Ukraine Local Environmental Action Program 2000-2004
Final Report
- - for International DmbDmmt Reniml ~iaionfor ~b;ine.&na and Moldova
Repa=dbYthc Institute for Sustainable Cornmunitis and IW'Mnannia' 535 YOne Cutten Way. Montpelier. VT 05602 USA PhoneB02-229-2900 1 Fa802-229-2919 [email protected] I wmv.iscvt.org NaemberM(W Contents
I. Executive Summary 4
II. Context 6
It. Summary of Results 8 IV. Description of Activities 9
V. Ingredients for Success. Lessons Learned, and Recommendations 11 VI. Next Steps and Conclusion 20
Attachments
A Canparlux, d Expected 0u1mand Rewlts B hmaryd NU) . SmallGrants
C. hoJeclAdvisory Canminee Memben I. Executive Summary
with seven Through the four-year Ukraine Lwl communly -1 n i~ pxxes am Envrronmentai htonProyam (Ukratne tmplement concrete act.om lo rnuove demonnration LEAP), the lmlcture for Sustatnable emtronmemal qda i!y To h, -1~.trlere communities of various Communllbes (6C)and its Ukratntan wner cornmu.lmty effw IM I= lea- ;xeCdr& a IY\R "Ednann~a'demomVatm ctttzen wide range 31 mfTP~rogral& ?~.fmd(m sizes and derographics, panlcipatian approaches lo 501vlng maerrah amelope2 a cade cd camand the projea resulted in envtionmental problems at the local level. At errab.eheD a ?ehv=rk d cxraw the same :?me. the prOjeCl wrengthened local co~.rnuncleS national models on government. nongovernmemal organtzatron. The team rn cr exceeCe2 al poqam and business long-term capacity to wndun environmental goals and erpecfmm #&a fyqFNW LEAPS and Mher communfty-based pag!ams long-term mlcomes civlraerr wiiLWID management and throughout Ukra~neIn the years to come Inrmmedtale r-5. Achewmea5 -nc ube public involvement for Through this effon. the ISC team raid environmental awareness. prmedwbllc Communarxs rrgrtfamly rmpmvsd(h.lr other Ukrainian paniclpation in environmental env~ronnnnrals8ruarran Pow communities. decis~onmak~ng.and silmulaled c!tmr! commiinrlve5 Oevebjxd arc t~lemmled knvoberrent In aseclly solving local local w~romexalporrcls mdma env!ronmen:al rssues, uitltzlng Ukrainian plam farrsed w a trdraqe E\r act%*res expertise to the greatest degree poss:ble and 1ha1 rewlieO in rmy3ved sofa uave engaging expens from CEEiNiS to provtdc col!ecron ard man- ~QBqua11q reehnical auistance lo Ukralnfiam and lheu dr nk~ngwater iwovea maw veamm mmmunities uearlo- a71erparswr 31 g@ rpaces removal d asa%xYwa pes~6esilj tne Ukraine LEAP created opportunnles for developmer* 31 i~~~~ltngmlleacn c~llzensto engage in plorny-sentrqa!ongs#de sy+rems Crtzens were ab.e to beraqe munlcrpal oR~taIrand buslners leaders and their ISC gram ing 191 iXC, to racue take constructive mronusrng crearlve. low an addnrmal2 376 aY) b.wu w 5tj0 CXIO cost and cost-eKec18ve approaches to solve En flmdtrq from locat &"*:ar pnorlty communiry wronmenlal probkm and oCOR SOU- 15 U-7 ram Wtlh seven aemoraUatton cofnw~t~esd tdenisf ed in Vp,- ad1e-Mw-em.3, mmn various snzes and demographics the poJen rmlted in national mOdels on env#ronm! managemen1 and plbltc involvemfw Mher Ukrainlan communities in partnership wtth local governments. pntot ~011c~i7tties formed proestakeholder groups (PSGs! cornposed of a broad cross-sealon of commun#y rnembm who worked CollabOratively to eYabltrh mv!roornenal pfiortties, develop loc~lenvtronmenta action plans, raise public awareness. engage -
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and citizens had an important role to play Ukraine LEAP increased long-term "Public participation in initiating community improvements institutional capacity to develop and doubled as well. Pilot communities showed implement community-basedprograms has helped us to defend a two- to seven-fold increase in the level of throughout Ukralne In the years to come. the interests of the city public involvement in community actions. Ukraine now has a cadre of 14 lead and demonstrating the extent to which the five back~uptrainers ava~lableto train Now our actions are project served to increase public trust in communities across the country to based notjust on the the value of collective action. PSGs held 22 implement LEAPs and other community public presentations-including seven problem-solving approaches These opinions of city public hearings-to share draft findings of trainers conducted 74 tra~nngsfor PSG officials-but are envlronmental priorities and proposed members, and provided dlrect technical actions with over 1.1W citizens assistance and coachlng to assst the PSGs drawn from the people participating. With assistance from the work through each step of the LEAP of the city." project panner Child and Environment, process. These trainers are now providing youth implemented eleven projects to training and coaching assistan!:e to 15 new Andrei Danilenko, Mayor build new parks, improve the landscape LEAP comni~lnities. City of Evpatoria around their schwls, organize ISC and Ednannia estabiished a network of envlronmental summer camps, establish an 106 Ukrainian communities lntcrested in ecotourism whool, and conduct seminars on implement~ngLEAPn. including 64 NGOs environmental topics, among other and 42 iocal seif-governments and projects. governments. In addition, the iSC team Collectively, local authorities in the seven supported the existing Volyn Resource pi lot communities adopted and Center, and the newly formed Institute for incorporated into their official community Community Development to continue planning processes one-third of the working with communities to implement recommendations made by the PSGs. Five LEAPs and other community mobilization communities changed their development activities throughout Ukraine. The ISC programs according to recommendations in team developed proven models and their community's environmental action methodologies in community-based plan. With assistance from project partner participatory approaches to envlronmental. EcoPravo-Kyiv, five pilot communities social, and economic Issues which have adopted new regulations into their existing been shared wtth 6.000 Ukraiqian community charters establishing new legal commun~ties.NGOs, and institutions mechanisms for public involvement in local through a website, conferences. and the government decisions consistent with the publication of a regular newsletter. Aarhus Convention. More than twenty new NGOs were established as a result of the Ukraine LEAP that played a leading roie in mobilizing citizens in local environmental actions throughout the project, The success of rhts project in laylng ine these program and at~~~~~e :be\ foundation fw lurure s~ccessfulcommullly reea low?i wet%tr effou actlm propcrs can be measured in Iwo ways. Thro~ghthe UI-a ne LEAP bUiD % tjd ihe 1) how many Ukralniancommunrtics fou~2I.min llkra ne fa. wrcessh. :EWs implement LEAPS and ctkr smtlar and dher cmmuntry klivn zxqecu .? the community-basedprojects: and 2) the degree future Gwtrs srow ~?a:Uk-a*-.a? to which plot commun8ties conlinw in lhelr cornmunilie, are reday to crmrsi%cr mn effofIs to address environmenral and ow resou'ce~10 tackle erw~rrrmcnalam aha communlly issues. As a follow.up actrvity. communiry 6- an; the lSC :ea--. 'mrd ISC recornmenos that lhe lnw8tuIe for Iha Ukra~ntarr;mrui-I~r .we pmxuw) Commun~tyDevelopmen1 (ICD1.condm a well suned lo the of corrmuney basec. survey of pilot comrnunitles in the fall of WKsPaiaYV- sohl%J aPpobch 2005 to evaluate the full extent of Inherem In an pojm Beck* u;n environmental improvements that have been a~oachonlher*trokrs~~:~ realir&. the degree to which env,ronmental Ukratnzaa corrnunitrer mll00g: :willSd governance has been deeply rooled in the IeChnKai wppn md dvea srv~arehcm communities. and whether ptkM commun#tles van- amNGOs to i~piemerc have applled a collaborattve process to dher pat~tpaoryCan?umly bWXl community iswes. ISC also recommends tm Due to 4,mded ofkxaS a#ru*ler. ICD conduct a wrvey of uba communntes contihRo ex!-, fu-d~qE~F DV~ d age to determine now many have bmplemented role in leverag~rqlocal m~buas'rx Slrnrlar community action proJecls. wMt rcChr8cal aSSNaNe arc poPQ Impam have been ach~evedas rewll of IrnIemendll(n INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES I NOVEMeER 2W4 II. Context
O~wrtunities. , to involve PROGRAM HISTORY Envtronmental pmblems In Ukrame are Ednanma tc ram~LAL a.%xm w Ukrainian residents in I€& and somlate locally widerpead and severe Air and water - local government putlullon tox~and hazardous waste emrsmmenal Kt~f-6Eclmwu paw grants to NGOs ir orer a mrm environmental decisions conlamtnatlon. and sol1 Oegadatlon threaten publlc Mlthand damage natural aosywems commdntlrer Ira Cea y berorsnaed ;tin help ensure that these Unlll reoenrly, local governments and :he local go- anca~ zern tau \rxrk general plblic lacked experlence wtth a CoopwM~veIyto dddren local decisions are n democratic procesz for assessing w relalve envkronmenral rarems S&sqpnly sustainable and have slgn~ficanceof env#ronmmmlrlsks and ZOOO US41C rolrned ram tw implementing coa-erfmtve suategm Uk*a8e LEAP !M nm mwoe!c ISC ard the full support of the E&amaa public. k IS agaim Inn backdrop that 1% and Ednannia teamed up to Implement me Ukraine LEAP represffa acutmmam ~4 s Ukraine LEAP This four-year project was ISC and Ednwn~anmq of panang 3M designed to demomtrale panlclpatory c111zen rnvol- rwdl wlrwvnerral polmor, in Uk-ame M approaches to solving envtronmental problems at the local level wh~lecreattngthe ttumMas am EmEuooe traintng and onhasmcture to condun Stnce 1991 ISC har ompimw~edLtftPrm LEAPS thrarghout ULra~nein me years to psmershlD wnh ms~~~r~ cm.Increased public pan~clpal~nin I1 Palad KPgay k*gara -a Aibane, arr Rm1% s p or tlware ra* env#ronrnentaidecnbonmaklng is key to Ukralnei w~cevfulvarnnton lo a oenocrattc Included maMg8ng an ecolglcar te e.lwn soclety Opp~unitlesto involve Ukcain8an amW~IK awaw~ss pqea zna a COWtm7y oned emir-. d tM residents in local government environmental declsiom help emure !hat these deostom are susla~nabieand have the lull wppon 01 the WbliC The Ukrabne LEAP projezt was based on lhe plnciple that l!m!ted US governmen: assistance n be% targeed on anjva$esthat help decrsson makm In local and reglonal governmem. inhmrrer. and NGck rank enviroomerral preecllw, needs. develop
plam of moon to acdress priaory problems. The trmmg fm Ukratrp LEAP *as and Implement cos:-ellectlve act~onrlhat reduce poitunon amsave cmumers and Industries money INSllTUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES 1 NOVEMBER 2W4
PROGRAM GOALS AND OBJECTIVES Support replication by broadly sharing the "In the beginning, we The Ukraine LEAP was designed to achieve resuits of LEAP impiementation in pilot did not believe we were the following four goals and objectives: communities, and provide LEAP training for at least fifteen additional communities capable to solving this Goal 1. Environmental Management interested in conducting LEAPs Build local environmental management difficult-to-solve issue capacity. enabling communities to achieve Goal 3. Capacity Building for our city The project environmental improvements while Strengthen the capacity of Ukrairllan NGOs. considering social and economic impacts. technical and training institutions. and stakeholder group made individual experts to provide ongoing LEAP Complete and approve (by each local assistance to local governments and NGOs. a decision, took the first government) environmental action plans in at least six pilot communities and Create a team of at least 12 Ukrainian LEAP steps, and now the trainers and establish peer matches with implement at least one priority action in program is a success each community. CEEINIS technical experts, We are thinking how to Prepare project financing plans in at least Establish three to four LEAP Centers to six pilot communities and obtain financial deliver LEAP-related tra~n~ngsand become make this act;v;ty support for environmental projects in at financially sustainable over thc long term profitable for us and the least three pilot communities. Goal 4. Public Awareness and Complete environmental audits and Participation district. " prepare environmental management plans Improve involvement of citizens, NGOs. Natalia Buriak, Business inat least one large industry per pilot businesses, and industries in environmental Owner and Head Solid Waste community. decisionmaking. Working Group of Balaklava Project Stakeholder Goal 2. Ne~kingandlnformation- Integrate cltlzen panlclpatlon Into local Sharing government decls~onmaking in at least four Raise awareness about the benefits of LEAPs of the seven p~lotcommunltles and stimulate new interest in implementing Increase citizen, industry, and NGO them. participation through involvement in
Establtsh twinning programs between the activities associated with the LEAP process seven Ukrainian pilot communities and and through environmental actlons Polish or other neighboring CFEINIS supported by an NGO small grant program. communities. Increase public awareness of local Develop a network of at least 100 envlronmental lssues in seven Ukraln~anmun~cipalltles focused on best demonstrat~oncommuntles praalces in local envlronmental rnanagement I'KUINC .om tt~.w+w.~~ti- sh xsw w.a- BPXT
Emphasis was placed PROGRAM AWfloAcH AND Each pal01 commun y forma pqecl COMPONENTS wakeholaw proup :ffi~compcsed c1 a on intearatin0< ., Woad rross.secl on OF crmmul+r members Buttdtngon USAlDseffomto wppon lrclu41ng -epr-t Ms f-;mrxal env'ronnlental 'Wes env~ronmenta~management capactty and a governmens e-iv~romwx.?lq~~U~~RPSJ uanstuon to a democratic sanery sn Ukratne with local economic and tndumy vnum -#ma w ISC team helped strengthen local fac81811es a?d rne pU@lr development, %~ial govemmenrs NGa. and businesses to wellbeing, and effealveiy manage local env~ronrrentai In pannenh~pur r- kcat govermeach problems in Ukraone Through thls capacrty PU;woned~laboral*pyto-~ denmratic~vernance butldmg effwl ISC and Ednann~arawd mironmefna: prxxle, &%,ecp a bzal wtrmtalawareness pomoced publu envtronmnra mrn pran cane wc pantcoparton in envtronmental decnmr, awareness and ergage comrmn- mpnbRs mak~ng.and encouraged tow-coy. c3sf- In the prams ULJa~nlarWim ~d md effectwe rotuttom to env~ronmenlalproblems !twough an enemrve traanq man at the local level orgamzed by 1SC anc Edri~ma traanqngs lo PSGs on .hmeam*-a Emphasis was pked on inregratmrg approach and effecm col &saw Upor emtronmerXal ISW~S wlth laal econanh adoplon oft* envrormeraal aim sara developmenl. meal wellbe8ng. and by lleciry:cmm cant k SC pror~ed democratic governance ISC and Ednarm'a ImpIemerLa! o- gra-xs :o ex- mmrylo tapped Into Ukralntan expentse to !he help imp- prwv mom greatest degree poss4ble and engaged expert5 from me CEE NISto provlde tecnnral IX am Ednam'a =erg- pbs ass,sance to Ukratnlan expeN and mmunltles .fro!@ a diverse range d cornmunroes The Ukrarne LEAP had ftve nrr;pkmenGry prw%31 -Kg fiOm werrelatw comwnents designed to W11d the Polih Amiwn Ukrainian me capacny of Ukratntan organ~zatmmand Coqwacin Innisrin. :he IS 1- lndrvlduals fouerw cmperatxve relalorshpr anrng Ukralnlan and ?cl& rmcrursor 3 mching -h Ukrarn- LEAP plcr cormunny wan a PO:&* cam- ta suuy tows Wnn a~ct-' UYIIB Ix and Ednannia se:erted seven povloed throvgh Vm Awhwybr deoomtration cornmdnities lo weas Edwsfionsl Darlapmsm P d M~IOM! mOdels 3n envlronnenlal communa8er rt'eytwwd :he r c-9 to management and publc involvemnt for corilun mvrronmewi aX? is SniQ otkUkratnian ccnununll~esSelected pol!mw ,eoA-rr, oppwi-res t13r cornmvnrtler were chosen thrMrgh an rrurlclpal and pjvaemrp-im 0-vtcd extensive competltlve praers among lis waste, .v3a~s.c:~and or iMl% AXF applicants 5~fStefm INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES ! NOVEMBFR 2W4
ISC and Ednannia worked cooperatively wlth governments and NGOs after the completion A primary goal of the EcoPravo-Kyivto promote public of the pilot projects. participation in environmental decision Ukraine LEAP was to The ISC team conducted extensive trainings making. ISC also worked in partnership with for Ukrainian trainers to help ensure that strengthen the capacity the Ukrainian NGO, Childand trainers had a soiid understanding of each Environment to implement the privately- of Ukrainian trainers LEAP component and were wellversed in funded Strengthening Community School group process and inter-personal skills. ISC and organizations to Partnerships project in two LEAP pilot and Ednannia relied on experts with prior communities, Balaklrma and Kosiv, to cultivate provide ongoing LEAP LEAP experience in Macedonia, Bulgaria. youth panicipation in local environmental Poland, and Russia to lead training-of-trainers. assistance to Ukrainian problem solving and encourage democratic activism within these communities. ISC and Ednanri~aselected four Ukrainian local and raion organizations geographically dispersed governments and NGOs COMPONENT 2 throughout Ukraine to serve as LEAP Centers after the completion of ADAPTING METHODOLOGIES AND TOOLS of Excellence. These LEAP Centers were TO UKRAINIAN CONDITIONS created to help support and facilitate LEAP the pilot .projects. - activities within pilot and non-pilot Using the experience of pilot communities to communities throughout Ukraine The Centers inform the adaptation, the ISC team prepared distributed LEAP-related services and methodological and information materialsfor information, encouraged the development of community participants and trainers. LEAP networks, and promoted program published lnformatlon materials on topics replication in new communities. ranging from public participation to munic~pal Rnancing, and compiled best practices for COMPONENT 4 environmental management activities implemented by local governments, NGOs, CREATING A LEAF' NETWORK OF and industries in Ukraine, and for other CEEI MUNICIPALITIES AND NGOS NIS countries. This information was ISC and Ednannia used a three-step approach disseminated to over 6.000 sources through to encourage new Ukrainian communities to the project webs~te,conferences, and a Implement LEAPs: disseminating information. newsletter. establishing a LEAP network, and setting the stage for successful replication efforts. These COMPONENT 3 three steps were designed to be mutually BUILDING LEAP CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE supportive with the prlmary goals of stlmulatmg new Ukralnlan communltles to A prlmary goal of the Ukraine LEAP was to implement LEAPs and sharlnq ~nformat~onon strengthen the capacity of Ukrainian trainers best approaches to local rrlvlronmental and organizations to provide ongoing LEAP management ISC and Ednannra shared pllot assistance to Ukrainian local and raion community project result5 thro~lgha COmblMtlOn 01 vldm promol~onalminerla's quarterly ~nfamationbulletlm weos~tesand regtml and nallonal ~IMR
