U-LEAD with Europe launches an online course "Spatial planning in a territorial community"
U-LEAD with Europe launches an online course "Spatial planning in a territorial community"

Date: 10.06.2024

Author: Popova Vitalina

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The online course is tailored for a diverse audience, including representatives of local self-government bodies such as city councils and mayors' offices, experts who assist communities with spatial planning, and community members interested in local planning processes.

U-LEAD with Europe launches an online course "Spatial planning in a territorial community".

Since 2016, U-LEAD with Europe has been supporting Ukrainian communities in developing the skills and knowledge they need to effectively exercise their local governance powers. Drawing on extensive experience collaborating with local communities, U-LEAD has developed an online course, designed to provide community specialists with comprehensive foundational knowledge in a format that is convenient and accessible for them.

The online course "Spatial Planning in a Territorial Community" is tailored for a diverse audience, including representatives of local self-government bodies such as city councils and mayors' offices, experts who assist communities with spatial planning, and community members interested in local planning processes.

The course aims to enhance participants' understanding of spatial planning principles while addressing the unique needs of community revitalization and growth. By focusing on these objectives, the course equips local leaders, professionals, and engaged citizens with the knowledge to effectively shape the physical and social landscapes of their communities.

The online course covers the following key topics in spatial and urban planning:

  • Fundamentals of spatial planning: An introduction to the core principles and concepts.
  • Common spatial planning challenges and solutions: Identifying typical issues faced by communities and exploring effective strategies to address them.
  • Urban planning documentation: types of documents used in urban planning; the process of developing these documents; legal and regulatory requirements for each document type.
  • Community engagement in planning: Techniques and best practices for involving citizens in the urban planning process.

To access the "Spatial Planning in a Territorial Community" course, visit the U-LEARN platform through the provided link. Once on the platform, register, navigate to the "Home" section and then to the "Hot Topics" subsection, where you'll find the course listed.

The course is self-paced, allowing you to learn at your own convenience. Upon successful completion of all course requirements, which may include quizzes, assignments, or a final assessment, you'll receive an official certificate.

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23.04.2024
Join the training program "Steps for Specialists. Project Cycle Management 2024" by U-LEAD with Europe!
Are you new to project management? Do you want to strengthen your skills in writing and implementing projects, introduce yourself to the latest approaches and methodology for elaborating project proposals, and analyse key mistakes that occur in the process of project preparation and implementation? Join the training program by U-LEAD with Europe!
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22.04.2024
New Training program: "Development of the Statute of the Municipality"
Do you want to normalize relations with the public and strengthen interaction with citizens? Do you have to regulate the tools of local democracy at the local level? Do you want to openly, transparently and effectively involve citizens in decision-making at the local level? Join the training program from "U-LEAD with Europe"!
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#legislation
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19.04.2024
Municipalities of the Sumy Oblast will develop local waste management plans
U-LEAD experts will help 16 municipalities of the Sumy region develop local waste management plans, carry out a strategic environmental assessment, harmonise local waste management plans between municipalities and coordinate them with the regional plan.
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19.04.2024
U-LEAD is inviting you to take part in the new Training program «Steps for Specialists. Healthcare Management in the Municipality»
It will help to introduce a systematic approach to strategic planning for the development of a network of healthcare facilities, improve coordination between owners of municipal healthcare facilities, governing bodies and management of healthcare facilities, ensure the provision of quality healthcare services.
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18.04.2024
The Ovruch municipality relies on project activities
To create a project management sector — this decision was made by the municipality of Ovruch which joined U-LEAD’s support programme “Creating a Project Office in the Municipality”.
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17.04.2024
Provide support and assistance: Local self-government authorities to implement veteran policy
Developing a comprehensive approach to support veterans and their families, creating a high-quality veteran policy, as well as arranging systematic work to provide services to veterans and their families at the appropriate level are the tasks that require significant human, financial and organisational resources from local self-government bodies. U-LEAD experts explained how to effectively implement this policy in the municipality.
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16.04.2024
We invite you to "Steps for specialists. Introduction of medium-term budget planning in municipalities"
The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine will resume medium-term budget planning in 2024. Do you want to prepare a high-quality local budget forecast? Then U-LEAD with Europe is initiating a new training programme!
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16.04.2024
The new "Steps" train a client-oriented approach
90 employees of local self-government bodies from all over Ukraine will learn to be client-oriented in the provision of social services. Read more to find out why this approach is important and which basic premises started the training.
