APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS OF TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES

Abstract

It is established that the work carried out within the framework of U-LEAD, DESPRO, DOBRE Projects and Organizations such as AUC, UADRC and RAUC in the direction of creating financially well-off Communities is not enough. Studies show that, firstly, the level of "own income per capita" does not allow most of the United Territorial Communities to finance Socio-Economic Projects for their own money, and secondly, there are practically no Projects aimed at raising this level, which is the basis of financial solvency (with more than 12.5 thousand Projects registered on the website of the State Regional Development Fund at present, only 6 refer to the section "Social Entrepreneurship and Economic Activity"). This situation is unlikely to improve in the foreseeable future - the number of Unified Communities is growing quite actively - from 159 in 2016 to almost 700 by the end of 2017, and in general as a result of the Decentralization Reform, their number will be measured in thousands. The creation of Project Offices as structural subdivisions of the Regional Development Agency and the introduction into their work of modern "hard" and "soft" Project Management methods, such as the Logical Framework Approach and Agile-management, is an integrated approach to organizational, methodological and technical assistance to the United Territorial Communities in the development and implementation of Socio-Economic Projects. The complex use of "hard" and "soft" Project Management methods will make a closer connection between the stages of the Life Cycle of the Project and the problems of the Life Cycle of its Product, which is especially important in the context of the long-term development of the Region (Territory). They will also allow the United Communities to rely on investors' funds to finance Socio-Economic Projects and obtain a multiplication of their incomes.