PAUCI IN ACTION: FEBRUARY-APRIL 2012

PAUCI FOUNDATION LAUNCHES A NEW PROJECT “PUBLIC KINDERGARTEN COMPLEX THERMOMODERNISATION IN YAGOTYN TOWN”

PAUCI together with Yagotyn Council starts to implement a new project “Public kindergarten complex thermomodernisation

the European Union, partly financed from Yagotyn local budget and is implemented by Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation PAUCI together with Yagotyn City Council. The project was one of the ten projects

program “Support to energy efficiency measures in small Ukrainian cities”. Yagotyn city is located 100 kilometres from Kiev. The cost for heating the kindergarten #4 has risen in 13 times during the period from 2006 till 2010. The temperature in the building is hardly the minimum needed. This kindergarten was built in 1995. The builders did not follow the rules of construction, arrangement of aeration and calculation of heating system. The aim of this project is to decrease the usage of energy in kindergarten mentioned and create a high-quality staying conditions. The following is planned to be done: to provide the walls and house footing with heat insulation; to replace all the windows and doors; to install systems of automatic aeration; to replace old systems of heating. The duration of project is 13 months. The general budget of the project is 199 487 Euros. Results expected are the following: the halfway reducing of energy usage; creation of the proper microclimate in the building following all the standards. Mass media about the project: Web-site “Ukrainian energy” STB TV channel

in Yagotyn town”. This project is financed by

financed by the European Union within the

5-th Channel “Mirror to Europe” Contact person: Vyacheslav Gusev. NEW PAUCI PROJECT “RISK MANAGEMENT AND INTERNAL AUDIT IN LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT IN UKRAINE”

One of the modern tools of increasing the capacity of administration to provide high-

helps not only to control the compliance of the organization’s functioning with internal and inner regulators, but also evaluate the potential sphere of money savings. Such spheres may originate from ineffective risk management, excessive expenses as the result

identified processes, and also wrong and ill-

Poland has been successfully implementing this tool in self-government bodies for many years (from 2001 it is obligatory for more then 2300 administrations, including 630 local self-government bodies), PAUCI Foundation takes part in implementation of the same reform in Moldova. Ukraine is only starting going this way. The aim of this PAUCI Foundation’s project is to improve the quality of governance in three regional centers (Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, and Lviv), form the team of auditors who will be subordinated to cities governance only and who will help foremen of local self-government in risk management. Within this project representatives of municipalities will be trained – the head-position foremen to use this instrument of governance in their work as well as local key specialists who will become internal auditors. The Ukrainian and Polish experts will be the tutors during the period of education. Trainings will be practical and theoretical (study visits to Poland, pilot audit-missions in Lviv, Cherkasy, and Vinnytsia). This project is supported by Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation PAUCI, financially supported by “Polish help-2012” of Ministry of foreign affairs in Poland. Contact persons: Olga Galytska, Adam Sauer.

quality services is the internal audit, which

of improper administration; wrongly

timed administrative information.

THE PROJECT "SUPPORT FOR PERFORMANCE BUDGETING SYSTEM IN MOLDOVAN LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENTS"

The project “Support for performance

governments” financed by the Polish Aid 2012

Moldova by introducing performance budgeting in local governments. Project is a

Consulting Institute activities focused on introduction of performance budgeting by

needs of the Moldovan Ministry of Finance to introduce performance budgets as a obligatory form of budgeting related with the current decentralization reform. Projects in Moldova follow the example and experiences of Krakow, the first Polish city which introduced the performance budget (1994). In years 2009-2011 PAUCI and Business Consulting Institute, thanks to the UNDP, Polish Aid and CEI-KEP support, elaborated the methodology of performance budgeting in Moldova, prepared decision makers and financial specialists of 5 Moldovan cities (Floresti, Stefan Voda, Balti, Cahul and Ungheni) in performance budget related issues and in case of the capital city of Chisinau – the trained local specialists and decision makers already prepared selected parts of the city budget in a performance mode. The project assumes the improvement of knowledge of Moldovan Ministry of Finance’s specialists in performance budgeting and consultations of the Ministry’s plans as regard making the performance budgets an obligatory form, will continue acquiring practical experience by the government of Chisinau (the development of further areas of the city budget in the performance mode). Project will also introduce performance budgeting issues and basic trainings for the next four Moldovan cities (Orhei, Calarasi, Soroca, Camenca (Transnistria)), will help in creation of test software linking classification structured budgets with performance budgets and will facilitate a public discussion about the reform of the budgeting system of the Moldovan local self-governments. Contact person: Adam Sauer.

budgeting system in Moldovan local self-

will support the reform of local finances in

follow-up of a PAUCI and Business

Moldovan local governments and answers the

NEW PAUCI PROJECT "BUILDING PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES"

