UNDP in Ukraine

Recognising the need to promote community-based development in Ukraine and raise public awareness about the opportunities of this approach across Ukraine, UN Development Programme has released a documentary film entitled “A Step Ahead: How Ukrainian Communities Are Helping Themselves”.

 

The film’s main idea is when Ukrainian communities are empowered to take charge of their destiny, they are able to use their collective strength to help themselves The film was produced in partnership with the Centre for Ukrainian Reform Education. What important about this community-based approach to local participatory development is that it tries to build up the skills and competencies of local communities and their local leadership in order to promote a sense of self-empowerment, as many experts agree.

The film shows the strength of local communities and their potential to improve local living conditions in rural and urban areas across Ukraine: Zamglay village (Chernihiv region), Novohrad-Volynskiy (Zhytomyr region), Ivano-Frankivsk, Sevastianivka, Zavitne and Poshtove villages (Bakhchisarayskiy district, Crimea), Strepetove and Drofyne villages (Nyzhniogirsky district, Crimea).

The film is based on the experiences gained by the UN Development Programme and its community-based local development projects in Ukraine, including the “Crimea Integration and Development Programme”, “Chornobyl Recovery and Development Programme”, “Municipal Governance and Sustainable Development Programme”, and their local counterparts. "Converging Worlds" Ltd. was contracted to perform video production works.

To get your copy of the film (on a DVD in Ukrainian with English subtitles), please, contact Sergiy Grytsenko at +380 44 254 00 35.