In the course of FY05, as part of its analytical research effort, the Region completed a number of important studies related to the growing role of CSOs in the region’s socio-economic development. In the summer of 2005, the ECA Social Development Team completed a participatory budgeting field study in Ukraine, based on three case studies. The objective of the study was to evaluate the then existing models and approaches to promote the involvement of local communities in the decision-making process on resource allocation at the municipal level. The results of the study were used by a local CSO, the People's Voice Project, which works, inter alia, on participatory budgeting, and distributed among local government and civil society actors. The discussions that took place in Kolomyia on this study are being used in a project on budget hearings funded by the Eurasia Foundation.
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