2009 - First Quarterly Progress Report - UNDP in Ukraine

UNDP Municipal Governance and Sustainable Development Programme First Quarterly Progress Report 20094 2007 77 59 18 0 76.65 2008 29 19 4 3 98.16 2009 4 4 0 0 0Total 172 144 22 3 94.84During the quarter, 4 projects were fully completed. Therefore, out of 172 initiated projects 144are now fully completed, 22 are at the level of 75-90%, and 3 projects are at the level of 15%.The completed projects yielded expected benefits thereby improving living quality of thebeneficiary men, women, youth and children. Living conditions improved significantly. In theprocess, these projects also contributed to improvement in governance at the local level. Box – Vreflects the success stories of the local community in Mykolayiv municipality.Box - V: It is Possible to Organize a Community and Solve Real ProblemACMB “Aviator” on 8 Levanevtsev Street in Mykolayiv municipality was created in 2006. This house isa communal property of the municipality.Social and economic problems of the dwellers of the house are engraved with the condition of the roofand façade of the building. The external walls of eleven-storeyed one-porch building was warmed bymileral panel “Rokvol” with following plastering. At the moment the plaster layer is destroyed bynumerous deep cracks that allow water to penetrate inside. The layer of warming material swells, flacksaway and drops off. The dampness gets into the internal surface of apartment walls. The internal facing ofwalls is damaged in 18 apartments, furniture and other dwellers’ assests are damaged.The problem of repair of main part of the roof is solved by building additional storey above someapartments. Threfore now only the part of the roof without additional storey needs repairing. This part ofthe roof is in an unsatisfactory condition and needs capital repair. Part of the technical floor and dwellers’apartments, situated under this part of the roof, are constantly flooded. If the problem is not solvedimmediately it can cause the destruction of the building itself.The abovementioned problems cause decline in sanitary andhygiene condition of the premises, especially on upper floors.The walls are covered by fungus and the risk of illness isgrowing. In such a situation only capital repair can solve theproblems indicated above.Therefore the dwellers of the house decided to prepare their ownproject “Capital repair of façade and roof of multi-apartmenthouse on 8 Levanevtsev Street in Mykolayiv” in order toparticipate in the project “Municipal Governance and SustainableDevelopment Programme”, which is implemented on the basis ofco-financing of United Nations Development Programme, localCity Council and the dwellers themselves. ACMB “Aviator”Photo-13: Meeting of community of ACMBAviator with Leonid Tulovskyi,UNDP/MGSDP Quality Management Officerwith the help of Municipal Support Unit prepared and sent the required documents to the Programme,which is now approved by the Project Selection Committee Meeting. The Association signed thePartnership Agreement with UNDP.At this moment the question of sending the contribution of Mykolayiv City Council to the UNDP accountis being solved.The Programme has already helped the dwellers of six houses of our city to unite thecommunities, create capable organizations and successfully implement complicated projects, which haveimproved significantly the living conditions of community members and their joint property.All people, who are willing to take part in implementation of projects with the help of United NationsDevelopment Programme, and those, who need more information, are requested to turn to the MunicipalSupport Unit of the Programme, Housing Community Department, 7 Admirala Makarova Street, room17, the contact person – Manakova Alla.Manakova Alla, specialist of MSU in Mykolayiv municipality18