CBA Project is financed by European Union and co-financed and implemented by UNDP. Its overall objective is to create an enabling environment for long-term self-sustaining social-economic and community development at local level by promoting local self-governance and community-based initiatives throughout Ukraine including 25 regions, 200 rayons, 900 village/city councils and 900 local communities. The project period is for 4 years. Key activity of the Project is to support local communities in carrying out community projects. Details on the CBA Project can be found at

Organizational Context
CBA Project aims to build capacity of rural communities and local authorities for joint decision-making on local development agenda, implementation of community priorities and delivery of communal services. To this end, social mobilisation tool is used for changing the mindset of community members and local authorities to recognize the value of participatory governance and community based local development and adopt these principles at their own level. To materialize these principles into a set of support structures (local development forums or LDFs, regional coordination councils or RCCs, community resource centers or CRCs, and community organisations or COs) are developed as a platform to engage local authorities and citizens in dialogue on local development issues across Ukraine. The Project has regional implementation unit (community resource centre) established jointly by the Project and the regional authorities. A community development officer, placed at this unit/centre, implements vision of CBA Project in close coordination with oblast authorities, rayon authorities, local councils and target communities.
Under the supervision of Community Development Specialist and overall supervision of project management team, the incumbent will scale up the application of the community based local development methodology.