INNOVATIVE TOOLS FOR PUBLIC MANAGEMENT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES

The article aims to analyze the administrative-territorial reform in Ukraine, identify the problems of organizing the territorial management system, and identify innovative tools for public management of territorial communities' development. The place and role of the territorial community in the budgetary system of Ukraine and the problems associated with the functioning of territorial communities at the present stage of development have been determined. The features of the implementation of the decentralization reform are analyzed, the main tasks of which are determined, firstly, to achieve the optimal distribution of powers between local governments and executive authorities. Secondly - to create capable territorial communities as the basic link of the administrative-territorial structure. The article examines the key vectors of modernization of state management of social development of regions. Specific proposals for improving the institutional, functional, organizational and financial foundations of state and administrative influence on social processes in the regions have been substantiated. The necessity of developing long-term plans for developing communities as a safeguard for the spread of incapable (weak) subsidized communities has been substantiated. Forms of state support for the formation and development of territorial communities have been determined, including the development of the State strategy for regional development, strategies for regional development of territories, development strategies for united communities, action plans for the implementation of development strategies.