Capacity building of local and regional public administration in Eastern Partnership countries

The main aim of the contract is a preparation of an overview of capacity building programmes and technical assistance currently offered to local and regional authorities (LRAs) in the Eastern Partnership countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova, and Ukraine. The note is structured as follows: Chapter 2 provides an analysis of the state-ofart in terms of the capacity building programmes and projects currently available in each of the EaP countries, with a detailed list of the opportunities identified available in the Annex. Chapter 3 includes an overview of major gaps and bottlenecks and Chapter 4 - suggested solutions for addressing them. Specifically, we list ways through which the European Union could support capacity building of LRAs in the six EaP countries. Finally, we offer suggestions of curricula and training models that could be implemented in the region under investigation.