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11.04.2024
The Fastiv municipality, Kyiv Oblast, introduces the one-stop shop for veterans
The status of a veteran should be stigmatised or associated with a bunch of issues that no one knows how to solve. Rather, it is an honourable status that means respectful treatment and real support. Almost every municipality in Ukraine is now undergoing the evolution from the first to the second, dignified approach. The municipality of Fastiv has come far, from volunteer initiatives to comprehensive changes in veterans’ policies.
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09.04.2024
Interreg Europe 2021–2027: a new development tool available for Ukrainian municipalities
While Ukraine already has access to many programmes financed from the EU budget, opportunities are expanding. Already from 2024, all Ukrainian municipalities are eligible for the Interreg Europe 2021–2027 Programme. Priorities, terms of participation and specific features of submitting a project were discussed at the info session organised by U-LEAD.
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09.04.2024
U-LEAD invites you to participate in the new Training Program "Steps for Specialists. Organisation of access to public information in local self-government bodies"
Does your local authority receive a lot of requests for information and find it difficult to deal with them? Do you have any difficulties with the «three-fold test»? Are you not sure if information on your website is disclosed in accordance with the law? If you have these and other questions related to providing access to public information, we invite you to join our Training Program.
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09.04.2024
U-LEAD launches a support programme for the creation of lyceums in municipalities
In April and May, teams from 20 municipalities representing 13 oblast of Ukraine will participate in the support programme “Establishing a lyceum in the municipality”. U-LEAD experts will help the participants grasp the necessary and sufficient conditions for the establishment of a lyceum in the municipality and prepare the documents required to enable its proper operation.
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08.04.2024
“Steps for Specialists. Human Resource Management”: a new opportunity for municipalities
U-LEAD has launched a new training programme, “Steps for Specialists. Human Resource Management”. The programme will help local self-government officials prepare for the development and creation of effective HR management services and the implementation of the Law “On Service in Local Self-Government Bodies” as amended.
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08.04.2024
U-LEAD invites to participate in the new Support Program "Development of the public health system in the municipality"
Would you like to have a systematic approach to public health promotion in your municipality? Do you want to develop local public health documents according to the needs of the municipality? Do you need to establish intersectoral cooperation to support health? Join the U-LEAD with Europe Support Programme "Development of the public health system in the municipality"!
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05.04.2024
U-LEAD strengthens and develops new forms of cooperation with the municipalities of Donetsk Oblast
The Regional Office of the Programme in the Donetsk Oblast has been providing comprehensive consulting and methodical support to local municipalities since the beginning of the decentralisation reform.
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04.04.2024
U-LEAD explains the benefits of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy to local self-government bodies
U-LEAD continues a series of info sessions in cooperation with the EU project “Institutional Policy Reform for Smallholder Agriculture” (IPRSA). The latest session focused on rural development and the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union.
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03.04.2024
U-LEAD is launching a survey to obtain your opinion on the role and autority of LSG's in the field of animal treatment
Join our initiative and help us assess the state of relations between animal rights activists and local authorities and hear what actions of the authorities, in your opinion, will be most effective.
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02.04.2024
“Steps for Specialists. Administrative Procedure”: results of the training programme
The comprehensive training program “Steps for Specialists. Administrative Procedure” developed and implemented by the U-LEAD with Europe Programme has come to an end. It gave us about 100 motivated representatives of municipalities and developed document templates for implementing the Law of Ukraine “On Administrative Procedure” in the operation of local self-government.
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02.04.2024
The war amplified the role of a starosta
At the relevant info session, heads of U-LEAD offices, experts, heads of municipalities and starostas discussed how the role of starostas had been amplified after the outset of the full-scale war, defined the powers of starostas under martial law and highlighted the municipal services encoded in their job duties.
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01.04.2024
Join the training program "Steps for Specialists. Communication of local self-government bodies"
How does the availability of a communication strategy affect the quality of information and the level of trust of residents in the authorities? How to take into account the specifics of certain social groups that have emerged because of the war and build the right communication with them? The answers to these and many other questions are in the new U-LEAD initiative!
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01.04.2024
Quality medical services in rural areas: experience of the Polytsi municipality
A municipality from the Rivne Oblast created its own Primary Healthcare Centre, even though according to experts’ recommendations, small rural municipalities are incapable of creating such facilities. They received assistance from experts from the local Regional Office of U-LEAD. The Centre already has several support packages from the National Health Service of Ukraine and is now self-sufficient.