The aim of the project that was implemented in 2010-11 was to provide conditions for

makers and local authorities of Moldova,

private partnerships, and offer solutions for

The aim of the new project is to support and promote community initiatives in Ukraine in

condominiums (OSBB) by showing examples of best Polish and Ukrainian experience in this field. The project proposes the following activities: - Training for persons interested in the creation or improvement of existing condominiums and persons professionally connected with this service;

iniums, utilities and property managers; - Measures aimed at promoting the idea of creating condominiums in the media; - Brochure on establishing and management of condominiums; - A consulting centre to be opened at the "Centre of Sumy Social Policy for Open Society"; - Creation of basis for further multiplication of the experience in other cities of Ukraine. Project duration: January 1 - June 30, 2012 The area of the project: Poland (Warsaw, Bialystok, alternatively: Plotsk), Ukraine (Sumy). The project is implemented with financial support of the Program "RITA" of Polish-American Freedom Foundation. Contact person: Krzysztof Filcek.

exchange of experiences between policy

Czech Republic and Poland in the public-

Moldova to enable public-private partnership.

establishing and managing of housing

- Study tour to Poland for representatives of condom

PAUCI FOUNDATION LAUNCHES A PROJECT "POLISH EXPERIENCE OF HOUSING MANAGEMENT AND SERVICES FOR CONDOMINIUMS"

A new project is implemented with financial support of t"Polish Aid" Program of the Ministry of Foreign Affaof Poland and aims to improve the quality and

the number of housing management companies, small and medium businesses that provide such services in Kharkiv, Poltava and Zhytomyr (Ukraine). Special attention in this project will be paid to transfer the experience of thermo homes in Poland. The project will comply of conducting weekly trainings for future managers in Kharkiv, Zhitomyr, Poltava, conducting study visits to Poland, cooperation with the Ukrainian

thematic portals related to condominiums and other events. The project will last until the end of 2012. Contact person: Vyacheslav Gusev, Krzysztof Filtsek.

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affordability of condominium management by increasing

TRAINING FOR HAUSING COMMUNITIES IN SUMY On 14-15 March 2012 in Sumy in the lecture hall of the Sumy Oblast Administration’s personnel training center a training was provided to the heads of housing communities operating in the city. It was an event within the project “Housing communities as a form of organization of local communities and a school of local democracy”. Project is financed by

Polish-American Freedom Foundation conducted

The training was attended by 30 participants. Its

communities and various aspects of their activities,

cleaning/maintenance activities, financing sources

measures, and ending with the principles of financial records.

“Region in Transition" – RITA Program of the

by the Education for Democracy Foundation.

program included issues related to creating

ranging from internal communications, the scope of

and keeping expenses low, including energy saving

Polish experts conducted two presentations. One concerned a mechanism to support renovations and energy saving investments by the State, the other principles of reaching consensus as the

basis for decision-making and further activities in the community. During the discussion, the experts had the opportunity to comment on many topics and respond to questions asked from the audience. The organizers and the Polish experts were also invited to a meeting with the deputy governor of the Sumy oblast Mr. Mykola Derkach, who was informed about the project and himself expressed the hope that similar training will be organized in the future also in regional cities. Residential communities in Ukraine do not arise by law from the moment of privatization of the flats in the building, but there are associations of a voluntary nature. Their legal position against the city and a self-monopolistic companies of property management service is very poor. In addition, their encounter in their daily activities a number of technical issues specific to the post-Soviet space, such as central heating single pipe supply system or local heating generation by the loft boilers. The next event scheduled within the project is a study visit to Poland, initially planned for April, but due to four times longer waiting time for Polish visas at the consulate in Kharkov it is shifted to the second half of May. Contact person: Krzysztof Filtsek. SEMINAR-TRAINING FOR SCHOOL PRINCIPALS AND TEACHERS OF DONETSK

On April 11, 2012 PAUCI Foundation in cooperation with the Standing Committee on

Council held a seminar-training for directors of local schools and teachers named 'Environment and Energy-saving – actualities and interactive methods of teaching in schools" at the Donetsk school №22 "Leader". Anastasia Popsuy, PAUCI Project coordinator,

and energy-saving, the current situation in Ukraine, prospects and concerns about these issues, the situation with energy-savings in school buildings of Ukraine, the experience of environmental and energy-saving programs in the schools of Poland, the best practices of similar programs in Ukrainian schools. Also, the teachers experienced the new interactive teaching methods, learn to search for video materials and use online resources for teaching young people, received training materials for classes - books, tasks, CDs, posters. Participants were played on "Green Packs" and alternative energy models for students.

Energy-saving and efficiency of Donetsk City

described the latest global trends in environmental

Contact person: Anastasiia Popsui.

PAUCI ANNUAL REPORT 2011

Dear colleagues and friends! We are pleased to present PAUCI Annual Report for 2011 and share with you our achievements. We thank everybody who stayed with us last year and hope to continue our cooperation in future. Please find the Report on the PAUCI web-site.

MEDIA ABOUT US PAUCI Energy-saving Projects Coordinator Vyacheslav Gusev at school in Cherkassy

PAUCI Energy-saving Projects Coordinator Vyacheslav Gusev at school in Cherkassy about the project results.

How to save the heat in houses?

PAUCI recommendations for Cherkasy television program.

Fried eggs on hatch heating

PAUCI Foundation fried eggs on hatches of Kiev heating system to clearly show the losses of energy. STV TV Channel 1+1 TV Channel

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