On February 6, the first regional conference “Smart Interaction” was held in Lviv, which is being implemented in the United Territorial Communities (UTCs) of certain regions of Ukraine by the international technical assistance project of the Institute of Civil Society.

The chairman of the Assembly of Agrarian Chambers of Ukraine Ihor Vuytsyk, members of the commission on rural development and agro-industrial policy of the People’s Council under the Lviv Regional State Administration, representatives of the OTG of the region took part in the conference.

As part of the conference, the participants were presented with the main approaches, tools and intermediate results of piloting the project in Rudkivska OTG of the Lviv region. These initiatives allow improving the quality of the budget process, interaction with E-systems at the regional level.

Ihor Vuytsyk suggested the project participants to cooperate more actively with the regional agrarian chambers of the pilot regions of the project (Zaporizhka, Odesa, Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk) to develop the initiative to support rural residents and farmers in OTG.