METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH TO ASSESSMENT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF TERRITORIAL AND PRODUCTION FORMATIONS IN THE CONDITIONS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT REFORM

Abstract

The scientific article analyzes the main methods of assessing the level of sustainable development, identifies the features and difficulties of their use at all stages of local government reform. Methodical approaches to the assessment of sustainable development of territorial-production formations in the context of local self-government reform are substantiated. The purpose of the article is to assess the level of sustainable development of united territorial communities in the implementation of decentralization reform; the use of methodological tools, the formation of convenient and effective approaches to measuring sustainable development, which will give an unambiguous interpretation of the results and will be of high value from both research and management points of view. The complexity and impossibility of using complex systems for assessing the level of sustainable development due to the incomplete amount of information in the united territorial communities, the lack of interaction between the deputies and the executive branch, business and science. Possible directions of influence of territorial-production formations on the economy of united territorial communities are determined. The article proposes a system of basic and consolidated indicators of sustainable development of territorial-production formations and provides an interpretation of the results of integrated assessment of sustainable development. The main problems in the field of economy that hinder the process of ensuring sustainable socio-economic development are outlined. Considerable attention is paid to scientific and methodological support, development, and implementation and updating of sustainable development strategies, where the central condition is a single methodology for assessing the level of sustainable development of territorial production, which will conduct a comparative analysis in the sub region, region and Ukraine as a whole. The need for further study of economic parameters of development taking into account the emergence of new factors of influence in the changing conditions of the economic environment, the processes of which are in a state of constant movement and instability.