UNDP Crimea Integration and Development Programme
| Address: 9 Plotinnaya Str., 4th floor, Simferopol, 95007, Crimea, Ukraine Phones: +38 (0652) 248-002 Web-site: www.undp.crimea.ua e-mail: registry@undp.crimea.ua Project Manager: Adeline Gonay UNDP Programme Manager: Oksana Remiga |
WHAT IS THE SITUATION IN COUNTRY?
The UNDP Crimea Integration and Development Programme (CIDP) was established in 1995 as a joint initiative of the international donor community.
CIDP was created in response to the complex challenges of social and economic nature as well as a number of specific events, with particular attention to the mass return of formerly deported ethnic groups. Therefore, the first phase of CIDP took the form of an emergency response. Timely and concerted efforts by the government of Ukraine and the international community allowed to stabilize the situation in Crimea during the nineties, though many problems, in particular those of social and economic nature, remained unresolved.
In this regard, the second phase of CIDP focused on community-driven development, encouraging and empowering citizens to take active part in decision-making processes that affect their daily lives and to improve their living conditions through self-help initiatives. The efficiency of CIDP approaches helped the programme to build up a high level of trust among people and with the local authorities.
Nevertheless, underlying structural problems cannot be solved on the level of particular villages. In order to widely replicate positive experiences and increase positive influence on the development of the peninsula, the intervention was promoted at the highest political level – that of the Government of the Autonomous Republic. Accordingly, the current phase of the Programme aims at integrated regional development of Crimea through involvement at all levels - from local communities to republican authorities - into the problem-solving processes.
A high degree of trust on the part of both the society and the government, earned by CIDP, allows the Programme to provide support in fostering the dialogue between the authorities and the citizens. Developing trust and cooperation between them holds the major potential for and is the most effective mechanism of regional development today.
Apart from that, trust and strengthening of cooperation between various ethnic groups on the basis of tolerance and mutual respect is a prerequisite for achieving social and economic welfare of all Crimean inhabitants.
WHAT IS OUR PROJECT MISSION?
The main goal of the Programme is to assist and strengthen domestic structures and processes able to develop and implement long-term solutions in order to secure peace and stability in Crimea, as well as to promote integrated regional development involving both people and authorities.
In order to achieve its goals, the Programme focuses on the following areas:
- Democratic governance: strengthen Crimean citizen engagement in political and socio-economic development activities, increase Government capacity to deliver public goods and services, and provide coherent and satisfying alternatives for social change through enhanced State-Citizen relations;
- Economic development: promote the development of a market-driven agricultural cooperative sector and small- and medium enterprise development;
- Human security: strengthen the Human Security Council as a platform for high-level inter-ethnic consensus building and evidence-based policy-making based on an enhanced human security monitoring system;
- Tolerance and social cohesion: increase tolerance and social cohesion through the education system.
In 2008 the project entered a new - 5th - phase of its activities on Crimean peninsula
CIDP works in all of 14 Crimea’s regions. In 2006 the delivery of the Programme amounted for 2,818,181.00 USD, local contributions being excluded.
OUR PARTNERS AND DONORS:
The Programme partners with Crimean authorities at all levels - Village Councils, District Councils and District State Administrations, the ARC Verkhovna Rada, the ARC Council of Ministers and line ARC ministries, including the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.
Our donors include the governments of Canada (CIDA), Norway (NORAD), Sweden (SIDA) and Switzerland (SDC), the European Commission (starting from 2008) and UNDP.
For more information on the Project’s activities, please, go to our website: www.undp.crimea.ua
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