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29.03.2024
Oksana Siliukova on internal communication in wartime: Timely communication is critical
Communication in wartime is all about security and providing the population with timely updates. Today, communication is not entertainment but a basic need, which often affects the safety and even the lives of the residents of municipalities. The head of the Regional Office of U-LEAD in the Kherson Oblast spoke about this in detail and shared her experience.
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28.03.2024
Project office: What is it supposed to be like?
What is a project office, and what is the purpose for municipalities to create it? What is it supposed to look like and which functions can it perform? Each municipality decides on the format and functions of this structure individually, depending on the resources, ambitions and needs.
#project management
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28.03.2024
Understanding the legal basis for volunteer involvement to be of great importance to municipalities
For local self-government officials, the U-LEAD Programme organised an information session on the peculiarities of volunteer involvement, terms and details of concluding agreements on volunteer activities, mechanisms for reimbursement of volunteers’ expenses, issuance of volunteer certificates and useful tips on volunteer accounting.
#volunteering
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25.03.2024
Joint municipal companies: join forces to get results
Where should joint municipal companies start? How to become profitable and how to benefit the municipality? How to interact with the founders and what services should they offer to businesses? U-LEAD experts got together with the teams that established joint municipal companies with the support of the Programme to answer these questions.
#municipal property
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25.03.2024
With the support of U-LEAD, Administrative Services Centres in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast are expanding the circle of their international partners
Administrative Services Centres (ASCs) can only ensure proper operation and implement new programmes subject to systematic efforts to attract funding and technical assistance.
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21.03.2024
Why local authorities should support rural development: EU legislation and best practices
Rural areas make up more than 70% of the entire area of Ukraine. Their prosperity and development should be a priority for local authorities. One of the Wednesdays with U-LEAD events covered rural development standards in effect in the European Union and how local authorities and the state can benefit from them.
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20.03.2024
Voluntary civil defence units as an effective security tool
In the context of martial law, the local self-governments seek new opportunities to improve security. It is possible for municipalities to create VCDUs to assist other services. U-LEAD experts explain the way to do this.
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#legislation
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15.03.2024
U-LEAD will teach municipalities to develop and use public budgets
For five months, 16 teams from 10 oblasts of Ukraine will work on the implementation of the public budget in their municipalities. U-LEAD experts will help them with everything from the development of a package of documents to the selection of competition winners.
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15.03.2024
The Mezhova municipality is among the first in Ukraine to adopt the Recovery and Reconstruction Programme
The Comprehensive Recovery Programme was being developed here for almost a year. They started in April 2023 and approved the finished document in March 2024. From now on, the Mezhova municipality is among the first in Ukraine to have the Recovery and Reconstruction Programme in place.
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13.03.2024
Municipal property: turning the burden of maintenance into income for the municipal budget?
As part of U-LEAD’s programme “STEPS for Specialists. Municipal Property Management”, specialised specialists will learn how to ensure effective management of municipal property, optimise the costs of its maintenance and receive income from it for the municipality budget.
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01.03.2024
"Building sustainable municipalities — what does it take?"
U-LEAD with Europe is honored to invite you to join our practical discussion on "Building sustainable municipalities". Let's rebuild Ukraine and make it prosperous — together!
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01.03.2024
Cessation of ownership of destroyed municipal property: U-LEAD explains the procedure
Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian aggression, a lot of the Ukrainian municipalities have suffered from the destruction, so the issue of the cessation of ownership of the destroyed municipal property is an urgent one. The various events of the U-LEAD with Europe programme for specialists in local self-government have been devoted to this issue, with the clarification of the algorithms of action in specific cases.
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01.03.2024
Filing declarations for employees of local self-government in 2024: deadlines, requirements and clarification
The declaration campaign for the 2023 reporting period is open until 31 March 2024. Income declarations must be submitted by local government employees, members of local councils and other declaration filers.
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29.02.2024
Recording destruction and damage of property: Algorithm of actions for local self-government bodies
The enemy keeps launching rocket attacks and shelling the territories of the municipalities, causing a lot of destruction and damage to the infrastructure and to the private property. Full recovery requires not only funds, but also a specific recording process, with local self-government bodies playing a key role. Learn more about the algorithm of actions for recording destruction and its peculiarities in the commentary of the U-LEAD expert.
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27.02.2024
It is not possible for municipalities to support IDPs solely by providing humanitarian aid
The Ministry of Social Policy has reported that in the third year of the full-scale war, the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ukraine hit almost 4.9 million people. Half of these people have no place to return to. The safer municipalities hosting these millions now face challenges. Nevertheless, mechanisms and tools exist to ensure that IDPs integrate into the municipality, becoming its “growth point”.
