{"id":207378,"date":"2022-09-09T13:03:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T10:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=207378"},"modified":"2022-10-31T23:21:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T21:21:56","slug":"pechenizhynska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/pechenizhynska","title":{"rendered":"Pechenizhynska hromada from Prykarpattia: about development, international support, and assistance to other communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pechenizhynska hromada (territorial community) is located in the center of Ivano-Frankivsk region. The community was the first to amalgamate in Ukraine and purposefully built its sustainable development. It dreamed of sharing tourist routes with its neighbors and inviting travelers to the unique yew reserve. The plans were interrupted by the war. The hromada quickly united and was not only able to provide shelter to people who lost their homes due to the war but also to help other hromadas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How Pechenizhynska hromada develops and how it manages to cope with new challenges – read in the material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pechenizhynska hromada is the first in everything<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pechenizhynska hromada was the first one to amalgamate in Ukraine – in 2015. The community is located in the foothills of the Carpathians (Prykarpattia), so there is not much agricultural land here. The main income of the community comes from personal income tax. More than 18,000 people live in the hromada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pechenizhynska hromada was one of the first in the region to open its own modern Administrative Service Center. The leading position of the community does not end there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Already in 2016, the community became a partner of the first cohort of USAID DOBRE – an international technical assistance program implemented by the international organization Global Communities and financed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The recently amalgamated hromada, with the support of partners, began to prepare a development strategy, hold public hearings, and determine what priorities it should pursue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had some experience in management. However, many of my team and starostasi<\/b><\/span><\/span>Starostas (plural - starostas) is an official in the local self-government, responsible of ensuring that the interests of residents of settlements within the amalgamated territorial communities are represented properly.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> saw for the first time what publicity is and how people influence the development of the community through their identification and voting. We held large public hearings, where people actively participated,\u201d the head of the hromada Ihor Dovirak recalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The secretary of the council Oleksandra Dudinchuk says that within the framework of cooperation with partners, Pechenizhynska hromada began to develop partially unpopular directions, which few communities thought about at that time. In particular, gender-oriented budgeting and other mechanisms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pechenizhynska hromada was one of the first in the region to start improving the household solid waste management service. From USAID DOBRE, the community received almost 1,500 individual containers and containers for separate waste collection and installed 15 container sites in various settlements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The meeting hall, where sessions, executive committee meetings, public hearings, and trainings are held, was also renovated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sports and children’s playgrounds were installed in each settlement and the park area of the central manor was renovated. USAID DOBRE specialists helped to create its modern design. Here an opportunity for local business development arose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n