Experts of the Analytical and Legal Group of the Central Reform Office under MinRegion prepared methodical recommendations for operational planning and sample documents on the organisation of activity of AHs, where the first elections were held on 29 April 2018 (DOWNLOAD).

The publication is based upon experience of implementing decentralisation in Ukraine, takes into account mistakes, regional peculiarities, as well as activity of hromadas that amalgamated voluntarily in 2015-2017.

Authors:

• Vera Kozina, lawyer, senior expert of the Analytical and Legal Group of the Central Reform Office under MinRegion of Ukraine
• Lesya Fedchenko, expert of the Analytical and Legal Group of the Central Reform Office under MinRegion of Ukraine
• Svitlana Demydenko, financial monitoring expert (budgetary and sectoral legislation) of the Financial Monitoring Group of the Central Reform Office under MinRegion of Ukraine
• Tetyana Stankus, expert on budget accounting

The authors express their gratitude to Viktor Ventsel, financial monitoring expert (tax and budget legislation) of the Financial Monitoring Group of the Central Reform Office under MinRegion, and Serhiy Dyatlenko, education expert of the Central Reform Office under MinRegion, for their assistance in preparing this material.

The methodical recommendations were developed with the support of the U-LEAD with Europe: Ukraine – Local Empowerment, Accountability and Development Programme.