Information Fair is aimed at familiarizing people’s deputies of Ukraine, their assistants, and specialists’ fractions secretariats of parliamentary committees and departments of the Verkhovna Rada , aas well as parliamentary journalists with international technical assistance and resources of Ukrainian NGOs. Members of Parliament, members of different factions and committees can use the presented information and material both for their legislative activities and operation in constituencies.

 

Exhibition "Information Fair - 2013" was attended by 40 organizations, including 17 supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. government, 10 Ukrainian NGOs and 13 representatives of other programs implemented by European organizations and educational institutions.

 

Participants included: Swiss-Ukrainian project "Decentralization Support in Ukraine", which presented some results of its operations, including a series of books entitled "Decentralization and Governance." The series so far consists of 13 books and practical manuals for civil servants and local government. DESPRO plans to further expand the series "Decentralization and Governance", because the demand for such training materials in the country is pretty high.

 

The structure of the series "Decentralization and Governance":

Analytical research:

·         Decentralization of public power: European experience and perspectives of Ukraine;

·         System of local self-government in Ukraine: history, theory, current status and perspectives;

·         Administrative and territorial reform;

Manuals:

·         Local self-governance and decentralization;

·         Local budgets;

·         Local development strategic planning;

·         Operational planning of territorial development strategies;

·         Administrative services;

·         Combating corruption in local self-government  bodies;

·         Court basics for self-government officials;

·         Quality management system as a tool to improve local self-government;

·         Reform of Residential Property Management;

·         Social mobilization for sustainable local development;

·         Development and project management in the public sphere: European dimension for Ukraine.