PROBLEMS OF FORMATION OF ASYMETRIC JOINED TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES: COMMUNICATIVE ASPECT

Abstract

The authors suggest non-standard views on the process of decentralization in Ukraine. The processes of establishing communication in the newly formed communities have been analyzed. The authors note that the careful planning and implementation of communicative strategies is necessary for making administrative decisions and is carried out through informational and educational measures aimed at raising the level of public culture, increasing self-organization of the population and public activity.

Among the necessary measures the author suggests making changes to the positions of starosta; defininig mechanisms of cooperation between local government body of the united territorial community, starostas and the body of selforganization of the population, forming and approving the Regulation, which regulates the procedure for formation and functioning of the body of self-organization of the population; in the Statute of the united territorial community establishing the procedure and determining the mechanisms for participation of citizents of peripheral settlements in decision-making process, ensuring a highquality Internet for citizens including residents of peripheral settlements, organizing educational events to provide citizen with basic knowledge of work on personal computer and Internet; creating a separate communicative unit of local government body in order to promote the functioning and development of bodies of self-organization of the population and the peripheral settlements, ensure communication between them. The authors focuse on the necessity to establish communicative policies of local government bodies on the one hand, and culture of public participation of residents of territorial unities, what should contribute to transparency and openness in the activity of local government bodies, reduce social tension and ensure further movement in the field of democratic transformations.