Decentralization reforms: steps, prospects, expected results in Chernihiv

Public discussion of the most popular reform in Ukraine will take place tomorrow,July 16, 2015, in Chernihiv. An event called“Decentralization reforms: steps, prospects, expected results”With the participation of powerful experts and practitioners will be held in the hotel complex “Park-Felt of Chernihiv”. Start at 10.30. The initiator is a Swiss-Ukrainian project “Support for Decentralization in Ukraine” (Despro). Organizational assistance is the Polissya Fund of International and Regional Research.

Representatives of the authorities, the media and the expert environment are invited.

PROGRAM:

10: 30–11: 00-registration/coffee pause

11: 00–12: 30 – panel 1: Constitutional changes in the context of local government reform. Review of the developed changes and their prospects

Lyudmila Damentsova, Head of the Department for Territorial Organization of the Department of Local Self-Government and Territorial Organization of Power of the Ministry of Regional Development, Construction and Housing and Communal Services

Igor Koliusko, Chairman of the Board of the Center for Political and Legal Reforms

Natalia Romanova, Vice President of the Council of Local and Regional Authors of the Council of Europe

Moderator: Anna Bezulik, journalist

12: 30–13: 00-coffee pause

13: 00–14: 30 – Association of Territorial Communities and Information Support for Reform

Lyudmila Damentsova, Head of the Department for Territorial Organization of the Department of Local Self-Government and Territorial Organization of Power of the Ministry of Regional Development, Construction and Housing and Communal Services

Ivan Lukeya, Decentralization of the RPR Decentralization Group

Yaroslav Zhidenko, Head of the Regional Reform Office in Chernihiv Oblast

Moderator: Anna Bezulik, journalist

14: 30–15: 00 – Summing up

15: 00-16: 00-lunch