The Development of Local Self-Government in the Course of Reforming the Territorial Structure of Ukraine

• Main Author: Krasnonosova Yelena N.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Research Centre of Industrial Problems of Development of NAS of Ukraine 2018-05-01
• Series: Bìznes Inform
• Subjects: territorial communities; local self-government; decentralization of power; administrative-territorial structure
• Online Access: http://www.business-inform.net/export_pdf/business-inform-2018-5_0-pages-105_110.pdf

The purpose of the reform of administrative-territorial structure is to determine the rational spatial basis for the organization of public power to ensure the accessibility and quality of the social and administrative services provided, efficient use of public resources, sustainable development of territories, possibility to respond adequately to the social and economic challenges, and implementation of the State regional policy. There is an urgent need to find ways to change the existing system and to form an administrative structure that corresponds to the current political, socio-economic situation and facilitates a dynamic development of the country’s regions. Such activities require consideration of the interaction and interrelations between the territorial entities in the national socio-economic system, between the central and local branches of government, the search for ways to revitalize socio-economic processes. The State regulation of development of territories should be directed to reformation of the local self-government by methods of decentralization of power authorities, consolidation of resource provision and strategic planning of development of territorial communities. Neither decentralization, nor consolidation, nor strategic planning are possible without administrative and territorial reforming of cardinal character and content.