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13 April 2012
Training for heads of housing 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.
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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 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 experts were the only of the speakers who prepared their presentations in Power Point which made them more attractive.
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 Filcek
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