Participatory Budget as a Tool for Local Community Development in Ukraine
Participatory Budget as a Tool for Local Community Development in Ukraine

Summary/Abstract: The sustainable development of the local self-government institute in moderndemocracies, the introduction of the principles of subsidiarity, regionalization and decentralization show a clear need for implementing the systemic reforms aimed at strengthening local initiatives in Ukraine. Therefore, there is a need to increase therole of self-governing structures, to grapple for the ways of adaptating governance at the regional level to the long-standing European traditions of democratic governance, and to address the procedural issues of the power distribution, transferand delegation, in particular the formation and distribution of local budgets. One of the most effective tools to enhance local communities is a participatory budget, the implementation of which in Ukraine is gaining momentum and needs to beanalyzed, and to be supported upon its successful realization. This article focuses onthe analysis of the implementation of participatory budget as an instrument of thelocal community development in Ukraine in the case of the city of Sumy.

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