The film’s main idea is when Ukrainian communities are empowered to take charge of their destiny, they are able to use their collective strength to help themselves The film was produced in partnership with the Centre for Ukrainian Reform Education. What important about this community-based approach to local participatory development is that it tries to build up the skills and competencies of local communities and their local leadership in order to promote a sense of self-empowerment, as many experts agree.
The film shows the strength of local communities and their potential to improve local living conditions in rural and urban areas across Ukraine: Zamglay village (Chernihiv region), Novohrad-Volynskiy (Zhytomyr region), Ivano-Frankivsk, Sevastianivka, Zavitne and Poshtove villages (Bakhchisarayskiy district, Crimea), Strepetove and Drofyne villages (Nyzhniogirsky district, Crimea).
The film is based on the experiences gained by the United Nations Development Programme and its community-based local development projects in Ukraine, including the “Crimea Integration and Development Programme”, “Chornobyl Recovery and Development Programme”, “Municipal Governance and Sustainable Development Programme”, and their local counterparts.
From now onward, this film can be seen in Internet by the following link: www.youtube.com/undpcidp. It is placed in 4 separate parts there:
1. Chornobyl Recovery and Development Programme: 08:43 min. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIk6C-li6C8
2. Municipal Governance and Sustainable Development Programme (1 part - Novohrad-Volynskiy municipality), 05:38 min. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbUJPK7pp1U
3. Municipal Governance and Sustainable Development Programme (2 part - Ivano-Frankivsk municipality), 06:18 min. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4gMZJuWPAE
4. Crimea Integration and Development Programme, 09:17 min. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogkb9hALIdc
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