Powers, resources, independence in decision making and responsibility for the decisions are becoming the basis of quality changes in municipalities. Such a judgement has become the main issue of the VI-th Forum «Efficient local administration as a precondition of a democratic and law-governed state».

Particularly, the Mariupol municipality of the Donetsk oblast has shared its interesting cases. A successful project, according to deputy Mariupol mayor Serhiy Orlov, is putting things right with non-major employees in the municipal educational sphere. Their staff included over 2 thousand employees, with their annual salary fund being UAH 260 million or $ 10 million. The work was started from technical and vocational education.