1% and Ednannta vicded wnh the Ukraonlan COlPOlDn5 NGO Ecolog~calMcdra Group to document p!lot community actbve8es In a C(WIU1IlCIITION AWD tOOltMNAllOll serles of vldeo segments and publlc 5erv8ce OF ACTlVlTlEs aonurncemem funk Ix and Edna~la The 1% team closely ma0 natec a actrvrle5 wor*ed closely win the ASIQtiat~onof wltn USG and u?er rmpwneNerr Ukramian Cities the US. Ukraine orpnizalons adrratmrrons wa* ey n Foundation's Community Pennrships Uk.a~neon ewvormena ~SYR IY: and PSp/eR (CPP) ad-her organnzattom Ednannla eslabl6hEd a 35 PrqeQ wofk~ngvum, munbclpalitles to help Advwny Commmee co~pored& d.wrre dlsern~rutelnformalKm and Lb%J'resullr governmenul arQ n---pverr-- mrq UUralntan rmnrlpalnes 1nan"l,an an2 3gao.zac.m t- gxrjed svategc adv~ceaM plldar;e coar: wed ktldtrq upon the tnforma(m dtssemtnarm asxaame effm am iderrlfw opcuurnes efforts Ukralnlan munropalot@s and NGOr :o support repl8caoon d pqea rewm were tnvned to become pan of lhe LEAP YaR cwd>u.26drec:) nZt. mork Byjo+ntngthe LEAP ner*rak nume-om cxwn#ra.oraand i?ntuun my Ukralntan communnles recewed regular tnctuded on 1% Propct brrory h~.ee informalon updates access to tnlwmatton vf 6- relazed to We env~'ocaa'x databases tnvltallons to parlclpae in mxymal municrpa deve~opmenrw wl: semtws and Ira!ntogr national conferences part~tpa~wThe p~maypalot:- and meVadolcgtcal malerrals on how lo eflw *a to dorm 1- r~~~domabora 8mplement LEAPS in pannernhtp wm me the pocess and bene'ss a( LEAP hers.1% and Ednannla suppmed LEAPS share pogess d rtp LEAP p a anrvnres that encourage :he adapta!lon and uxnmunstIe5 leverage mslaancp d jpre repiscallon of :he LEAP pocess in m ~rnm~anand aw:zzs-orr 1she 2-rn and ~~IUIFXa-sac ano enoc~q to adopt aod impternen nm8a popms
These compom-n are desa1bed n nu* dna.1 u-xbSen- I I INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES I NOVEMBEQ ZW4 II I. Summary of Results
"The LEAP helped us ISC and Ednannia cncwparated four USAIO lmwmed~ateResuhs (IR) nnto #isMon~toring overcome a lack of trust and Evaluation $rarework lot the Ukranne From the powaxset ISC 3rd Eara~a LEAP This Framework was included as a by the citizens of locally emphasized the !nJorranreo'xriz;lng -eal component of the L~le-of-Act~v~tyVhk P'a- omprovemenu In the qualsy ol peooa s 1.~1 elected officials. Now, and approved by USAID In March 2001 as aotml to bu~ki~lgcommsay md way people believe we can These IRs tnclude and a seme of acm'nhnwla- - F% IR 1 6 1 Implementationof internattonally achieve results. Trust members imp- en,,mw cornlsterw, locally effecr~vepa!ases: ., ., D, meaued by: IR 1.6 2 Increased environmental invesmenr: A 1 urnwed to local l&~gestresult of thir IR 1.6 3 improved env~ronmental enirma~po!q management at pvvate ampubitc A 2, env,imar pFOJOJeCr." fac~lales;arid A3 IweaLed ~vrwumaalmm74m C't~counc'l member. IR 1 6.4 Increased empowmwu of cirlzem md Crty of Evpatwia to affeu envtronmental A.4 Improved eou&rirmnalma- n deciWanmaking. bus~nesrerand munr_rpal ~lnprlsff As the results below 8ndlcate. 1SC and Ednannia me a exceeOed all USAID Intwmedlate RW~S8n addgtoo~to other rerule idenrlfted 4n ihe Mo~erwtrqand Under ?he Jliratrw LEAP -re Evaiuatton Framework (see Attachment A) s-ram% t-r at.$:- :=oere;op ISC and Ednamla haw ldentlfied three long- local eovsrommeaal w ,;es EabPjC- term outcomes of the Ukratne LEAP pro* worked togethm fm twm y?a5 tc rca that incorporate the tmermedtate rmhs cmrronmmml mus wryl mww-1
These outcornes are pror~llesldenlfy and 8--1- ass d A An tmpoved envlronmemal snuatlon. ac7m 10 adhes tTpq nv~es a< undenare a broad d plMi &--?ah B Strengthened envkronmat governance: actrvns to roaw C~WXP*J -oe QOC-.SSKX- .JKl of the plan In tw p.0~- PSCs cess4 to C Increased long-term capacity to develop work Wl~arve(yl0rerOhemex and trnplemem communtty-based citiae7cer md oeve~q2 coraerrwr pograms. dOCdmer: 'n the lamGI ar enrms~ntat
These long-!em oiitcomes provtde the baslc reponlng :ew as framework for on pr0,en 1s Each mron pia~prd* 3 aye- fOlh..5 roadmap 'a enc.8-ma pale ad ~mpnmemzn [here cmmJrt:ser i:i~w councils adopted and approved these plans Renovated of wastewater treatment Our LEAP was approved unanimously This unanimous approval is facilities in four communltles (Pavlohrad. indicat~veof the broad political support for Chechelnyk. Korostyshiv and Koslv): unanimously by our the action plans and a testimony to the . Expanded waste collection and city council. This is a power of the collaborative process used by management systems In four communlties the PSGs. Following the approval of the increasing service to 35,200 residents and very big achievement action plan, each PSG prepared businesses (Kosiv. Chechctnyk. Balaklava. because we have many implementation plans for those and Korostyshiv): environmental priorities that they were ready political parties on our Expanded clean drinking water to take immediate action. opportunities by renovating andlor drilling city council. 32 wells in four comtnunitles (Korostyshiv, A.2. IMPROVED ENVIRONMENTAL Janna Chrnut. Pavlohrad, Kosiv. Balaklava) and increased CONDITIONS Local Coordinator. access to clean dr~nkingwater for 90,300 Town of Korostyshiv LEAP pilot communities undenook and people: continue to undertake a broad range of Expanded and improved green space actions to improve environmental conditlon5. totaling 16.8 hectacres in six communities ISC provided $91.000 in grants to pilot (Evpatoriia. Balaklava. Korostyshiv, Svatove, communities to implement priorities Kosiv, and Chechelnyk); identified in the Implementation Plans. (Each community provided significant matching Removed and safely disposed of 28.6 tons funds as described in greater detail below of unidentified pesticides and herbictdes under'increased environmental investments.) from 11 former collective farms in one Pilot communities implemented a broad community (Svatove): range of activities improving solid waste Renovated town drinking water supply management, improving drinking water system to provide high quality drinking quality and quantity, expanding and water 24 hours per day n one community improving green areas, and eliminating (Korostyshiv): and unused pesticides. These implementation Installed high quality drcnking water supply projects include: systems in 22 public schools in one Eliminated and cleaned-up over 80 illegal community (Pavlohrad) for 9,000 students. waste dumps totaling 943 tons in four communities (Kosiv. Chechelnyk. A.3. INCREASED ENVIRONMENTAL Korostyshiv, and Svatove); INVESTMENTS Established separate waste collection The Ukraine LEAP exceeded expectations systems for waste and recyclable materials and generated a significant amount of in two communities that resulted in 25 tons environmental investments. Local authorities. diverted from waste disposal (Kosiv. Balaklava); "Due to our program, oblasu, and other sources provided to build a ne;r \rawe>#a:er xeaw1 'EES81) ~mplementationfund~ng totaltng See Tzbie 1 be.c:v# famore *a"-@ People have learnedhow approx~rnately2,376 000 hrtvna infonnatvn to ddiuss issues and to (approxtmately $450.000) A.4. IYPROLlED EM1l-M come to agreement. The IX: and Ednann~aprovided trainsng to pilaf IN BUSI- All) cornmunitbes on how to prepare propcl -MUNICIPAL ENTERPRISES: City Council is much financing plans, and thls tralnlng proved to be IS€ and Ed- wwked area y & :he hlghly successful as comrnunltles recegved more active now and bus~nesscommrqdmnccM! s~gnificantfunding from external mrces. For enlerpmeS to help inarodxe env rmlenai trud has been built up example. the Town d Korostysh~vrecelved nmprwwnws imo 'near -ianagerrprr 138.000 (200,000HN) from Zhyromy~Obiaw betwen the heG and pacrtces As a resulr %-at wrr.m Environmental Fund to replace outdated eruemlserambuS-magc?anpsc City Council. The PSG wastewater trealmnt equapmm and !hear ma7qpmnl sfiwm For exavle received $74,670(398.W HN) from t?e has dfrect contacts wfth foilowtng uanangr on mq national budge( lo rerovate a hslorKai ervtrcnrnenal aJdu hot@ rhe all the heads of the wulpure park In the town center Kosiv Acadffy for Educarnaf Ceebcrrwc t?e Raion recelved 119.000 (100.000HN) from communal services. Svatove Depanment of rs Llyanr* the lvano-Frank~nkObla~ Envnron;nencal VooocMa C~niranvlrm~cipd eaer People now realize that Fund to replace wastewater treatment Nasewaer cmwry' nropxared equipment whsle Svatove Raton recetved it is possible to make recornmendarn or impmnrq itp $28 000 (150.000HN) horn the Lugansk changes /or themselves. .' Oblmt Env~ronm~alFund to remove a& neuVallze obsolete pestlcldes and krblcloer -Inna h4zamva. Local new wpnqsj-m faall er.arq The Ctty or Pavlohrad recelved $50 700 Coadlma mdnK ml co-ipa?#es aM%?i up Wrp.vate (270 000 HN) from the Dnvpropetrovsk company tor wwtd ng mu?.cWi Obian Env~rwunentalFund to recowucr ,a -- co;?ed~onThe new urn~incream me wastewater treatmen plant The Twnof nurnted~ld~~reri~e Chechelnyk received $59,100(315000 HN) horn the Vtnnmka Oblm Envtronrrerwl Fund Svatove raion TOTAL INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES I NOVEMBER ZW4 collection contracts from 200 to 4000 - resulting in a significant decrease in illegal disposal of waste, In Kosiv, the private company. Orion, signed agreements with 26 villages in the raion to collect solid waste, and with the help of citizen volunteers. eliminated more than 18 illegal waste dumps. In Pavlohrad, two private companies were established to collect solid waste. In Chechelnyk, a local agricultural processing enterprise replaced its outdated coal-fired heating system with an environmentally-sound biomass fuel burner - thus significantly reducing air pollution in the town center. In Balaklava. ISC and Ednannia sponsored a training for the Balaklava Mining Company that resulted in the mining company conducting waste management audit. B) STRENGTHENED ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE All seven LEAP pilot communities Nengthened collaboration among different stakeholders, improved citizen access to information, improved the transparency and accountability of local government, and strengthened citizen involvement in local decisions. These improvements Fall under the recently emerging concept known as "environmental governance." Simply put, environmental governance focuson how env~ronmentaldecls~ons are made and who makes these dec~s~ons Environmental governance deals w~thwho IS empowered to make decisions that affect ecosystems and the communities that depend "Before this project. on them. and now :he decision-ma.im arc Sn'eys owr a perwJ of m )*ea .r 1% held accountable. It tncludes the rights of seven communll!es a :ma1 015 X4l people didn't believe in cttizens 10 oMatn access to infamatron and Icdlvduah 'wewdeyeC m 1.- fay roull Me abilities of local panlcipdte in dectsions that affect theor ilves and ana,her were 900 wwyei? 1% wcW Cenual to the success of environmental round The wrvey rewPs r-ed :ha ~DK authorities. Now, we governance is the level of Irampaiency and awareness of envronsnena. nvpl rneased have started step-by-step accwntab#l~tyof institut!orn tha: make 1- two-foe tn nknl PllM C~.:Ies.sKl&sg decis~m.' an inaeaw of 21Xro 3'3% sn Sraove 124 to to solve environmental 25% in Pavlonrad. 11% to 22% .r Korcq%%w. Ukratne has ratified h?Aamus &meruton and"rom12%10%3% nYApaaia problems. People are whlch establisher a un!form se( of Yandads starring to believe that for tnvolvfng cnlzern in envlronmntal Further the numbet of peoph *ri4 telw deckslon rnaktng amernphasfzes the mtNGOs and cnuens had airmportaR rat we can do something." impMance of fully antegat8ngenv%rorrmemal lo play in 8nrtlatl.q m"uolty i-pmremg,ts comtderattons ir gavemrnemal dec.s@omlr doubled in almsRRC~ pia cmvsxmlry Deputy Chaw Korowphiv cny Council recognizes that clllzens must have access to ~nclud~rujSvatove - 27% 10 54% mechanism from building trust among existlng community charter establishing new "I believe our greatest different stakeholders and thus facilitating the legal mechanisms for public involvement in collection of essential environmental and local government declslon making consistent achievement is that we public health information with the Aarhus Convention. PSGs held 22 have created an public presentations - Including seven public 8.2. IMPROVED ACCOUNTABILITY AND hearings -to share draft findings of Environmental Council TRANSPARENCY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT environmental priorltles and proposed actions (PSG) which is a Project stakeholder groups - and the with over 1100 citizens participating in these collaboratively decision making process they presentations. Further. Evpatoria and Kosiv permanent group of utilized - proved to be a highly effective created Environmental Public Councils to people willing to work mechanism for public involvement in local serve as mechanisms for public participation government decisions. The effectiveness of in community decision making process. together on the collaborative process can be measured by environmental issues." the PSGs'success in making changes in local 8.3. IMPROVED STAKEHOLDER government decisions. Collectwely, local INVOLVEMENT IN COMMUNITY Oleksander Ovchar, authorjties adopted and incorporated into DECISIONS Mayor of Chechelnyk their official community planning processes The Ukraine LEAP has been successful in one-third of the recommendations made by lncreaslng pubilc partlclpatlon in local the PSGs. Five communities changed their government declslon- maklng Each pllot development programs according to community established project stakeholder recommendations in their community's groups composed of representatives from a environmental action plan. As a measure of broad~crosssection of ~nstitutionsand the strengthened collaboration between organizat~ons.PSG members worked citizens and elected officials, city councll collaboratively over a two-year period to memben and municipal staff participated as establish environmental prlorities, develop a members of the PSGs, including 42 cityltown local actlon plan, and involve cltizens in the council memben. 13 local administration staff. decision making process. All together, PSGs and 19 municipal staff. held 197 meetings with a total of 4,300 participant days in PSG meetings (57% of Furthermore, LEAP communities moved to these participants were women). formally institutionalize transparency and public accountability into their community In every LEAP community, existing NGOs decision making processes. In partnership have been rev~vedand new NGOs have with Ukrainian NGO EcoPravo-Kyiv. ISC and been established. More than 20 new NGOs Ednannia worked in five pilot commun~tiesro were established as a result of tlie Ukraine promote public participation in environmental LEAP These NGOs played a leading role in decision maklng (Evpatoria, Pavlohrad, Kosiv mobilizing citizens in local env!ronmental raion. Svatove raion, and Korostyshiv). All five actions throughout the project. 1SC and are reviewing their community charters. Evpatoria adopted new regulations into its "Environments/ Ednannra tra~nedrepresentat~ves lor %GO Cornmur8ty gfwps restored and repfesentattves from palm Communstles on publoc par3S and qee~-6 wuhxrn improvements can only strategic planning lo Wateglze on how to @bl5 arinkmng welh. cleared'w3bmks be achieved byjoining contlnue LEAP actwattes after :he USAID. rmovated wmmcamp yeai bw funded project is completed. beetoped em. l7m!etrr aw together forces in the pblsawareoess ca-qxgra The PSGs have taken a leading role in community We never stabltshing and strergthening collaboratkm For example tn Pavlohad XI MGO expected the great with the bustness cornrnunq. More than 60 dwelowd a systen for recyc2.r: m cce business people were dlrecfly tnvohred in apanmenf blak 1,- was u, wcsesLl tra st support for solving action plannlng and ~mplemenlatlw,in '& ansprred gwps from mher spmbtaxs environmentalproblems pllm cornmunltles. with five new prtvale lo organtze effons lo repllcae me enterprises created to addresr prlorny experoence In Kcroayr7~the yash YGO like we are seeing now environmental anion5 Melody cleaoea up~drencredfcu in our community In ddieren! plblu ara? communlry 86s- Wnn mll gas5 'TOIT:= SCSP prsrc: youlh i-ipierrer:w eecen profens :o k:3 xrks :mp-cvet?e lan3rcape s!odPd :,bet; xW5 s-gz-rzec enr~rmmntalsjwm camps .+Y& ine: a? KO-Iwrrsm SChMl dld CWE&& m:~ on env)ro.'nnlal lgrr INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES / NOVEMBER ZW4 "The methodology and tools used in the LEAP project enabled the community to make great progress in the development of Evpatoria and figure our modern innovative approaches to solution of the essential task - creating of a new democratic society." Sergei Sukhoboichenko. Ima Miroshnichenko,LEAP local coordinators. Evpatcria C) INCREAYD LONGTERd CAPAClTY FO DEVELOP AND IMFl.EMEM COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMS The Ulua~neLEAP was hqwdto demomvate pa;rwXory wmrer 13 sofvlog em.-onmenla pi&&-% a: ap row, level wh,ie burmang .k ionJ lm ~rmtuntonatcapacity $0mun LEAF% anc other mrmnay-omed pra~amthovghxx Ukratne in the years to come Thn 'longrenrr capac~tycan be -m by C 2 NRN COCUTL~~~~Sx-rq LEA& and wtwxk a' Ukraau~,LEAP communltes Wnhm C 3 LEAF'supporr apmmrn -- a?d uaoned lo mp(ecPn LEAPS wd communq Owemaavltn in LJhas INSTITWE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNlTiES ) NOVEMBER 2M14 C.1. UKRAINIAN PROFESSIONALS C.2. NEW COMMUNITIES IMPLEMENTING TRAINED IN LEAP METH0M)LOGY AND LEAPS AND NETWORK OF UKRAINIAN WITH HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE WORKING LEAP COMMUNITIES ESTABLISHED AT COMMUNITY LEVEL The Ukraine LEAP was designed to stimulate One of the prlnclple goals of the Ukralne the replication of the LEAP process in new LEAP was to strengthen the capaclty of Ukrainian communities. in cooperation with Ukra~n~anNGOs technlcat and tralnlng the LEAP Centers of Excellence, the following Instttutbons. and lndlvldual experts to provid? 15 communities are moving forward with ongolng LEAP assistance to local governments replicating LEAPS in their communit~es: and NGOs. Ukraine now has a cadre of .Towns of Torez, Shakhtarsk. Khartsisk. trainers available to train communities across Nikopol, Krasnoarmeisk. Gorlovna, and the country to implement LEAPSand other Debaltsevo: (Donetsk oblast) participatory community problem-solving Townsof Korosten (Zhytomyr oblast) approaches. ISC and Ednannia established a . group of 14 lead trainers and five back-up .Town of Berezhany (Ternopil oblast) trainers who received extensive trainlng over . Settlement of Berezhnytsla and Town of a two and one-half year period on how to Gorodok (Lviv oblast) implement the LEAP methodology and how Settlement of Toporiv (ivano-Frankivsk to work effectively with community groups oblast) and local officials. Teams of wo-three trainers Settlement of Lazeschyna (Zakarpattia worked with the same community throughout oblast) the duration of the project. These trainers conducted 74 trainings for the PSG members. Town of Kremenchug (Poltava oblast) and provided direct technical assistance and City of Melitopol (Zaporizhzhia oblast) coaching to assist the PSGs work through District of Simferopol (Crimea) each step of the LEAP process. These trainers are now providing training and coaching ? Town of Chonkiv (Ternopil oblast) assistance to 15 new LEAP communities. To Ail of the above communities have establish this training team. 1% and Ednannia part~cipatedin trainings conducted by the conducted eight training-of-trainers (TOT5) LEAP Centers of Excellence. Of the above bver the life of the project. ISC and Ednann~a communities, seven have established PSGs utilized experts from Central and Eastern and held a kick-off conference in their Europe and Newly Independent States - communit~es.Each replication community drawing upon its broad network of LEAP sent teams of fo~lr~ro~fivepeople to practitioners in neighbaring countries to participate In the regional trainlngs. provide technical assistance and training to . composed of representatives from the Ukrainian counterpam. "The main outcome of munictpaly local NGOs. the busmess communtty, and other key Yakeholdm the LEAP is that people During the Irarnlngs. ream members ~ked realized that theheir together to help dwgn each phase of tPe opinions matter&. LEAP process in thelr community These teams were then responsible for leading the There are no mategic LEAP process tn the~rown cornmunrt,es Representat~vesfrom the polo1 communntles decisions made by the in additm to the ca*e cd Jkraenv- uarners prtlctpled In Vie ualnlngs to sueIhetr vwred in the pmLlpalay. canmsmsy- local authorities now experiences appoaches. 