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Five Years of Decentralisation Reform In THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE U-LEAD WITH EUROPE PROGRAMME DYNAMICSISSUE # 11, APRIL 2019 U-LEAD, MinRegion and the European Union cooperating on planning for 2019 at the House of Decentralisation in Kyiv Photo: U-LEAD Archives. TABLE OF CONTENTS FIVE YEARS OF DECENTRALISATION Cover Story: REFORM IN UKRAINE Five years of decentralisation reform It’s official. In the second round of Ukraine’s presidential years of the reform and its implementation. It is now consid- in Ukraine election on 21 April 2019, Volodymyr Zelensky won against ered one of the greatest successes of his tenure. Feature: What has been done over the incumbent president Petro Poroshenko. five years of decentralisation? The European Union also recognises the value of the re- Congratulating the new president, who will take office in one form to all Ukrainians. European observers and stakehold- The Interview: month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel released a state- ers consider decentralisation the most successful reform in Petro Kiyashko ment shortly after the win underscoring that Ukraine’s im- Ukraine. Following appraisal missions from both the EU and plementation of decentralisation is close to her heart. “The the German government, U-LEAD with Europe is set to con- Decentralisation Dynamics Federal government will continue to actively assist Ukraine,” tinue into 2020 and beyond. she wrote. Success Story: After five years of the reform, 9.1 million people in all oblasts The election of the new president comes with the fifth an- of Ukraine live in amalgamated hromadas, over a quarter of Revival of Preobrazhenka niversary of the Concept of local self-governance and terri- the population. One of the biggest changes for them is the torial power reforming in Ukraine which initiated a new and transition of powers to a new generation of politicians who Voices of U-LEAD with Europe comprehensive decentralisation reform in the country. The are making needed reforms. outgoing president, Petro Poroshenko, had overseen the first IMPRINT Responsible for the publication: U-LEAD with Europe Programme Directors Bastian Veigel, Kameran Khudur Editors: Olena Molodtsova, Roland Hackenberg Production and distribution: U-LEAD Monitoring, Visibility and Knowledge Management Team U-LEAD IN THE SPOTLIGHT SUMY, KHARKIV PROFESSOR MILBRADT AND U-LEADERS VISITED TWO OBLASTS On 23-25 April, a delegation of U-LEAD with Europe chaired by Georg Milbradt, the special envoy of the German Government for the Ukrainian reforms of gov- BASTIAN VEIGEL ernance and decentralisation, went to the Sumy and Kharkiv Oblasts and took part in a number of events ranging from a meeting with the Sumy governor GIZ PROGRAMME DIRECTOR Mykola Klochko to a Q&A session with pupils of a modern school in the Piso- chynska AH near Kharkiv, having also visited the successful AH in the city of Trostyanets with a renovated hospital and two rayons of the Kharkiv Oblast where villages are still not eager to amalgamate. Professor Milbradt, EUD’s First Secretary Benedikt Herrmann and U-LEADers 888 HROMADAS had two hot discussions with the village heads of the Krasnokutsk and Bo- hodukhiv Rayons and less heated but more constructive dialogues with civil society representatives in the Sumy and Kharkiv LGDCs, preceded by press conferences there. Professor Milbradt, who delivered a lecture on decentrali- IN FIVE YEARS, sation to the students of Sumy State University, said that he had received sev- eral lectures from local people during the trip. In Kharkiv, the delegation was joined by the German Consul General based LOOKING FORWARD TO in Dnipro, Wolfgang Mössinger, and met with the Head of the Kharkiv Oblast Council Serhii Chernov, his first deputy Viktor Kovalenko and the deputy gov- ernor in charge of decentralisation Mykhailo Chernyak. Summing up the field visit, GIZ Programme Director of U-LEAD with Europe Bastian Veigel said that 1,500 AHS the delegation had obtained valuable insights to be used in the further support to the reform and fine-tuning U-LEAD’s activities at the local level. DNIPRO AND 600 ASCS PREPARED TO SOLVE HEALTHCARE PROBLEMS Hromadas are very interested in improving local healthcare systems, and U-LEAD with Europe eagerly assists them along this path, having developed a series of “Steps for Leaders” trainings on healthcare. On 16 April, the heads of In five years, decentralisation has affected the everyday lives of nine AHs from the Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Kirovohrad, Luhansk and Odesa million people in 888 amalgamated hromadas (AHs) across Ukraine. Oblasts took part in one of the training events of this series. During the seminar, the participants learned about the key challenges associ- The core goal of U-LEAD with Europe is to provide support to all of ated with capable primary healthcare network formation. After the training, AH them and help accelerating the amalgamation of the remaining hro- heads will be able to address healthcare problems, turn challenges into opportu- madas. nities to provide high-quality medical services in their hromadas. LVIV