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During 2021 the Ministry of Regional Development held more than 100 meetings with representatives of the diplomatic corps of foreign countries development partners and international organizations in order to improve partnerships between countries. At the same time in 2021 Ukraine began to chair the EU Strategy for the Danube Region and Parliament ratified the Financial Agreement Ukraines Recovery Program between Ukraine and the European Investment Bank which aims to restore the infrastructure of regions in the east. This was announced by Deputy Minister of Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine for European Integration Igor Korkhovy.Recently the program of Ukraines presidency in the EU Strategy for the Danube Region was presented. Our state will chair this Strategy for the next year and will be responsible for determining the priority areas of cooperation. I am confident that this will help Ukraine reach a new level of partnership with the countries of the Danube region and European institutions. At the same time this year the Parliament ratified the Financial Agreement Ukraines Reconstruction Program between Ukraine and the European Investment Bank. This is a crucial project aimed at rebuilding the infrastructure of the regions in the east of the country as well as the areas where a significant number of internally displaced persons live. 340 million euros will be allocated for the construction modernization of health care education culture sports etc. said Igor Korkhovy.Also this year the Verkhovna Rada ratified a crucial financial agreement with the European Investment Bank under which our country received access to credit in the amount of 300 million euros for the project Energy efficiency of public buildings in Ukraine. The program will expand the capacity of local governments to conduct comprehensive thermal modernization. This will help improve the quality of services and reduce energy consumption in about a thousand public buildings including kindergartens hospitals and schools.At the same time thanks to the support of the Federal Republic of Germany a number of energy efficiency projects are currently being implemented Support to the National Energy Efficiency Fund and S2I Environmental Reform Program in Ukraine Energy Efficient District of Lviv As part of the Energy Efficiency in Communities project an Agreement was signed between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine the German State Bank Credit Institution for Reconstruction KfW and the Zhytomyr and Zaporizhia City Councils. The document provides funding for energy efficiency measures in public buildings in the amount of 25.5 million euros in the form of a loan and 1 million euros in the form of a grant. Thanks to the program a complex thermal modernization will be carried out in 80 schools and kindergartens in Zhytomyr and Zaporizhia.In addition by the end of 2021 it is planned to sign a loan agreement with KfW on the modernization of drinking water supply systems in Chernivtsi phase 2. The result will be the provision of quality drinking water for 270000 people.Joint work has also been launched with the European Investment Bank on a 300 million financing agreement for the Coal Region Transformation Program.In the framework of cooperation with the Danish side the Danida Business Finance program is being implemented. We are talking about the allocation of funds for the modernization of district heating water supply and sewerage. 13 projects were selected to participate in the program. The total cost is over one billion hryvnias. We are grateful to our partners for their crucial support said Ihor Korkhovy.It should be noted that the Ministry of Regional Development continues to cooperate with the World Bank in the framework of the Second Urban Infrastructure Development Project to modernize the water supply and sewerage sector. Funding is provided by a loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development which is the World Banks main lending institution.A joint project of the Government of Sweden and the United Nations Development Program Enhanced Partnership for Sustainable Development is also currently being implemented. Its goal is to teach Ukrainian local authorities to involve local businesses public organizations and their resources for the joint development and implementation of development projects. The donor of the project is the Government of the Kingdom of Sweden through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency Sida. The project is implemented by the United Nations Development Program UNDP and the beneficiary is the Ministry of Regional Development.It will be recalled that in 2021 the implementation of the USAID Project Improving the Efficiency of Accountability and Accountability of Local Self-Government Bodies - HOVERLA started in Ukraine. It is a five-year program implemented by the United States Agency for International Development USAID to support the decentralization process. Currently relevant agreements have been signed between the HOVERLA project Lviv Poltava Volyn regional state administrations and partner communities. Local governments will be able to receive financial support for the implementation of current projects.The Ministry also continues to work on local and regional development together with the U-lead project. In particular within the framework of cooperation it is planned to increase the institutional capacity of territorial communities to cooperate with international financial organizations.At the same time the Ministry of Regional Development is actively implementing a policy of gender equality in the field of regional development and local self-government. Thus with the support of the UN Women project the Gender Equality Strategy of the Ministry of Regional Development for 2021-2023 was developed and approved as well as the Action Plan for its
