FINANCIAL RESOURCES OF INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
Yuriy Petrushenko, Karyna Prymova
Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine
The basis of our experimental hypothesis is that this way of funding the most effective at changing the values and norms of conduct the members of community, particularly towards to the culture of sustainable development.
We decided to test this hypothesis based on the results of the UNDP Local Development CBA (CBA / UNDP - web page: which was started in Ukraine in September 2007. The program is financed by the European Commission and co-financed and implemented by UNDP in Ukraine in support of the Government of Ukraine.
The purpose of this program is to create an enabling environment for sustainable socio-economic development for local communities through the promotion of self, developing and implementing small-scale community initiatives in all regions of Ukraine.
Locally, the project works with participating communities (self-governing community organizations, activists and residents of the immediate communities) and local authorities (village, town, city mayors and councils, district councils, district administrations).
The project has provided small grants for implementation of micro communities based on the principle of self-help and cooperation within the private and public sector, where each partner has to contribute to development. The Financial Mechanism of Program project predicted that the share of value of micro-financed by community members (not less than 5%) and other costs are financed by central and local budgets (45%) attended the IWG UNDP was approximately half of all contributions (50%).
But the main result of micro-projects has not solved only by the immediate problems of real community development, as elaborated by international standards and mechanisms for self-organizing community interaction and community authorities.
Taking part in the project community has the obligation, with the assistance of local authorities to support the sustainability of the process to continue to receive positive results. The analysis of community development in the Sumy region has aready showed that after the implementation of microprojects, communities continued to project activities already focusing less on the assistance of donors, but it’s reliance.
As an example, a community v. Buymerovka Trostyanetskij district, Sumy region, following the implementation of micro-construction of a new water supply, with the assistance of the international program own IWG UNDP, which based on our own forces, raised money and successfully implemented energy conservation projects and street lighting in the community.
Participation in an international action program actually changed the mechanisms of self-organization and management of all communities participating in the UN Development Program Local Development CBA. It is primarily about institutional changes in society by implantation of international standards of sustainable development.