Deputies approved the development strategy of Mykolaiv until 2027

Mykolaiv, photo from open sources

City Council deputies approved the Development Strategy of Mykolaiv until 2027. It was worked on for almost 10 months by city council specialists and experts from international organizations and companies — UNDP, UN European Economic Commission, One Works, COWI.

They made the relevant decision on April 25 during the online session of the city council, writes NikVesti.

Currently, the City Hall envisages three conditional scenarios for the development of the city:

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• inertial (pessimistic) (the war continues at least until 2026). Under such a scenario, Mykolaiv's development strategy will not be implemented.
• optimistic (the continuation of the war on the territory of Ukraine in the first half of 2024 with the establishment of peace at the end of 2024). Such a scenario makes it possible to fully implement the next strategic plan.
• basic (target) (the war will continue in 2024, the establishment of peace will take place only within 2025). This development scenario also provides for the implementation of the Mykolaiv Development Strategy and its active implementation.

«It is difficult to predict the end of the war. Therefore, there are three scenarios of the development of events. Through monitoring, it will be determined which indicators are fulfilled and which are not, which will allow to objectively adjust the strategy according to the forecasts. The United Nations Development Program helps develop this strategy. The organization provided us with expert support, based on the analysis of the data they had, such a forecast was made,» Tetiana Shulichenko, director of the Department of Economics of the Mykolaiv City Council, said earlier in a comment to NikVesti.

She added that according to the legislation, the local strategy must correspond to the regional and state strategies. Currently, all of them are developed and prescribed until 2027.

Read also the article NikVesti «Pavement tiles, bridge repair and new shelters. What is in the development strategy of Mykolaiv for the next 4 years.» In it, we decided to examine in detail the document, which contains a list of projects and measures for the development of the city, as well as to find out the opinions of the deputies regarding the developed Strategy.

We will remind that on May 22, 2023, by order of the Mykolaiv mayor, a working group was formed to develop the project of the development strategy of the Mykolaiv city territorial community for the period until 2027 and the plan of measures for its implementation.

As of August 2023, a survey was completed in Mykolaiv, which was developed for four successive groups: local residents, internally displaced persons, youth and business representatives.

And in September, the working group completed the analytical stage of the development of the Mykolaiv City Territorial Community Development Strategy project until 2027, as well as the Action Plan for its implementation. On September 12, another meeting of the group participants was held, where three strategies and two options for the development of Mykolaiv within the framework of the project were presented based on the previously developed SWOT analysis.