The best practices

2002  ^New!  
within the framework of cooperation with the USAID Program "Tariff reforming and municipal enterprises restructuring in Ukraine"

Municipal District Heating System Improvement Project: Practical Experience of KyivEnergo Joint Stock Company The city of Kyiv “088” – the KyivEnergo’s Hot Line Service The city of Kyiv Technical Upgrade of the Municipal Water Supply System The city of Mykolaiv Water Supply System Rehabilitation Project The city of Chervonograd Improvement in the centralized heat supply system: experience of “Kyiv-energy” joint stock company The city of Kyiv

High-quality and Affordable Heating Service to Residential Consumers The city of Kamianets-Podilsky Tariff System Adjustment as a Mean to Improve the Corporate Paying Capacity The city of Ivano-Frankivsk “Dumping” Settlement Procedure for Clearing Residential Arrears on the Energy Utility Bills The city of Berdiansk The “Auto-call System” Service Helps Collect the Arrears on Municipal Services The city of Kharkiv Wastewater Sediment Treatment and Recycling Project The city of Zaporizhia Energy Efficient Technology Implementation in the Local District Heating System The city of llichivsk

2001
within the framework of joint project together with the Canadian Cooperation Found

Innovative forms of improving the management activity The city of Rivne Reforming the housing-and-municipal economy of the city The city of Luhansk Municipal payments process automation The city of Kupiansk Taxes pressure reduction aiming at the hotel business effective development The city of Lviv Equipment for the automated solid wastes burning The city of Kyiv Partnership for the sake of the community’s well-being The city of Kharkiv Municipal economy effective managing aiming at the budget costs increase The city of Berdiansk Providing equal opportunity for elite education obtaining   The city of Kyiv Private iniciative in the educational process.  The city of Ivano-Frankivsk The municipal authorities’ strategy in the multiethnic and multicultural environment The city of Uzhhorod Joint Efforts for City Beautification The city of Chernivci Clean drinking water for the city residents The city of Kyiv Municipal economy reform The city of Komsomolsk Small enterprise support fund The city of Illichivs’k Replenishing the town budget via market toll The city of Kamianets-Podilskiy

The volunteer public order squads: the modern vision of providing the public order for the population The city of Ternopil’ Filling the city budget thanks to the market possibilities The city of Khmelnitsky The municipal and private sector partnership is the way toward improving the municipal services system The city of Orikhiv Resolving local problems via deliberative committees and public hearings The city of Horodok The private sector on the municipal services market The city of Dnipropetrovsk The green tourism development as an innovative form of Smes The city of Crimea Movement on improving the women’s conditions and stressing their social role   The city of Khmelnytsky City revival via the local patriotism  The city of Kamianets-Podilsky Resolving the local problems via public self-governing bodies   The city of Makiivka Program for Social-economic Development in Uzhgorod The city of Uzhgorod Household effluent treatment in small towns. Bio plateau technology The city of Veliki Prohody Strategy of strengthening town budget revenue base The city of Berdiansk City Development Agency The city of Ternopil

“The City Hall Eye” as a new form of the municipal press The city of Chernivtsi Experience of elaborating the strategy for the native production development on the Obolon district example The city of Kyiv Improving the efficiency of the territorial community’s municipal property usage The city of Kherson Mechanisms for the trolley-bus transportation incomes increase The city of Chernihiv Municipal authorities’ strategy concerning the Smes development The city of Kalish Guardianship of orphans by the municipal authorities is an important aspect of children’s social security   The city of Kharkiv Joining the Youth to the Process of Municipal Managing   The city of Drohobych Health Protection System Reforming The city of Komsomolsk Citizen Committees as Initiators of the Community Activities The city of Perechyn Networking with electors and deputies. Encouraging local initiative. The city of Irpin Automated information and document processing system in registration and license offices of local self-government The city of Nizhin Medical benefit fund as an element of medical insurance The city of Vosnesens’k Tender as an effective tool for using city budget fund The city of Kharkiv

International experience: Hungary and Slovakia

According to the Constitution, adopted in June, 1996, Ukraine is a unitary state with a three-level system of administrative and territorial structures. It is characterized by a coexistence of public administration and local government bodies on regional (oblast) and subregional (rayon) levels:

on national (state) level, administration is provided by the system of relevant highest and central state bodies;

on regional (oblast) and subregional (rayon) levels, administration is conducted by the local state bodies (oblast and rayon state administrations). Representative local governmental bodies (oblast and rayon councils) are also functioning on this territorial level, but their competencies and real role in administration are limited;

on local (village, town) level, administration is conducted by local governments and their executive bodies possessing organizational and finance autonomy from the state. They represent public power of the relevant territorial community.

Local government has the right of territorial community. The community, that is inhabitants of village or town, can solve local issues independently from the state. This right is guaranteed by the Constitution of Ukraine , Articles 7 and 140.

One of the main problems of the current state of administrative and local government system is the existence of differences between the borders of some administrative/territorial units and the territory of communities. 9,211 local governments representing the interests of territorial communities are functioning in the territory of Ukraine. One of the main tasks of Public Administration Reform in Ukraine, which was started in 1999, is to foster the reunion of small communities which do not possess material and/or a financial base for implementation of local government functions clarified by the Law of Ukraine "On Local Government".

Main responsibilities of territorial communities and of their representative bodies include:

• administration of communal property;

• authorization of programs of social and economic development;

• administration of local budgets, taxes, and a foundation of community enterprises.

Local governments are also fulfilling responsibilities of local state bodies delegated by law.

Revenues of local budgets are formed from local community sources, state taxes, and obligatory payments described by laws. The main task of local budgets is to secure the implementation of local governmental functions and provision of minimal social services for the inhabitants of the territorial community. The State is obliged to finance functions of local state bodies, which are implementing by local governments and delegated by law.

Local governments in Ukraine will function effectively only if appropriate legal and financial preconditions are created. The adoption of laws in Ukraine (the laws "On Administrative and Territorial Structure", "On Communal Property", "On Local Taxes", "On Citizen Self-Organization Bodies") is badly needed.

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