INVESTMENT SHYPASSPORT ROKE COM MUN ITY CONTENT

General information 4 Strategic goals 5 Natural potential, geography and climate 6 Human resources 7 Social infrastructure 8 Budget revenues 9 Agricultural sector 10 Industry 11 Tourism and recreation potential 12 Investment development 13 Territorial competitiveness 14 Land resource for investment 15 Offers for investors 16 Contacts 18 We are glad to welcome you in Shy- Since the day of its amalgamation, Shy- roke community of region! roke community sets up a task – to search for Our community is aimed at econom- and to attract additional funding from differ- ic growth, development of infrastructure ent sources. For us, this means to build the fi- and social sector, territory improvement, co- nancial capability of the community and not to operation with international projects. depend on budget revenues. Having this task We care about both community wel- in mind, we founded the Development Agen- fare as a whole, and welfare of each family. cy of Shyroke Community at the beginning of Shyroke community is open to all Ukrainian 2018. and international investors who are ready to Attracting investment, preparing doc- honestly conduct their business in our ter- uments for the implementation of infrastruc- ritory: pay official salaries to employees and tural and other projects, building partnerships taxes to budget. In return, we are ready to and fostering international cooperation are the provide consulting and legal support to all Agency's priorities. entrepreneurs who want to start their busi- For the current year, we have already ness in our community. For the purpose, we developed more than 10 infrastructure pro- are ready to assist you in searching for part- jects and applied them for funding. We sub- ners, provide support in obtaining the nec- mitted about 50 project applications in other essary permissions, engage in grants and fields of work. We also assist municipal insti- government programs. tutions and enterprises in the development Among our advantages are geo- and implementation of their projects, provide graphical and logistical position (the com- consultation and expert support for them. Fi- munity is located between two regional nally, we study and we teach others how to use centers – Zaporizhzhia and ), as well modern tools of managing community devel- as convenient transport links. opment and fundraising. I am convinced that you will find re- Shyroke community is always glad to liable partners and profitable offers in our cooperate with investors and business partners community. And, for our part, we provide and will create all the necessary conditions for comprehensive support in implementing the successful implementation of investment your projects. projects. We welcome all the partners interest- ed in cooperation with Shyroke amalgamated community and our agency. Regards, Sincerely, Community leader Viktoriia Agientaieva, Denis Korotenko Director of the Development Agency of Shyroke Community General information

Neighbouring communities Mykolai-Pole village

Solone ATC council The Dnipro River River Dnipro The

Shyroke Dnipro community 75 km ATC Tomakivka

Zaporizhzhia Zaporizhzhia Dolynske ATC The Dnipro River 8 km

Kherson The Azov Sea

The Black Sea

Shyroke amalgamated territori- People population al community was formed on October 13, 2016, through the amalgamation 13 000 of 6 village councils of Zaporizhzhia district, as follows: Avhustynivka, Ve- The total area of Shyroke community sele, Volodymyrivske, Lukasheve, Soniachne, and Shyroke. The first election took place on April 30, 2017. 36 053ha

The community stretches ap- Administrative center – Shyroke village proximately 29 km from north to south and 22 km from west to east. 26 villages 2 settlements

Climate – moderately continental

Landscape – plain

40km of the coast of the Dnipro river 4 Strategic goals

GOAL 1 Economic growth of the community

Operational objectives

Creating conditions for attracting investment Increasing the Improving the oppor- and development of mod- tourist attractiveness of the tunities for SME development ern manufacturing compa- territory nies

GOAL 2 Improving living standards for residents of the community

Operational objectives

Municipal and Improving the con- Socialization and transport infrastructure ditions for providing cultur- integration of people with development al and leisure services disabilities

Increasing the com- Civic activity and munity attractiveness for engagement youth and families

GOAL 3 Improving services provided in the community

Operational objectives

Improving the education standards Improving the quality of social services

Improving the quality of medical care Improving the quality of public services

5 Natural potential, geography and climate

Land resources

nature reserve 468,2 ha built-up land fund

the total 1593 ha area 36 053 ha

31 594 ha 752 ha

167 ha forestry

agricultural land

land under water

Transport network of general Shyroke community is use: 320 km, of which highways of lo- located close to the two airports – in cal and state importance – 70 km, of Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro city. regional significance –40 km. The transport connection between local settlements and the re- gional center, Zaporizhzhia, is available. Soils - mostly Southern black, low-humus (65% of the total area) The national highway H-08 Boryspil-Zaporizhzhia passes through the territory of the community.

