Daily Archive 16.11.2023

N̶̸̲̅e̶̸̲̅w̶̸̲̅ old mechanism for transferring funds from Odesa’s budget to NGOs

At an extraordinary city council session, the mayor of Odesa announced the development of a new legal mechanism intended to  speed up assistance to troops on the front line. Apparently, the mayor’s office’s legal department is looking for a way to  involve civic organisations in purchasing this assistance with budget funds. Zelenyi Lyst points out that, until now, the city has had no problem involving civic organisations in implementing the budget. Let us try to understand what additional mechanism is being discussed.

The list of civic organisations that received funds directly from the city budget can be consulted by downloading the file “Unified Register of Budget Spending Units and Recipients of Budget Funds” from the official website of the State Treasury Service of Ukraine, as of 01.11.2023.

Zelenyi Lyst has already done this for you

We will list only those recipients of budget funds served by the Odesa city treasury, grouping them by the chief spending units of the city budget. The following 37 recipients of budget funds fall under the Odesa City Council’s Department of Internal Policy:

№№	EDRPOU code	Name
1	40292127	Civic Organisation “Evolution of a Generation”
2	44285037	Civic Organisation “Institute for the Sociocultural Development of Young People with Disabilities and the Protection of Their Rights ‘Step into the Future’”
3	41206416	Civic Organisation “Odesa City Branch of the Veterans’ Association”
4	42697983	Charitable Organisation “Dobrodar+ Charitable Foundation”
5	35358311	Civic Organisation “Ehida”
6	25933493	Civic Organisation “German Youth in the Odesa Region”
7	20997768	Odesa City Veterans’ Organisation
8	25815996	Civic Organisation “Residents of Besieged Leningrad”
9	23862632	Odesa Regional Organisation /Branch/ of the All-Ukrainian Veterans’ Association
10	26133419	Civic Organisation  “Odesa-Basket Sports Club for People with Disabilities”
11	20979546	Charitable Foundation for the Social Protection of Citizens in Old Age “Our Future”
12	34598362	Civic Organisation “Votum Centre”
13	03583338	Odesa City Society of People with Disabilities of the All-Ukrainian Organisation of People with Disabilities “Union of Organisations of People with Disabilities of Ukraine”
14	38156004	Civic Organisation “Atletyk Children’s and Youth Football Club”
15	40688914	Civic Organisation “Line of Defence”
16	38643523	Civic Organisation of People with Disabilities “Road of Kindness”
17	34738857	Civic Organisation “Hillel Jewish Youth Centre”
18	26303152	Civic Organisation “Youth Development Centre”
19	01463653	Civic Organisation “ODESA CITY UNION OF DISABLED VETERANS OF THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN (INTERNATIONALIST SOLDIERS)”
20	39785723	Charitable Organisation “Serhii Isaiovych Utochkin Foundation for the Development of Sport and Civic Initiatives in Odesa”
21	35048968	Civic Organisation “Odesa City Organisation of Participants in the ATO and Hostilities in Other Countries ‘Military Memorial’”
22	37759471	Civic Organisation “Special Children”
23	38226144	Civic Organisation “Medical Truth”
24	40009344	Public Union “Odesa City Organisation of the Ukrainian Union of Afghanistan Veterans (Internationalist Soldiers)”
25	40707926	Civic Organisation “Union for Assistance to Servicemen and Veterans of Odesa”
26	41188261	Public Union “Association of Civic Organisations of Participants, Veterans and Disabled Veterans of the Anti-Terrorist Operation of Odesa City and Odesa Oblast”
27	38109310	Charitable Organisation “Odesa City Charitable Organisation for Assistance to Children with Down Syndrome ‘Sunny Children’”
28	40016393	Civic Organisation “Odesa Regional Organisation of Participants in the Anti-Terrorist Operation ‘Brothers-in-Arms’”
29	37351433	Civic Organisation “Illia Muromets”
30	13873675	Civic Organisation “Union of Afghanistan Veterans of Odesa’s Suvorovskyi District”
31	39585672	Charitable Foundation “Life for You”
32	37137059	Charitable Foundation “Path to Freedom”
33	39044946	Civic Organisation “Airborne Troops Veterans ‘Union of Odesa Paratroopers’”
34	42583518	Civic Organisation “Future Youth Platform”
35	40119946	Civic Organisation “Odesa Union of ATO Veterans and Disabled Veterans”
36	42847577	Civic  Organisation “Happiness for Everyone”
37	43910097	Civic Organisation “Odesa Union of Airborne Troops Veterans”

