On 30 August at 11am the press centre of the Ukrainian Crisis Media Centre (2, Khreshchatyk street, Ukrainian House, 2nd floor) will host a presentation of the project of the Association of Amalgamated Hromadas “Social protection powers and services in AH” – the system of social protection service rendering in amalgamated hromadas.

Within the project it is planned to:

• develop a collection of best practices in the field of providing social protection services;
• develop a register of social protection services in AH, as well as model the system of social protection service rendering;
• organise seminars on the modeling of the system of social protection services in AH;
• develop social protection programmes for selectedamalgamated hromadas;
• familiarise hromadas-project participants with the Polish experience in the field of social protection in gminas;
• disseminate the obtained experience among AHs.

The project is co-funded within the framework of the Polish cooperation programme for the development of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland and is implemented in partnership with the International Solidarity Fund.

Speakers:

Valentyna Poltavets, executive director of the Association of Amalgamated Hromadas

Volodymyr Mitsuk, member of the Management Board of the Association of Amalgamated Hromadas, head of the “Social Protection” sectoral platform, head of the Bilozirska AH

Anastasia Chornohorska, representative of the Ukrainian office of the International Solidarity Fund (Republic of Poland)

Mirosław Olčak, expert consultant for international projects (Republic of Poland)

Contact person: Oleksandra Tereshchuk, tel.: 096 340 66 22; e-mail: tereshchuk@hromady.org