The Institute for Analysis of State and Regional Policy has developed a model for the regional redistribution of village councils in the Rozhyshche district. Instead of 28 village councils, six should remain in the district. This was reported to the Western Information Corporation on February 15 by the acting director of the IASRP, Iryna Kalynchuk.\n\nThe innovation was presented at a meeting of the expert group held at the premises of the Institute for Analysis of State and Regional Policy in accordance with its ongoing project "The Power of the Community Lies in the Openness of Government," which is being implemented with the support of the International Fund "VOX POPULI" (project manager – Viktor Penko).\n\nAccording to this model, instead of 28 village councils, six should remain in the district. Each village council will have no fewer than 4,500 residents, a certain financial space for the rational use of funds received by the village council in order to provide every village with full medical services, modern preschool and school education, information services, proper leisure, observance of citizens' rights, their social insurance, and so on.\n\nAccording to the project managers, an important element of the reform should be the development of forms of public self-organization, primarily such as village committees. They are called upon to monitor the general processes of village life, the work of the village council, and to initiate measures by official authorities to resolve urgent issues of a specific village.