P-CED activism leads to results in Ukraine

20:22 30/10/09

Jeff Mowatt said: When P-CED founder found himself unwelcome as a UK visitor in 2004 it was a case of returning to Ukraine where he'd recently completed a proposal for economic development through social enterprise for the Tatar community in Crimea.

He gave an interview to Inci Bowman of the International Committee for Crimea, describing the work which had preceded in Russia after his white paper for a new economic paradigm became relevant to the economic crisis there in 1998.

In the interview he describes the success in Russia and the inherent flaws of orthodox capitalism which P-CED sought to address.

http://www.iccrimea.org/scholarly/economicdev.html

We learned last week after a hiatus of 6 years, that the EU now plans to invest in economic development in this region. recognising as he'd done earlier the importance of stability in this peninsula.

In the same week, it was announced that reforms introduced in childcare in recent years had begun to make a difference to the numbers of domestic adoption. Advocacy for these changes had led to the delivery of the 'Marshall Plan' paper calling on support from US government. As a result USAID created the East Europe Foundation whith Ukraine adopting the childcare recommendations as policy. Progress can be seen step by step, in the links of the P-CED commercial site.

http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/51172/

http://people-centered.net/About.aspx

It was back in 2004 that P-CED incorporated as a UK registered business which earns revenue by providing software development services to the UK public sector and public corporations.
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Another spin off from the 'Marshall Plan' is the concept of a social enterprise investment fund, which set clearly defined social objectives and included the full spectrum of social enterprise typology.

http://en.for-ua.com/analytics/2007/08/09/110003.html

Jeff