Candidate of Economics,
Associate Professor of Hotel Restaurant Business Department
I. Boberskyi Lviv State University of Physical Culture
11, Kostiushko Str., Lviv, 79000, Ukraine,
Tsilnyk Oleg
Director of Private Enterprise „Ukrzakhidpostach“
10 Verbytskoho Str., Lviv, 79013, Ukraine,
CURRENT PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES OF TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT IN CONDITIONS OF AUTHORITIES DECENTRALIZATION IN UKRAINE
Abstract: The paper analyzes the preconditions of conducting the decentralization reform in Ukraine. The place and role of a territorial community in Ukrainian budget system as well as the problems related to functioning of territorial communities at current development stage are outlined. The features of implementation of decentralization reform are analyzed and its major tasks are defined as, in the first place, achievement of optimal distribution of competences between local governments and local executive authorities and, in the second place, creation of capable territorial communities as the basic link of the new administrative and territorial structure. The need to develop perspective plans of communities’ development is emphasized. The forms of state assistance to forming and development of territorial communities are defined, including elaboration of State Regional Development Strategy, strategies of territories’ regional development, strategies of territorial communities’ development as well as action plans for implementation of development strategies.
Key words: administrative and territorial structure, local governance, decentralization reform, development strategy, territorial community.
JEL classification: Н23, Н61, Н73
Bibliography
CABINET of Ministers of Ukraine, 2015. [online]. On Approval of the Methodology for the Formation of Capable Territorial Communities [viewed 7 February 2019]. Available from: http://zakon3.rada.gov.ua/laws / show / 214-2015-% D0% BF
DECENTRALIZATION, 2019. [online]. Monitoring of Decentralization Processes and Forming of Local Governance [viewed 4 February 2019]. Available from: https://storage.decentralization.gov.ua/uploads/library/file/359/10.01.2019.pdf
KAPLAN, Y., 2014. [online]. Expansion of local government basic level of competency in order to effectively ensure the principle of subsidiarity : analytical note. NISI [viewed 8 February 2019]. Available from: http://old.niss.gov.ua/ MONITOR / Juni / 14.htm
NATIONAL Institute for Strategic Studies, 2015. Analytical report to the Annual Message of the President of Ukraine to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine „On the internal and external situation of Ukraine in 2015». Kyiv, pp. 207-208.
NATIONAL Institute for Strategic Studies, 2016. Territorial communities as a basic niche administrative-territorial structure of Ukraine: problems and prospects of reforming. Kiev, 61 p.
VERKHOVNA Rada of Ukraine, 1997. [online]. About local government in Ukraine [viewed 2 February 2019]. Available from: http://zakon2.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/280/97-вр
VERKHOVNA Rada of Ukraine, 2014. [online]. 2020 State Regional Development Strategy [viewed 4 February 2019]. Available from: http://zakon.rada.gov.ua/ go / 385-2014-% D0% BF
VERKHOVNA Rada of Ukraine, 2015a. [online]. On voluntary consolidation of territorial communities [viewed 12 February 2019]. Available from: http://zakon3.rada.gov.ua/ laws / show / 157-19
VERKHOVNA Rada of Ukraine, 2015b. [online]. On Amendments to the Budget Code of Ukraine on the reform of intergovernmental relations [viewed 24 February 2019]. Available from: http://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/79-19