At a joint meeting on Friday, the City and Raion (District) Radas of Romny, Sumy Oblast, by overwhelming majority of votes adopted a common economic development strategy for both communities.
Before the voting, a trio of experts from the USAID LED project and the EU-funded project on Sustainable Local Development in Ukraine – Ihor Parasyuk, Halyna Vasylchenko, and Tetyana Korneyeva – made a 55-minute presentation of the Economic Development Strategic Plan.
The document, drafted by an Expert Committee in Romny with assistance from the two projects, comprises three action plans aiming to develop small to medium enterprise and agriculture, communal infrastructure, and investment.
According to Mr. Parasyuk, advisor with the LED project, the draft plan was hammered out within a "record-short period of less than four months." He also pointed out that Romny is the second city after Izyum, Kharkiv Oblast, where the two projects combined efforts to help the communities design their economic development strategies.
On the whole, Romny is the 42nd city that adopted a strategic plan drafted with assistance from the LED project.