6 Human resources

of the total population Population people 23% of Zaporizhzhia region 13 000 55% employable population built-up land registered unemployment 29% rate in villages

ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES

AGRICULTURE COMMERCE TRANSPORT forestry

MUNICIPAL LOCAL SERVICES GOVERNMENT

The largest and most populous vil- Ten villages have the population lages are (number of people): of fewer than 100 residents

Hurskogo, Petropavlivka, No- Volodymyrivske 2081 voselyshche, Prydniprovske, Vidradne 1424 Novovoznesenivka, Ivanhorod, Lemeshynske, Vodiane, Novodni- Shyroke 1205 provka, Pryvilne

Lukasheve 1203 Others have the population Avhustynivka 962 of 100-700 people.

Sonichne 836

7 Social infrastructure

Secondary schools in Avhustynivka, Vidradne, Volod- EDUCATION ymyrivske, Shyroke, Lukasheve educational complex, 6 and Petropil secondary “hub” school schools

Municipal institutions of preschool education in 4 Avhustynivka, Vidradne, Volodymyrivske, Shyroke preschools

Centre of primary health care “Simeinyi Likar” (“Family Doctor”)

General Practice/Family Medicine MEDICINE 5 outpatient clinics – ambulatories 2 rural health posts 7 feldsher's stations

6 village cultural centres and clubs CULTURE 6 local libraries

creative classes and project groups like voice training, drama, dancing, art and 23 literature, etc.

Youth Hub “Space” in Shyroke - 1 громадський простір для молоді

Municipal utility “Blahvodservis of Shyroke"

Improvement of the territory, sanitary MUNICIPAL maintenance, collection, transport, and dispos- SERVICES al of waste, providing municipal services to res- idents of the community.

Municipal institution “Social Services Centre of Shyroke Community” provides social SOCIAL services to the local residents. SERVICES 8 Budget revenues

Nowadays, Shyroke amal- The part of an income tax in gamated territorial community is the local budget is 44% of the total in direct budgetary relations with revenues. the state budget, what enables to choose and distribute a significant portion of taxes independently.

Other tax revenues to the local budget

land tax excise tax single tax (including rentage) 20.1% 12.4% 9.5%

Since the amalgamated For now, the important task for community became independent, Shyroke community is to improve its more attention is paid to its own investment image as well as to launch revenues, completely dependent investment projects in the priority ar- on the community’s work. Analy- eas, such as: energy preservation and sis of the budget implementation energy security, thermo-moderniza- for 9 months of 2018 shows that tion, water supply, drainage, environ- the community has doubled the mental protection, agro-industrial budget revenues if compare to the complex, transport industry. corresponding period of the previ- ous year.

Analysis of the local budget reveals positive outcomes of the decentraliza- tion process and the reform of inter-budgetary relations. In particular, reallocation of financial resource to the benefit of the local budget of the community is one of the most significant results of the reform.

9 Agro-industrial complex

1 394 ha Household plots

871 ha

Private plots (smallholding)

3 321 ha AGRICULTURAL-USE COMMUNITY LANDS Farm household 659 ha

Garden plots

342 ha Commercial farming

Main branches

growing of cereals (winter The main agricultural enterprises wheat, barley (spring + win- working in the community ter), corn and millet) Alexandr Agro LLC, Soniachne 2007 LLC, NAI LLC, Oris-Nyva LLC, growing of oilseeds Private enterprise “Farm (sunflower, winter rapeseed, “Slavutych”, flax and mustard) Farm “Maria”.

vegetable growing (to- matoes, cabbage, table beets)

10 Industry

Industrial potential of the community

food processing and machine building processing enterprises

engineering (transformers rendering services manufacturing)

There are 62 operating Community’s land of retail outlets, including 48 shops using for industrial purposes and 4 gas stations 128,35 ha

Major industrial enterprises

private enterprise "Produc- private enterprise “Eltiz” Metalloinvest” LLC tion and Commercial Firm (manufacturing of transform- (manufacturing of build- “Bereginya” (furniture manu- ers, reactors, chokes) ing metal constructions) facturing)

To foster entrepreneurship, dialogue-meetings of local government officials and entrepreneurs were launched. The format of “Business Dialogues” enables cross-sec- toral cooperation in the community. The first event, held in March 2018, was attended by more than 25 entrepreneurs and farmers.

11 Tourism and recreation potential

Natural diversity and historical There are landscaped reserves of heritage (monuments of archeology and local significance and creeks included in architecture), as well as advantageous ge- the natural reserve fund on the territory of ographic location, endow Shyroke com- the community. munity with a substantial tourist-recrea- tional potential. “Ruchaiivska Balka” 112,6 ha the creek near Ruchaiivka village

Two green tourism objects are “Tomakivskyi Zakaznyk” located in Shyroke community – the green near Ruchaiivka village 78,8 ha tourism center “AQUAZOO-Petropil” and “Shyrokii Prostir 2008” private farm. “Balka Malyshevska” east from Malyshivka village 49 ha

“Volodymyrivskyi Zakaznyk” Camping area and vacation re- near Volodymyrivske village sorts occupy 109 ha. Promotion of green 18 ha tourism, development of local recreation areas and construction of facilities for rest “Balka Lukasheva” 46 ha and recreation are the top priorities for in- near Malyshivka village vestment. has the status of a complex nature monument of local significance

“Balka Hadiucha” “Balka Khutorska” near Volodymyrivske village north from Soniachne village 16,8 ha 7 ha

12 Investment opportunities

Supported by the Developed and sub- State Regional Development mitted for grant open calls Fund and international do- and international technical nors, have already been com- 50 assistance programs. 10 proposals projects pleted, or are at the final stage of their implementation.

