Positive experience of cooperation and results obtained from implementation of community projects supported by DESPRO facilitated active institutional reforms in autonomic republic, creation of new working places, infrastructure development as well as solution of social issues like support and development of entrepreneurship, housing and communal sphere, health and environment.

Republic Steering Committee will serve as coordinating body of DESPRO activities implementation in AR Crimea. It will include representatives of Council of Ministers of AR Crimea, Rayon Councils and State Administrations of those rayons where DESPRO supports community initiatives. Memorandum was signed by Mr. Pavlo Burlakov, First Deputy Chairperson of Council of Ministers of Crimea Autonomic Republic and Mrs. Oksana Garnets, Senior Project Coordinator, Swiss-Ukrainian Project “Decentralization Support in Ukraine”.