1% aoo Edrama &sd a without public Fv pan of repltcat!on acttvllles. ISC and i~twakd colbtrrmqtcra.nm discussion." Ednannna eaabl~sheda mwmk of 106 aganazaw whoare pow u pov& Ukrain~ancommunnm lntereaed in ongoing sum frr LEAR FarLEAP men Journalla and member 0' implementing LEAR includtng 64 NGOr and were eSabltrrPd to SupxYIad iarrlrlae Evaptwra PromStakeholder 42 local self governments and govwnmerns LEAP acfnfle5 mhauhu pab( sdm-p1b1 Group Each LEAP Network member ~OVI&CI an mmmunlm ttrwUlcarp 1- oRic~alletter of knteresl lnptning the orga.rizalom irrc~rrdethe Vow RRarce network. Members or the network were gwen Center (wewern Ukramei me Drsnx access to the LEAP dalabase. recesvee regular Debate Celt= i-mr. Ukra el SJllrtwn newSlenm a& gutdance matfflals, ald were Ukrarnvn Regta~lTrannl~ her ir invited to mend seminar% conferences. and Kherwn (saJVPm kJluamei. ar We Iralnlnp 1% and Ednannta shared Cr~nean-TawInnjaw F-9 mechodolcg~calmat~lals wlth otM The LEAP Cerserr mm arrd @%.wed organnzattons such as the Un~ledNattom LEAPselaed rerm amt-f0-76~ Development and the Aaoclaion of -Ned regrr\ai LEAP nermad Ukratnian Cntes vrho are uslng pammns d the pmmpogam replram.n ?prr rnethodalogy im comrmnny tyimok comnunnrs LEAP CMws d rcerierce development efforts he@ n.w regwnal ma- tmah.q150 sndrv~Wfrom a rs?p d agsimairrJand Funhw LEAP ~mplementat~onaci~v!t~es are cmnrtiesam co.rduclec lae=n 80 being promoted by obiart and na~ronal pe~~ca?uiia:.ors aes- :o rria-e pgkx governmefin Irnittut8om For example the conmnny rev- wm rn cvmmaPs Luqamk Oblau Envtronmenial Depanmwn IS Inteewed :n in-p?emel:qLEA% working wtth iarr raiom in the oblzY to collen obsoiete and abandoned pes;icu)es In m:wr ran (ran t?e Kyw- LEAP and herb~cw.Tk Ukrainian Parl~amntxy pop3ofldce -rg#ae.czad tlntir~tunal Commtnee on the Envrronment has cwiqorganbzdiol W imr.re fm requewed assstance from Ukraine LEAP oW~ce Communy Develcpnm: to cwt.-ue .EAPs 'n develop89 iew !egls!ation toat I: anc a,% :?T-.,My m9b zam ac~,.,t#es strengthen the abilry of Ukralrvan INflITUK FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES 1 NOVEMBER ZW4 "They ~lakk3va is not a city, rather Stab of the SOU/ Po pular saying in Balakiava C.4. WIDAWE MATERIAIS PREPARED, ESBBIMR~ ~CULEAP lnfonnawm~ UKRAINIAN MtXEl.5 DWll~NTEL4AN0 Repmt~te~".here CI ZMI can acce INFORMATlON DISSEMINATED :€AP mettxao qia -a:- ar pa The Ukraine LEAP propct has resulted in the COmmunsfy m.to-merr[a x,m s am and development of proven models and 01- LEAP male. ah Tnese .7'3--at~ Mhodologies in communily.based repaltorues !ncl&r tne NGO'Ecmw md parrlc!patory approaches 10 envtronmental. Msr. (Sm~Iempoi).the NGO *EcoPao. wxtal, and economic ivues ISC and Ednannla LVIV- (LV~v),theNGO E&m-Khat*w undenook enensive effwts to documem iKhah#v)and 1- w?pmbnrx-ind I- results. develop methodological materlak Iml:ure d Ecclogy [L'yidar-i an~ adapted to the Ukrainian wrUexL and shared %lrniriaiec mcxe tho 1 80 mede arvares ~nformationon LEAP results through a br& on :he h:and nama -. dissem~nationeffm. These efforts Included: The table to lhe len wmma6;zes LEAP Publ~sned-UkrainianGuide to Ktw~t#escoverage 3y med.a lrnplement~ngLocat Env~ronmenwtAnion Programs' that modifies exming C.S. cmsmmm nEs ESTMUIUJ methodology and kncludes case Yudles of ISC wwked in mnership wch ne ti-amiia Ukralnlan LWcommunnles. Auocoatm ofCowrams {Poult. to '~wer Published 10 Ukrabnian edrfaom, 5 Russian cmperMive rebt-;ps d-3 s7ae - ed!tlom. and Engltsh absuacl of the Pa" amUkranra bulletin. ChwKhata. and dislr~butedthe wmmunnwsontw.r.-l bulletin to 6.000 merested practit!ows. b'w-. mP'w an: wdmary CIIzem wak lwla Cornpnled an elearonlc database on amprove a urnmr;ng r eovlr- ard cornmunlty best practtces avallabie 10 pvlot lower wwatnank deverapmen #m 5mdtng communities and LEAP N-k mernoers han the Potc5J7-~&-ana-. Eaabllshed a mud%language webstre Innlane IWUC) IY: mached Polrsh and Ukra.nm axmu-*ar xu a ! lror b spomored lo sets ol exd-enger clnween -0rMala3lulDrabs I :bse cmnltes As d r~ufm xr~ ot Typad- um- atzm ma ~opl I m2 -la3 -la3 Jd,W 1 Ukralntan Polnn rmnuqrws qwc 110. It Y)IW 61m ' In' PI 14a(t9 8 mwmamao(roopetacrorb ~te€n ,-v(dao lV hold.- E4P St 49 it- ' w-pr Tnesepat-~mmube video 63ws.m I Yev~atorta- Orrrcvrlnr Smadrr+ iosrv i a"-) I - N~ 67 6) I33 114m :no 1311 (tq Elk Koroaymrv - Lacy Chec~-i,* - hdlo em 150 11806) I101l24 r*WJ Eiblong Bawaklan - Zgaz; httrna I4 I, - : 6 II 31 I I TOTAL 141 W 81 1- Wl 3195ll 1818 (nbrackets national level mza INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES I NOVEMBER 2004 IV. Description of Activities The following is a description of all activ~ties As part of prqect start-up activitles, ISC and "peoplerealize what undertaken within the scope of the Ukraine Ednannia met individually wtth LEAP. The project consisted of five prlmary representatives from 26 key environmental they Can do with a components. plus project start up: institutions and organizations working in small amount of money 1. Implement LEAP Pilot Projects Ukraine to inform them about the project, explore opportunit~esfor collaboration, and to bur a great desire to do 2. Develop Methodologies and Tools leverage their assistance to demcnstrat~on something,r, 3. Build ~a~acity'of~krainian Trainen and communities. These institutions and LEAP Centers organizations included. Association of Janna Chmut. Local 4. Disseminate Information, Create LEAP Ukrainian Cities, Counterpart Inrernational, Cwrd~nator,Korostyshiv Network, and Replicate LEAPS Eco-Pravo, MAMA~86,Ministry of 5. Communicate and Coordinate Activities Environmental and Natural Resources, Regional Environmental Center~Kyiv,UNDP, PROJECT START UP US Peace Corps, World Bank, and US. Ukraine Foundation, among others. ISC and Ednannia received its project registration in September 2W1 and opened COMPONENT 1. IMPLEMENT LEAP PILOT the Ukraine LEAP Project Office in Kyiv wiih PROJECTS six full-time staff one month later. PILOT COMMUNITY SELECTION ISC and Ednannia officially launched the Ukraine LEAP on October 31, 2001 wlth a In May 2002, ISC and Ednannia selected well-attended kick-off conference at the seven Ukrainian demonstration communities Hotel Kytv. The primary purpose of the gwgraphlcally disperse throughout the conference was to share information with a country - one more community than wide range of individuals, publicize the originally anticipated. Selected communities prqject through the media, and inform people were chosen through an extensfve about the competition for demonstrat~on competitive process by a committee communities and LEAP Centen of Excellence. composed of representatives from the Over 1m people attended the conference. Institute for Sustainable Cornmunlties, ISAR including 15 representatives of local "Ednannia," and three independent experts. authorities from different regions of Ukraine. The selection committee reviewed 115 11 representatives of the Ministry of applications and visited stxteen communities Environment and Natural Resources and their in April 2002. Communities were evaluated oblast departmenu, 14 Advisory Comminee based upon their experience in addressing members. 9journalists, and other environmental issues, commitment of local representatives from donor agencies, government officials, and prior cooperation Ukrainian NGOs, and other organizations and between local officials and non~governmental institutions. organizations, among other crttcrla. The following IS€ stgned memoranda of cooperallon WIIJ E~crcomm~~~n-eja *xa!;iorc ?~rw(r: the local authar~t~esin each pllm cmmunlty w!th wo ~0adtnat0-shrrw IC I= far wgesi that delineated roles respom+blln~esand [he cOrrmu7Rler 11 h~yZiSI U: a\d Ec-mra pro,& tlmefrarne Each p~lmcommbnrry rxJan8zeo a f~w-cayBaln .- for kxal formed an ln~t~atorGroup to organize and cmcd nalmand rgx-he, f om PjCs tc More than 100 WO cmttrens rnplemnt tntttal LEAP acrtvtttes and to bnfom prwlde them w:th r %rc umeruandmg d City of Pavlohrad the wlder community about the pro>ecI From the LEAP pots, +dance oc *&:r rcer ma (Dn,propeoomk reg~on) Lne-September 2002. We lntt~aorGroups res(msibiln~esand to ~LI*~SIpq~n w~thassaslance from the LEAP projen naff ma~gen~rswar Lhequenly ex? bxal C~tyof Evpata~a(Cr~mea) organized klck oflconferences in each ptlot cmdrrrata establ&ed a kxa: cAte +!ih Between 50 000 and 1M WO wmmunzly to hrnhcr educate communnry lacal and ratm gove7merr~p*.%3mq s.k:w! c:t#zem: members about LEAR and sollcn panlcipalon contr,but~olsin the fonn d Mue .en Balaklava d~sIrlc7(Crimea) from a broad aoss-secf8onof communfty ekarclfy, and heat members to serve on the prqm stakeholder Kos~dlarlct (Ivano- groum. An average of 200 people amended Frank~vskregson) the kck-off conferences. Conferences were Less than 50 000 ctttzem: held in the following months. hne 2002. Over a two yea m.Lwzrlan LEAP Kosiv diwrtct: July 2002. Chechelnyk ard Iratrers conduued a o( wxk- n Svatove distrlct (Luhamk ra~er Korosty~hivSeplembei MO2. Evpatorta. each p*laconnu-~ty :o por P5C regan) * Svatow dtsuia. and Balaklava district: and members w#rhtne sk 1% a k~~reqptwy Senlement of Chechelnyk kobw-Pavlohrad. needed to wca%+dlty u?der(ake neLEN (Vann~ts~arqion) lseetopusaM~rp(*I(R ~CSGUNNII~~ Town of Koroalsh~ FOWIATION OF PROECT ST- ,akshopsor nexl page! (Zhyornyr region) GROUPS AND HIRING LOCAL eooRDINATORS The LEAP dfeam orga?ued tram* on mesp62iallzed tqcs'a Wrlp3-n horn At the cwlusiw, ofthe kick.offconference. arl communnpl in 3Xii tSC md participants were asked topln the Project Ednannta cwperaed nnh We Uwme Land Stakeholder Group (PSG) and panackpate In Rerource adLbmp-ca Cccla iLLMKl an ~ntroductoryw~kshop to recetve a to provee assmame m L~W, -mu Masled ovewlew of the LEAP process and rtformatlon syvemr -G'S1tc -ao the role of the PSG. gutdance on taking the envtmnPnerldl poblens a tm -a! erel~ fiiw neps in tmplemera~nga LEAP and an UWled a -cay I-ahnty'a Ocal oppoRun,ty to practice group process ski' s CmtdlMtW5 SdkwBa*p "IRrrbers. An avecage of 25 30 md,vsduais dec~Codto and tra:?en or GI5 rs r :w 'a. ~~rwrgr(le ,om the PSGs - *~th50 60 lndzvlduals from Corim;l?'Iy *$sueassesf-e-m Si-il., some communftles take PavWvad and ULRW wor*~wr.h 3 cm-aLlcis :C -n23 Evpaforta Thoughan the LEAP program -,,onmental poMe-% changer over Ime i? COdS3l erC5W xi narrowtflg of ceacws trc-edwc op.ez~Yne?t aiorg zcas:3 a-eas 3-3 me-* ''iidng INSTITUTE FOR SUSIAINABLE COMMUNITIES I NOVEMBER 2034 r.-p~- ~ ~ ~ ~ In Kosiv, analysis revealed a significant -I Tapd. decrease in forested areas, along with Intmducdon lo Wrgmup p- rWlr !~. . - - .. , - -- increased number of industrial buildings in Conducmg ~nvlmmmfalLrrua -men% I Onoh-Nwemhr 2W2 mountainous areas. In Balaklava. GIs activities j rondudingpubUc outreach mp*w were used to map numerous adverse ESfabLlshlng environmental prioritler -~ . ~~ envlronmental changes, including open Repam an enmnmmlatal donplan MqMoba2303 mining, development, and deforestation. p~~- -~ -- InpkrnUng acwm NmmberDccemba m3 . -- -- -. - -- In December 2003, PSG members, local Iqkmmmg alom: monltorlng and dualuumg Mach-May ZW P* coordinators, businesses, and municipal staff I participated in a training on community F7quiq mted Inl~nl&n-p~&&d on May-JuneMOI Fanmurdty LEAP mulo financing mechanisms for environmental action implementation. The training prepared teams from each community to develop grant applications to national or oblast After completing the environmental issue environmental funds or other external assessments and establishing en\,ironmental sources. In June 2004, 50 representatives priorities, each PSG prepared an from pilot community attended a training on Environmental Action Plan (EAPs) focused on strategic planning to develop plans For the top priority envlronmentai issues. In the continuation of LEAP activities. fail 2003. PSGs completed their draft EAPs Finally, ISC and Ednannia organized two and submitted them for public comment. roundtable discussions (November 2003. June With the assistance of EcoPravo-Kyiv,four 2004) over the life of the project for local pilot communities held publ~chearings on coordcnators, project stakeholder group their EAPs (Kosiv, Pavlohrad, Evpatoria, and members, and trainers to share experiences. Korostyshiv). In January and February 2004, discuss next steps, and discuss support and the municipal councils in all seven assistance needs. communities adopted the EAPs and allocated funds for implement~ngpriorlty activities. ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION PLANS Each PSG conducted environmental issue assessments that described the main envi ronmental problems facing the Community and the risks these posed to both human and ecologfcal health. These assessments were completed between February-June 2003. PSGs also conducted public surveys to determine which environmental issues residents Felt were priorities. The number of respondents varied from 300-1200 people, depending on the corn rnunity. Based upon issue assessments and survey findings, PSGs in each community established environmental priorities (see detail on next page). "Improvementof the €ma.Emergency condrtion of water supply a-io sewage col mlon system and ~~YICIO~and her~cdes %*ace +aer environmental can only poor condltlon of green vegecatkon zmin pollui~on liegar ou.~bpprme~ :+e be achieved byj0ining varlous ne!ghWrhoods of the cay koved Svaro~-eRatm Nwembe I I 2x3 by the CII~of Evparor~a February 2004 togplher of forces in the Lmwa q ofO,~C,rgracer P.vlchd. bar quallty of drtnklng water illegal W,k and waUe'raiUior, han Lxa cornmuniy. we never flood~ngIn some pans of the cry. poof grannre tMustry Approvedby ue ?md expected the great COllectlOn and uilllzation of household solid KorosryYrrv Onober 23 2alJ wmte. and atmospheric alr pollut~on -Lack of x3equxe serxage support for solving &proved by [he Ctty of Pav/&rad November colkctdtreamerr pxsp~aiq0. bsll(riq 19 2003 environmental problems water am lack d aOequae socrc uawe like we are seeing now Ibrir. Poor solid waste management. management &proved me SencffPnr 3 urnontrolled logging. and pow qualq of ChecheInfl aeCemt~25 2003 in our community In surface water Approved by Lhe Kmiv &;on subsequent.^ each PSG an November 6.2003. Svatove. we believe no Implemeraalon pldn fause0 on u g:ed one will solve our b* Pollution of Balaklava Bay, lack of en~lronmenldlcssue m lhe envirDnerXd, sewage and worm water collenlon syrtems. aclnon pIan ISC pwkoed 390 Oal mn qants :O problems exctpt lliegal landf~lkand Inadequate soIK1 waue p'lm coT"munlm1c inpr- par- ourselvez. " dtsposat and processing system, and waeon laent#fledin the81 irrp-rn 21aa the banks ofthe Chwna and Baydarka RN~Tm prom5 are n.mma.ued n t-e j qan Valeriy Chmykh. Head. Approved by the Balaklava Raton, iVovember or the next page Svaiove Rain Council 28.2&73 INSTITUlI FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNiTlES I NOVEMBER 2W4 Establish efficient system fw waste Established a collection system fw collection and recycling of plastic bottles. plastic bottles within town of and increase the number of green areas in Balaklava. the diarict. Created new green areas in the center of the town. Establish a comprehensive system for Purchased of new waste collmion managing solid waste. truck. Renwate and clean-up existing green areas Established new green areas in I the and establish ww gem areas. ' urban centers of the City. Establish a proper system for managing Constructed new pumping station fw solid waste and waste from granite water treatment plant, and processing. renovation of public wells. Improve water quality in central water sysem of cky. Koriv implement proper collection and utiliratlon Expanded solid waste collection of household solid waste and raise public systemw Town of Kosiv and six awxeness on solid waste. viilages. Proper management of form resources. Eliminated unauthorized waste Implement proper system of patable water. dumps. water by renovating old wells and high quaiity drinking water. wnaruning new ones. Improved and expanded number of Establish a proper system fw managing high-quality public drinking water solid waste. wells. SV- Safely dispose d abandoned pesticides and Removed abandoned pesticides and raise public responsibility for safely transport to safe disposal site. I disposing of pesficldes 1 I WBLlC OUTREACH AND SMAU With the active partic~pationof PSG GRAMS PROGRAM members. NGOs were particularly active in Each PSG organized a wide range of public Involving community members in public awareness raising and involvement activities lnvoivement activities, including tree designed to increase public Understanding of plantings, clean up of !{legalwaste dumps, environmental issues and to get residents and and green public spaces, These activities businesses more actively involved in raised a considerable amount of community addressing environmental issues. cost share in monetary, in-kind, and volunteer contributions. PSGs undertook wide ranging public awareness actlons, e.g.. working with school Ednannia managed three small grant rounds children to distribute public opinion surveys for NGOs in the pilot communities to and local media to get free anicles and media stimulate local environmental initiatives. With coverage, conducting public hearings, and assistance from Ednannia. each community formed a grant selection commlitee. holding dispersed public meetings. ISC and Ednannia These corrmmees were designed to g:ve POLlUCUKRAlNlAN MIYUNlN communitaes prau~calexperience in EXcHAnG€s worked in cooperation managtng open and cornpelttlve procesM ISC and Ednannna I- pavarskp rrar tae with the Academy of for awarding hnanctal grants or conIraas For Umbrella h amd hrm the lirw qant round. Edmnnla awarded organszed a rtudy excnsxp lo CaTrurr~ Education 17.000 in grants to 10 grantees in seven In Poland for represenLane5 'ram ex7 Development to commun~t~es.The second round of grants was community wllh fuMtng from a gaR urrjer completed in the sprmg 2003. with a total of the Pol,sh Amer~anUkraaln~an -awe organize approximately $13.000 ro 12 grantees The In~l~attveIn Seplerrber -333 -We%erSal*reS environmental th~rdgrant focused on youm-initiated horn nine ukramm Eonmxraler ~rrbdrq aclivitim wlth 16 grams awarded lor 2 IMal of all 7 LEAP p~lmm-mncres vaveled to management trainings $9 000. In total. 