After the full-scale invasion of russia, the Ukrainian municipalities showed extraordinary cohesion, togetherness, solidarity, and endurance. Each municipality, which is not in the occupation or war zone, received from several hundred to tens of thousands of internally displaced persons and provided them with everything necessary to the best of their ability. Under such circumstances, the population in the municipalities themselves often grew by 50–100%, and sometimes even by several times. The load on infrastructure, transport, and the social sphere has increased, and in some places there are differences of opinion, wariness, or social tension. 

 

Understanding and cohesion within municipalities is the key to stability and endurance today, in the conditions of information attacks by the enemy who is trying to split the Ukrainian society by various means, sow discord and despair. Those municipalities that will be able to attract new residents in a timely and effective manner will receive benefits in the form of a reduction in social tension, strengthening of personnel potential, engagement of additional financial, material, and investment resources, resistance to potential conflicts in the period of information wars. Having mastered the procedures and practices generally accepted in EU countries for decision-making at the local level, municipalities will be able to better prepare for participation in programmes for the recovery of Ukraine.

 

One of these tools is a professionally facilitated dialogue, which opens up new opportunities for understanding and taking into account the needs of different groups of local residents and internally displaced persons in wartime conditions, and also helps to better prepare municipalities for the processes of post-war reconstruction and attracting additional resources.

 

 

Why should municipalities participate in the “Laboratories of Creative Dialogue in Municipalities” project?

 

 

 

To participate in the competition, please fill out the form at this link.

 

The selection of municipalities to participate in the project will be based on the principles of transparency and competitiveness, and will be carried out in two stages: evaluation of applications and selection interviews with the representatives of municipalities that have passed preliminary selection.

The results of the selection will be notified to the municipalities taking part in the competition by 25 January 2023.

 

Yurii Stepanets, vinmonp@gmail.com, tel. (067) 960 72 64

Ihor Dobko, ihordobko@gmail.com, tel. (067) 385 02 51.