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27.02.2024
Cross-border cooperation projects for rural areas: seeking for partners and specifics of applications
The development of rural areas is a priority task for local self-government. Today, cross-border cooperation opens up new opportunities for Ukrainian municipalities.
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27.02.2024
Training Program "Steps for specialists. Implementation of the control and audit system in municipalities"
Do you want to minimize management risks? Protect resources from loss or misuse? To achieve the mission and development goals of the municipality in the most economical, efficient, and effective way?
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23.02.2024
Join the Training Program “Steps for Specialists. Arranging Social Services in Municipalities”
Complete this online training course and learn how to properly arrange and provide social services to your population.
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21.02.2024
The Ladan municipality and its bold and well-timed decisions
The story of the formation and development of a small but very ambitious and capable municipality that offers much to be learnt.
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21.02.2024
Public budget: plan for development and relieving social tension
U-LEAD seeks to increase the level of citizen involvement in the budget process. One of the instruments of such involvement is the public budget.
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20.02.2024
Municipal youth policies: advisory councils, interests and activity on social media
More than four hundred youth councils have been created in Ukraine. 120 of them were established in 2023. How do these advisory bodies work and grow? Why is this important, and what is needed for the development of youth policy?
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19.02.2024
Local self-government employees must declare property located in the temporarily occupied territories
According to the updated Clarifications of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention, the declaration filer must include in the declaration information about any real estate belonging to them and their family members, including any real estate located in the temporarily occupied territories.
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15.02.2024
Municipalities must assess the budget programme performance despite martial law
From 24 February 2022, the primary administrators of local budget funds operate under martial law. Despite this, the law requires an assessment of the performance of the previous year’s budget programmes and providing its results to local financial authorities.
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14.02.2024
1,500 participants study the rules of ethical behavior for work as Local self-government
The educational project is implemented by the RMTeam with the comprehensive support provided by the U-LEAD with Europe Programme and in partnership with the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine.
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13.02.2024
New grants from the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation: additional opportunities for municipalities in 2024
U-LEAD, together with the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, opens a new grant season and opportunities for project activities to the municipalities of Ukraine for their local self-government bodies.
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05.02.2024
Communal property management: U-LEAD announces enrollment for the new Training Program
Make the work on communal property management more efficient in your local self-government body and establish cooperation with colleagues from other oblasts! The new U-LEAD with Europe Training Program will help you.
#steps for specialists
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29.01.2024
U-LEAD invites you to participate in the new Training program «Development and implementation of local budget»
We are announcing a new initiative, thanks to which financial specialists of communities will learn how to implement and effectively use local budgets.
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22.12.2023
Pro.Communities: a safe educational environment
Report on a large-scale project that brought together almost 8000 educators, allowing 250,000 children to study in safer educational institutions.
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15.12.2023
Wartime land improvement: an experience exchange visit for municipalities of the Poltava Oblast
How to organise the activities of a land improvement utility company in wartime? U-LEAD joins the search for and support of the best practices of local self-government and organises experience exchange events. One of these events took place in the municipality of Machukhy, Poltava Oblast.
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13.12.2023
Municipal Energy Plan: Necessity and challenges
The Experience Sharing Network on the development of municipal energy plans has been completed. The municipalities, together with U-LEAD experts, summarised the results and discussed the improvement of the methodology of the Ministry of Infrastructure.
#energy security
#advice
#steps for specialists
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08.12.2023
U-LEAD assists municipal financial authorities in budgeting for 2024
This article provides our experts with practical recommendations for solving the most frequently asked problems by the participants of the training programme "Steps for Specialists. Formation and Approval of the Local Budget for 2024".
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07.12.2023
The training cycle of the “Steps for Specialists. Designing a Municipal Development Strategy” is complete
For seven months, teams of 70 municipalities from all over Ukraine worked on designing development strategies. In this, they were supported by U-LEAD experts.
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06.12.2023
Municipalities should have “educational environment safety managers”
Educational environment safety managers in the local self-government: who are they and what are their functions? To explain the purpose of introducing this position, U-LEAD organised an event for Ukrainian municipalities together with the Department of Juvenile Prevention of the National Police of Ukraine.