38 grants were awarded to Poland to vtsn w.w cmaresr- Po ad for enterprises, 38 dtfferenr cmzens groups. NGOJ. and youlh Each delegaran pan%pared n a woe vx&y groups See Attachment 6 De~r!ptronof of meerbng and condune0 sse vnm &re< y including solid waste Smail Gram. related lo the r pl~iry*sues A: the management c~nclmt~no! the tarr represendiver hon ENVIR~NTMMANAGEWNT Uhratn an and Pol& miller I-etr (Decembw 2003) and NSISIANCE TO LOCAL ENTERPRISES AND - expersexes M a -Cay m'erence .r BUSINESSES waste water treatment Warsaw In April dele*,= "me@t ISC and Ednannla Wedin cooperatton wllh Pollsh comm~nat~esrave ec to UlUd m fa- (June 204). the Academy of Educat~ondevelop men^ lo 4 study tour aMexchaoge w7- ther organtze envoronmenlal managemen1 Ukfalnrm panrw cwrulaPs k 1% Walnngs for erxerprtses, lrrludlng solld vrae corr~mlorof I*s?w) :cu *iX)parc.pacs management (December 2003) and wme traveled lo Ky v for a owGay ccr'ereoce u water trea:mnt (June 2W)Reprerentawes share experlencer w mu C IUgJ aKl iDUl from the PSGs, local atnhotitier. am govemmemr are co~ma~~ngto #wove munrctpal ernerplses participated in walningr communrty lale 0" lhe nea page ts a 11% :f 10 lwn how 10 conducl audlts and develop PO:EA and Ukm-ta- ca-a recwnmerrfat~onson improvlrq rnun*c#pal ;ui;r comnunam trra qne~ d enrerptse management These pantcipaots mqmalnm in bold. men returned to thetr communities lo conduct 1- audits and sharefhelr ftnding~wlUl Ik cornmun~lyRecommendatr~ from the Milswere ult~matelytncorporated :nto many enterprises managemen1 practices INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES 1 NOVEMBER ZW4 PAUCI Study Tow Partner Communities POLISH COMMUNITY UKRAINIAN COMMUNITY 1. Elbl g Settlement of Chechelnyk 2. Elk Kosiv raion 3. Gra Kalwaria Town of Horodok 4. Kamienna Gdra Svatove raion 5. I tapy Town of Korostyshiv 6. Ostmwiec wi tolayski City ofBatoriya 7. Plock - City of Pavlohrad I 8. Trzebinia Town of Sokal 1 9. Zgierz --Balaklava &on 'Even adults ask me INSTINnONNIZIIYG CITIZEN ISC worked in pannenh~pwnh the Ukraman PARTlCIPATlOU how I managed to NGO. Chtld and Envfronmnt (CBEI. to persuade children to wreqtbm communlfy whool partnerst-~psin EcoPm-Kytv:o help i-wnulrura'#ze: turn Baiaklava ana Kos~vFdnded by [he Charter panac~pxion$7 e(~uoywrrc jecsm work in summer time in Stewart MMt Foundat~onand the GE Fund, $1 making in fvve of the seven the park, at the springs, engaged cmnttymembers and ycuttl m communnles lEqxxora >&Wac hw. identlfylng educational needs leveragtng local Koro%yshw, and S\alove I and take pictures of rewXlrceS to support these needs and Funded by Ule Ukrai-e ClmnAcusn waste dumps? The organlzlng posntve civlc acllora lo address Nenm*. EcoPran povwa w& range of community and envuronmental prtorltles answw is easy - they ass,uance lo comnunlbes lo hep rsengrnen ISC/C&E organ~zeda klck-off woikshop in legal mchanlvm v?'l*+rI%? im-w~?'e are excellent children December 2002 in Kylv followed by tra8nlng and have a high In the two demonYration communrlv3 In Lty-%p~mber Fd3 it orw~izedcrirff destgned Lo creale a common vaslon of .. potential. onejust won- and weseraam 81 u-e tw success and common twms of reference communities faapporsrnawy 230 needs to assist them. I among key stakeholder In June BXt3 lSC/ pantcopanll in Nove~~-&cemawMa3 C&E brwgM together apwoxlmately M-25 amgrateful to the LEAP EccRaw helmco-,-ulaies upr ze pJO iC representattves from rhe rwo pnlol hearzrgs in Kmw Pav23trh? Ei-aa a.w that it help& our kids to communltles. lwludong 7-9 students for arwo Kaouyrhrv on ~hxlocal wr-i day worktng sessmn to celebrate rewlls. realize themselves and aaiun Dlars lr aka pwioec ea- w' evaluale lessons learned. and plan for Ihe corsu?allo?s taati LEAD pa- co-nm-7~5 together with grown-ups next years actmvitles ISCIC&E. with assasawe and pepxec an enelwve r4 zen JJ& -~1 from Polnh Ukrabnian. and Amercan uatoers to participate in p;bltc pmrcvparon 81 rn.xorrrwlalmcron held five workshops tn the ptlot communlfles m*'ng solution of the city's from November 2003 - March ZM)4 on the follcwsng wpa Eduu,tton fabmabtlity issues!" COMPONENT 2. ONELOP dmtlcleadership. popR proposa! MrmOlXKOGlES AND TOOLS Tamara Shugailo. preparallon #nteraaNeeducallon mthods B~ologyTeacher wllh a focus on envlronmenlal educaflon Under ihe 3uaap LE4b' I= bnc Eamd Korouyshw scwt1 5 developing bntegrated curricula based upon proma *de ranJe ofmet?mokqrai md sustatrable communmy prplwiples rorganrzea ~nformal+onnraerlalr Oergwc :c ?ec en coaplratlun wtlh Step-by-Qep c!tizern local kuran.a a-d BGCkts Foundatton) Youth grwps in eacn ~q~erne-i;commn*,.- wlrcrmwla, communq ident~hedprlorllles a7d anm These lnclJdec implemented act$vlllesrelated lo these prtailes wbth llnancial asststawe unoff Ednannsa mll grant proyam and cmrlty f~naru~alsuppon These projects lxludec Uua man .ra~i~3'.c-P' :tw SL de fc organmng clean-up acf~vlt~esand events such lmplernmrmg Local fmrr~~lathson as youth env~ronmntalcamps a dlstrlct Proyams In Cwtra, amE.?-7 Z-.rw envlronmenral coqess and an envtronmenul education congress INSIITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES 1 NOVEMBER 2034 This Ukrainian version was published under stakeholder group members. ISC and contract with the Regional Environmental Ednannia disseminated the LEAP Guide and Center (REC) (Szentendre. Hungary). The other methodological materials to all project Ukraine LEAP office subsequently printed the stakehoider group members. LEAP Centers of Russian translation of the LEAP Guide in Excellence. LEAP Information Repositories. October 2003. The LEAP Guide served as the Advisory Committee, and LEAP Network. basic methodological materials for the project. In October 2004. ISC and Ednannia adapted INFORMATIONAL MATERIALS the LEAP Gu~deand published the Ukrainian Over the course of the project, ISC and Guide to lmplernenring LEAPSthat Ednannia published a number of booklets and incorporates pilot communities' experiences brochures. These included and case studies. Introduction to the Ukraine LEAP an informational pamphlet descr~b~ngLEAP. its ISC prepared a Trainers'Handbookto accompany the LEAP Guide that was benefits, and phases. The booklet was published in by the Regional Environmental widely distributed to LEAP Network members and through Ednannia's Center in 2002. The Trainer's Handbook environmental network: includes a draft workshop agenda, key learning points. descriptions of small group Environmental management for work sessions, and a set of overhead businesses: ISC and Ednannia prepared a transparencies for each training module. brochure for businesses on pollution Moreover, ISC and Ednannia developed in- prevention, environmental audits, and depth supplemental training materals and environmental management: and, Ukrainian-specific information for project centers were selected Sttmulal;ngpubl;cpart~cipationIn ARef uarners veeseimed IK a- EXa?rta cooperation w~thEcoPravc-Kyk. Ukrare held a sere5 d TOTSv.'z:nln a re a: uey skn. based upon their LEAP office publ:shed a 70-page wide to rune frame lo emre:MI -CAP tra~mra experience in providing plollc panPclpatlon n envnronmenlai sunlc8enl knor.leoge :o lewine lrw sad comnuntty wtstvps i? FeDrray \hrrP. training and technical and May XQ? ISC aoo Ed?a-nw awrtre3 DOCUUENTING BEST PRACTICES three TOTS on a LEAP iwrn~~a assistance to anq The LEAP Propct Omce established an project aareho(ber gwp. an communities. infmmatlon dalabase on nnlarnalKn effeclive wbl~cd-each camwiip. fsxerrg posmve cornwunaty-ocai gavg.unen. environmental expenis?. technolog~esand communlly besl paci~ss for solid wane management. water supply relatcms. devebpng a ccxnmMq rm?. and abiliry to sustain wawe water managwnenr and olher pK3KloggWp pocAsskilis cavMlngm envrmmerndt issue asesms. ad LEAP assistance aRw environmeotai nwes Each p~iotcwnmunlty and a number of LEAP network members esmbli*~~w8rav7ena( parltrer the close of the pro~~ect, recelved a copy 01 the database on CD 1% and Eanamia refedupon e- *or among other criteria. CEbNIS to lead ihe xa,m ~pqwre COMPONENT 3. BUlLDWACIlYOF u-at LEAP experlwxes withnr we reqa & CENTEftS UKRAINIAN TRAINERS LEAP whwe util8zed :o Lne geates degee k lh? Ow of the prsmary goals of the Ukraine LEAP cmlusson of each TOT mat- rorred *w a was lo build the tong-term capacxty in day to p-e ;.% qpMa i~:7e womrg Ukraiw to ass&%Clkrarntan cmrnunnses to comrmnrty m*rrrops T-amerr -ec Implemenl pnctpatory community hared lhe.r flrP 5'3 of comnurq fy.r+onuhops hol pqyams ISC and Ednann~apwlded hne Septemm MOi exterslve L-atnbng to Ukralnlan tralners and In reqnme from ualners on need famon >wakedwsth fwr exlwlng Ukralnla? enernno oaming IY3 and E-M aganlzatia to become LEAP Centem wmhaUec an addaanar uamrq m preparg UI(IU1NIAN TRAIWLRf TEW an enYirMunena1 raueasse'sm PI hocer ESTABLISHED ZOO2 ISC and Ednmnu -ed Puo addrttonal iOTs lo expana ns pool d ISC and Ednannta held eqm lrainmg .of- tndlvfdwan malled *n?be -%sm&3q vasners (TOT) over the l~feof Ux? pro>& (DecernSei i?Q2 Jan~arym3! !XZYASW o a twice as many as orrglnally planned TOT ~LIIWWtn cag?err acr:vlI!es began in October 2Wl w-th a two day tra'nbng of cand!darerraims lo observe In Feorq and m.!SC am -tc-nna indlvrduals facll8ta:rnn am8ntefperuM s*ll 5 teid 101%or -tsh*rq emmwm13al am: gatn some !might5 of Ihelr underjlandtng p~ornmand ptecalq ems- alvl of the matefials Project staff observed these pzan respenlvey Su-? 52 and candtdate ualners In acuon and selmw 12 Ednannu x(jan12edTOTS crde%-ekmng indtvlduals frmlhiwghat Ukramrre lo we FI.~!IC aitrex? .%W I~'O~WWc3nqXqm as project aalners and five iM$vbduatslo [h:y 2933i, lnpenentty er*avl amon pqtams 'Sepr -33.23 mtnng W eva4uatrTprqm ,&IS afet 3.33 and wateg c plann n; i 1t.w HCJ INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES / NOVEMBER ZW4 LEAP CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE Representatives from LEAP p~lotcommunities ISC and Ednannia conducted a competitive participated in the semlnars ta share their process to select four LEAP Centers of experiences. Over 175 individuals Excellence. The selection committee representing 74 different organa7ations and reviewed 85 applications and visited 10 institutions - including 11 state ~nstitutions. potential centers. Centers were selected 43 NGOs, and 13 local authoritt?s- based upon their experience in providing participated in the seminars. training and technical assistance to LEAP Centers also conducted roundtable communities, environmental expertise, and discussions with interested communities in ability to sustain LEAP assistance after the their region. For example, the Donetsk close of the project, among other criteria. Debate Center conducted roundtable These Centers included: Volyn Resource discussions in Gorlovska, Torez, Shakhtarsk. Center (Rivne), Southern Ukrainian Regional Mykolaiv. Sumy, Debaltseve, and Mariupol to Training Center (Kherson), Donetsk Oebatr present LEAP pilot community rerults and Center, and Crimean-Tatar Initiative stimulate the initiation of LEAP activities in Foundation. these communities LEAP Centers also conducted more than 100 personal Each LEAP Center prepared and submitted consultations with NGOs and local authorities action plans that specified their proposed designed to share pilot community results activities over the life of the project, including with new communities Interested in documenting and disseminating information. implementing LEAPs. encouraging the replication of LEAPs, building a LEAP network, and developing long-term COMPONENT 4. DISSEMINATE sustainability plans. INFORMATION, CREATE LEAP NETWORK, After approval of the workplans. ISC signed AND REPLICATE LEAPS grant agreements with each Center. Centers ISC and Ednann~aundertake a dlverse range conducted seminars on a wide range of of activities to share information about pilot topics, including solid waste management. community results and encourage additional environmental education. LEAP methodology. Ukrainian communities to implement LEAPs. and community environmental financing These included conducting publishing a mechanisms. regular information bulletin, conducting a More than 350 individuals representing 150 national media campaign, conducting natlonal different organizations, institutions, and conferences, forming a LEAP neiwork, and communities participated in the semlnars. For example, the Volyn Resource Center organized four regional seminars for communities in the surrounding region to share the results of LEAP pilot communities. the role of the public in the LEAP, and how to start a LEAP in their own community. PUBLICATION ff IWORlUTl~ strm~latedovn 3 sewae !rea BUUETtN - CMAKHATA aclsvi1:es m :he laaz anc w~is ISC and Ednannia pubitshed the Cnyaa Khata bulletln to share rewlls of the pilot commun&llesand best praclaes on environmental management and sustainable ISC amEdnannla orpn zed tamM-. 'or development. 0ve1 the cou- of thc pro@. conferences repe5er:aiwes frm mmnlepXesld a-xd5. I= and Ednannia publlshzd 10 tikraintan oemnaraion Issues. five Russian issues and one Engl~sh Md iEAP cornmunares neews in hm dtgew. The bulletin was originally malled to a 2003. ovw IM ~nd~tdoars- INLC ng network of 5.280 ind~iduak,NG&. hxal repiesentatrves trom 40 nm Urninen commonn+es- came to he& pr-r govemmw. nallonal lns(.MlOm, and was -- results tn pdo; rynmuncues In Sepe eventually expanded to a NISI of 6.000 2004. ISC ano Ed~nnaaspxscmd a :hrq Contacts. Mlonal conrpeoCe !?a( *as a~:eceby over 1CM3 people .eyeMq iS 1~.r ISC and Ednannla cmtracted wRh the comnunnes Ecolog~calMedia Group to prepare vldeo In May 2003lSC and Edrwrra med prwnotlmal matw!als and documernarles of malwaals and $xctcvp3Ied n 1% fax(0 the LEAP pogram EMG then negot~atedlo1 Mtnrwer~alConterence for trp*Emrorme~~ free air tlme wclh several natzonal and faEurope* I%a7d Ed?amla peps&an regional teiwls~mslatwxls homotimat and ~nfmmpacm. .La% iirvrnnsnal documentary vldeos produced as a r-n of Aatm Proyarn In Ubamne Tlp rhe pojen ~nclude 8ncMa b~-:ampqe!Engrsn a-rd Prom~onalpfece to promote lhe prop3 Ukra8ntan) rna.term --. .n Pdi3PJ and arong the general publ~(60 seconds). CD a cat- d anwriles a owuwew of !he LEAP process. and Vp d Rwnocional plece targerlng local mesa w Chyaa Khaia IF panrr~~22iprrO. K-P govemmenr oRciai5 I80 secords). Ukra~n~anFound9~ fa Eararm ern i Prommnal plece targeting local I%:TdMMla agan,zec a ire v.sr :o ~wnmentoRitais (30 %xonds) and Korosrp~~lo strare -€A? exprlerur Three 15-20 rnlnuie videos documentrq LEAP Prqecl Pafl ampart.c~aa& in a pard actlv~t,swslhtn the plla communll es pererrat-onM LEA? w-tw :tao;tghoirt CEE Orgarazed q 1- liqia\at 1x and Edna~iawork& 11 p~tIreFmpwalh Ew!-onmasfC~wa :he 1' Natmnai Channel to prozae LEAP on natanal radno. along wlth otb?r ?atonal iadlo LEAP sIaR aho mrc~weai- a .a 52 -rqcf Stallom in addition plfoi Communities were confrrencests wom:e LEAPS T~w able to Ylmulate a large nrrmtm of free ~rcld&sreI-ea?:m Fm*:d medta broadcasts and local coX.'erzq hm?abe b:eioprn?P! .n E<-z"ce cktober Altoge!her. ~tis est~mated:ha[ the yogram 2003 6aizkizvz .. -,a:ionrl :mf,r~te*or INSlllUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES / NOVEMBER 2W4 municipalities (September 2003, Kyiv), and programs working in Ukralne, including the the All Ukrainian Selianske Viche (Dec. 2003). United Nations Developmcnr Program, World Bank, and British Council. ISC and Ednannia established a project PROJECT ADVISORY COMMITTEE website (ww.Iea~klev.ua)in three ISC and Ednannia held six Projecr Advisory languages that includes a broad range of Committee meetings throughout the project information about the project, including to provide strategic guidance on the project program description, activities in pilot and help coordinate assistance effom among communities, and community resources. a dtverse institutions and organizations. The Advisory Committee was composed of representatlves from over 35 tnstitutions and ISC and Ednannia established a network of organizations (see Attachment C List of 106 communities interested in implementing Advisory Committee Members). In July 2001. LEAPs. Byjoining the LEAP network, ISC and Ednannia organized the flrst Advisory Ukrainian communities received regular Committee to provide committee members information updates, access to information with background informatton about the databases, invitations to participate in regional project, review the role of the Advisory seminars and trainings, and methodological Cornmittee, and provlde a preview of materials on how to implement LEAPs. upcoming activities. Adv~soryCommittee members provided ISC anii Ednannia with COMPONENT 5. COMMUNICATE AND feedback on project klck-off activities and the COORDINATE ACTIVITIES community select~onprocess. Subsequent Advisory Committee meetings included: ISC and Ednannia worked extensively to coordinate project activities with other February 2002: Advisory Committee national and international organizations and members provide advice on how to institutions to maximize synergies among effectively build collaboration with local various programs. As noted earlier. ISC and authorit~esand strengthen relations Ednannia cooperated extensively with a between the PSGs and iocal authorities; number of organizations, including EcoPravo- November 2002: focused on how to Kyiv, Child and Environment. PAUCI, and the increase financing opportunities for ULRMC, and Academy for Educational municipal environmentai investments; Development. ISC and Ednannia formed a April 2003: addressed issues related to project advisory committee that met environmental priority setting: throughout the life of the project and October 2003: focused on project established working groups focused on implementation activities in pilot spec~f~ctoplcs perttnent to local communities; and. environmental Issues ISC and Ednann~aalso coordinated wlth a wlde range of USG April 2004: Representatives from Implementers and other donors and asststance Parliament Environmental Committee and the Administration of the President expesed then antere9 to supporl new vrork~rqqe-3 meeiiw i;a- Fewi-y "I want to be different. I regulatlom'legtslatlon for ComrnLinny 2002) to 0b:arn &u;e a- c-allerge ta don't want to be part of development program framework based IUCCRS~UIcolldborI~m 3ewa c :zem ad autha Arttern Kravrsov 16 year old auden Baiaklava %hwl Dw~aUbarne INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES I NOVEMBER ZW4 V. lngredients for Success, Lessons Learned & Recommendations The following Ingredients were built into the ENSURE DIVERSE AND REPRESENTATIVE "rhereal value o+-~~~~ project des~gnand contributed to successful PROJECT STAKEHOLDER GROUPS Program is that it helps outcomes. ISC and Ednannia undertook an extensive effort to ensure' that each PSG had diverse bring together isolated WORKING IN COMMUNITIES representation, lncludirlg representatives from communily members. SECURE STRONG SUPPORT OF city councll, municipality!raion, businesses, NGOs, citireris, academia, among others. This LOCAL AUTHORITIES L EAPenables to solve the helptd minimize the possibility that the In all pilot communities, ISC and Ednannia concerns of key stakeholders were omined, problems that we as had strong support from local authorities and led to decisions that reflected broad- which led to adoption of the environmental community members based consensus among stakeholders. ISC and action plans by local councils, financial Ednannia helped ensure this diverse think are important." commitment for implementation, and access representation through several mechanisms. to local media. ISC and Ednannia signed First, each community kick-off conference Nadiya ~ernits, agreements with each local government to Kosiv Raion Centerfor was open to the public and participants were help delineate respective responsibilities and Children's Creative Work invited tojoin the PSG. Second, ISC and help ensure their effective participation. Ednannia provided PSG members with a list USE COMPETlTlM SELECTION PROCESS of the type of representation that was TO SELECT PILOT COMMUNITIES desirable on the PSG. After the PSG had initially formed. ISC and Ednannia asked each ISC and Ednannia used a competitive process PSG to identify gaps in their representation to select pilot communities. Selection criteria and actively seek new members to fill these included prior cooperation and support gaps. among different sectors, commitment of local government, and prior efforts to initiate UNDERTAKE "ENVIRONMENTAL public participation activities. This INITIATIVES" SMALL GRANT PROGRAM competitive process helped ensure that the ISC and Ednannia initiated three small grant communities with the greatest chance to rounds to local NGOs for local environmental Succeed were selected. initiatives that were highly successful. These ACKNOWLEDGE UNIQUE NATURE grant rounds provided a number of benefits. OF EACH COMMUNITY First, they helped achieve concrete environmental Improvements in the Of the seven pilot communities, there was communities and helped build community great diversity in population size, urban support for the project. Second, it helped versus rural nature, types of environmental strengthen the role of local NGOs and their problems, and political status (raions, ctties. skills in preparing grant proposals and and towns). Project staff approached each managing small projects. ihird. 