East Europe Foundation supported by USAID CEP presents ten communities from Vinnytsia, Donetsk, Dnipro, and Kharkiv oblasts that were selected as a result of the application process to participate in the Regulatory Initiative.

As a result of the evaluation committee’s work, 10 communities were chosen from 48 applicants. We are excited to share a list of the selected communities:

• Tulchynska town territorial community of Vinnytsia region
• Lypovetska town territorial community of Vinnytsia region
• Lymanska town territorial community of Donetsk region
• Mirnohgrad town territorial community of Donetsk region
• Selydivska town territorial community of Donetsk region
• Kostyantynivska town territorial community of Donetsk region
• Zhovtovodivska town territorial community of Dnipro region
• Pereschepynska town territorial community of Dnipro region
• Merefianska town territorial community of Kharkiv region
• Rohanska village territorial community of Kharkiv region

Within the Initiative, selected communities will work on improving the existent and developing new regulatory acts with our expert support. These measures should improve the conditions for leading business, establish cooperation between authorities and entrepreneurs, upgrade the investment attractiveness of the regions, and boost the local economic development.

The communities will work on the improvement of the regulatory environment in the areas which are the most topical for the respective regions. For example, these areas include:

• introduction of digital systems (digitalization and paperless processing of necessary works and services);
• conditions on municipal funds;
• rent and privatization of communal property;
• urban planning and architecture;
• regulatory acts aimed at fighting corruption on the local level;
• placement of advertisement in municipalities;
• regulations on trade in municipalities and so on.

Congrats to the communities which were selected after the application process! We are also grateful to all the communities which participated in open call and their effort and motivation to participate in the Initiative!

Regulatory Initiative is implemented within Business Support Organizations (BSOs) School 2nd Component “On Guard for Business Interests”. USAID CEP’s BSOs School is a two-year initiative to promote existing BSOs and create new BSOs in small cities throughout Ukraine, with two components. The 1st, implemented by CIVITTA, focuses on involving small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in local economic governance, establishing dialogue, and the joint efforts of local authorities and entrepreneurs for local economic development. The 2nd component, implemented by the East European Foundation, aims to monitor local authorities’ activities and increase transparency between local businesses and local government.