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- Created: 28 July 2016
On 27 July 2016 Ms.Blerta Cela, Deputy Country Director of UNDP Ukraine visited Sumy region. The working visit was aimed to build better relationship with the Sumy city authorities and to officially hand-over the Certificate for energy efficient street lighting equipment to Sumy city. During her business trip Ms. Cela also visited village Sirobabyne to see how the local community implements its initiatives with the EU/UNDP support. Sirobabyne is a small village in Sumsky region, Lebedynsky rayon with a population of only 86 people. The village was selected for participation in the Third phase of the joint EU/UNDP “Community Based Approach to Local Development” Project. With the Project support community implemented a micro-project to reconstruct local water supply system. From the implementation of this initiative benefited all citizens. The total cost of the micro-project was UAH 350 025 (approx. USD 13 992) out of which CO provided their share UAH 31 525 (approx. USD 1 260), village council 112 000 and the CBA Project provided UAH 206 500 (approx. USD 10 000).