How to build economically strong and cohesive communities on the path to the EU and during recovery: EasyBusiness joined the European Week of Regions and Cities 2025
On 15 October in Brussels, as part of the European Week of Regions and Cities 2025, a political session titled “Ukraine’s Path to the EU: Municipalities and Partnerships for Cohesion and Growth” took place. The discussion was organized by EasyBusiness experts together with partners: the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR), the Recovery and […]
EasyBusiness is running a series of trainings for 40 vocational education institutions from across Ukraine.
How can vocational education be made relevant to labor market needs? How can real partnerships be built between communities, businesses, and vocational education institutions (VEIs)? How does the new Law “On Vocational Education” strengthen schools’ autonomy—and why does that matter right now? These questions are addressed by the “Autonomy of Vocational Education Institutions” project, which […]
Cinema revitalization, wastewater treatment facilities, STEM labs: community development projects from Zhytomyr Region were presented in Kyiv at the Impact.Zhytomyr 2.0 Forum
On 25 November in Kyiv, the Impact.Zhytomyr 2.0 Forum took place—the final event of an educational program aimed at strengthening local initiatives to attract international investment for Ukraine’s recovery and sustainable development. More than 60 participants in Impact.Zhytomyr 2.0 received three months of individual mentoring from Civitta UA experts, learning how to develop competitive […]
Dmytro Lyvch
Economist with a decade of professional experience in public policy development, structural economic reforms, regional development, private sector growth, and market systems. His professional background includes leading analytical teams (over 35 specialists) and implementing more than 50 projects in cooperation with international institutions (USAID, World Bank, EU Commission, UNDP), embassies (Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway), […]
Yaroslav Zhydyk
Has over 7 years of professional experience in management consulting, analytics, and project management. Specializes in local economic development and SME growth through public policy, strategic planning, project development, and capacity-building. Has significant functional expertise in research and analytics, development and organization of training programs, coordination of large grant programs, engagement of the public […]
Andriy Dyakiv
Has over eight years of professional experience in SME development and regional economic growth. Specializes in public policy analysis, strategic planning, grant program coordination, and project management. Implements projects at national and local levels in cooperation with government authorities, international technical assistance projects, and the private sector. Coordinated analytical teams in developing the Recovery […]
Maryna Kachanovska
Maryna is a Senior Analyst at EasyBusiness and Civitta Ukraine with over four years of experience in private sector development, focusing on SME support, regional and local economic development, and innovation. Her functional expertise includes market research, SME policy analysis, grant programme coordination, and project proposal development. At USAID ERA, she built partnerships with […]
Training course “Influentials” to improve youth skills in creating projects in their communities
more than 160 participants fully completed the training program and developed 35 projects for 25 of their communities; launched the educational series “How to create projects in communities” on the Diia.Education platform.
Piloting the megacommunity approach based on cooperation among several municipalities around priority economic sectors
developed a Roadmap for sheep farming development in the Carpathian region and materials on cooperative development in communities; 150+ community representatives completed trainings on conducting surveys, local economic development, and an offline training on project development; 500+ community representatives were involved in the project through participation in surveys, round tables, strategic sessions.
Conducting research and promoting the concept of “growth poles” as a tool for the development of communities and regions
carried out the most comprehensive analysis of international experience in implementing the “growth poles” concept; developed an interactive dashboard for adaptive identification of growth poles based on available indicators; developed hypotheses for further piloting of the concept.