Ukraine’s recovery will depend not only on the scale of international financial support, but also on the capacity of local communities to implement reconstruction on the ground. While the European Union has mobilised significant financial instruments, including the Ukraine Facility, ensuring that recovery funding effectively reaches municipalities and local partnerships remains a key challenge.
Drawing on three years of experience working with more than 200 Ukrainian mayors and community leaders, the Partnership for Sustainable Recovery of Ukraine (P4UA), implemented by the Czech Environmental Partnership Foundation, has identified community-led local development as a key missing link in Ukraine’s recovery architecture. Proven EU tools such as the LEADER approach and Local Action Groups could play an important role in enabling
recovery funding to reach the local level more effectively.
Join Ukrainian local leaders, Members of the European Parliament and the Committee of the Regions, as well as representatives of EU institutions and civil society, to discuss how EU recovery instruments can better support community-led recovery and strengthen Ukraine’s decentralised recovery framework.
The conference will start with a Toast and tour to the presentation of the ceramic panel “Ukraine Together with the European Union”, organised by the Fastiv City Council.
The panel was created by Ukrainian youth and servicemen from ceramic clay extracted in the city of Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region - a city currently located in the zone of active hostilities and symbolising the courage, resilience, and steadfastness of the Ukrainian people. The artwork reflects the unity of Ukrainian society, solidarity with the European Union, and Ukraine’s vision as an integral part of the European community.
Where?
European Committee of the Regions (CoR)
Conference room JDE 51
5th floor of JDE-Bâtiment Jacques Delors
Rue Belliard 101, B-1040, Brussels