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The Regional Governance and Development (RGD) Project is a five-year (2005-2010) cooperation project of the Canadian Urban Institute (www.canurb.com), supported by funding from Canadian International Development Agency (www.acdi-cida.gc.ca).
The project is designed to promote civic engagement in regional governance, providing opportunities for citizens and communities to shape their common future and to put their region on the path towards sustainable development. The project will work at several levels. It will help strengthen regional development policy in the country by providing advice to the Ministry of Economy and sharing know-how from other jurisdictions in Europe and North America. It will support two pilot oblasts -- Zaporizhzhia and Zakarpattya -- to launch participatory processes that give a voice to civil society in regional planning and decision-making. And it will promote open, accountable and effective government institutions at the regional level, responsive to the needs of citizens and working strategically towards its developmental goals.
The experiences in the two pilot oblasts are intended to foster model approaches to good governance in Ukraine that can inform the country’s policy and practice into the future.
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