The Kotelva Rayon remained among the outsiders of the decentralisation reform in the Poltava Oblast, primarily because of the stance of the local settlement head and deputy corps, who for the third year were in no hurry to establish AHs around their rayon centre.

Nevertheless, the process of AH establishment has begun. Experts from the Poltava Local Government Development Centre, created with the support of the U-LEAD with Europe Programme MinRegion, visited Kotelva. They told the employees of the local self-government bodies, civil servants, deputies of local councils, public activists, ATO soldiers about decentralisation in Ukraine and successes of amalgamated hromadas in the Poltava Oblast, as well as explained in detail the methodology of AH establishment.

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