Representatives of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast's amalgamated hromadas joined a study visit to the Donetsk Oblast with the aim of studying the experience of establishment and operation of the Citizens' Safety Centres.

The visit was organised by the Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk Local Government Development Centres, with the support of the U-LEAD with Europe Programme.

“It was in the Donetsk Oblast that a pilot project on the Safety Centre establishment in AHs began in the framework of the signed memorandum between the State Emergency Service and the Oblast State Administration. There are already six of them, therefore, the region has something to share with the colleagues from other oblasts,” says Maksym Tkach, decentralisation adviser of the Donetsk LGDC.

The representatives of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast went to the Lymanska and Mykolayivska urban AHs.

The Lymanska AH was the first Ukrainian hromada to open a Security Centre in 2016.

Safety Centre of the Mykolayivska AH was opened on a different principle. Here they did not build a new facility from scratch, but allocated almost UAH 7 million from the oblast budget to overhaul and increase the capacities of the operating fire depot.

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