CANADA — UKRAINE
Regional Governance and
Development Project		ÊÀÍÀÄÀ — ÓÊÐÀ¯ÍÀ
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The RGD Project is funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
and implemented by the Canadian Urban Institute (CUI)
Study Tour on Strategic Planning to Waterloo, Canada, for Zaporizhzhia Delegation
From February 21 to March 8, 2007 the RGD project held a successful study tour on strategic planning to Waterloo Region (Canada) for a group of Ukrainian strategic planning experts and representatives of Zaporizhzhia Oblast State Administration. This study tour became the next step in developing a partnership between Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine and Waterloo in Canada – an informal partnership that began during the Project’s first study tour to Canada in April 2006. The primary objective of this study tour was to allow participants to learn from Canadian experiences with regional planning, including plan development, implementation, financing, monitoring and revision. The participants had a two-week placement with the Regional Municipality of Waterloo to observe and learn from the strategic plan review process that the region was about to undertake.

During the study tour the participants visited many organizations and observed sessions of public institutions in Waterloo region. In particular, they visited Canada’s Technology Triangle and Grand River Conservation Authority; attended the public lecture “Canada’s Cities: Competitive and Sustainable?”, participated in the conference “Growing Your Opportunities”; observed Waterloo Regional Council meeting, Waterloo Region’s senior management staff meeting, City of Waterloo’s Economic Development Committee meeting etc. During the study tour participants learned experience of Waterloo region and cities of Waterloo, Kitchener and Cambridge in participatory strategic planning, public-private partnership, brownfield redevelopment etc. The participants of the study tour were Ella Slepian, Head of Main Economic Department, Zaporizhzhia Oblast State Administration, Volodymyr Nazarenko and Sergyi Mogylnyi, RGD strategic planning experts and Ihor Sanzharovskyi, RGD Senior Technical Advisor.

Background Documents

Update on Strategic Planning. Strategic Plan for 2007-2010. Region of Waterloo. January 2007

Strategic Focus 2004-2006. Region of Waterloo

Planning Our Future. Regional Growth Management Strategy. Waterloo

Summary of the Greenbelt Plan

Places to Grow. Better choices. Brighter future - Proposed Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe. November 2005. Ministry of Public Infrastructure Renewal
Ðàçðàáîòêà ñàéòà - Wizardry, 2006
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