Soon after the fifth anniversary of the Decentralisation Reform, in VOLUNTARY AMALGAMATION, mid-April, the directors of Local Government Development Centres ALSO INTO FIRE BRIGADES came to the House of Decentralisation to internally coordinate their Advisers of the regional Local Government Development Centres attended the activities in all oblasts of Ukraine. The LGDC directors also discussed training in the field of civil protection and security in amalgamated hromadas, U-LEAD’s thematic support packages (TSPs) aimed at assisting organised on 10-12 April in Lviv by the Association of Voluntary Fire Brigades of the Republic of Poland and supported by U-LEAD with Europe. The words of the AHs and the upgraded Data Management Infrastructure which helps head of the Buhrynska AH (who called upon hromadas not to be afraid of im- U-LEAD monitor and evaluate its capacity building measures for plementing the reforms) became the motto of the training: “Start with yourself, Ukrainian amalgamated hromadas the total number of which should because there is nobody else.” This is probably the main thing that the trained reach 1,500-1,600, according to the government of Ukraine. experts have to bring to leaders of the newly formed hromadas for their suc- cessful work, particularly in the field of civil security and protection. The training participants got skills in assessing the situation and developing community se- April 2019 was also marked with a field trip of Professor Georg Mil- curity plans, identified key partners in the development of security infrastructure bradt and a delegation of U-LEAD with Europe to the Sumy and and studied the best practices of Poland and Ukraine in creating voluntary fire Kharkiv Oblasts to see the real achievements and challenges of the brigades and volunteer involvement. decentralisation reform at the local level. KYIV ROUND 4 SELECTION FOR ASCs Last but not least, U-LEAD with Europe supports AHs and small cities ESTABLISHMENT LAUNCHED with the establishment or modernisation of their own Administrative The fourth and the last selection round was launched within the Roll-Out Phase of U-LEAD’s Support to Improved Administrative Service Delivery. 150 additional Service Centres (ASCs). As the final round of calls for participation in hromadas will be selected to receive support from U-LEAD with Europe to estab- this part of the Programme is approaching, up to 600 ASCs in total will lish or modernise their well-functioning ASCs. In this selection round, hromadas be opened with U-LEAD’s help. from all 24 oblasts of Ukraine can apply for support. The application is open online till 30 June 2019. The information session on the conditions and rules of application will take Marking the fifth anniversary of decentralisation, U-LEAD’s team for place on 14 May in Kyiv. The registration to participate is open online. improved administrative service delivery presented a Visual Report on the achievements between March 2018 and March 2019. The re- ODESA port is available in English and Ukrainian . VULYK AWARDS ITS MOST ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS EGOV4UKRAINE finalised the piloting of the Vulyk information system and awarded its most active users at the seminar held in April 2019 in Odesa. The project presented seven ASCs with Wi-Fi routers for their active participa- tion in the piloting of the Vulyk system. The awards went to ten administrators from seven ASCs, marking their valuable contribution and smart ideas during the piloting phase conducted from August 2018 until March 2019 in 10 ASCs. All participants of the piloting took part in the seminar: representatives of ASCs of the cities of Nova Kakhovka, Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Kakhovka, Obukhiv, Olevsk, Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi, Rzhyshchiv, Yuzhne; EGOV4UKRAINE project team, officials from the State Agency for E-Governance of Ukraine and the Cen- tre of Information Resources of Ukraine, as well as people from Soft Xpansion Ukraine which is developing the information system. WHAT HAS BEEN DONE OVER FIVE YEARS OF DECENTRALISATION? The decentralisation reform is five years old projects are identified locally due to elaborated devel- but still faces some serious challenges, as opment strategies. In this way we achieve synergies be- its irreversibility is not yet politically fixed in tween the state regional policy and the regional develop- the Constitution of Ukraine, stated Henna- ment strategies adopted on the ground,” the official said. dii Zubko, Vice Prime Minister - Minister of Regional Development, Construction, Mr Zubko also believes that the current decentralisation Housing and Communal Services of reform is the biggest anti-corruption step in our country’s Ukraine. history. Answering a student’s question in Chernivtsi on what prevented all previous authorities in Ukraine from People who believed in the reform and implementing the decentralisation reform and trans- united, feel the achievements of de- ferring powers to municipalities, the Vice Prime Minis- centralisation “Ukrainians already have ter said: “They were lacking political will.
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