Financial Instruments for Social Infrastructure Development of the Region in Conditions of Decentralization

Abstract

Non-governmental organizations have a potential to meet social needs and perform important civil tasks. Non-governmental organizations make a significant impact to the social life in Poland. They perform activities that provide social infrastructure development of the regions. The cooperation between governmental and non-governmental sector in Poland have different forms. Some of them could be adapted to Ukrainian decentralization conditions. In this connection, studying Polish experience in order to find financial instruments for social infrastructure development of the region in the conditions of decentralization of Ukraine is prospective. As education is one of the most powerful instruments for social infrastructure development and sustainable economic growth, educational projects have been analyzed in the paper in the context of financial cooperation between authorities and non-governmental sector. The objective of the paper is to compare the basic forms of financial cooperation between local government and non-governmental organizations as the determinants of social infrastructure development in Poznan (Poland) and Chernihiv (Ukraine). The paper contains recommendations needed to increase the role of Ukrainian nongovernmental sector in creating public policies and implementing public tasks in the social infrastructure development. The paper includes own studies on the data of open offers contests to support the implementation of Poznan City tasks in the area of science, tertiary education, secondary education and pedagogical work. The results of the research will contribute to the development of financial instruments for social infrastructure development of the region in conditions of decentralization in Ukraine based on Polish experience of cooperation between authorities and non-governmental organizations through the implementation of educational projects on the frameworks of open offers contests approach. The practical value of the research is in the usage of the study`s results in educational and scientific-practical activities in the field of civic budget implementation.