The Governmental portal published the Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine “On Approval of Allocation of the Subvention from the State Budget to Local Budgets for the Formation of Infrastructure of Amalgamated Hromadas in 2019” (REVIEW).

As it is known, on 24 April 2019, the Government allocated budget subvention for the development of AHs in the amount of UAH 2.1 billion.

The subvention is distributed among 806 amalgamated hromadas, that this year have switched to direct interbudgetary relations with the state budget.

The subvention is distributed by the formula, according to AH size and population number. Thus, the more rural territories the hromada has united, the larger subvention it will get.

As informed before, in 2019 the Government approved amendments to Procedure and Terms of granting subvention to form infrastructure of amalgamated hromadas.

Earlier, Vyacheslav Nehoda, First Deputy Minister of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Communal Services, noted that infrastructure subvention enables hromadas to quicker “get on their feet” and stimulates them to expand.

In total, from 2016 to 2019 inclusive, the Government allocated UAH 6.5 billion for infrastructure development of AHs: in 2016 – UAH 1 billion to 159 AHs, in 2017 – UAH 1.5 billion for 367 AHs.