UAH 1,5 mln volumes of attracted funds

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internation- ale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

National Endowment for Democracy

US Agency for International Development, USAID

Fundacja Miejsc i Ludzi Aktywnych

IREX

The Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation PAUCI

NGO “City Aid Center”

Association of Ukrainian Cities

Zaporizhzhia Local Government Development Center

Zaporizhzhia City Youth NGO “STEP”

Charity fund “Mennonite Center” 13 Territorial competitiveness

Located close to the regional center, Shyroke community is able to attract specialists from Zaporizhzhia, engage additional resources like information and 1 other services.

There are some more logistical benefits of geographical location. The commu- nity lies close to Dnipro-city, as well as to major transport junctions in the South- 2 North and East-West. Also, the Boryspil-Zaporizhzhia highway passes through the territory of amalgamated community.

The Dnipro waterside, up to 40 km of the stretch, provides favorable condi- tions for the development of irrigation, greenhouse agriculture, tourism, and 3 recreation.

Availability of land plots and other conditions to satisfy investors’ needs and 4 perform innovative projects.

Relatively environmental safety and compliance of the majority of natural 5 resources within the territory of the community.

The basic social infrastructure (nursery schools, comprehensive schools, rural health posts, libraries, etc.) maintained in the major villages/settlements of the 6 community.

Local officials and civic activists both open to cooperation at the regional, 7 national and international levels.

8 Grant programs background and experience in partner projects.

The informational and promotional strategy of the community, communication 9 via sites and social networks, regular publications, etc.

A specialized municipal institution 10 “Development Agency of Shyroke Community” is created. 14 Land resource for investment

Location:

Zaporizhzhia district, Vidradne village

for the fuel filling station 0,7 ha construction

Location:

Zaporizhzhia district, Soniachne village

for sports and recreation complex construction 4 ha

Location:

Zaporizhzhia district, Soniachne village

for shopping and logistics centre construction 1,5 ha

15 Investment offers

Construction of wholesale and retail market place on the highway N-08 Boryspil-Dnipro-Zaporizhzhia-Mariupol

Construction of a market place for storage, processing, and distribution of agricultural products to trade enterprises and private traders. This will be a place for wholesale and retail of competitive agricul- tural raw materials and supplies.

Development of green tourism and recreation areas

Creation of conditions for rest and recreation in rural areas, using the property or labor resources of local villagers, farm households and enterprises, as well as natural resources of the locality, the communi- ty’s cultural, historical and ethnographic heritage.

Construction of facilities for rest and recreation

Construction of a sports centre, including: indoor sports centre (for playing sports) with a play- ground measuring 50x25 m; two standard football fields with spectator stands; tennis courts; volleyball and basketball courts; tables for small tennis; a res- taurant; camping area. Construction of an indoor pool. Hotel facilities for guest accommodation.

16 Investment offers

Construction of a solid waste processing plant

The project provides the complex solution to waste management, including municipal solid waste sorting and recycling.

Development of an agricultural supply cooperative for collection of fruit and berrгies, and dairy products processing

Provision of agricultural and municipal ser- vices, and equipment for local residents involved in smallholding (plowing, cultivation), transport services.

Energy of water

Ensuring safe drinking water for residents of Shyroke amalgamated community. Capital repair and modification of the centralized water supply network

Supporting gardening and berry cultivation

Garden maintenance, modification of the in- frastructure of fruit and berry market, technical sup- plies for gardens and berry fields within the community.

Construction of solar power stations for fostering solar technologies

Construction of a solar power station, diversi- fication of energy supply, production of clean energy from the renewable energy source. 17 CONTACTS FOR INVESTORS

Address: 69089 Zaporizhzhia, vulytsia Heroiv 37 Batalionu, 137, Shyroke village council, Zaporizhzhia district, Zaporizhzhia region

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Phone: +38 061 286 2120, +38 061 223 6210 (fax) Mobile: +38 050 454 5600 (Development Agency of Shyroke Community)

Site of Shyroke community: shyroke.org.ua

Site of Development Agency of Shyroke Community: shyroke-agency.com.ua

Facebook: www.facebook.com/shyroke.org.ua