The Center aims to provide key field stakeholders with high-quality territorial community and territory development analytics for optimal and evidence-based decision-making.
The Center has both academic and policy-oriented research.
Expertise and fields of analytical services of KSE Center for Sociological Research Decentralization and Regional Development:
• Decentralization reform – consequences of voluntary and involuntary unification in the period 2015-2020
• Resilience and adaptability of hromadas from the moment of the full-scale invasion of Russia in 2022
• Ukrainian open data from the local level
• Implementing a project approach and data-driven management
• Military-civilian partnerships at the hromada level
• Local budget processes and tax
• Inter-municipal cooperation
• Ukrainian local governance system
• Sociological research
We work with:
Main Research Streams
Press
2024
2023
– Factors of community resilience during the war. Exploring the impact of economics, governance and engagement (In Ukrainian only)
– International partnerships are one of the factors of resilience of Ukrainian hromadas. What can hromadas that are still without a partner do?(In Ukrainian only)
– “Military” PIT: How the Tax Allocation System Can Change and What It Will Lead To
Video’s
2023
– 13.12.2023 Mapping Ukraine’s democratic space in 40 localities
– 30.11.2023 Hromada Resilience Own Income&Cooperation as Key Factors Center for Sociological Research
– LPSA Expert Working Group on Europe & Central Asia – Open Meeting – October 2023
– 18.10.2023 Ukrainian Hromadas’ Data Repository For Researchers Presentation And Discussion
– 11.05.2023 Workshop “Community data for research: where to get it, where to use it, and how to use it” (only in Ukrainian)
– 06.07.2023 Expert discussion “Formation of policies for recovery and sustainable development of hromadas(only in Ukrainian)
Participation
2023
– 10.07.2023 PeaceRep’s workshop in Vienna “Ukraine’s Place in a Fragmented World Order”
– 24.02.2023 A 24-hour marathon “Ukrainathon 2023”
– 12.10.2023 10th IOS Annual Conference IOS-Jahrestagung: “(Re-)Ordering Eastern Europe”
– 19.05.2023 International conference “Forward and Upward: Reforming Ukraine during the War”