11gave community with an understanding that each communities experience with transparent and community is unique. and thus, to be objective decision makinq process since each effective, it is critical to have a solld community was required to eslablish an understanding of community conditions and independent panel to revlew arid select aware of potential obstacles. proposals. LOCAL t00RDIN4TORf ARE KEY ELEMENTS FOR SUCCESS ISC and Ednannla hrrm pa13local cmdenaton P~IMcomrunnes receved utmmidi -7ed-a to coordinate projecl acrlv!loes arld wcfk with coverage iw Loca LEAD aoir tier w I- :he PSGs and local auihor~tlesto he~pensure pojea lr Ukralw. myrral arforrlm that all project antvities were cornpielm. have SPOT:oer vz4n Ocal +la and can C~~rd~~atonplayed a pivotal rote in leverage W:Iasststam to assue ccrnbge wganlzlng rneellngs, collecting W. d impcnar%miv~er. iSC w E- a preparing repons. undenaklng lcgtslcai ~morpaaedlaw in ne memazrda 01 fumions. and cmd8mlng prow act~otza. cooperation ~:hexh pllm cmny tm These coordinaton were essenrial to the spectf~llyadwunfed recuring -1 npdla success of the project in each coinrnunlly suppon &one d ihear rerponr:bi!xm Over the course of the project. these Cowdinaton became wrong community BUILDING INSTlnmONALCAPACfTY lexlers and heads of kG&. MkInrAlN CU#E mAcTm PILOT ISC and Ednannta cmchxzed en- COMMUNITIES ua:n!ng-of-ria!- !- 24 days' fjr Project staff worked cfosely w~tn-I Ukrainian cramerr a?d re7-her tmm cmdlnatm local auumrfl~es,and PSG LEAP Cer!ers of Excelience e.~a perad d members to address cancefm and dlfficunses wo and Dnehalf yea3 m all -of rne as they arose. Project staff were in contaa LEAP prmess lo rlpexwe tha( -y rrzd with local cowd~natorson a weekly basis. ;!E necesw techilca' experrase t; warn ffi panlclpated in community wkshops, and memberS and weable to camirue conducted regular sete vlslls lhroughout the pwtdlnq lhn msolance lonc* Ckrai-en poJMto assess pogress and be pmwein cmnstles Tramen wedtn tesx ot 2-3 addressing issuer peopie wlth induasds rMh ccr@wvnray skolls ISC an? Edmlaaimed ~p wrms acd WORK WITH YOUTH expenvse d CEEINIS wgar.:zs-~~~LEAP. Youth played a crittcal role in almow a:I pilM related expermlo 1% .-ax:?ws eHer communiies in gatnertng dam. in~tatmqixat possrb(e emironmental pojecls, conductrq public survey, and engagtry the puD11c.Ix .worked Closely with youth in several p~lot comrnunties lo slrenglhen thetr abalmt) to take lnttlattve in deslgnlng and implementq One of the mm effar1r.e .ca~to twu the local envlronmenlal an omby porldwj capacity o'mnac~p.?lm~hcvn.e~ a- c t,zw tra nlng a& f**a.rial xppx leaders to mrqe m forrwa! p=tze;r, ;s :o nralch $?em .'.!I+ coure- .- co7~unaesof s.m.iz wze an: Wse rnd have !mplem?:e3 relevant zpxca:% and pqams U?der a gram frm iUJCl 143 and Ednann:a matcwc up Polrsr .we JLla.lan p.101com-~.ri:?es :o rweex=-* INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES 1 NOVEMBER 2034 CREATE NATIONAL NmORK OF INTERESTED COMMUNITIES ISC and Ednannia worked with seven pilot communities who served as national models on howto successfully undertake local, participatory environmental decision making. To help ensure that other Ukrainian communities benefited from the experiences of the pilot communities, ISC and Ednannia established a network of over 100 communities interested in implementing LEAPs. These commun~tieswere ~nvitedto national and regional seminars, and received informational newsletters and methodological materials. Of these 100 communities, 15 communities have received additlonal tra~ning and begun to initiate LEAPs in their own communities. ESTABLISH NATIONAL ADVISORY CMITTEE OF APPROPRIATE INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS ISC and Ednannia established a national advisory committee to provide strategic guidance on the project, coordinate assistance efforts among various institutions and organizations, and to identify opportunities to suppon replication of project results. Adv~sory committee meetings were very successful in helping to build partnerships among several key institutions that contributed to project success. Further, ISC and Ednannia encouraged an open door approach of inviting additional organizations and institutions to participate in advisory commlnee members to share their experiences. B. Lessons Learned & Recommendations The following lessons WORKING IN COMMUNITIES were learned as a result PSG YYBERS AND TRAINERS REWIRED W3fE TRAINING THAN of implementing the PlANMD Based upon intew,e&.s %G -sad fhdt the mvironqrral tsrve -% projecr and ISC and Ednannta underesttrnatedthe amam we'e an excellen :ocl fa-:i~ of traln,ng tha~bo* PSG members am recommendations are community rnembm am:he sug.rfi tralnws would need to effeatvely Implement of specific enutra-ma1 is- Tpre -we offered for LEAPS. Un&r the popct design. IX and auessmePts were oerlgred ro quari+~1% Ednamla had algtnally planned on implementing similar heakh ameco!ogrrl .mpacs tron: conductr~~four mmmunq-baseawor*shops w!romIaldeqada:ion .nembers community-based in each pilot communrty (or a tmal of 28 remarked (ha: ~~ dues- ilrar*eo :?e cornmunlty tratnings). but unlmalely programs. ftm ltmlhls Cfpe of idormaon ha¶been conducted 74 1 complied fa tkrcornmales .fee PSG SC and Ednannta responded to comvunny members noted it-a 17ey experrnred needs and provided addRloMI cornm~n!ty several cMlle?ger in p-epa-tqI* m.e batnlrgs on group pocess skills -such as asseswm inc,&jrq kxd ewlence on conflin resolution and fml~tatton.am how and wtpre :o ma,tar* d avaa?dbrlity d lechnrcal aspects of the project. such as baa, concerm 8- the.,61*3#:y d ox& arm peparkng an env,ronmental lswe asseswnert Ime conwrstnr in CornpllrT :re W Slm~larlyIX and Ednannta doubled the FurJler, PSG -embers erppaed cn-r nurnbef of trarn~ng+f-3atners (from fmr lo awltheir iechncal ariir-, ro wety elght) to ensure lhaf tralnen recesvec prepare ,rsue as-syr~~uIX art Eman2 wffioem vaineng. pov!ded j03$l*ona!lecn-rrl ran-:> "jG memtes ic adherr I- ssver Re~~lmendation.Future program should fully comlder the relat#velack of experience Rccommmcmhn: Ficue poQam wcd skblk and knowledge d Ukraanlan take #nohl consrderam me caapsnrs mat communtt8a In undenaklng collaboratrve appoaches :o adOresstrg communtty wer by plannnng on ccmducl6rq exlemive 1-acniog and allowlng llme fcf pogram pantctpants lo pacflce and Incaporace lnrcxmatlor: PSGs \.,me asked lo zep=er co-w ty v#s~o.rthat &-a wc &wet- CO--ur~ty ra* ~isef 25iE year5 m3 :9 'wie Communily rlstor is 2 rexrM:y netr concept 1- Jkra n an :,nT;r 8: es ax-a-3 33 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNlTiES / NOVEMBER 2W4 value and purpose of developing a long-term ANTICIPATE CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE vision when they have many pressing PSG AND MUNICIPAL STAFF problems facing the community today. Thus, Three communities experienced some in several communities. the community vision implementation challenges related to conflicts was never fully developed and utilized to the between the PSG and some mun~cipaistaff. degree anticipated. Some middle-level managers with the local Recommendation. The community vision governments raised obstacles to LEAP concept has value in helping communities implementation. These conflicts became think beyond their immediate problems, particularly acute as project implementation however, additional work is needed in became imminent. in some communities, the explaining the relevance and value of a LEAP program exposed some of the community vision to their efforts. inefficiencies and poor performance of certain municipal departments and this created some -NmES HAVE LrmE EXPERTISE resentment among some municipality staff. AND EXPERIENCE IN CONDUCTING Second, in at least one community. there was PUBLIC OUTREACH CAMPAIGNS perceived competition between elected Several PSGs experienced significant delays officials and public leaders from the PSG in implementing activities to raise public wherein elected leaders felt potentially awareness and Involve the public in thekr threatened by the power of the publicly-ied activities - despite specific training on this LEAP activity. To address these challenges, topic. ISC and Ednannia found that the Ukraine LEAP staff met wfth key leaders communities have little experience in this and municipal staff to agree on appropriate area, and thus, it took some time before local approaches for effective LEAP coordinators. PSG member, and local implementation. authorities fully grasped how to successful Recommendation. Actively involve starf proceed. ISC and Ednannia found that from local government and municipal communities became more comfonable in enterprises in all phases of preparing the conducting outreach campaigns when they action plans and implementation plans to Could build on specific community ensure that staff fully ilnderstands the achievements. implications for changes in their Recommendation. Provide more extensive responsibilities and practices. training to communities at the project outset on howto reach out to the public and emphasizing the imponance of focusing on concrete, specificactivities around particular issues of concern to the oubiic. Most of the Rscommmdation Pojm~a~ehorOer goups. canpored of a 0 ve~sen&x of communities were communq mwr.Derr rave wee -arqe d successful in their kplteiecelving trainings on prqect Reeds arm penpm;es. ar: Zwe'ore neeQ monltorrng and evaluatton PSG membes amp e itme Mfore rby cameas a ~CLF efforts to form effective YXI~I f and ,mplemeFters often had a d~fftcunt me Thvs co%m a essene; me g&p and functioning capturnng the full impactsof thelr effor& To wlil be wxcevful as commjnrg jx-- address this problem the LEAP Propn sohggcup Fulure pqprs s-b acpie projet stakeholder Off,ces hired lndependent experts to condm ttme arm povtoe wrlcm on groups and involve an assessment of project wtcomes and effectivegrwp process to help ewetM tmpacls at commun%tylevel and to collect the community ;n perfonMnce stor8es on the moa srgnrrcant LEAP implementation changes that have been realtzed in lhe p~lot cornmunsry Bmed upon lPts trforrnatton each community developed a tarseted lnfwmatton campatgn Dased upon the Impact Ukralntan cowmun ties face sa~pqx stories collected by the tndependenm expers chatlengesro acccp,.rg firrarcm~han ~nWr!aKTdlwrces In srx c4 ?he%en plot Rscommwdetion. Prom pantctpancs need extenswe tralnlng a1 the project outsel on Ute hemporlance of prowl mltatngand guldance on how to monitor popct lmpacrs cnFmN6~tOlYlWlTT SOCIAL YOYEYWTS TAKES TIY Recommmdstio81 Faeprqen srruia Most of the communlttes were wrccessful in butla in suffclen Ime 13 VP prqect Wr-nerg their effort5 to form effective and fu~lonwg plodand prcrl~e*mace to wrmun im popct stakeholder groups and tnvoke the on hDa to e51aolrSh airzjufle -"MVE=S 'or cornmunlty in LEAP lrnplementatlon These acoepr~5.nra?dwx=l fsdng P$G groups played a leadlng role in reaching out to the publlc and tmplement.ng ac: on plans Ho- a few of the pdot comrnuntttes experienced wme challemps lo fofrnlng vxtat cok#onamong dlffefent elements of the commun!ly - whethe- $1*as due to prtm confllctsor poldtlcal dtifwewes The length of tkme before thlr -cohes#onL takes effect varres from commun:ty-to- community INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES I NOVEMBER 2W4 BUILDING INSTITUTIONALCAPACITY TRAINERS NEED GUIDANCE ON EFFECTIVE COMMUNITY COACHING RELATIVELY m NGOSARE PREMD Our experience has been that communities TO BE LEAP CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE need both training and coaching to help them ISC and Ednannia found that relatively few ~mplementthe comrnunlty development Ukrainian organizations were prepared to process. Under the LEAP, each pilot provide assistance to Ukrainian communities community had a training team of two-to- on how to implement LEAPSand other three trainen. While the trainers' were community-based programs. ISC and informed that their responsibilities involved Edmnnia worked with several organizations both conducting workshops and undertaking to become LEAP Centers of Excellence. ISC consultations in the pilot comrn~~nities.ISC and Ednannia received 85 applications. and Ednannia found that only a few of trainers interviewed 10 organizations, and ultimately engaged in the cornrnuntty consultation selected four organizations to be LEAP aspect of their work. Tra~ners,who worked as Centers. ISC and Ednann~aprovided extenslve contractors under the project, viewed train~ngand technical assistance to LEAP themselves principally as trainers" not as Center staff. While all four Centers conducted "coaches." Further, traners were often semimrs and consultations, ISC and Ednannia occupied with other patd work, had limited believes only one of these organizations time to devote to coaching. and were (Volyn Resource Center) has the capability to seemingly uncomfortable In thi5 role. To assist Ukrainian communities in the future. address this issue, the LEAP Project Offlce The Volyn Resource Center already had undertook the coaching and direct technical previous experience assisting communities assistance component. ISC and Ednannia also and was able to build upon this experience. initiated a discussion among tralners on the Recommendation. NGOs need direct importance of the trainer-coach role for future technical assistance and guidance on how to LEAP and community rnob~l~zatlonactivities. work effectively with Ukrainian communities. Recornmendalion. Provide training to trainers on how to effectively serve as coaches and support their coaching activities during project implementation. VI. Next Steps and Conclusion "1 was born and raised A. PROGRAM CONTINUATION created lc cont~vemsmq Lkrara.7 camunttter !o iw-. LEA* amrmtar in Chechelnyk. As fundlng for the Ukraine LEMPar establtshed all the successful cond~t~orrrfm conrnun~ty-basedapp-=her Over 1CO mayor. I will do fut~relmplementarron of LEAPS :n Uk-a ne communn~eshrep,ned a LEAP rw..crk aw exprwed an i~-lere-~an b~mrqLEA% everyrhing in power my FIW. Ukraine now has successful models of *JI~15 C~nlPrmng !a-.wra !o to make the town a locally-based.panrctpalay dectsoon maktng va8ovs degees processes lhal lead lo tangible commun#ty AS the ndme pskX cwmunttes better place to live. D~ue Improvements The seven pdot communities rerub demCNEXMed 'hl UWa80~urn*rraes - to LEAR I realize chat I of the Ukraine LEAP represent a daversny of community sizes and types. lncluOq small incl~ingloca. -nres b- am not alone, there is a rural villages, small tom. ralom, and c#tezens- are red$ lo mntMt- a*n mdium-sized CRIes. rescurces to :ac*le entrorrmrnrai anii whole group of citizens communrry tssues ISC a= Ednnr*a an^ F~irtherthese communities tackled a broad who are equally that Ukratman :mrles aeSw..s -p range of environmental issues !hat are fwmery~eoccmn~nased concerned, and this relevant to orher Ukratnran commun,lies. P3'lKlPatay probiem S0b-q appo&- including wastewater. solid waste. drlnktng makes it much easier for tnwm in Ukrane LEAP water. abandoned pesf~~des.and green area% me to share ideas with What is needeo to rtanuiae ma-e Ukrartan Ptlol communatles have shown how Wl rornnuneges to ,mpwLEAF3 amcupr citizens. We can aUltWR~esran work collaborattvety to cornmun~ty-basedpobm soh. ng accomplish good things achteve cornmunq tympovements and have approach& In the 'uue JWar;ac ~mt~tullonaltzedpaniclpatory processPr in commun.tte, WTII neec ca;11-ued re-I for our community and declslon martnq Perhaps me sumqn the form ofuatlirq wd cw rerves as will continue to do so.' fundamentally the LEAP pocen a asstaance M how 10 mpIemen pancrwory. model notpsi for addralng envtronmerxal :mq-based a3ymher fiimer~ ~swes.but a whole hoa of communny .s- enemat tundrr+ HTI cmtlle10 @e.ssed to cover techncal wppot ;3s ta &rrn#m The Ukraine LEAP resolted in (he peparz?son conmunnles and lo mmpew%uxa~ :Y of mechodolog~catan3 infmmmro~lmaertak Mfa LEAP ptarns~and :rp:w- that have been adopted to Ukralnlan coar hndll: 'W re--"-+,- condnions wRh Ukraintan case Yudies. Domr mere oa5.M aUlVl!le5 IIYXlld WCOrSdered tcx Ukratnian trainen were rralned and ~nven ememe!y cowdectrvr gw7- v.z?'irprerS praalcat experience in community-basec of Ukratntar c-~hmne :o cm::per pfoblem v~lvtngSeveral Ukramkan LEAP w*n reuxrces :o imprwe :mory Centers have haManexperience worklq COMLOPS with Ukra~ntancommuniltes gn envirccmntai asues, and a new organ~zatlon.tke lmriiure for Commun~tyDevelopment. has been INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES I NOVEMBER 2W4 B. MEASURES OF FUTURE SUCCESS Development. IS worklng with p~lot Ukrainian communities communlt~esto develop a long-term program The real legacy of the Ukraine LEAP wiii be for project contlnuatlon demonstrated that they measured in several ways. First, by how many Ukrainian communities implement As a follow-up project, ISC and Ednannia can successfully LEAPSand other similar community-based proposes to conduct a range of follow-up leverage both local and projects. LEAP piloted a collaborative, activities to evaluate the longer~termimpact community-based problem-solving approach of the Ukraine LEAP. ISC and Ednannia national resources, be that can applied to social, economic, propose to conduct a survey of pilot tackle difficult health, and other community issues. In communities in one year to evaluate evaluating future success, ISC and Ednannia additional environmental improvements that environmental issues, believes lt wlll be important to evaluate how were achieved and the degree to which mobilize large numbers many communities have undertaken LEAPs environmental governance has become and applied its methodology to other rooted in the community ISC and Ednannia of citizens, and model community issues. are interested in assessing whether pilot the type of participatory communities have applied collaborative Several Ukrainian communitles are already processes to addressing other community approaches that moving ahead on their own initiative with issues, ey., in Evpatorla, the PSG has moved both internal and external financial support. democratic societies forward with a collaborat>veprocess to tackle As the results of the Ukraine LEAP become public health issues in the community. embody more widely known throughout Ukraine, ISC and Ednannia believe that more and more ISC and Ednann~apropose to conduct a Ukrainian communities will implement LEAPs. survey of Ukra~niancomrnunlttes to Ednannia recently announced small grants for determlne how many communltles have LEAPs in three new communities. ~mplementedLEAP-type approaches, what Impacts have been achleved as result of Second, the future success of the Ukraine these programs, and what asslstance LEAP can be evaluated by the degree to communltles need to conrlnue the~reffons which the pilot communities continue to address environmental and other community C . CONCLUSION issues in this way. PSGs can continue to fulfill a number of meaningful roles in their The Ukraine LEAP has demonstrated that communities, including on advisory bodies to Ukrainian communities are clearly ready to their local authorities, initiating community implement participatory approaches to environmental in~tiatives,monitoring community problem solving. The environmental programs and condltlons, and collaborative decision making approach used working on sustainable development in the LEAP project found fertile ground in strategies. Ukra~ne. PSGs in six of the seven prlot communitles formed NGOs to continue implementation activities, and will serve as effective vehlcles for future implementation efforts. The Ukrainian NGO, institute for Community Attachments A Comparison of Expected Oukomes and Results R Summary of NGO Small Grants C. ProjectAdvisory Committee Members E. Chystra Khata Newsletters F. Summary of Pilot Projects Comparison of Expected Outcomes to Results uMlo 6 ISC Ourcorn Indicator I rare ~ewtu 1 1 I I implementation of I 1.1 Compliarce with / Six policy changes - Five Pila co~nwn*iesadwml reui internationally consislent iniemational Ireaties and i one per pilo& mwucipal- ! locally effective policies -0. / communiry ! im?mRwmI#nng Wcwt [USAID lR1.6.11 [USAID 1-4 ! in tocat govemm~~d~ionrna~rng 0mvsenwmAahs~- Seven ~rqecr6-9 pl= 2.0 lnueased env,ronmental 2.1 Prqects pepwed for St" fimmlW wmpleted -one per pla lnvestrnenl lnvestrnm plans -one per pttol commJnay USAID IR 1.6.21 IUSAlD lnchcaorl communny Seven plmcommnber c0mmlted 2 2 New funding fa SIX new investmeus mm~folermOrmml environmencd protectton - one per p11or pa- F~leplotoanmr~~~e 11% Ind~atcfj cornmunny secuerundsqfrantwodad cam- EnvmmrrPl lnveamens taaM 54w.m I 3.0 Improved envlronmsntal 3 1 blror prlMte SIX enwonmental Sewnp~locmmmMer~ / at wtvateand faulltles develaplng and msnsgemwa plam for -for 1 pu~vfac~lrm lrnpkmwttng facllmes - one fact~tty '""Id- ws9e*r(.a. [USAID lRl 6 31 envuonmental per pllm commun#ty chnkmg waer fanlaer Mzmpwml "==w=-t "==w=-t Plans cha?prnudemmrrpsl [USAID lndracfj wrerplsemanqpmenm.