PAUCI news february-april 2012

1. PAUCI IN ACTION: FEBRUARY-APRIL 2012
PAUCI FOUNDATION LAUNCHES A NEW PROJECT “PUBLIC KINDERGARTEN
COMPLEX THERMOMODERNISATION IN YAGOTYN TOWN”
PAUCI together with Yagotyn Council starts
to implement a new project “Public
kindergarten complex thermomodernisation
in Yagotyn town”. This project is financed by
the European Union, partly financed from
Yagotyn local budget and is implemented by
Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation
PAUCI together with Yagotyn City Council.
The project was one of the ten projects
financed by the European Union within the
program “Support to energy efficiency
measures in small Ukrainian cities”.
Yagotyn city is located 100 kilometres from Kiev. The cost for heating the kindergarten #4 has
risen in 13 times during the period from 2006 till 2010. The temperature in the building is hardly
the minimum needed. This kindergarten was built in 1995. The builders did not follow the rules
of construction, arrangement of aeration and calculation of heating system.
The aim of this project is to decrease the usage of energy in kindergarten mentioned and create a
high-quality staying conditions. The following is planned to be done: to provide the walls and
house footing with heat insulation; to replace all the windows and doors; to install systems of
automatic aeration; to replace old systems of heating.
The duration of project is 13 months. The general budget of the project is 199 487 Euros.
Results expected are the following: the halfway reducing of energy usage; creation of the proper
microclimate in the building following all the standards.
Mass media about the project:
Web-site “Ukrainian energy”
STB TV channel

2. 5-th Channel “Mirror to Europe”
Contact person: Vyacheslav Gusev.
NEW PAUCI PROJECT “RISK MANAGEMENT AND INTERNAL AUDIT IN LOCAL
SELF-GOVERNMENT IN UKRAINE”
One of the modern tools of increasing the
capacity of administration to provide high-
quality services is the internal audit, which
helps not only to control the compliance of the
organization’s functioning with internal and
inner regulators, but also evaluate the
potential sphere of money savings. Such
spheres may originate from ineffective risk
management, excessive expenses as the result
of improper administration; wrongly
identified processes, and also wrong and ill-
timed administrative information.
Poland has been successfully implementing this tool in self-government bodies for many years
(from 2001 it is obligatory for more then 2300 administrations, including 630 local self-
government bodies), PAUCI Foundation takes part in implementation of the same reform in
Moldova. Ukraine is only starting going this way.
The aim of this PAUCI Foundation’s project is to improve the quality of governance in three
regional centers (Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, and Lviv), form the team of auditors who will be
subordinated to cities governance only and who will help foremen of local self-government in risk
management.
Within this project representatives of municipalities will be trained – the head-position foremen to
use this instrument of governance in their work as well as local key specialists who will become
internal auditors. The Ukrainian and Polish experts will be the tutors during the period of
education. Trainings will be practical and theoretical (study visits to Poland, pilot audit-missions
in Lviv, Cherkasy, and Vinnytsia).
This project is supported by Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation PAUCI, financially
supported by “Polish help-2012” of Ministry of foreign affairs in Poland.
Contact persons: Olga Galytska, Adam Sauer.

3. THE PROJECT "SUPPORT FOR PERFORMANCE BUDGETING SYSTEM IN
MOLDOVAN LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENTS"
The project “Support for performance
budgeting system in Moldovan local self-
governments” financed by the Polish Aid 2012
will support the reform of local finances in
Moldova by introducing performance
budgeting in local governments. Project is a
follow-up of a PAUCI and Business
Consulting Institute activities focused on
introduction of performance budgeting by
Moldovan local governments and answers the
needs of the Moldovan Ministry of Finance to
introduce performance budgets as a obligatory form of budgeting related with the current
decentralization reform. Projects in Moldova follow the example and experiences of
Krakow, the first Polish city which introduced the performance budget (1994).
In years 2009-2011 PAUCI and Business Consulting Institute, thanks to the UNDP, Polish Aid
and CEI-KEP support, elaborated the methodology of performance budgeting in Moldova,
prepared decision makers and financial specialists of 5 Moldovan cities (Floresti, Stefan Voda,
Balti, Cahul and Ungheni) in performance budget related issues and in case of the capital city of
Chisinau – the trained local specialists and decision makers already prepared selected parts of the
city budget in a performance mode.
The project assumes the improvement of knowledge of Moldovan Ministry of Finance’s
specialists in performance budgeting and consultations of the Ministry’s plans as regard making
the performance budgets an obligatory form, will continue acquiring practical experience by the
government of Chisinau (the development of further areas of the city budget in the performance
mode). Project will also introduce performance budgeting issues and basic trainings for the next
four Moldovan cities (Orhei, Calarasi, Soroca, Camenca (Transnistria)), will help in creation of
test software linking classification structured budgets with performance budgets and will facilitate
a public discussion about the reform of the budgeting system of the Moldovan local self-
governments.
Contact person: Adam Sauer.

