business) and tried togive them practical skills actions for imple-menting PPPs in their communities (e.g.wastemanagement, parking spaces, constructionand operation of the municipal health careinstitutions, maintaining of recreational zoneslike municipal parks etc.)

For more information about the programplease visit eef.org.ua.

EEF Aids Ukrainian Cities in the Develop of PPPs


Media tour for a pilot project site in Simferopol.

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EEmmbbaassssyy ooff SSwwiittzzeerrllaanndd iinn KKyyiivv

EErrssttee FFoouunnddaattiioonn

EEuurraassiiaa FFoouunnddaattiioonn

EEuurrooppeeaann UUnniioonn

JJTT IInntteerrnnaattiioonnaall

MMEETTRROO CCaasshh && CCaarrrryy

OOSSCCEE PPrroojjeecctt CCoooorrddiinnaattoorr iinn UUkkrraaiinnee

PPaacctt,, IInncc..

PPhhiilliipp MMoorrrriiss UUkkrraaiinnee

SSllaavvuuttiicchh,, CCaarrllssbbeerrgg GGrroouupp

UUNN DDeemmooccrraaccyy FFuunndd

UU..SS.. AAggeennccyy ffoorr IInntteerrnnaattiioonnaall DDeevveellooppmmeenntt

((UUSSAAIIDD))

UUSSAAIIDD LLIINNCC

UUSSAAIIDD PPuubblliicc--PPrriivvaattee

PPaarrttnneerrsshhiipp DDeevveellooppmmeenntt

PPrrooggrraamm ((FFHHII DDeevveellooppmmeenntt 336600,, LLLLCC))

WWoorrlldd CChhiillddhhoooodd FFoouunnddaattiioonn

PPaarrttnneerrss

British Council

Business in the Community

Civic Campaign New Citizen

Committee of Voters of Ukraine Cherkasy

branch

DLA Piper

Erste Bank

Expert Ukraine Magazine

International Renaissance Foundation

John Smith Trust

Microsoft Ukraine

National Assembly of People

with Disabilities

PH International in Ukraine

Platinum Bank

PricewaterhouseCoopers Ukraine

RUSAL Social Programme Centre

United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme

U.S.-Ukraine Business Council

UUkkrraaiinniiaann GGoovveerrnnmmeenntt PPaarrttnneerrsshhiippss

Berdychiv City Employment Center

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast State Administration

Kharkiv Oblast State Administration

Kharkiv District State Administration

Sevastopol City State Administration

State Social Service for Family, Children and

Youth

Verkhovna Rada Autonomous Republic of

Crimea

Ministry of Social Policy of Autonomous

Republic of Crimea

Zhytomyr Oblast State Administration

Zhytomyr Oblast Council

Zhytomyr Oblast Employment Center

Evpatoria City Council

Pavlograd City Council

Odesa City Council

Mezheva District Council (Dnipropetrovsk

oblast)

Tomakivka District Council (Dnipropetrovsk

oblast)

Zelenodolsk City Council (Dnipropetrovsk

oblast)

Bohdanivka Village Council (Dnipropetrovsk

oblast)

Loboykivka Village Council (Dnipropetrovsk

oblast)

Novooleksandrivka Village Council

(Dnipropetrovsk oblast)

MMeemmbbeerrsshhiippss iinn CCooaalliittiioonnss,,

AAssssoocciiaattiioonnss aanndd NNeettwwoorrkkss

American Chamber of Commerce

Business in the Community Global

Partnership Network

European Business Association (EBA)

Ukrainian Philanthropists Forum

UN Global Compact Network in Ukraine

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