Source: NTK channel

On September 19, 2016, at PLEDDG’s initiative, PAUCI Foundation experts held a seminar on public budgets, its goals, standards and mechanisms. Among the participants were government officials and public activists of Kolomyia.

During the seminar representatives of local community got an opportunity to learn about foreign and domestic experience of participatory budget implementation. The training was conducted by a team of instructors made of Tetyana Kharenko, deputy head of Financial Policy Department of Cherkasy City Council, deputy head of Participatory Budget Coordinating Council and Kostiantyn Ploskyy, deputy head of PAUCI Foundation.

Based on the results of the meeting, city council representatives as well as public activists took a decision to start the process of launching a participatory budget model in Kolomyya and drafting corresponding regulations.

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