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28.11.2023
“An internship in Poland provided insight into the changes in Ukraine after the acquisition of EU membership”
Anna Lutsenko, a representative of the Novyi Buh municipality, was selected for an internship in Poland, where she studied the Polish experience of transformations, division of responsibilities in municipalities and environmental protection.
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20.11.2023
Interaction of local self-government with the volunteer community: pros, cons, pitfalls
Why is the volunteer movement popular and influential in some municipalities, while volunteer initiatives are barely noticeable in others? How can local self-government bodies find points of contact for effective cooperation with volunteer groups?
#volunteering
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20.11.2023
U-LEAD invites for participation in the educational programme “Steps for specialists. Administrative procedure”
On January 16, 2024, a new initiative from U-LEAD will start. Is is designed to help hundred of local self-government officials deepen their understanding of the Law of Ukraine "On Administrative Procedure", as well as to develop their skills and abilities.
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16.11.2023
Successes of the municipalities of Poltava Oblast in attracting investments
How to attract international investments to the municipality? In Poltava Oblast, specialists of the U-LEAD with Europe Programme teach this, and all 60 municipalities of the region are encouraged to cooperate. And the municipalities of Karliv and Nekhvoroshcha on a competitive basis won the opportunity to study at the program "Steps for specialists. Project cycle management".
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16.11.2023
The Bilenkiv municipality is engaged in the education of eco-conscious citizens
Despite the war, they care about the environment here and teach citizens to handle garbage with responsibility. The last bright promotion is a fashion show of clothes made from recycled materials.
#environment
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02.11.2023
Pryiutivka municipality knows how to improve the interactions between volunteers and local self-government
Thanks to U-LEAD’s training, the municipality’s team managed to spot the burnout of its volunteers in time, took appropriate measures and successfully dealt with it.
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01.11.2023
Female Leadership School: Lectures, mentoring consultations and meetings to share experiences for municipality leaders
A project is launched, the participants of which are women who learn to support women in their municipalities, fight gender inequality and develop their own leadership.
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31.10.2023
Business-friendly municipality: How and why should municipalities work on projects to support and develop entrepreneurship?
Read about how local self-government bodies can attract funds from international funds for their own projects and develop the capacity to use these funds.
#analytics
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#war
#reconstruction
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30.10.2023
How to appropriate abandoned property into municipal ownership: the possibilities of the Experience Exchange Network
The opportunities and support that municipalities will receive thanks to the participation of the Experience Exchange Network (Supporter Program) “Abandoned Property Management” were discussed during a promotional event at the base of the Vinnytsia regional office of the U-LEAD Programme.
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24.10.2023
Completion and results of the Programme “Steps for Specialists. Interaction of Local Self-Government Bodies and Volunteer Associations”
At the final event of the training programme, the experts summed up the results, and the participants of the initiative shared the development of volunteer spaces in their municipalities.
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19.10.2023
Experience Sharing Network “Creating a Plan for Communication of Changes in the Municipality” had its final event.
U-LEAD’s initiative helped 48 municipalities develop effective communication tools and create plans for communication of changes.
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17.10.2023
U-LEAD invites you to join the new Experience Exchange Network “Abandoned Property Management”
Organize the work of your local council in the field of identification, accounting and acquisition into municipal ownership of abandoned property.
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06.10.2023
October 17 – final event “Hromada 4.0” acceleration program
On 17 October 2023, the participating municipalities will present digital solutions for improving municipal management, increasing cyber security, and business development.
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27.09.2023
Dismissal from the local self-government bodies under martial law
U-LEAD adviser clarifies the powers of employers, the rights of employees and the general provisions under which employment can be terminated in local self-government bodies.
#working issues
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19.09.2023
We invite municipalities to online consultations on social protection!
The Partnership for Every Child and the U-LEAD with Europe Programe will hold online consultations on the organization of the social protection system, social work, provision of social services and child protection.
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19.09.2023
9 steps for project cycle managers in project teams
On the first seminar of the new training program from U-LEAD "Steps for specialists: Project cycle management-2023" and about the nine steps into which our experts divided it.
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11.09.2023
Diagnostics of the local taxation system in Ukraine: analytical results
This extensive analytical report by our experts looks for ways to strengthen the financial capacity of local self-government bodies.
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29.08.2023
U-LEAD invites you to participate in the unique onboarding training program"Steps for Specialists. Entry to Professional Activity"
An intensive two-week program that contains answers to current questions of professional activity, is based on real cases and includes a theoretical and practical component
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11.08.2023
An employee of a local self-government body is a blood donor: how not to violate their rights?
