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Applying HRBA and Gender Mainstreaming
in UNDP-led Municipal Governance and Community
Empowerment Programme, Ukraine
Olena URSU, Monitoring and Communication Expert
Programme’s Genesis
• Purpose - to strengthen municipal governance and
improve the living quality of citizens in urban Ukraine
through promoting participation of the local communities (of
citizens, educational institutions, NGOs, small businesses)
in decision-making process on local development
• 2004 - preparatory assistance phase
• 2005-2007 - demonstration phase
• 2008-2010 - consolidation phase
Local self-government is a right and real ability of the territorial
communities to solve local problems independently or at
responsibility of the elected local self-government bodies and
officials (Law of Ukraine “On Local Self-Government”, Article 2)
Central
Level
Other national
agencies
Network of
Municipalities
Ministries/Departments
----------------------------------------------------------------------------Municipal
Sustainable
Development
Councils
Regional
Administrations
City
Level
Local Authorities
Associations
Service Providing
Agencies
Municipalities
NGO
School Business
Network Network Network
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Micro
Level
NGOs
Associations
NO
NO
Service Providing
Agencies
NO
C I T I Z E N S
Academia
Business
Action at Micro, Meso and Central Level
Programme Activities
Creating enabling policy / legal environment
Raising public awareness on crucial human development agenda
Participatory planning and implementation of sustainable
development projects and initiatives (commitment and cost-sharing)
Capacity building on participatory development and sustainable
development (training, ISO, strategic planning, ICT, other)
Creation of participatory citizen-based organisations and bodies
Municipal Governance and Community
Empowerment Programme
Partner city
councils
National-level partners
(associations, governmental bodies)
Local communities (of citizens,
academia, NGOs, businesses)
Specific Features of a Project
1. Strategic partnerships with local councils and national level
agencies are established.
2. Capacity building and investing in organsiations.
3. Communities are active and direct participants of decisionmaking process regarding their own development.
4. The development process is locally owned:
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Cost-sharing.
Local internalisation policies on self-help approach.
5. Sustainability (of the results, idea/technology, policy).
6. Synergy at each level. Building on what exists.
Using HRBA Tools
Assessment and
Analysis
•Local situation analysis (overall city situation)
•Vulnerability analysis (at community level)
Capacity
Assessment and
Building
•Training needs assessment
•Training package for municipal officials on
community mobilisation for local sustainable
development action
•Training package for community-based
organisations on participation mechanisms
•Strengthening ICT capacities
Monitoring and
Evaluation
•Creation of Municipal Sustainable
Development Councils as forums of
participatory planning and monitoring of local
development initiatives and projects
•Quality Revision Committees
•Public audit of community projects
•Participatory assessment of CBOs
Using Gender Mainstreaming Tools
Project organisation
Project document, manuals, annual
workplans, budget, indicators
Community organisations
Membership, encouraging female
leadership, success stories
Institutional capacities
Introduction of gender component into
training package, gender balance of
municipal unit staff
Community projects’ realisation
Gender-sensitive planning of community
projects, reporting, evaluation
Public awareness
Policy / legislation
Public awareness initiatives for wider
outreach, preparation of specialised
publication, involving experts
Partnership with Parliament
Project Results – HRBA and GM Impact
• Mindset of people at all level is changing:
- Communities are ready to actively participate in governance
- Municipalities are ready to involve communities into planning
and implementation of development projects and initiatives
- Government is ready to improve policy / legislation
• Level of municipalities’ and communities’ satisfaction and,
consequently, national ownership increased significantly
• Institutional capacity of the partners is built and internalisation
of the approach began for better service delivery and
governance
• Strategic partners are committed for knowledge transfer all
over Ukraine
• Preparation for national scaling up through 1) curriculum
development and 2) human resource building activities