Participatory budgeting in Eastern Ukraine - integration for development

The Project will be implemented within 2018-2019 and stipulates the participation of the cities and amalgamated communities planning to implement or already implementing Participatory Budget (PB).

This Project stipulates the following:

• Workshops, trainings on PB implementation standards;
• Citywide forums on community development priorities and PB projects preparation;
• Training the local moderators who will have meetings in place with the residents;
• Consulting on different PB development stages;
• Study-tour to Poland;
• Financial support for awareness raising campaign.

The project implementation shall result in following: increasing the residents’ awareness on local self-government structure, its authorities and the process of local budget forming; encouraging residents to participate in PB projects and local government decision making; improving the infrastructure and social dimension by means of the PB projects implemented.

The project is executed by Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation PAUCI within the Project “Support for Amalgamated Communities of Ukraine due to the Increase of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP)” being one of the initiatives of infrastructure program for Ukraine and being executed by German Federal Company Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German government.