U-LEAD experts provided clarification on donor guarantees to employees of local self-government bodies who voluntarily donate blood and its components. These include an additional day of rest and leave on the day of examination and donation. What to do if the employee must be present at the workplace on the day of blood donation?
#legislation
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09.08.2023
U-LEAD invites applications for "Steps for Specialists. Project cycle management - 2023"
Learn to form a goal, tasks and results, plan a project budget and present it to potential donors! As part of this training program, you will be able to develop your project idea into a full-fledged project proposal.
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08.08.2023
Communal property management in health care sphere: U-LEAD Programme announces call for applications for a new Municipal Experience Exchange Network (Support Program).
Joint communal non-profit enterprises: from the initiative to the start of effective work! Establish cooperation with other municipalities, create a joint utility non-profit enterprise for the development of your minicipalities! The new Support Program from "U-LEAD with Europe" will help you with this.
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07.08.2023
Communal property management in municipal development sphere: U-LEAD Programme announces call for applications for a new Municipal Experience Exchange Network (Support Program).
Joint communal enterprises: from the initiative to the start of effective work! Establish cooperation with other municipalities, create a joint utility enterprise for the development of your municipalities. The new Support Program from "U-LEAD with Europe" will help you with this.
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08.08.2023
Active volunteer environments are a must in municipalities
Participants of U-LEAD’s training programme “Steps for Specialists. Interaction of Local Self-Government Bodies and Volunteer Associations” told why this interaction is so important, shared their impressions of the course and expressed gratitude to colleagues and organizers.
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02.08.2023
First aid training
We invite municipality educators to participate in training on first aid for sudden cardiac arrest and life-threatening conditions.
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31.07.2023
11 relevant grant opportunities for municipalities in the field of recovery and development
Experts of the U-LEAD with Europe Programme continue to compile selections of relevant grant opportunities on various fields of local self-government activity in the conditions of the war.
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26.07.2023
U-LEAD organised a visit to exchange experiences between the municipalities of the Poltava and Cherkasy oblasts
The purpose of the visit is to share best practices in the organisation of municipal services of self-government bodies in wartime.
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11.07.2023
Things to know about archives and the document nomenclature in 2023
The participants of the information session, held by U-LEAD in partnership with the State Archives of Mykolaiv Oblast, learned about the peculiarities of archival affairs and record keeping in municipalities.
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07.07.2023
Retain and offer confidence in the future: why municipalities need a Youth Development Policy
What is the role of the youth council in the municipality? How has the war changed the focus of youth councils? Why is the “youth-friendly municipality” strategically beneficial? These and other questions were discussed by the participants of the info session from U-LEAD.
#youth councils
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23.06.2023
48 municipalities to develop municipal energy plans supported by U-LEAD experts
Follow our article to learn about the competitive selection to participate in the network for these plans' development, the winners and their opportunities from cooperation with U-LEAD.
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#training programmes
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21.06.2023
What annual leave can a local self-government employee expect in 2023?
Participants of the U-LEAD information session learned about the rules for granting annual leave under martial law, restrictions, refusals, compensation and legislative regulation of this process. You can also find out!
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19.06.2023
The infrastructural stage of the healthcare reform: biggest concerns of municipalities
Find out more about the concerns of local self-government in the field of health care and their urgent questions in this article.
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15.06.2023
Municipality helps business to overcome fear of grants
This article is about the municipality-business-grants triangle and the role of local self-government in attracting money for business development.
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06.06.2023
The second wave of the Experience Sharing Network “Development of Programmes for the Integration of IDPs into Municipalities” launched
Read more to find out about the opportunities provided by the Experience Sharing Network “Development of Programmes for the Integration of IDPs into Municipalities” and the benefits that municipalities will receive from the development of the IDP Integration Programme.
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02.06.2023
U-LEAD helps municipalities stabilise budget processes in wartime
Over the course of six weeks, 100 employees of local financial bodies will learn how to manage municipal resources more effectively, analyse and identify reserves and propose steps to stabilise local budgets, and U-LEAD experts and the experience of other municipalities will help them in this.
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02.06.2023
New “Steps for Specialists” launched to help build cooperation between authorities and volunteers
120 people from 19 oblasts of Ukraine were chosen to participate in the new training programme “Steps for Specialists. Cooperation between Local Self-Government and Volunteer Associations” implemented by U-LEAD. Over the course of six weeks, the participants will learn the tools of effective communication between local self-government bodies and volunteers, as well as develop the skills of their application in various contexts.
