Events

The importance of government-community interaction was discussed in Sumy

On November 8, a press conference was held on the basis of the media platform “Vilna” dedicated to the features of the decentralization process in the Sumy region.

Communications Consultant of the Reform Office at the Sumy Regional Branch of the Association of Ukrainian Cities

Karen Agadzhanov-Gonzalez

spoke about the features of the decentralization reform in the Sumy region, in…

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Problems of the budget process in territorial communities were discussed in Chernihiv

On November 1, the “Clean Politics” press center hosted a roundtable discussion “Budget Process 2019 in United Territorial Communities of Chernihiv Oblast: Challenges and Prospects”.

The following issues were proposed for discussion:

1) features of the completion of the 2018 budget process,

2) what awaits the budgets of ATCs in 2019,

3) public (participatory) budgeting as a mechanism for public…

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The possibility of creating a Security Coordination Center in the city was discussed in Chernihiv

On October 31, public activists, police representatives, and local authorities met at a “round table” to discuss pressing issues of ensuring security in the city of Chernihiv.

At the beginning of the event, the results of the sociological study “Safe Chernihiv” were presented, which was conducted to determine the level of trust in the police, satisfaction with their work, as…

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The results of monitoring the protection of human rights in local communities were presented in Chernihiv

The ways and joint action plan of local governments and public organizations to respect human rights were discussed on October 19 in Chernihiv. The roundtable, at which the results of public monitoring of the human rights observance index were presented, was organized by the Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights together with the Legal Development Network with…

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The first school mediators appeared in Chernihiv

During the autumn holidays, high school students from 3 pilot Chernihiv schools took part in a 4-day training course “Basic Skills of a School Mediator of Understanding Service”.

The initiator of the introduction of School Mediation Services in the city of Chernihiv was the Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights in cooperation with the Department of Education…

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Representatives of communities of Khmelnytskyi region assessed the prospects for the implementation of public budgets

Participatory budgets, also called participatory budgets, have become a common phenomenon for Ukrainian cities. Almost all regional centers allocate a fixed amount or a percentage of local community funds to finance community members’ initiatives.

United territorial communities are still wary of such innovations. They are afraid of the lack of clear legislative regulation of public budgeting, the need for additional…

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In Chernihiv region, inmates of a psychoneurological boarding school are forced to lie on the floor and are poorly fed

Employees of the Ukrainian Ombudsman’s Office and public monitors, with the participation of a representative of the Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights Tukhan Ediev, conducted a monitoring visit to the Chernovenskyi Psychoneurological Boarding House in the Chernihiv region (Koropskyi district).

Currently, the institution houses 253 men with mental disorders, of whom only 35 are capable and…

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