The popularity of electric cars is growing every day around the world nowadays. It is nice to realize that the number of electric cars purchased in Ukraine is also growing. Unconditional leaders in the development of electric powertrain are the United States and the largest countries...
As the world population increases and economies rely progressively more on outside resources to meet their demand for energy, water, and food among others, communities are under enormous pressure to find these resources and accommodate waste and emissions. Within the current linear production and consumption economic...
40 civil servants from 11 territorial governmental offices of Kyiv region have started the online training on the Green Public Procurement (GPP) basics. The educational Ukrainian-Slovak project was developed to teach civil servants, responsible for tender procedures, on how to use principles and benefits of "ecological...
One more step on the path of environmental improvement in Ukraine was made on April 13. Experts and practitioners have gathered together to discuss the current situation with public procurement, as well as approaches to improve this mechanism in both public and private sectors. This meeting...
Ukrainian experts will meet in April to discuss an online program for the implementation of green public procurement philosophy in state institutions. The participants of the meeting are the experts involved in the public procurement area in Ukraine: representatives of the Ministry of Economic Development and...
If we were asked to describe very briefly the results of 2017, we would say: GoLOCAL has raised 450 000 EUR of funds! Almost half a million of EUR in form of grants and loans from international funds were acquired by GoLOCAL team for the Kyiv region’s...
NEFCO has signed loan agreements with seven Ukrainian cities to implement energy-saving measures starting in 2018. One of the biggest projects that is coming soon - street lights modernization in Bila Tserkva city. The signed agreements total EUR 2.36 million. The projects involve the refurbishment of public...
On February 16, a meeting of the Tender committee of the Bila Tserkva City Housing and Communal Services Department was held, during which 8 tender proposals for the NEFCO project were opened. In total, more than 20 requests from different Ukrainian companies have been received...
As part of the project “Green Public Procurement: Transfer of Experience from Slovakia to Ukraine” implementing, the official GPP website is launched. On the website http://gpp.golocal-ukraine.com, will be published the latest news in the GPP area, as well as results of the Ukrainian-Slovak project implementing. In...
In 2017, along with you, we implemented important projects on energy efficiency, entrepreneurship development and green public procurement implementation. Being supported by our partners our team has already begun implementing new projects-2018. Let next year be the year of new achievements and victories for everyone! Best regards, GoLOCAL team...
Project Manager Position NGO GoLOCAL involved in regional and municipal development in Ukraine is looking for a talented, proactive and experienced Project Manager. Major tasks to deal with: Project management of international aid programs; Management of current organization`s Projects; Projects` documents drafting (presentations, Gantt charts, logical frameworks,...
Bila Tserkva city administration signed a loan agreement with the Northern Ecological Corporation NEFCO on the launch of the city street lighting modernization project. According to the signed agreement, project implementing will begin in the spring of 2018. The main advantages of lighting modernizing (switching to LED)...
By a majority of the city council deputies votes, the implementation of the Modernization of street lighting in the city of Bila Tserkva was approved today. The next step will be an agreement signing between the municipality and the Northern Ecological Finance Corporation NEFCO, which will...
Keeping a healthy environmental background is one of the key requirements and principles of the European Union. Transparent Green Procurement is one of the important components of the EU environmental program. GPP is actually a tendering process in which government institutions prefer goods or services with...
High-quality street lighting is not just a beautiful, practical and convenient thing, it is, first of all, the safety and comfort of the inhabitants. There is no Ukrainian left who would not have heard of energy-efficient LED lamps, which give a lot of light at...
Public procurement should be not only transparent, but the public procurement authorities should also take care of environment. This is required by the European Union and finally, it is beneficial for all. Non-governmental activists from Ukraine following this philosophy have approached Slovak experts with a...
The first business course for women was successfully completed in Bila Tserkva city. 25 remarkable business ideas are ready for implementation, 25 qualified entrepreneurs are ready to be engaged in a city business developing and finally, Women's Business Club has been established – these all...
Eight Ukrainian energy service companies (ESCOs) are interested in investing in Bila Tserkva energy development through ESCO-contracts and making the city a leader of the Kyiv region and Ukraine for the implementation of this new mechanism. Modernized schools, kindergartens, hospitals and other social sphere buildings...
Cold Fall is coming, but in Bila Tserkva kindergarten №32 warm and cozy now. It’s hard to realize, that it was so cold here last winter, that local heaters could not heat rooms! The GoLOCAL team, which is involved in the Bila Tserkva city infrastructure development,...
Entrepreneurship in Bila Tserkva is one of the most promising and developed in the Kyiv region. Therefore, it is not surprising that the Entrepreneur's Day is a special holiday in this city. On September 5, NGO GoLOCAL team took part in a business breakfast organized for...
