Cities and amalgamated hromadas of the Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhya Oblasts are invited to participate in the project “Support to the implementation and development of the participatory budget” implemented by the Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation PAUCI in the framework of the project “Support to the territorial communities of Ukraine in connection with increase in the number of internally displaced persons”, which is one of the initiatives of the infrastructure programme for Ukraine implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, acting on behalf of the the German Government.

The initiatives are aimed at helping the regions with the largest number of internally displaced persons, namely: the Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhya Oblasts.

The project will be implemented in 2018-2019 and envisages participation of cities and amalgamated hromadas that intend to introduce or already implement a participatory budget. It is planned that realisation of measures will begin in February 2018.

In case of interest in participation, please send a letter signed by the head of the local self-government body, indicating the motivation, and filled-in questionnaire, that can be downloaded HERE. The letter and the questionnaire must be sent till 23:59 on 9 February 2018, to the following e-mail: pauci.pb@gmail.com.

10 cities and hromadas will be invited to participate in the Project, following the announcement on the PAUCI Foundation website http://www.pauci.org. Cooperation within the framework of the project envisages provision of premises for events by local government bodies.

References are provided by Leonid Donos (mob.tel.: +380507733798), chief expert of the Project.

QUESTIONNAIRE

Additional information on the development of the participatory budget can be found by links:

• Second forum of participation practitioners “Participatory budgets from A to Z” (materials, photo, video, participant’s notepad)

• Participatory budget. Analytical report

• Standards of the participatory budgeting processes in Poland

• Participatory budget Facebook group

• News on PAUCI Foundation website

The full version is available in Ukrainian – please click HERE