Chernigov has signed a Memorandum for the assessment of its development (read more)
As previously reported, last week in Chernihiv city Chairman Vladislav Atroshenko signed a Memorandum of cooperation on the measurement of the dynamics of city development in the framework of the project "CityProgressIndex" between Chernihiv and the Agency, “together”. Thereby our city has consented to the experts that will attract this organization, researched and evaluated the Chernihiv by a specially developed methodology. On behalf of the Agency, "together" Memorandum in Chernihiv and signed by its head Ruslan Rokhov, who is also the founder of the famous Ukrainian educational program "School of mayors". According to him, the key areas on which the project "CityProgressIndex" will monitor the development of cities is quality of life, attractiveness for investment and institutional capacity of local governments. This study and the concept of the event – a relatively new project presented about a month ago, in December of last year. It happened at the International Congress of mayors, which was a joint initiative of the Agency for strategic communications and development of "Joint efforts" and Fund Western NIS Enterprise Fund. A Memorandum similar to Chernihiv already signed Mariupol, Ugledar Ternopil, Chortkiv, Odessa. Chernihiv became the sixth city to join the program. According to Ruslan Rohova also already have agreements with such cities as Lviv, Chernivtsi, Mykolayiv and others. According to the plans, when will recruited 20 pilot cities, the project of external evaluation of the dynamics of urban development starts. At the end of the year, the next international Congress of mayors, will present best practices of local self-government, and following 2018 will be compared to base 2 years. For the cities involved in the monitoring fully free. Moreover, progress in the development of leading cities will provide grants to implement promising projects. Will be financed from a specially created Fund to support local development. Directly the rating of the cities will be specially created consortium of experts, which agreed to the participation of representatives of organisations such as PwC, GfK, Deloitte and Baker Tilly, Kyiv school of Economics, VoxUkraine and the Centre for economic strategies. Chernihiv city Chairman Vladislav Atroshenko, commenting on the accession of Chernihiv to this project, noted that the most objective assessment of the activities of city government is, in his opinion, still rating from voters, residents of the city. Also very important the opinion of those of Chernigov, who, because of certain circumstances, live in other cities, but sometimes returned to their families or relatives in your hometown and see it as a positive change and can draw conclusions. - For example, by some well-known agencies in the most efficient city is one in which introduced e-government. However, if you take Chernigov, where more than 82 thousand pensioners from total number of voters in the city - about 230 thousand, the main performance criteria may be the availability of medical care, and other services for the population. So, be careful, you must approach the development of common criteria for monitoring, - the mayor told. He also expressed the hope that the experts in this study and comparisons of cities will take into account the inequality of conditions in which there is each of them owing at least to its geographical location. For example, a seaside port city has much better conditions for attracting large investment than in Chernihiv, which actually borders with the country-aggressor. Ruslan Rokhov assured that the external assessment of the dynamics of urban development should be objective, considering the developed methodology for collecting data from authentic sources of information, surveys of various population groups, evaluation of various spheres of city development etc. The press service of the Chernihiv city CouncilÏåðåâåäåíî ñåðâèñîì "ßíäåêñ.Ïåðåâîä÷èê": translate.yandex.ru.
Source: http://uzinform.com.ua/
