The guidebook by the Civil Society Institute, entitled: "Local identity – a guidebook for hromadas and not only" analyses various theoretical aspects of territorial identity, its importance for the hromada development and preservation as the local self-government primary unit, and makes an attempt to show threats posed by blurring the local identity or on the contrary by its excessive distinction among other identities. The guidebook represents different tools of influencing identity, as well as ways of its formation, based on the Ukrainian experience.