According to decentralisation international partners, despite 2020 challenges decentralization in Ukraine has progressed considerably and has become irreversible.

A meeting of the Decentralisation and Regional Development sector working group, headed by Cecilia Chroona, Head of International Cooperation Section of the Embassy of Sweden to Ukraine, and Vyacheslav Nehoda, Deputy Minister of Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine, took place in Kyiv.

«We are happy to recognize that despite the COVID pandemic and its dramatic repercussions for the social and economic situation, the on-going military conflict, rough political environment, 2020 local elections, etc., in 2020 decentralisation has progressed greatly, having picked up the pace, and the changes are irreversible now. The administrative and territorial reform completion with 1469 hromadas and 136 rayons having been established, has become the main accomplishment and an important landmark», - emphasized Cecilia Chroona.

Vyacheslav Nehoda thanked for such a high assessment of the reform results, underlining that these are common achievements of all reform participants, particularly, the Board of donors.