On 13.09.2023, a new U-LEAD training programme "Steps for Specialists: Project Cycle Management-2023". During the first workshop, our project team got acquainted with the main training activities, principles of work and expected results. First of all, the training programme should strengthen the institutional sustainability of the Shpola urban community in attracting external resources through the training of project teams. The participants of the programme were teams consisting of representatives of local authorities - Viktoriia Zakharchuk, Head of the Investment Development and Information Support Department, Iryna Tkachenko, Head of the NGO "For the Development of Shpolianshchyna", and Alyona Karbivnycha, economist at Kommunalnyk, ShmRTG, with the project "Recycling of waste car tyres into rubber crumbs on the basis of a municipal enterprise". Attracting additional resources on a project basis is becoming increasingly important in the context of military aggression against Ukraine and limited budget funding in communities, as well as post-war reconstruction prospects.