{"id":327,"date":"2015-12-05T12:13:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T11:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/?p=327"},"modified":"2024-01-12T17:24:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T16:24:39","slug":"how-to-lead-successful-anti-corruption-and-decentralization-efforts-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/2015\/12\/05\/how-to-lead-successful-anti-corruption-and-decentralization-efforts-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"How to lead successful anti-corruption and decentralization efforts in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span title=\"Together with officials from new and emerging donor and partner countries the participants reviewed the new priority themes, sectors and modalities of knowledge and expertise sharing and discussed what would improve effectiveness in knowledge sharing and how could peer-to-peer networks better support sharing of learnings\"><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"sk\"><span title=\"beginning of December 2015. The conference brought together more than 150 participants for two days of formal and informal discussions on how to lead successful anti-corruption and decentralization efforts. \">Decentralizing national administrations is a necessary step towards <strong>boosting social and economic development<\/strong> in <strong>Central Asia and Eastern Europe<\/strong>, government and civil society representatives said at the closing of a conference hosted by the Ukrainian government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Kiev at the beginning of December 2015. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurasia.undp.org\/content\/rbec\/en\/home\/presscenter\/pressreleases\/2015\/12\/3\/-decentralization-seen-as-key-to-democracy-and-development-in-ce.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conference<\/a> brought together more than 150 participants for two days of formal and informal discussions on how to lead successful <strong>anti-corruption and decentralization efforts<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"sk\" title=\"One of the discussions was focused on practical ways to increase institutional capacities for knowledge sharing - how to ensure the alignment between technical knowledge and the need to make the knowledge sharing experience more effective for partners.\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine is in the midst of one of the most ambitious decentralization and local governance reform exercises Europe has witnessed in a decade. Its ongoing decentralization process was taken up as a priority by the post-Maidan government in 2014, and has included a comprehensive package of constitutional changes, fiscal decentralization and tax reform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-03-at-16.54.19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-440 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-03-at-16.54.19-1024x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"398\" data-id=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-03-at-16.54.19-1024x600.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-03-at-16.54.19-600x351.jpg 600w, https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-03-at-16.54.19-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-03-at-16.54.19-768x450.jpg 768w, https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-03-at-16.54.19.jpg 1038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Participants said local administrations have a major role to play in accelerating the delivery of services and allowing people to participate in local decisions, including vulnerable groups. That vision is embodied in Sustainable Development Goal 16, which specifically addresses the link between peaceful and inclusive societies on the one hand, and effective, accountable and inclusive institutions on the other.<\/p>\n<p>The conference also served as the launch of a new regional project that will support anti-corruption efforts in six municipalities in Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. It will be supported financially by the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and implemented by UNDP and Partners for Local Development in Romania. You can find more in this <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gqmTMbSXWoU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video-reportage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-03-at-16.54.29.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-441 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-03-at-16.54.29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"997\" height=\"664\" data-id=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-03-at-16.54.29.jpg 997w, https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-03-at-16.54.29-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-03-at-16.54.29-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-03-at-16.54.29-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 997px) 100vw, 997px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decentralizing national administrations is a necessary step towards boosting social and economic development in Central Asia and Eastern Europe, government and civil society representatives said at the closing of a conference hosted by the Ukrainian government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Kiev at the beginning of December 2015. The conference brought together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[95],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/panelists-in-Ukraine.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}