Updating the CoR material on the Division of Powers

Project

18 Sep 2024 - 10 Feb 2025

Martyna Gliniecka

Katsiaryna Kasykh

Date:

18 Sep 2024 - 10 Feb 2025
Client: European Committee of the Regions :
Project leader: Milieu Consulting srl:
Partner: CASE – Centre for Social and Economic Research :

Martyna Gliniecka
Martyna Gliniecka holds a PhD in Linguistics, specialising in cross-cultural communication, from the University of Wroclaw. She is awaiting the finalisation of her second PhD in the Culture and Society field from Western Sydney University, Australia. She previously led and participated in research projects in the Young and Resilient Research Centre at Western Sydney University, aiming to better young people’s lives and their resilience in the domains of technology and health. She specialises in qualitative research methods, participatory methodologies, and digital research (e.g., digital ethnography). She is especially interested in online communities and their role in the growing domain of youth digital health.

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Katsiaryna Kasykh
Katsiaryna Kasykh is an experienced project and program and manager with over 18 years of expertise, specializing in territorial and cross-border cooperation program and project management, territorial marketing, ecology, sustainable development, area-based development, and humanitarian aid projects. She has successfully implemented numerous social and humanitarian projects, combining her skills in strategic planning and management with a deep commitment to fostering collaboration across regions. Ms. Kasykh holds a MA degree in Management and Economics from Brest State Technical University and a postgraduate diploma in Customs Law from Belarusian State University. For over 15 years she was on managerial position in NGO Sector in Belarus. Her professional background includes leading roles in designing and managing large-scale initiatives funded by local and international donors (incl. EU, UN,UNDP, UNHCR,USAID), with a focus on environmental issues, sustainable development, and community-led projects. Additionally, Ms. Kasykh has extensive expertise in Eastern Partnership programs, working on cross-border cooperation strategies and contributing to regional development initiatives. Her work in developing regional development strategies, overseeing cross-border cooperation programs, and delivering impactful area-based development projects demonstrates her ability to create solutions that address complex regional challenges while promoting ecological and social sustainability.

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The Division of Powers (DoP) project is one of the flagship initiatives of the European Committee of the Regions. It was initiated in 1999, with a dedicated online platform set up in 2012, and a Decentralisation index added in 2021. The DoP provides an overview of levels of institutional and fiscal decentralisation in 53 countries: EU Member States, candidate countries, Eastern Partnership countries and non-European members of ARLEM. It also covers the UK and Iceland, because at the time of completion the former was still a Member State and the latter was a candidate country (these countries will be removed from the online presence of the project).

It shows the legal bases for the various governance structures in the respective countries. Quantitative and qualitative data allow for cross-national comparisons in the most important policy areas. An interactive map provides additional information on systems of multilevel governance and subsidiarity mechanisms in each country.

The study would serve to update the material that the European Committee of the Regions has been developing on the DoP. There is a pressing need to update the existing material on the Division of Powers, given the fact that on the one hand, the scaling down of support by Microsoft will lead to the decommissioning of the platform which is currently hosting the DoP website in the next two years, and on the other hand, the content on the website is outdated in many areas. The main part of the study would serve to provide updates on the existing material on the division of powers in a certain number of countries, in line with the current political priorities of CIVEX and the CoR. These should include the enlargement countries (candidate countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Moldova, Georgia, North Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Türkiye and Ukraine; Potential candidate: Kosovo*).

At the same time, the study would look into the best way to ensure updates of the information on other countries and explore possibilities of having a certain level of interactivity, considering that a new formatting is needed given that the existing platform would be decommissioned. The preferred option is to present the information in a booklet/PDF style with certain interactive properties compatible with upload on the EU’s Publications Office (as any other CoR publication or study). It needs to be noted that the CoR does not have any hosting capacity for separate websites, and can only accept open-source files such as PDF (and not any Adobe or other proprietary file types).

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Updating the CoR material on the Division of Powers

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Client: European Committee of the Regions :

Project leader: Milieu Consulting srl:

Partner: CASE – Centre for Social and Economic Research :

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