"We were mostly impressed by the interaction between the oblast authorities and hromadas," noted the representatives of the fourteen amalgamated hromadas of the Chernihiv Oblast, who visited the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast from 14 to 17 November.

Acquaintance with the colleagues’ achievements began with the round table discussion on the topic “Priority tasks of the development of amalgamated hromadas”. It was conducted by Olena Savchenko-Svatko, deputy director of the Executive Office of the Oblast Council. Serhiy Seryohin, director of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Institute of Public Administration of the NAPA under the President of Ukraine, Olena Tertyshna, director of the Dnipropetrovsk Local Government Development Centre, the invited officials of the AHs and oblast rayons were the speakers of the event. The issues discussed concerned the decentralisation work of the oblast authorities, rayon authorities and hromadas. As it turned out, in addition to the state incentives, there are significant internal impetuses in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, i.e. one billion UAH for infrastructure projects in AHs. Thus, it is not surprising that there are already 37 of them, and around 70 are planned. According to all participants of the meeting and outside it, particular attention is paid to the training component.

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