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30.05.2023
Experience Sharing Network “Development of the Municipal Safe Environment Programme” has been launched
Over the course of four months, 24 municipalities, together with U-LEAD experts, will develop solutions for organising safe environments in their territories. This experience will become a road map for the implementation of safety measures for other municipalities.
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26.05.2023
The training programme “Steps for Specialists. Municipal Property Management” has been launched
Over 6 weeks, its participants will receive relevant expertise on the management of municipal property of the municipality and learn about the peculiarities of this process under martial law and how to dispose of and use the municipal property effectively.
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25.05.2023
U-LEAD invites to participate in a new initiative –Experience Exchange Network “Development of the Program for the Integration of IDPs into the Municipality”!
This Network is an opportunity to get expert support in learning the main approaches and methodology for developing IDPs integration programs, developing the skills of establishing interaction and coordinating efforts of all stakeholders, and especially in developing IDPs integration programs with due account of the municipality’s needs.
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23.05.2023
24 municipalities will exchange experience in creating a safe space
U-LEAD with Europe sincerely congratulates 24 municipalities-winners of the competitive selection for participation in the experience exchange network on creating a safe space.
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04.05.2023
48 municipalities are working on creating effective internal control and audit systems
With the help of U-LEAD, finance teams are preparing documents that will meet all up-to-date budget legislation requirements.
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03.05.2023
Development of Municipal Energy Plans: U-LEAD announces open call for the support programme.
From November 2024, the MEP will become a mandatory municipal document. U-LEAD offers support and expert guidance to municipalities selected in an open competition to develop this Plan. Municipalities will begin the development in June and present their MEPs at the national level in October.
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02.05.2023
U-LEAD invites you to participate in the new Training program "Steps for Specialists. Budget stabilization plan"
Make more efficient spending of budget funds, improve your reactions to management challenges and establish cooperation with colleagues from other areas! The new U-LEAD with Europe Training Programme will help you.
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27.04.2023
Interaction of LSGs and volunteers: enrolment to the new U-LEAD Training Program starts
Are there volunteer initiatives and associations in your municipality, but you don't know how to interact with them effectively? Do you want to improve cooperation with volunteers so that their activity continues after our Victory, but do not understand how to establish communication? Join the U-LEAD training program and build partnerships with volunteers!
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26.04.2023
Evacuation of the population: municipalities must have a set of documents ready
Read an interview with a member of the U-LEAD Working Group on Civil Protection and Public Safety about the requirements to the local self-government bodies for the arrangement of evacuation measures.
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10.04.2023
Training programme “Steps for Specialists. Staffing Issues in Local Self-Government under Martial Law” has been launched
Participants from 100 municipalities from all over Ukraine, selected on a competitive basis, will spend the next 8 weeks in comprehensive training.
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25.04.2023
Updated initiative “Steps for Specialists. Designing a Municipal Development Strategy” is launched
U-LEAD is reviving the Municipal Development Strategy Programme, which was suspended due to the outbreak of full-scale war.
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24.04.2023
Communal property management: U-LEAD announces enrollment for the new Training Programme
Make the work on communal property management more efficient in your local self-government body and establish cooperation with colleagues from other oblasts! The new U-LEAD with Europe Training Programme will help you.
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18.04.2023
Expert support of municipalities in the development of a municipal energy plan — selection of participants has begun
U-LEAD is launching a four-month support program for municipalities that want to develop a quality Energy Plan with expert support.
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14.04.2023
Safety Experience Sharing Network: presentation of the competitive selection
What is this Network and how to participate in it? What are the requirements for participants and what should they expect? Fill out the application for competitive selection by April 30 and show your results and achievements as early as September.
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14.04.2023
Municipalities from six oblasts will be eligible for the Interreg NEXT Poland-Ukraine 2021-2027 programme
A large cross-border cooperation programme will finance their Environment and Healthcare projects with EU funding.
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06.04.2023
Invitation for local self-government officials: Experience Sharing Network “Development of the Municipal Safe Environment Programme”
Learn how to improve safety and pool resources to create an appropriately safe environment, who are safety stakeholders and what kind of impact ensuring a safe environment of the municipality can have on its social and economic development.
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05.04.2023
48 municipalities joined the Network to learn proper communication
Participants are learning models of communication strategies and creating individual plans.
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03.04.2023
"IDPs - are our people!" - online visit to Nekhvoroshcha
Visit a municipality that has a strategic approach to working with IDPs.
