The analytical note “EECMD Roundtable on Decentralisation in Ukraine and Odesa Oblast” is written by Dr. Sierhiei Sakhanienko, expert from Odesa Regional Institute for Public Administration. It summarizes the arguments and propositions put forward by the experts during the EECMD roundtable in Odesa on 16 November 2017. It questions, among others, the economic, political and policy rationales for the decentralization debate, further effects of decentralization on political parties and Ukrainian political system as well as the challenges it represents to local actors.

See the publication in English.