*sevm aka amnvl- 4.0 Increased empawenrent 4.1 Formation of 6new1ww~xhsrr 20nervNGOreaabllhcdr*hat of ~Rizensto affect emironmeotal asuxiahm --one per ieas~one neu NGO tn ux d me envimnmental decision andlor amiatiaa. community plldcommnilie5 making [USAID Indicaa) (USAID IR1.6.4)) 4.2 lmidents of citizen 12incidMsof 38 blenwonmemal inltlarves environmental activism -~~*nenIal uodenaken - wilh a mint- of acttv~sm-two per three [USAID lndicatal per cornmunay pila commun~ry LEAP FINAL REWRT / ATTACHMENTS 4.3 New mechanisms of 6 new mechanisms - Five pilot communities adopted public participation one per pilot community new municipal ordinances I established for local institutionalizing public ' governance & decision involvement in local government making on environmental decision-making; consistent with I , iwes I Aarhus Convention. [ISC indicatw] I -- 4.4 Citizen participation in Steady growth of public Over 15.mcitizens participated in public forums sponsored participation at LEAP LEAP-relatedevents in all seven under LEAP [ISC indicator] by a broad cross-section -- i I 5.0 1 ncreased regional and 5.1 Establish sustainable I Three-four LEAP Centers F~~~ ukrainian organiz~tions LEAP Centers of Excellence I established national capacity to undertake activities related to implement LEAPS [lSC indicator] serving as a LEAP Centers: one of [ISC IR] I these NGOs with experience and 1 I qualifications to be a LEAP Center 5.2 Establ~shgroup of 12 valners tralned 14 lead trainers and five back-up / Ukralnlans tra~nedin LEAP trainers who have rece~ved approach : extensive training and cornmunity- [ISC indicator] - I based training experience 6.0 regional (CEE) 6.1 Professional relationships Six community-to- Seven community-to-community cooperation to solve established between community partnership exchanges conducted: five long- established - one per environmental problems. Ukrainian and CEEJNIS term partnerships established (ISC IR) communities i pilot community [ISC indicator] I 1 Six measurable Over lwo dozen environmental 7.0 1 rnpmved environmental 7.1 Measurable 1 conditions in pilot environmental improvements - one per improvements achieved in green corn rnunities improvements pilot community areas, drinking water quality, solid [Kc IR1 [ISC indicator] waste management, wastewater treatment, and pesticide ! I manaqement 8.0 1 ncreased number of new 8.1 New (non-pilot) / 15 new communities 15 new communities in the process Ukrainian municipalities communities implementing : implementing LEAPS of implementing LEAPs addressing local environmental LEAF problems [ISC indicator] IlSC IR] I Based upon the "Ukra~neLEAP Mon~torlngFramework'' submltted as component of the Ukraine LEAP Life-of-Activity Plan that was a pproved by USAID In March 2001 Summary of NGO Small Grants FIRST ROUND ISAR Ednannia conduned ihe fint round of Melody, a yarm NGO. cwand resored small grants for NGOs in the Wimer ZD03. In fwdifferw pubV~i+lr*mng water .Ah.Sewsz4 all. ISC and Ednannia provided gamd $7.000 enterprirer. krunesses, nrdents. chuch that resuned in community con share totally panshiooers, and clty cdlncll M paupued m lSAR Ednannia $1 3.900. The following small *ant Mivities I& clean-up of Uw 41s. Ftmh~~the NGO were implemented in the LuP pilM puMished an envmrwnat WWn and +zed conducted three mmunitier: a public awareness campalgn to keep iprings rounds of mall clear. grants for NGOs Green World restffed a previously neglested to promote public small community wk and planted IMX) Bees. communiIy membersjoinedto get he^ to impkmeu rwo pqgO. Vtd*aulytc imp(BneRed a warenea, a propa to improve the Shki1.m bwiMvQing The Union of bldi-lntema(ma1'ists outreach, and removing old branches and me hmpsreer. impkmented the 'Green Zones for Vet-ans' plam Uees and bushes. and installing tenjes and invdvement. popcr to improw and repair monumeno. iniamatlon stands. Englignenme~!4 m dkm memorials and hiWcal areas. These grants are to impove an sea near the chgWn+ Seam School inc(uding Uw removal & m lllega described below. and planing sees on the site. The Kmiv Society Guaul'shchyna implemented a prow to remove two illegal SECOND ROUND waae dumps along me shores of the Rybnytsya River and impove the riverbanks in lSAREdncnniiwrhaedmesgondmrndd the town cent-. vnall qans in €he Sping 200 mai a tmld S13.m0inqam~wim~ providing a total d xuuin maWlng h.1Q The UNEKO, a pua, NGO. implemented a projen following urull gan acavioes m to clean a pation of the Balaklavka River and in me LEAP pM oannnirm f- e sRqmen iu banks with the help of local indlcste amavl of me residsno.vhoolstudem.~vypenooneland businearnen. ThepuhNGO.Sca*s'Uwno(Evptau cleaned up and re9nred a penoc&y nqeued Rural Union of me Svatow Raiiimpkmeined xeasmamb31~avvqueach~ a project to improve a local park and public monum'Tekle of Dervsh' ($540)Th swimming area by removing wane and Moinak~Indmwe Gapc- up lip Numakt cleaning the sharer PtdCarea(Sl000) andtheAsvnareBardof Trustees d me Middle Sbmt18 reaaec r negeaed mall pm iocaed near me vhar (fi501 LEAP FINAL REWRT / ATTACmTS PAMOHRAD renovation. The PSG initiated and conducted a The NGO. Our City, set up a system of separate series of weekend ciean-up activities ($2,285). solid waste collection in several apartment blocks Oblast authorities provided additional funding of in Pavlohrad ($2.000). With the profits from the $53,000to improve the remaining areas of the sale of materials, residents from the buildings park. made repairs and painted their buildings. The CHECHELNYK public was consulted throughout the entire project The NGO, Environment. replaced the heating and video footage of the project was aired by system located at the Chechel'nyk Agromash local TV studio. As a result, residents from other enterprise and installed an environmentally-sound apartment blocks are working to replicate this biomass fuel burner. The old heating system used experience. costly fuel and produced high levels of air KOSlV pollution that caused health problems for part of Shafran Amulet Youth Environmental Association the community ($1.785). The enterprise restored a well and cleaned up the surrounding "Chechel'nyk Agromash" contributed area located near Moskalivka village ($765). Union approximately $4,906 for the burner replacement. of Ukrainian Women. Kosiv Branch restored a The NGO. Viakasnyk, restored a recreation area in small park by removing debris and planting a tree the formerly neglected Central Park and set up and flowers in a downtown area of the Town of anew monument ($500). with contributions of Kosiv ($760). The NGO. Hutcul'whyna. restored 11.500 from community-based enterprises and wells located near the Rybnytsia river ($760). businesses. %AUKLAVA THIRD ROUND EcoBUD implemented a project to clean the Ednannia conducted the third round of small grants banks and beds of riven and sbeams flowing in Spring 2004 with a special focus on youth through the Baidanka Valley, and developed NGOs and informal gro"ps to promote youth recommendations for improving septic and awareness and involvement in community sewage systems in these areas ($2.285). initiatives. This grant round was conducted in SVATOVE cooperation with Child and Environment under the Strengthening Community Schools Partnership Red Cross Sociery. Svatove Raion Branch is Project. Ednannia provided a total of $9.003 in implementing a project to restore a well and set grants with communities providing matching funds up a delivery infrastructure for schools' and other in the amount of XXXX. The following small grant public institutions' drinking water supply. The activities were implemented in the LEAP pilot project implementation has been delayed and will communities: be finished in the Spring 2004 ($2,285). KOROSTYSHIV RlPATORlA The youth group from High School 116 held out- The NGO. Polis'ka Initsiatyva, cleaned up and of-class events and competitions for school restored portions of a previously neglected children of grades 6 8 in the Evpatoriia Dolphin municipal park with small lakes. Several - Center ($400). The "Center of youth naturalists" organized and held trainings by students-to- students related to the threat of AIDS infection ($300). p~nommo horn School 159 6ewgned recatmuted md The youth group from School #22 restored green equ~ppedpplayqound tn vllLqe d Term($648) recreation ares (0.5 ha) in the terrilay or Ihe Youch group from School $30 1- wm daycae elementary school ($330). The youth group from 113 improved the aea nea Vp daycae fackss School17 refurbished a park located near the for ecology. dualstudy awl 10um($205). Y& school. including cleaning up the area and plantlng qoupd~l1Mheldaxmesofwxkshqxon: trees ($140). 'Your life is you choice'. 'heuentm d ilk@&ug KOflV addibioo'. 'Envimmmmal- d corrsmmily and possible appmaches to sotnng'. and ' The Shafran Amulet Youth Envuon-I Awxiation environmem and us.' (S 147). ueated a playgound favhadchilden and preschool children play: irslalled bench. swings. and a sandbox: and planled trees and bushes YouthgroupdSchool#2~1~reesheM ($500). The youth group from High School I2 a compernlcm faa wer desqo( the pak and ueated a rest zone lo restore Ihe health d yxmswed envwrvlmental classes J5500) shtrkms. established a small name zone near Ihe -1, pianted trees and shubs, and uwled a -1 -1 area within the school ($400). The Wh Youth group d Sam1$1 cleanedup the am qoup from Kobakiv High School umted a qeen Suroundlngmesdaof lncludngremonng~ area on the school ground lhal had formerly been lmes. arrangnng Rtmer beds. cleareng uab ard boggy and unusable ($500). The youth group d equlpptng lhe paX wnh 17 wood bemhe5 (Wd) High School 11 will hold a summer camp for youth educatlDn related to environmensal and conducl clean-up activities within lhe Mtue reserves oF'Termshory' and 'Kamineu'. and lhe headwaters of lhe heilsa River ($500). The youh club 'Palette' of lhe Kosiv State of Applied and Decor* Art established an employmem center for young peopled Kosiv raion (WOO). The Stary Kosiv yotnh qoup. togemer with envimnmental-rouist club 'lilais.' renovaled a building pmvided by the Verbowpka Village Gnncil adestablished an eratorrism school ($500). Ymh NGO Kmcleaned up 2 ha d forea ad planted bushes on 1 5 ha tmproved(he qua19d BAWMVA lorat dnnk~ngwae~ uetk and cleaned-op loul Youth qwpfrwn High School 133 cleaned up beachesKdsrecreauonaaammofmew dump nea the school. broughl in new roll. and (SMO) Yovth grwp of School (2 neM an esLablished a park (0.5 ha) ($500). YouVl qoup ol ennrrmmenml tarto kan weon flaa ad fauna School t25 organized summer camp for three of the Ckhetny ma tncludmq rbanm- last groups of children from the families with low welts ($500) income ($500). Youth NGO 'Terra' and grwp W FINAL REWRT I ATTACHEMS ATTACHMENT C LEAP Advisory Committee Members Specialist 2. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Yurly Samoilenko M.P., Chairman of the Committee on Environmental Policy. Nature Resource Management and Liquidation of the Consequences of the Chernobyl Catastrophe 3. Ministn of Economy of Ukraine Vasyl Rohovyi Minister of Economy of Ukraine 4. Ministry of Ecology and Natural Serhiy Rurykin Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine Resources of Ukralne 5. Minlsm of Bealth of Ukraine Olha Bobyllova Pint Deputy Minister, Chief Sanitary Doctor of Ukraine 6. Seaetarial of the Cabinet of Oleksandr Bohachov Section Head. Environmental protection Ministers of Ukraine 7. Fond for Support of Local Mykola Pukhtynrkyi I Chairman Governing Instihltions, under the I OBce of Ule President 8. UNDP ! Douglas Gardner United Nations Resident Coordinator. UNDP Resident I Reprerentati~r 9. World Bank / Oleksiy Sknrak / Operations Officer. Environmental Sector 10. Organirarion for Economic / Olga Savran / Programs Manager, Environmental Directorate 1 Cooperallon and Development 1 I 1 (OECD) I 11. Peace CorpsNkninc I Viktor Karamushka Regional Manager, Lead Environment Spectallst 12. BriLh Councll. SEPS I Victor Kmlenko Executive Secretary / 13. Danlsh Environmental Protection / Varyl Vasyichenko DANCEE Programs Manager 1 Agency (DANCEE) 1 14. REC-Kylv 1 Vlacherlav Oleschenko Chairman, Board of Directors I5 National Academy of Science of I Bohdan Danylyshyn Deputy Charrman. Council on Study the Productire Forces Ukraine I 16. Asociatlon ol Ukralnlan Cltlcr Mvrorlav Piltsyk Vlrc President on Exrcu~tvrWork 17. Union of Local and Rcgiaoal V\achrrlav Nehoda Read ofthr Serrrldrial Authorities Leaders 1 I t18. Association of Rural and Cltv Councils 19. Ukrainian Leame of lndustrlallsts Valentyn Pldvysotskyi. . 1 Vice President. investments and Reaional- Development and ~nwepreniurs 20. MENR Public CooncU Serhiy Taraschuk I Member ofthe Council 21. MAMA-86 Anna Golubovska- Director I 22. Eco-Pravo Dmyiro Skrylnikov Executive Director, Eco-Pravo-Lviv 23 OCl International. The CCU Mykhallo Magal Chairman Initiatlvc Organlzatlon 24. Ecolinks Megan Falvey NIS Reg~analProgram Manaxer 25. US-Ukraine Foundation. , Valerie Wright Project Director 1 28. TariliReform and Communal Oleksandr Kucherenko Program Manager Services Enterprise Reshucturine Project Photographs LEAP FINAL REPORT I ATTACHMENTS Balaklava Region Balaklava Bay Chechelynk Region LEAP FINAL REWRT I ATMCHMENTS Evpatoria Region low1 youth groups Korostyshiv Region w LEAP FINAL REPORT / ATACHMENTS Kosiv Region Pavlograd Region - LEAP FINAL REWRT I AlTACHNENTS rn Savatore Region Svatwe Rayo Chvstra Khata News ABLE COPY LEAP FIWL REWRT I AlTACHNENTS BEST AVPILA~LECOPY * LEAP FINAL REFORT 1 ATTACHMENTS i Summary of Pilot Projects See PDF file titled LEAP Final Report Attachment F Attachment F: Summary of Pilot Communitiesi Environmental Action Plans Excerpt from the Environmental Action Plan of the Balaklava District Approved by the session orthe Balaklava district council in Sevastopol on 28.1 1.2003 15.08.2004 LEAP NOO, D.N., PE@rlvele Heorhieva enterprise) E.Y. Velsam 2 Maintenance of ~~.OJ.ZOMn Balaklava Vsiiko8elaky vegetation 15.06.2004 LEAP NGO. D.N., (and 80 on) PE Velram Kosmyna N.V. 3. Educational work with 20.02.2004 n Balaklava Kosmyna N.V.. citizens and idormation 31.07.2004 LEAP NOO. Magdych N.M. camoaian PE Valnam - - - - ,--,- ~la~tigtrees in o lower park next lo the 6K44 ::Rim Number of Dlanted and oreserved ~lank ~~~ -- I ~ ~~ - , , .. .. , . . . 1. Planting of trees 15 032004'n ~alaklava Veilko~Irky 18000 18252 wK-- 100 15 082004 LEAP NOO. D N.. PE Velram Heorhieva E.Y. - 2 Ma~ntenanceof the 15 03 2004 n 1 BUUava / ~eiikoselrky 1 3804 1 2352 1 - 1 greenery 1 11 062004 (and LEAP NM. D N , I PE Velaam I [email protected]. I I I I I I 7. Processing of plastic bottles 8. Processing of piasti - ~ ~ 9. ~ducatlonalwork with 02.01.2004 fi Balaklava Magdych 600 600 citizens 31.07.2004 and LEAP NGO N.M., PE Burlak N.A. Burlak N.A., .P3n n 12, old Kleva v.P., Bslaklava Romanova Councll V.I.. 1 Kosmyna N V 10 Economlc lncentlves 02 01 2004 tl Burlak N A . 8746 5380 for cttlzenn (collection of 31 Kleva V P , plastlc boltlea from on clt~zens,competitions) Kosmyna N V .. ~ ~~~ Indlcaton Number of exidlnp unauthorlzeddumpo and number of eliminated ones 1 Elimlnation of 18.04.2004 n B.laklava LobxhT.H., 1 15200 I - 1 15000 1 unauthorized dumps 25.042004 LEAP NGO. Semenluk near the Yalta hiahwsv Embad NGO. A.P.. springs1 location and condition 2. Drafting a database of locations and Balaklava a 4. Development of a website ' Balaklava .. .. .-.~- Indicators 1. Restoration of the^^ Baidarsk- spring -- 31.05.2004 2. Cleaning the territory 24.04.200412.06L 17 NGO Semeniuk A.P. 250 around the Baidarsk 1 spring ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ Excerpt from the Environmental Action Plan for Settlement of Chechelnik Ill. Ranking of environmental issues According to the description of the environment, made on the basis of the data collected by the SGM, all factors have been described that negatively influence human beings. animals, and flora. All priority environmental issues are identifled. Taking into account the opinion of the community, results of polling, materials of the description of the environment, and the expert analysis. the following priorities have been identifled: 1. Pollution of the town with solid wastes 2. Pollution of water 3. Water supply issue 4. Unemployment 5. Condition of roads IV. Description of priority environmental issues of the town 1. Pollution of the town In the town of Chechelnik, they have registered one legitimate landfill that is subordinated to the communal enterprise "Chechelnikomunservis". Condition of the landfill does not meet existing sanitary norms: the territory of the landfill is not fenced, there isno regular entrance. there is no watchman, and there is no sorting of garbage and wastes. The garbage is neither pre~processed,nor recycled. In the beginning of 2002, the town of Chechelnik had 35 unauthorized dumps. As the result of the work done there are only 16 dumps now. The source of garbage pollution is activity of citizens Chechelnik. Pollution is aggravated by chemical compoulrds that penetrate into soil, air, and water. Environmental contamination with garbage is one of the most acute issues of the community. The low sanitary awareness of the population and the local government's lack of money to eliminate unauthorized dumps predetermine urgency of this issue. 