Aspekti Publìčnogo Upravlìnnâ (Aug 2019)
Current state and prospects of the management tools development for territorial communities’ cooperation support in Ukraine
Abstract
The article summarizes the arguments and counterarguments in the framework of scientific discussion of the subject area of territorial communities’s cooperation development in Ukraine, which is clarified in the main normative documents, scientific, practical-oriented and methodical publications. It was stated that in 2013–2018, in the field of scientific and methodological support for processes of territorial communities’ cooperation, a number of analytical materials were prepared regarding the processes of concluding agreements on cooperation’s documentation and methodological recommendations on their basis, educational and practical manuals were issued, several scientific studies were implemented, sections were created on specialized web resources, a distance learning course was developed. It has been determined that these efforts proved to be inadequate, which results in a situation where the number of communities using the mechanism of intermunicipal cooperation in Ukraine remains relatively low. The state and dynamics of development of intermunicipal cooperation processes in Ukraine have been analysed, which allowed formulating a scientific problem that needs to be solved in the near future, namely: there is a contradiction between the urgent needfor the management tools development for territorial communities’ cooperation support in the conditions of decentralization in Ukraine and the lack of conceptual and methodological provision for these processes. A list of the main tasks of integrated scientific research aimed at solving this problem is given, in particular, the study of existing models of territorial communities’ cooperation from the point of view of introducing the necessary changes in the forms, methods and procedures of the domestic public administration bodies, clarification of the concepts of the study’s scope, the definition of the basic principles and practices approved and recognized by the international community, the conceptual model of territorial communities’ cooperation support at the regional level formation, the development of methodological approaches to measuring the success and degree of maturity in the field of territorial communities’ cooperation as the basis of continuous improvement.
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