On February 19, the final workshop was held, attended by youth representatives, the Palm of Peace Charitable Foundation, and the Department of Economic Development, Investment, International Cooperation, Communication and Tourism of the Executive Committee of the Rohan Village Council. b

Despite the war, the modern Ukrainian bureaucracy continues to demonstrate vivid examples of stunning contradictions in its activities! Officials force citizens to take actions that they themselves later reject! The Lubny City Council website has a public information request form: https://lubnyrada.gov.ua/…/oformlennia-informatsiinoho… The form states that the request is addressed to the mayor of Lubny, Oleksandr Hrytsaienko. However, when submitting this request (using the form posted on the website), the dear Mr. Mayor provides the following response: “although the mayor is part of the local government system, he is not a local government body… and therefore does not possess public information and… cannot be its manager… we refuse to satisfy your request.” Why, then, does he force citizens to address him with these requests?!!! This is not the only case of internal contradictions in the activities of Ukrainian bureaucrats in the field of providing access to public information. But today it is certainly the most interesting example of the thinking of overly creative officials that we know. Such interesting examples can be found during the monitoring of the project “Promoting Participatory Governance in Eastern Ukraine”, which is being implemented with the financial support of NED.  

What is the Vulnerable Resilience Hub?

Now the Kharkiv Station coordinates the work of 31 new volunteer groups, which deliver humanitarian aid around the region and ensure the distribution of about 1,000 food kits per week.

A three-day training for public activists “TOOLS FOR INVOLVING THE PUBLIC IN ADMINISTRATIVE DECISION-MAKING IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT BODIES OF UKRAINE” started today.Yes, we held it not in Kharkiv, as planned, but in Ivano-Frankivsk, but we can already say with confidence that the event is interesting and useful. It’s nice to see how a discussion, exchange of experiences and cases starts on each topic. All participants are sincerely interested in the topic of participatory democracy, because they understand that productive cooperation between the community and the authorities is very important at the moment.

The full-scale invasion of Orkish hordes into Ukraine on February 24, 2022 forced the local self-government bodies of Ukraine to work in a special mode. Local councils (although not everywhere) became a kind of “mouthpiece” of the military command of Ukraine – they conveyed important information to the population. And in many communities, local self-government officials organized evacuations, received forced migrants, received or sent humanitarian aid, etc.