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Municipal Charter as legislative basis for participatory democracy in the local communities
0 КоментарівBackground Under the reform of decentralization in Ukraine, local communities play the role of basic elements in the government system. However, the capacity of the communities depends not only from public powers and fiscal decentralization but also from participation of communities’ members in the decision-making process.
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How do the offices of reforms engage public in the community unification process
0 КоментарівBackground The effectiveness and success of decentralization reform depends on building of communication between reformers and community, involvement the community members in discussion of the process of community unification. It is equally important to set the regulatory support of such participation and implementation of relevant norms in practice.
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Public monitoring of the central executive authorities’ telephone «hot lines»
0 КоментарівAssociation for community self-organization assistance in coalition with Odessa’s community institute of social technologies made the public monitoring of the central executive authorities’ telephone «hot lines». The project was supported by International Renaissance Foundation.
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Untapped potential of local communities’ cooperation
0 КоментарівBackground In 2014, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the law “On cooperation of local communities”. Cooperation mechanism could be used for improving the quality of public services, infrastructure development of neighbor community without unification.
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Community, it is time to act!
0 КоментарівBackground There were held first local elections in 159 united communities in 9 regions of Ukraine [1]. That is, these communities passed one more stage of decentralization.