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30.03.2023
In 2022, 14 municipalities of the Zhytomyr oblast received almost EUR 1,000,000 in aid from U-LEAD
These were mainly packages with equipment and materials for stabilising the energy system and assisting in housing IDPs.
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27.03.2023
U-LEAD announces the selection among officials of local self-government bodies to participate in the experience exchange Network
The topic of the Network: Activities of working groups on the creation of internal control and audit systems in municipalities"
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21.03.2023
The Programme “Steps for Specialists. Organising Work with IDPs – 2023” has been launched and is in full swing
Participants from the Vinnytsia oblast talk about their experiences.
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21.03.2023
Stage 2 of the training programme “Steps for Specialists. Mobility” has been launched
U-LEAD is committed to training municipalities in writing mobility-related project proposals.
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21.03.2023
In 2022, the municipalities of the Chernihiv oblast received almost EUR 1 million in aid from U-LEAD
Equipment and materials to stabilise the energy infrastructure and assist in the housing of IDPs were the most expensive.
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20.03.2023
12 municipalities will improve their waste management systems
The project is part of the second stage of the training programme “Steps for Specialists”.
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15.03.2023
How can local self-government bodies use information from electronic data posted on the website of the National Health Service of Ukraine?
This is required during strategic planning and operational decision-making in health care.
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06.03.2023
HR work in LSG: U-LEAD announces new recruitment for a new training program
Make work with personnel in your LSG more effective and establish cooperation with colleagues from other oblasts!
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27.02.2023
U-LEAD announces selection for the training program in municipality communication
How are residents' protests and the absence of a communications specialist in the municipality connected? Why is a communication strategy no less important than a development strategy? What is a communication plan and how to make one? The participants of the Experience Sharing Network "Creating a communication plan for changes in the municipality" will learn about all this, and will also prepare their communication plan for changes in the community in practice.
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31.01.2023
The time of digital changes: a new opportunity for digitalisation of Ukrainian municipalities
The international organization SocialBoost together with the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine and under support of U-LEAD with Europe Programme is launching acceleration programme for municipalities which will help to develop and implement digital transformation projects.
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30.01.2023
Working with IDPs: U-LEAD announces new recruitment for Steps for Specialists
Make work with internally displaced persons in your municipality more effective and establish cooperation with colleagues from other fields! U-LEAD’s new training programme will help you with this.
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20.01.2023
11 relevant grant opportunities for municipalities in the field of recovery and development
The U-LEAD with Europe Programme is committed to its efforts to provide expert support to municipalities regarding project activities and assistance in attracting international funds for the recovery and development of territories in wartime.  Our experts are open to cooperation with municipalities and ready to provide assistance in the process of drawing up and submitting a project application.
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19.12.2022
Invitation for municipalities: new methods of conflict resolution and strengthening of cohesion 
Participate in the project aimed at strengthening dialogue as an important tool of local self-government to take into account the needs of various groups of local residents, business representatives, public organisations, as well as internally displaced persons living in the municipality.
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07.10.2022
U-LEAD launched a new waste management training initiative
Waste management is an important direction for local self-government bodies. For municipalities, this issue is becoming more and more relevant every year, requiring the development of a high-quality waste management system at the local level.
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05.10.2022
Municipality teams began the Spatial Planning and Natural Resource Management training course from U-LEAD
Due to the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, many spheres of municipal life have suffered significant damage. The process of restoring and rebuilding territories requires huge financial investments, as well as relevant knowledge and skills from municipality representatives in this area.
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30.09.2022
The winning municipalities started training as part of the "Steps for Project Management Specialists" program
The educational program is designed to provide specialists of municipalities with basic knowledge and practical skills in the development and implementation of projects in the fields of education, culture, and social protection.
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21.09.2022
U-LEAD launches training course “Steps for project managers”
On September 20, a new initiative of the U-LEAD with Europe Programme was launched, the training course “Steps for Project Managers”.
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07.09.2022
A municipality in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is developing entrepreneurship with U-LEAD’s support
Throughout the year, small businesses in Zelenodolsk municipality were building their capacity at the meetings and workshops. These events were part of the municipality’s project “Developing Entrepreneurship in the Zelenodolsk Municipality”.
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12.11.2021
Chernihiv Oblast municipal starostas complete U-LEAD training cycle
Municipal starostas are responsible for establishing sustainable communication and lobbying district interests at a municipality level, which is an essential component of working with the local residents. How can this be done effectively? What are the existing successful practices and what steps need to be taken for the starostas to grow professionally?
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