2. Pollution of water One of the important issues for the town of Chechelnik and area is the condition of underground waters. Together with the Sanitation Agency, the city did a research of potable water 31 wells and took 56 tests from the water distribution system. According to the research, content of iron exceeds the norm (0.5 mg), as well as content of ammonia substances (nitrates, nitrites). The increased level of acidity and content of ammonia substances testify to a high level of organic pollution of surface water. About 70 % of wells need cleaning and regular chlorination and are under the threat of further pollution by factors of different origins. The major part of citizens use potable water from wells. The ground water table is 4- 10 meters and deeper. The territory of the town has several water tables: in crystal soils, of Sarmatian period, of Baltic period, and also quaternary table. The main water producing table is the Sarmatian one that is used with wells. Capacity of wells makes 2.5 - 4 cubic meters an hour, and the water is drinking according to the standards. Ground water used to be of high quality and could be used without additional treatment. Cases of ~x~llt~t~orlof water wlth poisonous >ubsrances irappen nrarc. often. Tile rrlalrl source of pollution of gruutld water b 1rnpropt.r locatlon of (lurnl~~aad storages af pulsunous substances. On the t~rrltoryof the town, there are 2 gas stations. 3. An issue of water aupply TIlr ijrohlem of water supply is caused by the rellef of the town (hilly terralrr); arteslill~wells are located at long dlseances frorn water prrssurr hr*;~dt;lrlks which reduces the llfe ofcleep pumps. The deep pumps that are used are ofthe nlaxlrnurn hright of water tlellvery (150 113.Water t1l)l~lysysterrls are outdated ttwt resulW: in often leakages and large financial cost or repair. In order to improve the water suj~plyof thr town. it is lrt<(ebsaryto rt!plac.e 200250 m 01' piprs each year. 'l'he cxlsting tariff (50 kopecks for a cubic rlleter of water) does not cover the cost of such ~-t.l,lirct.~~~rnt.There are rlo addltlonal sources of flnanclng. Most consumers (90 'X) do not have water nleters, which results In the lack corltrul over ~llll5lllll~~t~~ll. 4. Unemployment. TIIV111ost sertsitlvr isburs and rlsks ofune~~~ploymmtlrlclude: . IJllllcult uon~nlitand fl~larlclalco~~ditiorl ofenlerprises, ballkruplcy the sugar nrlll that ernployed 500 people. 111 rnany cases lack of i~lotivatlonto work (low lrvrl of wagw, untl~irelinessofpsynler~t of wages) that has a negatlvr ir~lpacton btablllzation of ~11111loy1nent. I'r~~~l~~rtionscop is lmig~~lflcant,and the rate of clevrlol~~r~entol'wrvices Is IrnuRiclent. . 'I'ht.rib is stlll a clifflcult prublrrn of 1-nrploynientof graduates of educatlorlal irntltutions. I .i~l~.ly,there is a trr~alofinc.rease In jobs creatlon i~~inlyby lndlvlttuais. In ordrr to support devrlopmunt ofenlerprises. organlzatlors, enterprise .II llvity. It would ba ftsaslt~leto op-ncrrdlt llnes for indlvlduals wlth minimum inrrresl. ancl such r:redlts could be used to crratc newjobs. 5. Ruadu. RO.I~~III tiitr town of(.'tit*l-l~rl~~ikilre 111 ilrr u~r\ati$fac.turyc~111~lit1o11. they need currrrlt i~rltlcapltal rcpaln. l'hc 1:lty har its "Rt~giorralprogrinla of iIc*v(.I~~p~ne*nt.r~~x~ir. i111t1III~I~II~I!~~I~IC(~ of roaris a11d SI~I.(-ISIn tt~rtown'. approved by the (:l~rchctlr~lkClty Ca~u~allCIII 08.28.2003, Tta. totill cost 111' I .~l~lti~li.q%llr of%lrt-t.1 111iakta UAkI 1,!)52.121. inclutllng in tla. ft~ll~rwlngyeall: The budget of 2003 appropriates for the repair of roads only UAH 58.000. The main problem is lack of sufficient financing V. Objectives and tasks of the environmental action plan 1. Problem: Contamination of the town with wastes Objective: Cleaning of the town Tasks: Involvement of all citizens of the town to the system of wastes collection Liquidation of unauthorized dumps Establishment of containers Putting into order of the existing landfill 2. Problem: Pollution of water Objective: lnlprovement of the water quality to meet the state standard 2874082 "Potable Water" Tasks: Allocation of sanitary - protection zones Repair of equipment of aquifers (pavilions, equipment). Construction of the centralized sewage in the town. Construction of treatment facilities. To make pl-oduction wastes meet norms of standards. 3. Problem: Water supply Objective: To provide to the citizens quality potable water Tasks: To make sources of water supply (artesian wells. wells) meet requirements. To make sanitary - protection zones and water-pressure tanks meet standards. Repair pavilions and irlstallation of system of automatic control and protection. Repair of the (lirtribution network and valves. Installing water meters. Improvement of the laboratory control over quality of water that is provided to the distribution network. Strengthening of control of water metering by consumers. Repair of mains and the distribution network 4. Problem: Unemployment Objective: Creation of new jobs Tasks: To stabilize an employment level of the citizens. To increase rates of development of industrial production and development of services. In order to support development of enterprises, organizations, enterprise activity, to submit a petition to higher bodies of authority about provision of minimum interest loans which would enable to create newjobs. 5. Pr~~blent:Unsatisfactory condition of mds Objective: Kt.palr ar~tl~ttalr~ter~anca of roads of tl~c1c)wrl lo IIII!~.~requlrrlllents of lriil'flc safety Tasks: Millntrrtancr roadsides wlth tlrair~agesyslrnl 'To carry ou1 currrrrt arid capital repair of marls wllh solld paverrlerlt (rubble) To LUI.~~OUL capltal rcpalr of the Kirov street (4 klns) wlth sldewalkr. ?'(I carry out cilpltal repair of the Marx and Kalllilr~streets (I km) with dralna#e system VI. Ways of lmplemmtlng task. and evaluation crlterlr I: I. lr~forn~ationand rrainlng for the community ,I'hr5t: actlurn are varyrtrd al forn~atlonof envir~~r~rnrntalawareness of cltizens and thelr actlve parrlclpation in Irnprc~vi-mrntof lhc r~~vlronrnenl of ill(.lowr~ of Checilelnlk. 2. Economlc incentives I'11t.y 11ct:d to Ir~tluc.nccbchavlor ol'those who pollute the i.nvlro~~rnrr~t.to create nlaterlal and inorill incentives fur tt~r~r~lnatlollof pollution 3 Public programs 'I'11t.y i*nlirllcllrrcl {~artlclpatlonolcltlzen> In sulutlo~~of tl118 envlro~~rr~eraallssurs or hol~llr~yli11~1r111arlon-rtluratloni~l at:llorls crrl rnvlrorirnenral I\\II,.s. 4. Tcct~nologlcalaclions 'l'l~y~~nti1i1 tit~\lgni~~g. 1 i,~~rtrurrlor~. and ol)~.ratlnr~of t~r1virorn11rnril1facllltles. 5. 1.cglslatlve actlonr. '1'111.4. t.rlt;~ll rl~.vrlop~ttt~r~li~rltli~l)l)roval 01 MJIIW Iocill i~~strun~rntswithirl the frarnrwork oltxl\tlr~gjJowrrs VII. Actions Objectives: Cleaning the town of garbage. / from the town 1 2004-2009 I Optional classes (daycares, schools): klean home to clean town? 1 2004-2005 / Informing citizens on establishment and powers of the townis work group / l quarter 2004 I lnformina- citizens on leaislative- decisions of the town council on this issue / permanently Polling school children and parents on cleaning the town I qbarter 2004 I Up to 90 . Approval of decisions of the town council: I IV quarter 2003 I Up to 125 - On appointment of the work group on cleaning the town - On banning of unauthorized construction, and maintenance of individual household farms On responsibility for violation of sanitary rules / Approval of annual benefits for business entiiies (individuals and legal persons) and citizens for 1 i quarter 2004p Up to 200 Development of the towis map wrth lndicat~onof places of garbage collection 01 01 2004 Up to 500 Work of publlc Inspectors and street committees contro~llngsanltary condtt on of thefr terrltorles permanently Informing cltlzens on locat~onand hobrs of work of the exlsttng landfill I II quarter 2004 Up to 600 Approval of the schedule of the landfill I First 6 months 2004 / Nla Stage by stage improvement of the landfillis territory / 2004-2005 / Up to 30386 I Development of a map of garbage collection places, and containers I First6 months 2004 1 250 - ~ / Approval of decisions to allocate land plots for places of garbage collection and containers / First 6 months 2004 Decision of the townls council on material compensation for intentional damage to containers Second half. 2004- Review of garbage collection tariffs First 6 months 2004 Beautification of the town Repairof roads 1 2004 47000 Excerpt from Environmental Action Plan for City of Evpatoria 1.5. Setting of priorities. Setting priorities means revealing the most promising ways of improvemerit of the environnrental situation, which will help to concentrate efforts on issues where it is possible to achieve real results in the easiest way. This process enables local government and the community to concentrate the limited financial and human resources on solution of priority issues and to achieve optimal results in improvement of environment. During the special training or1 defining issues, priorities for actions, the e~rvironn~cnralissues have been ranged. That is, for each of issues they identified hunian activities (sources of problems) that result in penetration of chemical pollutants or influence of physical factors with negative impact on ~nvir~~nment.Besides, they identified threats for public health, fur environment, and quality of Life, occurrence of which a]-e caused by tile cnvirorimrntal issues. This work has been carried out wirh assistance of Ukrainian experts and trainers. Thus. r~lembersof the EnvifonmentalI Board took into account conclusions by experts, opinion of the community (results of the sociological poll held in March, 2003 with tKe purpose to, find out citizens' attitude to environmental issues), and possibility of local government, and used the following criteria: it Publi importance of environmental issues; Availabilityf '. of iegal circumstances that enable to solve such issues: Interest of local government concerning solution of the issues; . Time span necessary for implementation of planned actions; and Availability of resources, including financial, technical, and human. It resulted in deflnitlon of three strategic objectives and tasks that are priorities for thc community of Evpatoria: gmn lslandl In the ~1.~6arms of the drlmse. Task 1 To reduce volume of wastes delivered to the landfill by 20% - -. - To lmprove the system of sanitary chsenlng of the clly 2. Envlronment.l ectlon plan June 2003. City Environmental Board began the process of settlng actlons that ensure achievement of objectives. The ;rctlorls constitute the Envlronrnental action plan of thc city - the Plan of investnlents Into solutlon of'er~vlronmental issues. It trirs brrn tlrrlded that tasks and actlons for each of three objectives would lncludc actlons targeted at: I. 111li)rtning and trainlrig clllzens (such actlons irrtr targelcd at fortr~nllorlof c~~vlronn~t~nlalawarrrless of tht? cornrlrurrlty arrd rlllzrm' i~rtlvo {,.trtIi I~X~~IIJIIlib i~r~l~rovt*~~~f~nt of thc or~vlrontrirnt ol Ev~~torla): 2. Economic trrrentlves fur the community. (Influence un hl~aviorof tlhow, who pollute tlv! t.t~vin~n~trrrll.t~slal)llsh~trrrrt (II i~~att.rtitl irrl(l moral 111r i.t~tlvrsfur 11rt-vt.1rlld11of negative inllucnce). Possibility of additional financing; Efficiency of remembering the information; Duration of the prolect's implementation; Possibility of adjustment and updating when necessary; Availability of legislative powers as to implementation of actions; Innovative nature of actions; Time span necessary for positive results after implementation of action; Emotional appeal of actions. 2.1. Improper condition of green parts of the city districts in view of their functions 2.1.1. Description of an environmental issue The total area of green plantings within the city per one citizen makes 218 m2. However, the data on greenery are very approximate. Since the beginning of 9Oies of the previous century and till our days, non-authorized cutting continues, trees perish because of illnesses and old age. There was no inventory of green plantings for long time. Plantings are mainly old and it means they need regular care, permanent work on their structure, renovation, and special protection. The common characteristic feature of vegetation of the city is significant degree of deterioration as green plantings are located near numerous public places, including cafeteria, restaurants, canteens, bars, kiosks, etc. with large quantity of household and construction garbage around. Because of this, trees deteriorate, have chopped off branches. bent trunks, and bushes dry out or are cut down, lawns are trodden). During last 10 years, there occurs significant reduction of protective strips of wood. There is no precise accounting on this issue: however, accnrding to opinion of employees of state forestry, losses can reach 30 % as a result of nun-authorized cutting and ageing trees. There is nut enough information as to what plants can survive in our climate, where to plant them, and to do it in a correct way, etc. 3. Potential actions 1. I Information campaign on planting greenery / media 1 Starting 2004 annually 1 5.0 2. 1 Competition on planting and beautification I DHCS (Department of I annually / 15.0 Housing and Communal I I Services) 15 ...... ~~ .~ - 3. Seminars for people of all apes ~oulhNalura~~atCC~ud~ 2004-2005 1 1 I 1 - "I I public places openlfor cnlZen8 and visiton of thi I 1 1 I ! city t' ...... 2. 1 Restoration of pla~groundsin nelphborhoods ' Zhlllshnlkl' 200&2008 600.0 -. ... 3. Re-use of atom witer~-. DKS~ 2005-2008 . . over 1500,O 4. Rest~aUonof washing of rtrwlr DHCS 2005-2008 over 1000.0 - ..... ,...... ,,... 5. Restoration of woods around the city forestry since 2004 annually 500.0 ~. . .,, ,.. 6, 1 Dwelopment of a decorative planb nu&& DHCS 2005-2007 r. 1 50.0 .., 1.., . . -. ... L I.-- ... ..,...... ---- .. .,,*C','C-:~;. DAUD (Department ol 1 2004-2006 1 Archltscture and Urban I Dnvnlonmnnll I I 1 2 1 Arljurtmenl of borders of aanllary am-@* I DAUD 1 2004-2003 1 36,O I 18 - - - . - - / # I Action 1Time of implementation ( Estimate cost, UAH ths I of decisions of the City Council governing maintenance of I 2.2. Emergency condition of the water sr~pplysystems: irregular supply Y $ 2.2.1. Description of the ehPironmental issue City uses potable aquiferou: water that is supplied under pressure by two mains from intakes "Ivanovka" and "Chebotarka",and also separate wells in rural areas. The sanitary - chemical analysis shows that water does not meet the 2874-82 national standard "Potable water" in hardness. There are no deviations in chemical and bacteriological parameters. The water works has 382.1 km of water pipes. 226.2 km are of 100% wear and tear. i\nnually, the losses of water due deterioration of the distribution network make 7.775.6 thousand m3. Deficiency of potable water makes 38 2.3. Lack of efficient system of collection and utilization of wasteslgarbage, including from the beaches 2.3.1. Description of an environmental issue Soil of the city suffers significant anthropogenous pressure. The system of cleaning soil from commercial and household garbage is far fronl being perfect: because of the lack of money, there are not enough containers: many platforms are not equipped and not fenced: there are not enough street cleaners (between 210 in summer to 150 in other seasons, instead of 1.000 as it was in 80ies). Cleaning beaches is an especially acute issue. During summer period, anthropogenous pressure on beaches grows immensely. Communal services fail to manage the sharp differences of pollution. Because of the lack of financing, some enterprises and individual household farms are not removed from zones 1 and 2 of resort protection; the old part of the city does not have sewage. There is difficult situation with recycling of industrial wastes, luminescent lamps, tires. accumulators, and galvanic production wastes ("Vympel" plant, mechanical Plant, trucks i-epain facility). Soil of parks, squares, streets suffer pollution from household pets. !I The volume of wastes annually delivered to the landfill makes 192.7 thousand m3, 16.0 thousand a month. and 535 m3 a day. A limit for 2002 for SHW on the city landfill - a10.0 thousand m3. According to the beautification depat.tment of the DHCS, the largest part of wastes rnakes SHW and industrial wastes (55.2 %).:and com~ner~ialwastes (paper, metal packing) 20 %. Of negative impact are so-called nor~aull,orireddumps. In transportation of wasrrs, ab'out 20 SS uf the volurue 111akeplastic bottle$, ~vliich\%,hen on fire at the lanrlfill produce dioxides. I 2.3.2. potential actions ' Excerpt from the Environmental Action Plan for Town of Korostyshiv Ill. Sections on Specific lqsuesI 11 ISSUE: Pollution of wat4r in the central water system of the city General description of the issue: Water supply in the city of Korostyshiv is carried out both from centralized and decentralized sources of water supply. 57% of the city population receives water from the city municipal and inclustries' water systelris; uther citizeris ~eceivewater from public and individual wells. Capacity of the city intake is 4.4 ths cubic meters a day, with daily provision of 3.3 ths cubic meters. Currently, there are 9 aquifer wells in uperation; than iron is removed from water and aeration; mechanical filtration (2 sand filters) and i''ll3 (3). The iron content of the aquiferous water makes up to 2 mg / I, and after removing iron it is reduced down to 0.3 mg /I. According to requirements of clause 8.6.4. of the norms of radiation safety, the management of the Korostyshiv water works tests water for natural radio nuclides. It is necessary to admit, that the city waterworks has a system of water treatment and identifications of polluting substances in the water. Capacity of the water intake is insufficient. Since 2002, there often interruptions of water supply due to blackouts between several hours up to several days. Between July and October water is provided according to a schedule. When water supply resumes, powerful pumps cause water hammer and the water flow washes off dried parts of corrosion; and the water with that pollution enters the distribution system. Distribution system is outdated and worn out, which cause numerous leaks. The scope of the problem hurts 57 % citizens. This problem influences health of people: excess content of iron causes heart illnesses, hardness of potable water \veaken> protective functions of cardiovascular system. The waterworks assigned a team to eliminate errrergencies. Thus, in term&physical and cheniical parameters there is an excess of iron contents in the water in the range of 0.66-1 mg /I (the norm is 0.3 mg /I), and acrorrlingly, transparency of water makes 25-28 sm (the norm is 30 sm),color ir~akes25-40 * (the norm is 20 *), hardness makes 7.2-8.9 mg /cubic dm (the norm is no more than 7 mg /cubic dm),and sediments have corrosion particles. There were 8 deviations from the standard in terms of bacteriological parameters during 9 months of 2002. In 2002, no work has been done on cleaning and disinfection at the water treatment facilities and in the distribution system. The sanitary - protection zone near the aquifers is allocated but not fenced, there was no current repairs of the wells structures. Water pumps of the old Cherkunov design need to be replaced with a new Moscow type design ones. In order to improve the sanitary and technical condition of the water intake, improvement of the quality of water, and prevention of epidemiological complications concerning intestinal diseases and virus hepatitis A, in September 2002, they cleaned and disinfected the intake and the distribution networks of the city. Objective: Clean potable water safe for health Task: 1. To promote culture of efficient water consumption. 