Ukrainians will return home with a clear vision of the future of the country: Community Recovery Academy was presented in Washington
On August 25, "Doing Business in Ukraine 2024 Conference: Building Ukraine's Securacy Through A Modernized Economy" was held in Washington. The event was attended by a delegation of the Association of Ukrainian Cities - founder of the Community Recovery Academy.
As part of the visit to the United States the deepening of cooperation between Ukrainian and American communities were discussed, and presented the Academy as a project, which is intended to provide one of the key conditions for the return of people to Ukraine and its full restoration - the qualitative training of specialists for post-war reconstruction and further development of territories.
The head of the section of the Association of Ukrainian Cities for Development of Deooccupied and Temporarily Occupied Communities, Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boichenko emphasized the importance of forming the strategies for the restoration and development of affected territories and told about the school restoration of communities, which is based on the experience and expertise of Mariupol Reborn Plan.
Many experts from different countries have been involved in the development of this project to form answers to key questions: what the post-war Mariupol should be, under what conditions it will be returned to it, how to restore/compensate for the city to restore/compensate for the lost potential and increase it during sustainable development. Now this examination has become part of a professional program of training of municipal teams from all over Ukraine.
Also, the key conditions for the return of Ukrainians is the creation of decent living conditions, which involves the restoration of housing and socio-economic potential. This condition can also be fulfilled through quality planning of community restoration processes. It is such planning - what will be Ukraine, what will be its largest cities in the smallest settlements - is a response to requests from people, especially young people, for which our country will have to compete, which seek to see their future in Ukraine.
It was also a transparency of funding for recovery processes: the country is currently doing a lot to attract funding, and the world community responds to our needs despite all the enemy efforts to speculate on this topic. But we - both at the state level and at the level of individual communities - must do even more so that the use of resources of our partners and investors is as transparent as possible and the Ukrainian communities can continue to attract the necessary funds for reconstruction. Mariupol has a positive experience of such work and to a full -scale invasion of Russia, and already in the face of a great war, what is also ready to share with other communities.
Returning Ukrainians home and preventing further outflow of people from the country is a difficult task. But the more in Ukraine there will work such projects as Community Recovery Academy, the more thorough answers to complex and sometimes inconvenient issues and effective decisions we will receive both at the local and state levels.
Community Recovery Academy founded by the Association of Ukrainian Cities and NGO Mariupol.Reborn, aims to prepare municipal managers for the recovery period. The project is implemented with the support of the UK government under the UK International Development and the International Republican Institute (IRI UKRAINE) in partnership with Metinvest and SCM. The educational partners of the project are Metinvest Polytechnic and National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy".
