For the scaling of international cooperation projects: the Office for the Restoration and Development of the Pervomaisk community became operational in Mykolaiv Oblast

On Friday, September 20, the Office of Territorial Community Restoration and Development was opened in Pervomaisk. This became possible thanks to the cooperation of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration together with the UN Development Program in Ukraine and with the financial support of the Government of the Kingdom of Denmark.

This was reported in the Mykolaiv RMA.

The opening ceremony was attended by the head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration Vitalii Kim, the head of the Office of the Royal Danish Embassy in Mykolaiv Jacob Hansen, the head of the cooperation department of the Royal Danish Embassy Torben Larsen, the program analyst of the UNDP in Ukraine Anna Biliavska and the Mayor of Pervomaisk Oleh Demchenko.

At the beginning of the event, Vitalii Kim emphasized the importance of creating such Recovery and Development Offices for communities and thanked all international partners for their support in the reconstruction of the front-line Mykolaiv region.

«Previously, we launched the Office of Regional Development and Reconstruction at RMA. Then they spread this practice to communities. As a result, Pervomaisk is already the third platform for cooperation between communities, the public sector and international partners, after Mykolaiv and Voznesensk. This is a great opportunity to directly contact international partners and attract as many investments as possible in reconstruction. «I am grateful to the Kingdom of Denmark and UNDP for their support,» said the head of the regional military administration.

Meanwhile, the mayor of Pervomaisk, Oleh Demchenko, familiarized the audience with the presentation of the Integrated Approach to Local Recovery and Development, as well as the vision of the Office's activities.

«During 2024, we are implementing a project on the development of the Community Development Strategy, as well as providing methodological and consulting support and expert support for the training of representatives of local self-government bodies. That is, our specialists acquired the skills of assessing the capacity for the process of recovery and development. And this is a positive moment in further project work on the ground. Namely, the opportunity to qualitatively determine priority directions for attracting international donors with further implementation of cases,» Oleh Demchenko emphasized.

Representatives of the Kingdom of Denmark noted that such synergy will allow scaling up future projects.

«It is very important for us to have specialists in their field and reliable partners from the communities with whom we would carry out joint projects,» said Jakob Hansen.

The opening of the Office for the Development and Reconstruction of the Pervomaisk community was also attended by the head of the district military administration, Serhii Sakovskyi, the freelance adviser to the first deputy head of the regional military administration, Dmytro Tarasenko, the director of the Regional Reconstruction Agency of the Mykolaiv region, Yevhen Babkov, and the specialist in attracting investments, Olha Nikolaievych.