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Donor:

Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project in Ukraine BIZPRO, USAID, through Development Alternatives Inc, Programme ‘Regulatory Reform in Ukraine’

Role in the project:

Principal implementing body in Ivano-Frankivsk Region

Implementation period:

July 2002 – December 2005

 

Within the project the Agency was officially contracted by Development Alternatives Inc, who implemented an international technical assistance programme Small and Medium Enterprise Development project in Ukraine funded by USAID. The Agency administrated and implemented BIZPRO Regulatory reform project in Ivano-Frankivsk region as implementing partner. The Agency performed functions of regional partner in implementing reforms for legal enforcement and better regulatory environment in the region by introducing clear and transparent rules and requirements for entrepreneurial activity. The project has been implemented in the pilot localities in Ivano-Frankivsk region – the region itself, cities of Ivano-Frankivsk, Kolomyia, Rogatyn, and Nadvirna, and later on - Tlumach and Kolomyia districts.  

 

Project outputs and results: The region had its Regulatory Reform Working Group consisting of representatives of the regional state administration, self-government bodies, business and business associations from pilot localities. The main task of the working group was to apply regulatory reform principles when drafting local regulations. The drafts were initiated by Working Group members that represent local government or business community and addressed communal property, registration of business entities, permits issuance, local taxes and fees, market place trade, land relations, SME development and other issues of local regulatory reform implementation. Each draft decision of the local government was discussed at a Working Group meeting. Then, the draft decision and its regulatory impact evaluation were subjected to discussion at round tables and public hearings with representatives of business and community. Based on the results of these discussions, the Working group finalizes the documents, taking into account comments and suggestions made at the public events. In this manner, the decision making process was transparent, the quality of the drafts improved, and the awareness of the local community increased. Regulatory impact analyses and indicators of effectiveness were developed for each draft acts, widely publicized, and discussed together with the draft acts. 

 

Finally, the Agency has lobbied the adoption of the regulatory reform acts within the local governments involved and for the best practice dissemination the special seminars on a quarterly basis have been organized for other districts and cities within the region. 

 

As a result, the 113 new regulatory acts were developed (with regulatory impact analyses and indicators of effectiveness; publications in media); 104 of them were adopted or approved by local governments; 72 work group meetings, 95 round table discussions, 73 public hearings and 5 quarterly seminars were organized and held by the Agency.

 

The experiments and innovations within the regulatory reform programme have been largely used in the development of the Law of Ukraine ‘On grounds of state regulatory policy in business sector’, adopted on 11.09.2003.

 

 

 



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