Another 24 recipients of budget funds fall under the Odesa City Council’s Department of Labour and Social Policy:

№№	EDRPOU code	Name
1	24533439	Odesa Regional Charitable Foundation for the Rehabilitation of Children with Disabilities “Future”
2	26568790	Charitable Organisation “Social Protection of Citizens in Old Age ‘Warm Home’”
3	26542247	Civic Organisation “Peresypchanka”
4	34321888	CHARITABLE FOUNDATION “HESED SHAAREI ZION”
5	35503135	Civic Organisation “Academic Centre ‘Science and Education’”
6	35768243	Charitable Organisation “Pchelka Charitable Foundation”
7	26301874	CHARITABLE FOUNDATION “MEDICAL CENTRE ‘HOPE,  KINDNESS AND WELL-BEING’”
8	21008224	Civic Organisation “Human Rights Society ‘Commonwealth’”
9	39860669	Charitable Organisation “Revival and Unity Foundation”
10	37810815	Civic Organisation “Legal Corporation”
11	36851012	Civic Organisation “Institute for Health Care and Social Protection of People with Disabilities”
12	36154210	Civic Organisation “Invacentre”
13	33722956	Charitable Organisation “Spiritual Revival of Odesa Charitable Foundation”
14	41074189	Civic Organisation “Large Families and Socially Vulnerable Citizens of Odesa ‘Our Home’”
15	39151101	Civic Organisation “All-Ukrainian Union for Active Longevity ‘IT-GRANDMOTHERS’”
16	38696486	Civic Organisation “New Life Christian Mission”
17	43188750	Civic Organisation “Special Youth Foundation”
18	42885950	Civic Organisation “Council of Large Families ‘Odesa’s Future’”
19	40985898	Civic Organisation “Association of Women of Ukraine ‘Diia’”
20	42958578	Civic Organisation “Paradise Hill”
21	42803197	Charitable Organisation “Odesa Family”
22	44113984	Civic Organisation “Lessons of Kindness”
23	21009873	Youth Civic Organisation “Student Communication Centre”
24	39516352	CIVIC ORGANISATION “ALL-UKRAINIAN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ENTREPRENEURS”

Another 8 recipients of budget funds fall under the Odesa City Council’s Office of Physical Culture and Sport:

№№	EDRPOU code	Name
1	41904186	Civic Organisation “Odesa Rugby Federation”
2	41439508	Separate Subdivision of the All-Ukrainian Civic Organisation “Ice Hockey Federation of Ukraine” in Odesa Oblast
3	26006543	Branch of the Civic Organisation “National Olympic Committee of Ukraine” in Odesa Oblast
4	35697424	CIVIC ORGANISATION “CITY BASKETBALL FEDERATION”
5	36919515	Civic Organisation “Odesa City Basketball Federation”
6	26388906	Civic Organisation “Water Polo Federation of Odesa Oblast”
7	42053510	Public Union “Odesa Regional Volleyball Federation”
8	40097509	Civic Organisation “Odesa City Chess Federation”

The Odesa City Council’s Department of Ecology and Development of Recreational Areas has one recipient of budget funds:

EDRPOU code	Name
25431882	Civic Organisation “Odesa Institute of Social Technologies”

The Odesa City Council’s Department of Culture and Tourism also has one recipient of budget funds:

EDRPOU code	Name
37080689	Limited Liability Company “Ukrainian Film Festival”

If you open the Procedure for Compiling the Unified Register of Budget Spending Units and Recipients of Budget Funds, you can see that not every recipient entered in the Unified Register will necessarily receive budget funds. But to receive budget funds, a civic organisation must be entered in the Unified Register.

In recent years, substantial funds from Odesa’s budget have been transferred to civic and charitable organisations.

The question arises: does the mayor’s office really still lack a procedure for transferring such funds? Perhaps they have forgotten how it is done? We can already see at least two interesting responses to the #everything for the Armed Forces of Ukraine campaign from our  f̶̸̲̅e̶̸̲̅u̶̸̲̅d̶̸̲̅a̶̸̲̅l̶̸̲̅ ̶̸̲̅l̶̸̲̅o̶̸̲̅r̶̸̲̅d̶̸̲̅s̶̸̲̅  mayors. You can call everyone idiots, as Filatov did, or you can resolve it by looking for “legal mechanisms”.

We very much hope that, when such a mechanism is found, our highly esteemed Hennadii Leonidovych will share it with the mayors of all the other 56 cities where protests against non-priority spending are also taking place!