Month of the course: the Community Recovery Academy is training municipal managers

A global project to train 120 municipal representatives from 17 regions of Ukraine keeps running. Participants of the Community Recovery Academy learn how to develop strategies, do economic modelling, deal with social conflicts, and effectively attract investments and resources to rebuild their areas.

On 2 October, the second training course of the Community Recovery Academy began with the opening of the Forum "Development of Ukrainian Communities: Achievements, Trends and Strategic Challenges". The training is aimed at representatives of communities that are under temporary occupation, have been de-occupied or have been seriously affected by hostilities.

As part of the course, municipal teams have already taken six lectures on the topic of the first module – "Strategy for the Community: Capacity Analysis and Development Planning". The module programme helps participants understand how to analyse their community's potential, formulate a vision for its future, and build a systematic development strategy based on real data and the needs of residents. 

Trainees received practical strategic planning tools, learned about modern approaches to urban planning, spatial development, architectural planning, and international experience in rebuilding cities after wars and crises.

The Academy's lecturers are given by both leading Ukrainian experts and international specialists, thanks to whom the curriculum covers a wide range of knowledge and experience. The Community Recovery Academy not only creates an educational space, but also an environment for cooperation, exchange of experience and joint decision-making that will contribute to the reconstruction and sustainable development of Ukrainian territories.

The Community Recovery Academy, founded by the Association of Ukrainian Cities and the NGO "Mariupol Reborn", aims to train municipal managers for the reconstruction and development of Ukraine in partnership with Metinvest and System Capital Management. The academic partners of the project are the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Metinvest Polytechnic.