National round-table "Prospects for reforming of the local self-government in Ukraine" was carried out with the support of the Swiss-Ukrainian Decentralization Support to Ukraine project DESPRO in c.Kyiv on May 27, 2010.

Participants analyzed the actual state of the local self-government; discussed institutional, constitutional, administrative and legal aspects of its reforming; processed and approved suggestions to the central and local government agencies and local governments for immediate steps in reforming of the local self-government considering existing conceptual and legal groundworks.

Following priority issues were discussed at the round-table:
● Approaches to the strategy of authority decentralization: Ukrainian realities and European experience.
● Institutional tools of the local self-government reform.
● Implementation of the conceptual and legal documents on the local self-government reform.
● Ensuring active capacity of the communities and competitiveness among regions.
● Stages of the local self-government reform in Ukraine in 2010-2015 and its support mechanisms.

Recommendations on the priority measures for the local government reform in Ukraine, which will be directed to the central government, were adopted in the outcome of the round-table.

The event was organized by the Foundation for Local Self-Government Support in Ukraine and the Council of Europe Program "Strengthening of the local democracy and promotion of the local self-government reform in Ukraine". The round-table was held jointly with academic institutions, universities, NGOs, associations of local self-governments, international institutions, working in the sector of local and regional development.
 

Round-table  materials can be found here:
http://www.municipal.gov.ua/