2. 7'0 rrlsule ullllllrll~u}~tedprovlslorl of clean l~otablewater Irrdlcators: I. Nurriber of days a year when iron exceeds rlorm 2. Nurnt~rof days a iaarwheri turbldlty clevlates I'rc~~nIu: rxlrm 3. Nu~r~berof days a !ear whm color exceeds 1,s norln 4, Nurl~ln!rof days a yrar when hardr~essor water exceeds I& norm 5. No corr~~slonparticles 111 putable water 6. Nur~~berof days a fear when nlrrltes exceed the rlorm 7. No nitratrs in the water 8. Nu~rrberof (lirys a year wlth excess ora bacteria Ir~dex 9. I~~tcrrupledwater provlslon 10. Hrlllacrrr~~c?ntof the water supply systcrr~of the city wnners) j 2 iFrom door to door UAHI80 (productton of 4 montha --leanets) 1 3. lnfonlng on an establishment of meten UAH140 5 montha 1 4. Educational clasaea UAH22 6~ month# 5 Pedormancel of pedonn~ngteams under the motto 'Water 18 lnef , UAhl25 I 1 month i EjiE.Go5suojPWa lam1 aql p e!pau Aq a6e~ano3iuauewlad sdno16 malewe Aq sa3ueu~o s~alsodpue salnl3Id 40 uo!)lladluo3 , ~ ~-~~ .- ~- ~ uogdurnsuoa~p- ~elem 40 ern~(n3'1, ysel , ~~ - -- ~sea~-uoupue asns!ru lo) !ieu!~u!138 i nnn'nnI '7uwn / Const~ction&fthe Iron removing ahtlon waterwork@._... Reconst~ctlon of the existlng water treatment Waterworks facilities. m Finishing construction of new faci~lerof the water Waterworks intake. Elimination of causes q water losses in the / distribution network. i - ~. i ' ISSUE:Unauthorized dumps after granlte procevsing Crlleral descrlptlon of the luue: 'I'l~rI-icy elf Korllsryshlv ha%rrglstrrrd about 400 ttrlterprlses that process granltc. But there is no 111rc11anlsr11of pulp rrrycllny (a drrrsr llrluld tl~at 1 OII~I\Iuf granltc 0I)JrrfIve: ~~~~ole~~l~~i~llysilk., irulh~rlz(.~lr('ryrllng 01' wi~ste~~rrldt~~ts 01gr1111lte processing. Tasks. I'rurr~otlc~rrelf rlu. culturr of proln*t-1)1~havlur wlth gritnlli. wastes Co~r~trurtIc~r~rlf i4 lar~clflll fe~r tlrt~ I)UIIJ utlllzirtl~~n Rrsc;1rrh 1,1 I~I.ltlilrk~~t uncl IIPW II~~IIIIoI~I~Ic~uf IJUIIJprw:essln~ ~lllllrulll~: I 1 ,#r18l1111lor Inlllrlp 2. t\\~.~ll~~hIllly111a\III.~ lid i.l~lllyICSIXIIL\IIIIF for IC-IIIOV~I~ 1111alll11g~. :I. I'II~~.tlilrr vf ~rylhlrnllunof rcrnsvrtl volu~nc'i. 1 NIIIIIIY*~ II~tc~rts ~I~'II.IIIOVC~ tallln~sby rrrtl.rprl*cr crlgri~rrl~~'I~rltirrrlrrK ileclyl.~ crf rt.gl\tri~tl(tnnlaL (cate 09of actlons - technological norms) ~.'.~tionSofvauthori: duTF.h-$ ( construction rnatenal Problem: Pollution of the city with solid household waste Description of the issue: the city landfill is located within borders of the city; in view of the fact that the landfill operates for more than 40 years (started in 1957), its capacity exhausted (the design documentation stipulates the total amount of the wastes should not exceed 200 thousand tons. that is only 4.6 thousand tons a year). As of now, there is no vacant territory to continue dumping the wastes. The sanitation zone of the Teteriv river and nearby housing does not meet requlrements. In 9 months of 2002. the volume of utilization made 568.600 tons. The landfill operates with infringement of sanitary norms, which results in environmental contamination. The area that is stipulated by documentation of the landfill is 4.5 h. Though, the decision of the executive committee of the Korostyshiv City Council #220 of 06.17.1998 allowed the administration the municipal beautification enterprise, by way of exception. to continue operation of the landfill near the Lisovd street until a new landfill Is constructed. Sanitary condition of the landfill and its adjacent territory of wood are unsatisfactory. Garbage is dumped randomly over all territory of the landfill. A bulldozer works occasionally. Actual sanitary protection zone is not available and the distance to the nearest housing area is 75 m, and to the Teteriv :50-90 m. The distance from the city water intake makes 1.5 km. Absolute height of the surface is 157.5 m. The water table is 2.5~3.0 m deep. 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No garbage on streets of the city and in all public places. Cateeow of actions: informing and training of the public; economic incentives; public programs; technological actions; legislative actions Evaluation criteria: efiiclency of expenses: time of implementation: financial influence: influence on employment; influence on environment; technical feasibility; efficiency of action: number of people engaged: and involvement of financially interested parties. -. -- -- . Penalties for mi I actions)- - ~ ~ ri.-&uipmencof the ianrfill to son and recycle of wastes (technologic~ilUfirnF nnual competition for the best house - . . .. - -- ~ ly cleaning events . .... 'I nu1 R~~ 6~ ~oYu.lq.lA.NIS I ntll S'RZ~.. 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Objective: Water in public blls within accepted sanitary norms Task: To eliminate sources f ollution. p Indicators: P Number of days a when contents of iron exceed the norm Number of days a when turbidity does not meet the norm Number of days a jear when color exceeds the norm Number of days a &ar when hardness exceeds the norm No corrosion particles in potable water Nurr~berof days a year when contents of nitrites exceed the norm No nitrates in water Excerpt from Environmental Action Plan of Kosiv Raion ... (technologicalnorms) j (Popazov A.) -~ I- ~ --- .. 1.2. Wood utilization. I!, 30.072004 Private enterprise (technological norms) ,, 1 Halecotekt UAH5 000 UAH 7 000 (Boichuk H.) 1.3. Decisions of local government on 30.03.2004 Kosiv District Council, landfills location. city, town councils . Private enterprise to technical norms. Orioni UAH 8 500 UAH 330 (technological norms) (Popazov A,) 000 1.5. Establishment of a charitable Kosiv District Council. 1 environmental fund. 1 I city, town councils 1 UAH 200 1 1 I 1 2.2. Sorting of the wastes and moving Private enterprise UAH 9 000 UAH 1 800 to properly arranged landfills. 30.06.2004 Orion1 (Popazov A.) (technologicalnorms) Kosiv District Council. city, tom councils trees I establishment of nature Reselve protection objects 1. -7--Hutsulshch~nal city, town councils (information and@an$J ~ - 3.2. Monthly TV programs 1 Do not Publlc Environmental destroy Carpathian region1 . i iCouncll of the Kd-* - UAH 300 i k t-l (information and training) l area I I I I I (Barchuk V.) 3.3. Publishing infomation in local 30.06.2004 Regional charitable media on violations of the NI~forest organization Public - UAH 200 maintenance. Initiativesl. Hutsulski (information and training) Krail magazine (Vovchak I..Havuka D \ -- ~ I . . .. 1 b.4. publishing a picture album i Kosiv 30.06.2004 Public Environmental Forestsi Icondition, protection, Organization restoration/. iEdelweisi (information and training) ~-~ ~ (Yemew -- 3.5. Exchange of information on issues 30.06.2004 District Council. of reasonable use of forests with Regional charitible :H 500 organizations of neighboring oblasts organization Bublic I : 1 1 1 of Ukraine. (information and training) Initiativesl 3.6. implementation of a rule iCut a 30.06.2004 District Council, NGOs treeii plant threei . (legislative actions) 2n.4 crhnnlc 2.2. Standing commission controlling 30.07.2004 Kosiv District Council. rfunctions of-- the waterworks and citv. town councils on issues of water supply. organization Public (information and lra~ning) ~p 2.4. Decision of local governmenton improving bacteriolo&al parameters to meet existing norms. (legislative actions) I Excerpt from Environmntal Actlon Plan for City of Pavlognd 4. Dercrlptlon of prlorlty envlronmentcll iaauer of the clty I Distortion of hl$e In he terrl~uryof city. Tht. clty of Pavlogracl is locited In a vallry brtween the rlvers Wolcha and Sarnara. Such locallon of the clty hascauwd hlgh tratural table ol. u~rllrrgroundwater, ant1 cor~sequently,flooding of the lowest p;u@of its territory, rsprclally clurlng sprlng. However. the issue of fluudlr~y furtllt!r itggravatrd a~ldcar1 rilusc catastrol~hlcoutcomes due to drtrrloratlon of the natural dralr~agesystems. leaks ofwatrr rnalns, cer~rllnationof' o~~t.ri~tionof the Pavlograd watrr intake, lwrlodie flooding, vlolallon agricultural trrhnologles of cultlvatlon of protected 5trlps ot river banks. As it rv\ult, there locations in the vwr terrltory of the clty wlth stagnant water (basen~ents),where activators oiInkctious dlseases develop (~~~osqulturs.fnicrobes. fungi), tlral neyatively iffluence the quallty of llfe and daterlorate houslng. The pollutc!d ground water fro111basernents pt.rlrtratrs into the water supply systems and thus constitutes the secondary source of pollutlon 111' potahlr water. The Issue of ilooding affects 1.1 IJIIOIII~; it i-illtu5ssIgf11fllal~It fllatl~ri~l tlalna#e: houslng arld infrastructure deterlorare, ht~usrllolclplots ilrr deslroyrd. 2. U~lratisfncturyquallty ufputable water. Alx~ut80 'X, oft itlzens of the clty of Pi~vlugrad(.orlsulrlr thtr [~otablewater fr~lrr~ttle Dnlpro West Vor~bassca~~al. Inspltr of the fact that the water {I.IKIIII~N-~'. tnv" the ..tatv starldard inr ilrlnkln# water. It Is not deslrablr u~drir~k thr watrr. Wilt~Arlreatnlent of water art. r~ut~la~ed.thr 3. Pt~llurionof the city wlcli snlld hous~holdwuvtss (SHW). 51 1W fro111l'avlt~)(ri~(l are t~korlto tltc I'itvlograd landfill, wl~lct~clurir~g III:III~ tlrrades Is actually sn trttauthorlrrcl dutnp In an old quarry. 'I'hls Ijt1s tiI it~v:ologlcal cIa11g1.r as It t:lors not n~cc~trc!quirc~i~en~~ of lar~clflll ~n;~lrrtc.nancc~ i~r~tl opt.rz~tlon: the-re. Is ~I(:I insulating ~l~lrlr.~.lay.~lralni~gt*. s111v(4llar~.r well?,. l~~~$murlcj,rtc 'The limdflli 15 It~c~~trdIn a fl(,~otIe(l art-ii rwar th(5 Sanli~rarlvf-r wlth thr trrri~if~drwc*ndln~ Itnv.~rtls1111. rIviAr.nu(. to llr furtors atwvr!. tharo Is 110llutlon oisol1 i~ndund~rgru~~rrd watvr'r. k~iclrs.~IIC~P arca11~1s of~~r~i~~~ti~orl%r~tl OLI~~S111 tht- tt.1 II11,ry 111 IIII.c:lty. W.~sti*\car1 tn' (i~~lrldalong r1vt.r l~anks.grwn n,lles, wiatrlantls. ~tfltlvi~tc~tlforrsts. At c.t~rdIngtt~ c.rtlmatrs. In 20 strveth of tir I il y lllrrv I\ I.ZMl tolh 111 walrs. 5. The purpows and balm oftho envlronmetcll mctlon plm. 2. Purpose: Provision of quality drinking water to citizens. Tasks: 1. To improve quality of potable water provided by the water works. 2. To provide to citizens quality water from aquifers, to develop backup sources of potable water. 3. To provide quality potable water to preschool and school institutions of the city. 3. Purpose: Introduction of a system of wastes management. Tasks: 1. To re-arrange collection and storage of SHW. 2. To organize processing of SHW. . 6. Ways of fulfilling the tasks and evaluation criteria. In order to fulfill the tasks, the following categories of measures have been developed: 1. Information and education for the public. These measures are targeted at formation of ecological awareness of citizens of the rommunity and their active participation in improvement of environment of the city of Pavlograd. 2. Economic incentives. They are expected to influence behavior of those who pollute environment, to establish material and moral incentives in order to prevent pollution. 3. Public programs. They imply direct participation of citizens in solution of certain environmental issues or holding educational events on environmental issues. 4. Technological measures. Design, construction, and operation of environmental objects. 5. Legislative actions. Development and approval of certain local legislative instruments within the existing powers. 6. Other. Measures that do not belong to the specified categories above. Due to lack of time, rrsources means, and human resources, there was a need to choose from a number (IF suggested measures the ones that would have a relative acivantages ih achieving environmental purposes and objectives. For this purpose. the following evaluation criteria have been chosen: Cost of implementation; Efficiency; Time of implementation; Safety; Recognition of the community; Legislative powers. The criteria ensure establishment of an objective and transparent basis for decision-making. The criteria are not always of equal value, therefore the 1'"L has ranked them and later the ranking has been taken into account for the purposes of analysis of developed actions and determination of succession of their implementation. plot8 areedjacent to the drainage iY2em ~~ I 3. 1 Development of the plan of plantlng and planting of trees along the re*ed~ &earn ofthe Hnezdka river 2 yeara -- I I structure of water consumptlon in the 6lty (reduction of the share of the I ~ ~~ Implement- ation coat eUon .. ... - - j I ~ducalbnof cllihns of rules how to use chlorln*XI water (before hplemntallon of different I t I Iyear 1 Up to 1 ths. disinfection tpchnolog~-~p ~~ - ~ 2. ~nformin~~zensonquality gfewater provtdod by (he ~~rwok~L-.~ 3. lnformn~izensof the dispalcharnergency SONIM of the Cry, -- ~ 4. ~nfohningcnlzens who reride In senltation zones of the Pavlograd and Hnezdovrk ranllatlon I water lossas. . .. - . , , . - ~-" .,j.. Introduce.~ . . . .,, .,.." .Ti.0 . 1-20 .yeat. over UAH1 rnn 13 1: - . - 4. To restore wells of the Pavlograd intake in the capacity that existed 10 10 years over UAHl mn -bafnra. - .- .- . of actiona: Legislative actrans. To transfer water works to the municipal property. 7 1 year UAH100 ths -1 rnn lmpiwwnt- coat atlon I I: I 1 Regular medla publ~cstlonson wades management Extra-curricular claaras Waster n 1 1 year upto UAH1 origin and way8 to rid of them 2 To ~nfonncttlzens on sker they accept pro-processed rvlrte8 and the bme they are open 1 1 year up to UAH 1 I utilization of SHW. .,.. ,,,,,, . , , , . I ..,.. . . .,' . - 2 years up to UAHI ths. cyear 10-100 ths 2 years 10-100 ths Excerpts from the Environmental Action Plan for Raion of Svatove 4. Description of priority environmental issues of the Svativ area. 4.1. A problem of warehouses with unidentified poisonous chemicals. The warehouses that were used for storing agricultural chemicals accumulated 23.81 tons of unidentified chemical substances (they are believed to be pesticides and herbicides). The warehouses are abandoned, their condition is unsatisfactory, containers are not tight anymore. Access to the warehouses is free. All this results in environmental contamination (soil, underground water, air). These warehouses are potentially dangerous for human health since the chemical substances cause malignant tumors and other diseases. 4.2. A problem of unauthorized dumps. Dumping of solid wastes by enterprises and citizens in random places produced unauthorized dumps that accumulated about 1.200 tons of garbage. This type of pollution influences human health, and the sanitation condition in the area. Wastes are a potential source of epidemics. The volume of solid wastes (including in unauthorized dumps) constantly increases. 4.3. A problem of pollution of surface water. Dumping household waste on the banks of ponds and rivers, no observance of water protection zones result in pollution of surface water, death of fish. crawfish, amphibia, dissemination of infectious diseases, and loss of picturesque natural area.. 5. The objective and tasks of the environmental action plan. 1. The objective: Elimination of threat of negative influence of chen~icalson environment and human health Task: 1. To raise awareness and responsibility of the public 2. Neutralization of chemicals 3. Elimination of negative influence of warehouses where chemicals are kept on environment and human health 2. The objective: Clean area Task: 1. Organization of a system of collection and utilization of garbage 2. Reduction of volume of garbage in households and in production 3. The objective: Clean surface water of the Svativ area. Tasks: 1. To eliminate dumps on riverbanks. 2. Protection of water zones. 3. To restore natural self-regulation of rivers and ponds in the territory of the Svativ area. 6. Ways of lmpl*m*ntrtlon and evaluation crltmrla. Irr urdw to lrrrl~lrrrlrrrtlhr task, tlrr hllowlrlg catrgorles of actlorrs lrave beer1 developed: 1. Infurrnlng and tralnlng of the publlc. These actions are alrned at formarlon of rnviror~rrrentalawareness of cltlzrns and actlve parliclpatlon in irr~provenlerrtof the corrdlrl~~rrof vrlvll-orrr~~er~tof the Svatlv area. 2. Econurnlc Incentives. Tlrry slrould Influence thl~str,who pollute cr~vlronrnrnt,lo create rn;lterlal and nloral irs-rnllves to prevent poilutlon of the rrlvlronment 3. Pul~llcprugrams. 'rhtly irrrply direct particlpatlon of cltlzens in solutlon of the lder~tllled er~vlronrnental Issues, Informlalion and r~iui.atlonal actlow on ~~~~vlr~~r~~~rerrtalIssues 4. T~chnologlcalactluns. T11l.y Ir1111lyd~+slgnlng. I-~~ratructlon, rrrd op.ratlor~olerivlronr~~er~taI facllitles. 5 1 c~gislativeactluns. 'TIIISV irrrply ~l~*vt~lr~lrr~~rr~tdn~ld1~1)ruvdl (11 the 5or111. Instrurnrntb or1 tllr lola1 lrvel wlthirr tlrr t.xbtlr~gpowers 7. ACTIONS .a=-- , -..- .--.- .,,*>-" *,-.~, . '. Actions mrioiity 1 Time of 1'" I implementation Massive informina on neaative im~acton environment of ~oisonouschemicals that are 1 2 1 2 months stored in warehokes ani necessity ofthir elimination ' ~ ~ .~~.. 2. Holding seminars by members of the work group and specialists with managers and 3 2 months specialists of agricultural enterprises, local government employees, activists of NGOs. teachers from schools that are located in neighborhoods close to warehouses. 1 3. i Educational work with citizens. ~artici~antsof seminars, at public meetinas in 1 / Imonth I free Awardlng specialists and actlve partlcipentr of ellmlnation of negative influence of the l1 I warehouses with health center vouchers ANOll8 I " 1 1. LEAP newon TV 1 2. Media announcements on competition for project. to start a recycling enterprise 1 3. Media project on the Svativ radlo on of garbage collection, on hot lines at the Gifts for the hoUlne volunteers and those, who provlde information for project ~eni!~~@hgroups -..p... Month . Development of a database on modern recycling technologies, relevant experience of Month Free other communities ~ ~-p~~ Development of a hotline by the Slobozhanska Initiative NO0 on collection and 5 I I co.unc!lon.. . - .. . . . - .. .. . -.I . - 1- - 2 Legislative approval of th_e communai services 2 . I .xmo"U's - . .. Free .-4 I # 1 Action I Priority I Time of 1 Implementation I ~ -~--~ 1 : 1 im&mentation .. 1Novyny Svativshynyi in 2003 on the issue of 3 3 months unautho_r;zed_dumpsakrsne Krasna river and water rEevgrs of thevatlv ayes:- - - ..: . - .- - - 2 1 ~romot~onaland informarlon radio oroarams.. " on unauthorized oumos on ban~sof water 1 1 month ' up to UAHl ths 1 reservoirs andrivers of the, Svativ area (15 minutes, Svativ radio). Lectures in Svativ scho,oIs and other educational institutions in the area. 5.. - 1 month Meetings and personal information for citizens of Svativ on the rules of gaxage I 1 1 year I Krasna river and water reservoirs of 1 4 2 months UAH1-10 ths I I the&aiiv area " I .. .- - . . .- . -7 - 2 12 && '<~Hi-lblh~- '- .- . . . - .- .- - I '' -. -I 1 A tour of 9-1 1 arade students of the Svativ area along the Krasna