The Ukraine Facility, an EU financial support programme for Ukraine, requires mandatory reforms in Ukraine.

In the area of decentralisation, these include the delineation of powers, strengthening the relevant internal structures of municipalities, and ensuring a proportional system of supervision over local governments in line with the European Charter of Local Self-Government.

What needs to be done to ensure that Ukraine does not lose the Ukraine Facility?

When will the draft law that would ensure the ‘reformatting local state administrations into prefectural bodies’ appear?

Why does Draft Law reg. No. 4298 contradict the tasks of the Ukraine Facility?

Oksana Prodan, Advisor to the Chair of the Association of Ukrainian Cities, answers these questions in the article ‘How Ukraine is losing Ukraine Facility funds’ published by Ukrainska Pravda.

To read the Ukrainian version of the article, please click here.