Agenda

• 09:30 - 10:00 Registration of the participants (in Zoom)
• 10:00 - 10:10 Opening the meeting, announcement and approval of the agenda. Oleksiy CHERNYSHOV, Minister for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine Frederik COENE, Head of the Local and Human Development Section of the EU Delegation to Ukraine
• 10:10 - 10:20 Brief presentation of the main directions and tasks of the State Regional Development Strategy for 2021-2027 Oleksiy CHERNYSHOV, Minister for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine
• 10:20 - 10:35 Strategic assessment of the draft State Regional Development Strategy 2021- 2027 Andrej HORVAT, Deputy GIZ Programme Director of U-LEAD with Europe Nataliia SHAPOVAL, Head of KSE Institute, Vice President for Policy Research, Kyiv School of Economics
• 10:35 - 10:50 Q&A, general discussion
• 10:50 - 11:05 Ways forward and next steps: action planning, common results framework, Minregion’s capacity building and technical assistance required Ivan LUKERIA, Deputy Minister for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine
• 11:05 - 11:20 Potential contributions of the development partners on current and future support to Minregion on regional policy design and implementation Brief comments from all key development partners on their contribution
• 11:20 - 11:30 Drawing conclusions/planning further steps, closing the meeting Frederik COENE, Head of the Local and Human Development Section of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Oleksiy CHERNYSHOV, Minister for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine