Comprehensive interregional research of public participation in the process of consolidation and development of local communities (LC) was conducted in six regions of Ukraine: Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv, Lugansk, Mykolaiv and Odesa regions.
46 LC were researched in these regions. Three types of LC were researched separately: those which have been integrated (20 integrated local communities (ILC)), those which plan to be integrated (12 LC) and those which tried but failed (14 LC).
While assessment of public participation in the process of reform decentralization, the following issues were studied: 1) creation of conditions for public participation in voluntary LC associations by the government; 2) participation of LC members in the process of initiation, consolidation and development of integrated communities; 3) implementation of mechanisms for government-public interaction on the basis of partnership and solidarity.
Public participation was studied at all major stages of integration and development of integrated communities. Possible forms of public participation were studied at each of these stages. Based on estimates of public participation made by the experts for each phase of integration and development of studied ILC, ILC rating was formed on the basis of the level of public participation.
Study was conducted by means of the following:
- Analysis of 12 types of local regulatory legal acts concerning public participation
- Analysis of the results of the expert survey of 597 respondents
- Analysis of 69 interviews
- Analysis of sites and local mass-media (78 sources)
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