4. NEW PAUCI PROJECT "BUILDING PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP FOR
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES"
The aim of the project that was implemented
in 2010-11 was to provide conditions for
exchange of experiences between policy
makers and local authorities of Moldova,
Czech Republic and Poland in the public-
private partnerships, and offer solutions for
Moldova to enable public-private partnership.
The aim of the new project is to support and
promote community initiatives in Ukraine in
establishing and managing of housing
condominiums (OSBB) by showing examples of
best Polish and Ukrainian experience in this field.
The project proposes the following activities:
- Training for persons interested in the creation or improvement of existing condominiums and
persons professionally connected with this service;
- Study tour to Poland for representatives of condominiums, utilities and property managers;
- Measures aimed at promoting the idea of creating condominiums in the media;
- Brochure on establishing and management of condominiums;
- A consulting centre to be opened at the "Centre of Sumy Social Policy for Open Society";
- Creation of basis for further multiplication of the experience in other cities of Ukraine.
Project duration: January 1 - June 30, 2012
The area of the project: Poland (Warsaw, Bialystok, alternatively: Plotsk), Ukraine (Sumy).
The project is implemented with financial support of the Program "RITA" of Polish-American
Freedom Foundation.
Contact person: Krzysztof Filcek.

5. PAUCI FOUNDATION LAUNCHES A PROJECT "POLISH EXPERIENCE OF
HOUSING MANAGEMENT AND SERVICES FOR CONDOMINIUMS"
A new project is implemented with financial support of the
"Polish Aid" Program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of Poland and aims to improve the quality and
affordability of condominium management by increasing
the number of housing management companies, small and
medium businesses that provide such services in Kharkiv,
Poltava and Zhytomyr (Ukraine). Special attention in this
project will be paid to transfer the experience of thermo
homes in Poland.
The project will comply of conducting weekly trainings for
future managers in Kharkiv, Zhitomyr, Poltava, conducting
study visits to Poland, cooperation with the Ukrainian
thematic portals related to condominiums and other events.
The project will last until the end of 2012.
Contact person: Vyacheslav Gusev, Krzysztof Filtsek.
TRAINING FOR HAUSING COMMUNITIES IN SUMY
On 14-15 March 2012 in Sumy in the lecture hall of the Sumy Oblast Administration’s
personnel training center a training was provided to the heads of housing communities
operating in the city. It was an event within the project “Housing communities as a form of
organization of local communities and a school of local democracy”. Project is financed by
“Region in Transition" – RITA Program of the
Polish-American Freedom Foundation conducted
by the Education for Democracy Foundation.
The training was attended by 30 participants. Its
program included issues related to creating
communities and various aspects of their activities,
ranging from internal communications, the scope of
cleaning/maintenance activities, financing sources
and keeping expenses low, including energy saving
measures, and ending with the principles of financial
records.
Polish experts conducted two presentations. One concerned a mechanism to support renovations
and energy saving investments by the State, the other principles of reaching consensus as the

6. basis for decision-making and further activities in the community. During the discussion, the
experts had the opportunity to comment on many topics and respond to questions asked from the
audience.
The organizers and the Polish experts were also invited to a meeting with the deputy governor of
the Sumy oblast Mr. Mykola Derkach, who was informed about the project and himself expressed
the hope that similar training will be organized in the future also in regional cities.
Residential communities in Ukraine do not arise by law from the moment of privatization of the
flats in the building, but there are associations of a voluntary nature. Their legal position against
the city and a self-monopolistic companies of property management service is very poor. In
addition, their encounter in their daily activities a number of technical issues specific to the post-
Soviet space, such as central heating single pipe supply system or local heating generation by the
loft boilers.
The next event scheduled within the project is a study visit to Poland, initially planned for April,
but due to four times longer waiting time for Polish visas at the consulate in Kharkov it is shifted
to the second half of May.
Contact person: Krzysztof Filtsek.
SEMINAR-TRAINING FOR SCHOOL PRINCIPALS AND TEACHERS OF DONETSK
On April 11, 2012 PAUCI Foundation in
cooperation with the Standing Committee on
Energy-saving and efficiency of Donetsk City
Council held a seminar-training for directors of
local schools and teachers named 'Environment
and Energy-saving – actualities and interactive
methods of teaching in schools" at the Donetsk
school №22 "Leader".
Anastasia Popsuy, PAUCI Project coordinator,
described the latest global trends in environmental
and energy-saving, the current situation in Ukraine,
prospects and concerns about these issues, the situation with energy-savings in school buildings
of Ukraine, the experience of environmental and energy-saving programs in the schools of
Poland, the best practices of similar programs in Ukrainian schools. Also, the teachers
experienced the new interactive teaching methods, learn to search for video materials and use
online resources for teaching young people, received training materials for classes - books, tasks,
CDs, posters. Participants were played on "Green Packs" and alternative energy models for
students.
Contact person: Anastasiia Popsui.

7. PAUCI ANNUAL REPORT 2011
Dear colleagues and friends!
We are pleased to present PAUCI Annual
Report for 2011 and share with you our
achievements. We thank everybody who stayed
with us last year and hope to continue our
cooperation in future.
Please find the Report on the PAUCI web-site.
MEDIA ABOUT US
PAUCI Energy-saving Projects Coordinator Vyacheslav Gusev at school in Cherkassy
PAUCI Energy-saving Projects Coordinator Vyacheslav Gusev at
school in Cherkassy about the project results.
How to save the heat in houses?
PAUCI recommendations for Cherkasy television program.

8. Fried eggs on hatch heating
PAUCI Foundation fried eggs on hatches of Kiev heating system to
clearly show the losses of energy.
STV TV Channel
1+1 TV Channel
5th Channel
Article in KyivPost
Article in UNIAN
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