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BRAMA, Mar. 25, 2000, 1:00pm EST
Polish-American-Ukrainian Cooperation Grants Awarded
KYIV - Two US Ambassadors and Ukrainian Officials Present New Grants Issued Under the Poland-America-Ukraine Cooperation Initiative (PAUCI)
Coordinator of US Assistance to the Newly Independent States Ambassador William Taylor and US Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer joined senior Ukrainian officials in presiding over the presentation of new grant awards by the Secretariat of the Poland-America-Ukraine Cooperative Inititative (PAUCI) on March 23 at the PAUCI Office in Kyiv, Ukraine.
PAUCI, financed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), was launched in 1998 as a trilateral initiative to foster programmatic and institutional exchanges among the three countries in macroeconomic policy, local administrative reform, and small-medium enterprise development. The Secretariat, which administers the PAUCI grant program, opened Kyiv and Warsaw offices in late 1999.
Among the grants announced at the March 23rd event are long-term local government exchanges between Ukrainian and Polish local administrations to review factors effecting citizen’s participation in local politics, as well as develop city-specific administrative reform business models. The exchanges also include on-site training sessions for Ukrainian local administrators in Poland, bi-national city council conferences, promotion of small business alternatives for communal housing, and banking reform. Two proposals, approved by the PAUCI Council in December, already have been awarded by USAID. They include a bi-national media education program that will deal exclusively with Polish-Ukrainian experience in reform and a Ukraine-Central European Parliamentary Roundtable Series between Ukrainian and Polish parliamentarians and lawmakers.
For more information, please contact PAUCI Director General Petro Matiaszek (+380.44 238.6868, fax 238.6869, e-mail pm@cif.kiev.ua).
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