The Committee on State Building, Local Governance, Regional and Urban Development approved the Recommendations of the hearings on the topic: “State regional policy: challenges, risks, opportunities”.
The participants of the hearings noted that the state regional policy should create conditions for dynamic, balanced development of the state and its regions, ensuring their social and economic unity, improving the living standards of the population, compliance with social standards guaranteed by the state. However, in the current system of financing regional development projects at the expense of the State Fund for Regional Development, there are a number of legislative and organizational issues.
The hearings were held in the format of a video conference with the assistance and support of the Ministry of Community and Territorial Development, the Civil Society Institute with the participation of MPs, representatives of executive authorities, local governments and their leading associations, research institutions and NGOs.
As a result of a comprehensive analysis of the situation on the ways of development of state regional policy, a number of recommendations were proposed to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, local governments and local state administrations, research institutions and non-governmental organizations.