Fostering Sustainable Local Development

in Tulchyn municipality, Ukraine

Valerii VesnianyiTulchyn City Mayor

15,8 thousand residents Small district-subordinated municipality One of historic centres of Ukraine UNDP partner since 2007 Typical municipal problems: poor condition

of housing infrastructure, passive population, low income families, social hardships

Tulchyn municipality

Inter-Municipal Cooperation for

Solid Waste Management

Mobilizing local communities for

joint projects

Participatory Planning and

Decision-Making

Raising Public Awareness on

Human Development

Agenda

Ways of Fostering Sustainable Development in Tulchyn

Participatory planning and decision-making

Territorial community of the city

Mayor

Department for supporting

community initiatives

Deputy Mayors

Sectoral departments

Sectoral departments

Participatory planning and decision-making Department for supporting community initiatives

created within the structure of the municipality Major task - to engage citizens into the local

decision-making and support their projects Public hearings, consultations, participation of the

officials in community meetings to learn their needs

Mobilizing local communities for joint projects Six community projects worth USD 110 thousand Introduction of the cost-sharing principle:

- 18% shared by the community organizations, - 43% by the city council, - the rest contributed by UNDP

4 projects were related with energy efficiency of the public schools’ premises

Rehabilitation of water spring for rational usage

of water resources

Construction of the street water supply system by

the local community

Mobilizing local communities for joint projects

Inter-Municipal Cooperation: Integrated approach to SWMMajor problems: - Tulchyn SW landfill overloaded

- Poor infrastructure - Citizens do not separate their domestic waste- Illegal dumpsites are regular, since citizens do not want to pay for waste disposal Partners:

• Tulchyn district state administration, district council• Tulchyn City Council, neighbouring village councils of

Suvorivske and Kynashiv• UNDP Project  «Municipal Governance and Sustainable

Development Programme»• Swiss-Ukrainian Decentralization Support Project

Territory of IMC project :60 000 residents

Inter-Municipal Cooperation: Integrated approach to municipal SWM Report on the development of alternative integrated

MSW treatment in Tulchyn target region developed and approved by partners

4-containers technological scheme of separate waste collection to be introduced in multi-storeyed houses, which involves the use of separate containers for storage of paper and cardboard, plastic, metal, glass and mixed waste

The Strategy on integrated approach in solid waste management in Tulchyn target region adopted by Tulchyn district state administration

equipment and storage containers procured and installed

grounds for the MSW collection near the “pilot” houses constructed and equipped

trainings for condominium Board members and activists held

awareness campaign in Tulchyn and the neighboring villages conducted

Pilot initiative to test the system of separate collection of domestic waste in multi-apartment houses in Tulchyn where condominiums are organized

Awareness campaign “Less garbage- better life”

Billboards

PostersMedia events Lessons

Lectures

Master classes

Elements of e-governance introduced

Contacts of all elected officials

All regulatory acts of the city councils

Online surveys on important issues

“Ask the Mayor” section

Establish strong dialogue with the citizens by all means (face-to-face meetings, online interaction, specialised department for cooperation with the communities)

Gain trust of the communities by developing their capacities and providing seed grants to their initiatives

Engage the prepared communities into the higher level initiatives to solve bigger development problems at the municipal level

Enhance this cooperation by the awareness campaigns on the important agenda of local development

Conclusions: how to make the local development work

Thank you!

Tulchyn City CouncilVinnytsya region, Ukraine

1 Lenina St.Tel.: 38(04335) 2-2240

http://tulchyn-rada.org.ua/