36 lecture hours, which embraced the most important aspects regarding business creation and development have successfully started! This educational project is being implemented by GoLOCAL, a partner of the USAID Leadership in Economic Governance Partnership Network, executed be the Eastern Europe Foundation and its partners. This particular...
In 2011, under the auspices of the Konstantin Yefymenko Charitable Foundation, excavations of the Zamkova Hora fortifications and the revival of the historic temple the "White Church" have been started. During 2011-2012, the experts of the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences...
A series of documentary films about the picturesque places of Ukraine was presented recently, and the Bila Tserkva was included in that list. The TV project "7 Wonders of Ukraine: Historical Cities and Towns" is one of the milestones of the national cultural project "7 Wonders...
March 9, 2017, 33 representatives from business, community and the government signed an open Memorandum on creation of Tourism cluster in Bila Tserkva. January 24, 2017, during a working meeting on tourism development in Bila Tserkva, organized by the NGO «GoLOCAL» with the support of the...
Representatives of 6 regional platforms of Volyn, Kyiv, Lviv, Poltava and Kherson regions gathered in Kiev to meet with representatives of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ukraine, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine and NGO’s to share experiences in elaboration, advocacy...
January 24, 2017, NGO «GoLOCAL» and Bila Tserkva Strategic Development Agency invited experts from the EU and Ukraine to elaborate the next steps for the growth of the tourism sector of the city. The experts were joined by about 50 representatives of hotel and restaurant...
NGO "GoLOCAL" was one of the participants in the development of "Bila Tserkva City Development Strategy 2025" and within the framework of the project "Bila Tserkva. Team of Change" contributed to the creation of the Agency for Strategic Development of Bila Tserkva. That's why we...
January 24, 2017 from 11:00 to 14:00, NGO "GoLOCAL" and Agency for Strategic Development of Bila Tserkva invite you to participate in a strategic panel "Tourism business development", which will be held in the conference hall of Kyiv Regional Chamber of Commerce (Bila Tserkva, 13...
December 23, 2016, co-founder of the NGO «GoLOCAL» Igor Komendo addressed the Active Citizens’ Forum organized by the Institute Respublica. The Forum was attended by about 120 representatives of NGOs, condominiums, community organizations, political parties and local authorities, as well as journalists from all over...
December 16, 2016, as part of the first German-Ukrainian conference on urban development entitled “Opportunities for integrated urban development to support sustainable development in Ukraine” was held awards ceremony of “Leipzig Prize of integrated urban development in Ukraine”. The “Leipzig Prize of integrated urban development” was...
The "National Urban Development Policy in Ukraine" GIZ Office in Ukraine, organized the first German-Ukrainian conference of urban development: "The possibilities of integrated urban development to support sustainable development in Ukraine." It took place on 16 December 2016, the NSC "Olympic". Volodymyr Glukhov co-founder of the...
December 13, 2016, the Kyiv Regional State Administration held a seminar on "Municipal and regional development." Igor Komendо, co-founder of the NGO «GoLOCAL» was invited to talk about the organisation's activities in the promotion of regional development....
Throughout 12-13 December 2016, the co-founder of NGO GoLOCAL, Volodymyr Glukhov took part in the Workshop for Civil Society Organizations on the implementation of the VGGTs in Europe and Central Asia conducted by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Budapest, Hungary. Striving for new knowledge and...
November 23, 2016, a presentation of "Tool for the citizens" was held in Bila Tserkva City Council. Active citizens, NGOs and government representatives were invited to participate. It was very nice to see 30 people who care about the future of the city and who are...
November 23, 2016, will be presented "Tool for Citizens” in the building Bila Tserkva city council. The Presentation will be on the active involvement of citizens with democratic processes and the provision of practical skills to use it. Active citizens, representatives of NGOs and government...
Igor Komendo, the Projects Manager of GoLOCAL, took part in the World Forum for Democracy Strasburg, November 7-9, 2016. The main message of this years’ Forum was “The source of democracy is education”. “Education is central to democratic societies. Schools, universities, civil society organisations and other...
NGO «GoLOCAL» announces another result of working with European financial institutions - the launch of the Project thermo-modernization of kindergartens in Bila Tserkva. Due to the close cooperation of «GoLOCAL» and the City Council, in August this year, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has identified Bila...
Bilotserkivska City Council with an expert support from NGO «GoLOCAL» established cooperation with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) gaining the loan for the modernization of the electric public transport of the city. In July 2016, there was a fact-finding visit of specialists of...
NGO GoLOCAL is planning to launch an Open Data project for the citizens of Bila Tserkva. The primary goal of this initiative is to enhance local citizens’ access to the public information in their communities. To this end, we will assemble and...
NGO GoLOCAL is planning to launch an Open Data project for the citizens of Bila Tserkva. The primary goal of this initiative is to enhance local citizens’ access to the public information in their communities. To this end, we will assemble and compile public government...
