INTERNATIONAL ROUND TABLE FOR LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT DAY "OPEN DIALOGUE "GOOD MULTI-LEVEL DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT IN UKRAINE"

On December 5, the Council of Europe held an open dialogue "Good multi-level democratic governance in Ukraine" with teachers, graduate students and students of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. The dialogue was devoted to the Day of Local Self-Government in Ukraine with the aim of exchanging opinions with students on the following issues: the role of the Council of Europe in supporting Ukraine in countering a full-scale Russian invasion; European Charter of Local Self-Government and implementation of its provisions in the legislation of Ukraine; key achievements and current challenges of good multi-level democratic governance in Ukraine; roadmap for good democratic governance in Ukraine in the area of local self-government; recommendations of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to member countries on the principles of good democratic governance (CM/Rec(2023)5); the report of the European Committee on Democracy and Governance (CDDG) on multi-level governance; programs and events for training, raising the professional level of personnel for service in local self-government bodies.

Volodymyr Bugrov, Rector of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Maciej Janczak, Head of the Council of Europe Office in Ukraine, made a welcome speech. Speakers from the Council of Europe were: Claudia Luciani, Director of Democracy and Human Dignity of the Council of Europe; Daniel Popescu, Head of the Department of Democracy and Governance, General Directorate for Democracy and Human Dignity of the Council of Europe; speakers from the Ukrainian side were: Viacheslav Negoda, Head of the Office of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities under the President of Ukraine; Liliia Pashynna, Head of the Delegation of Ukraine at the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, Deputy of the Kyiv City Council; Larysa Komakha, Director of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service.

In the course of the open dialogue, the issues of the main social transformations related to the need for reconstruction and comprehensive restoration of the territories of Ukraine in the post-war period were discussed; the conceptual approaches and dominants of the further progress of local self-government in Ukraine, the implementation of decentralization reform in the conditions of modern challenges, the fundamental principles of the European Charter of local self-government, good democratic governance and the development of participatory democracy in Ukraine are defined.