Representatives of the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic at the conference «(De)occupied and front-line communities on the way to recovery: institutional solutions»

On May 21, a one-day conference «(De)occupied and near-front communities on the way to recovery: institutional solutions» was held in Kyiv, which is dedicated to discussing the institutional recovery of front-line and de-occupied territories of Ukraine from four directions: public administration, personnel support, administrative-territorial organization and public participation.

The event is organized as part of the Global Open Government Week in partnership with the Ministry of Community and Territorial Development of Ukraine and the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the Organization of State Power, Local Self-Government, Regional Development and Urban Planning.

The conference was opened by Oleksandr Yarema, State Secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, who delivered a welcome speech. After that, the planned panel discussions on key solutions for the de-occupied and front-line territories began.

The topics of the discussions were:

• management of the restoration of de-occupied and front-line communities
• Positions of a comprehensive study of the institutional restoration of affected communities
• public administration: territorial basis and organization of power
• institutional restoration of communities through human capital

People’s deputies, representatives of central-level state authorities, diplomatic institutions of partner countries, international technical assistance projects, as well as officials of military administrations and local self-government bodies, representatives of local government associations, scientists, experts, public figures and journalists took part in the discussions.

Zaporizhzhia was represented at the event by Yevhen Myronenko, deputy head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration, who took part in the panel discussion «Public administration in the de-occupied and front-line territories: territorial basis and organization of power».

The project «Formation of conceptual and legal foundations for the effective post-war recovery of the de-occupied territories of Ukraine» is implemented with the support of the «Renaissance» International Fund.

We believe in the power of interregional partnership and are proud of the active participation of representatives of the Zaporizhzhia region in the future of the country!