‎On 15 December, the first meeting of the Community Based Development to Local Development - II gathered in the EU Delegation to Ukraine in participation of representative  of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers, Ministry of Regional Development, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Agricultural Policy, Ministry of Healthcare etc.

The first results of the second phase of the EU / UNDP "Community-Based Local Development" project were presented at a press conference in Zaporizhya Oblast State Administration.

On September 6, 2011, study tour was organized for 18 representatives of pilot rayons rayon in Cherkasy Oblast.

Community Development Plan in the village of Vershatsi in Chyhyryn Rayon of Cherkasy Oblast, was 90% implemented. This was announced to the participants of a workshop, held on September 21, 2011, in the village of Verschatsi, which was attended by coordinators of the Cherkasy project implementation unit.

One of the important steps in implementation the joint EU-UNDP "Community-Based Local Development, Phase 2" project is the selection of village councils where the Project is to be directly implemented. In Sumy oblast, 109 village / city councils from 9 pilot rayons under the second phase of the CBA project applied to take part in the contest, namely from Burynsky, Velykopysarivsky, Hlukhivsky, Krasnopilsky, Lebedinsky, Lypovodolynsky, Nedryhaylivsky, Seredyno-Budsky and Shostkynsky rayons.

On 1-2 October, Jose Manuel Pinto Teixeira, Ambassador of the European Union in Ukraine, together with the Ambassadors of Great Britain, H.E. Leigh Turner, and Greece, H.E. Georgios Georgountzos, visited one of CBA pilot communities in Odeska oblast. 

On September 6 to 16, 2011, introductory seminars of the EU / UNDP "Community-Based Local Development-II" project were held in all pilot rayons of Cherkasy Oblast; in the course of these seminars, project coordinators Natalia Belyukina and Hanna Babkova told representatives of local authorities / self-government  all details of achievements during  the first phase of the project and the opportunities that the project offers to rural communities in its second phase.

City of Dzhankoy, September 13, 2011: A visiting session of the Republican Coordinating Council in Dzhankoy was attended by Olivier Adam, UNDP Resident Representative in Ukraine and Konstantin Bakharev, First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of Crimea. In the course of the event, partnership agreements between the CBA-II eight pilot areas and UNDP were signed.

At the regional seminar of the EU / UNDP CBA project, held at the Antratsytivsky Rayon Administration, representatives of Luhansk OIU officials, Heads of village councils and communities’ representatives.

On August 30-31, 2011, Olivier Adam, UN Resident Coordinator, UNDP Resident Representative visited Ternopil Oblast.