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Inter-municipal Cooperation (IMC):
Viable Tool for Municipal Consolidation
Meeting of the Donor Board
on Decentralization Reform in Ukraine
Taras Zhuravel, GIZ
13. February 2018
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Development of IMC
Increasing financial burden
Demographic changes
Demanding requirements
to the quality of services
New challenging tasks
Competition among
regions
WHY? WHAT? WHAT FOR?
Joint
development
strategies and
projects
Synergies for efficient
use of recourses
Quality improvement of
provided services
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Preconditions for Successful IMC
Effective working
structures
Mutual trust
Successful
IMC
Possibility of
further
development
Citizens’
participation
Political will
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Case of Poltava oblast
Pilot projects
Annual forums on IMC
Distance learning courses
Poltava regional competition
of local development projects
Training activities
Manuals and toolkit on IMC
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How can IMC be further promoted?
Support at regional and local levels
Call for proposals for IMC projects
Identification and realization (mentoring) of the IMC projects
Development of the sectoral IMC
Capacity Development (Project Management)
Organization of the peer review visits
Dissemination of the good practices