Almost a year has passed since the first elections in the most northern amalgamated hromada of the Poltava Oblast. And the Serhiyivska AH (Gadyach rayon) is meeting the current end of the year on a positive note. This week the methodological expert assistance and support process, initiated and conducted by the experts from the Poltava Local Government Development Centre, established with the support of the U-LEAD with Europe Programme and MinRegion of Ukraine, was successfully completed.

The projects of the AH strategic development plan and the General Plan for building up hromada settlements were unanimously adopted at public hearings of the residents. These documents were elaborated under the guidance and with the direct participation of Vadym Shtefan, regional development expert of the Poltava LGDC.

In the course of several months of work on plans, almost every hromada resident joined the discussion. As a result, three main strategic directions for the development of the Serhiyivska AH, i.e. economic, human potential development and infrastructure ones, were approved. In a week, the Strategic and General Plans will be approved at the regular session of the amalgamated hromada.

Ihor Lidovyi, head of the Serhiyivska AH, is convinced that all progress is up to come: “The decentralisation reform is the only true and promising way. For example, two years ago there was no Internet in the villages, and today we have an electronic document flow. The main financial and personnel capacity concerns are left behind, while strategic development is still ahead!”