News - Kakhovka PromAgro Launches Elevator. Oil Extraction Plant to Follow
News - Kherson becomes the 76th Ukrainian city that will have its economic development strategy drafted with assistance from the USAID LED project
News - Leaders of six political units in Kherson Oblast signed Letter of Intent with USAID project to unite efforts for regional economic development
News - Prometey to Build Scrap Processing Plant in Dzhankoy
News - First Four-Star Hotel Opened in Ivano-Frankivsk

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Successes - KORYUKIVKA MAYOR IHOR MATYUKHA: "IT'S IMPORTANT TO START AND KNOW WHERE YOU GO." Having a development strategy and collaborating with the USAID LED project provide both tangible and intangible assets for local economic development
Successes - WILLINGNESS TO PAY – A LITMUS TEST FOR SUSTAINABILITY. The Rivne Oblast creates a Regional Industrial Park – using approaches brought by a USAID project but paying from its own purse
Successes - E-SCISSORS FOR RED TAPE. Vinnytsya is implementing a digital-divide-free E-Government system

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Useful links - InvestInRivne Agency
Useful links - Local Economic Development page on the World Bank site

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A tool added: Formal Business Retention & Expansion (BR&E) Survey

A tool added: Community and Economic Development Building Blocks Tool

A tool added: The Municipal Investment Promotion Website

A new entry in the menu: Industrial Planners Internship

Project Target Cities section updated:
Mykolaiv – added Investment Attraction Program adopted in pursuance of the Strategic Plan (in Ukrainian; RAR file)

Aug. 1
Korop, Chernihiv Oblast – First meeting of Expert Committee for Strategic Planning: presentation of Community Profile and report on Business Attitude Survey; identification of Critical Issues; formulation of Strategic Vision; SWOT analysis

Aug. 5
Schors, Chernihiv Oblast – First meeting of Expert Committee for Strategic Planning: presentation of Community Profile and report on Business Attitude Survey; identification of Critical Issues; formulation of Strategic Vision; SWOT analysis (date subject to change)

Aug. 6
Krasnoperekopsk, Crimea – City Rada to consider the draft Economic Development Strategic Plan;
Horodnya, Chernihiv Oblast – Second meeting of Expert Committee for Strategic Planning: identification of goals and preliminary discussion of projects (date subject to change);
Novovolynsk, Volyn Oblast – Seminar on "Globalization, LED, and Investment Promotion"

Aug. 11
Korop, Chernihiv Oblast – Second meeting of Expert Committee for Strategic Planning: identification of goals and preliminary discussion of projects (date subject to change);
Novodnistrovsk, Chernivtsi Oblast – First meeting of Expert Committee for Strategic Planning: presentation of Community Profile and report on Business Attitude Survey; identification of Critical Issues; formulation of Strategic Vision; SWOT analysis

Aug. 14
Armyansk, Crimea – City Rada to consider the draft Economic Development Strategic Plan;
Schors, Chernihiv Oblast – Third meeting of Expert Committee for Strategic Planning: identification of projects and completion of project work plans (date subject to change)

Aug. 15
Horodnya, Chernihiv Oblast – Third meeting of Expert Committee for Strategic Planning: identification of projects and completion of project work plans (date subject to change)

Aug. 19-21
Nova Kakhovka, Kherson Oblast – First meeting of Strategic Development Committee of the Tavria Territorial Communities Association: presentation of Regional Economic Profile and reports on surveys; identification of Critical Issues and Industries; formulation of Strategic Vision; SWOT analysis

Aug. 20-22
Kyiv – FDI Training, Cycle 5, Workshop 4: "Marketing and Selling"

Aug. 26
Kherson – Second meeting of Expert Committee for Economic Development: identification of goals and preliminary discussion of projects

Aug. 29
Novodnistrovsk, Chernivtsi Oblast – Second meeting of Expert Committee for Strategic Planning: identification of goals and preliminary discussion of projects