ОКРЕМІ АСПЕКТИ ОРГАНІЗАЦІЇ ІНФОРМАЦІЙНО-АНАЛІТИЧНОГО ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ ПУБЛІЧНОГО УПРАВЛІННЯ РЕГІОНАЛЬНИМ РОЗВИТКОМ

Abstract

Problem setting. Public administration formulates and implements regional policy facing such challenges as uncertainty, risks and real security threats, limited resources, the need for their effective distribution, resistance to public administration innovations, mistrust to power institutions, the need to align interests of a wide range of stakeholders and also taking into account global development trends.Information and analytical provision for public administration is intended to give appropriate support. However, its current level does not meet the needs of public authorities and civil society in qualitative information supply and analytical support to make reasonable decisions in the course of current activities and for medium and long-term planning of regional development.Recent research and publications analysis. The publications analysis reflects the different contexts in which the information and analytical support for public administration of regional development is highlighted, and that is 1) an element of the regional development management system necessary to improve the mechanisms of public administration; 2) means of state regional policy implementation; 3) a part of the method of statistical study of the regions’ development; component of designing information-analytical systems and technologies in public administration.The paper objective. The purpose of the study is to identify the essential aspects of information and analytical provision for public administration of regional development in accordance with current needs.The paper main body. In general, the role of information and analytical support for public administration is to obtain derivative, processed information from collected separate data, and that is the background for making and reasoning managerial decisions. Therefore, it is obvious that information and analytical support are interconnected and complementary.Public administration of regional development is built on state and regional development strategies, which are part of a system of interconnected documents to implement the state regional policy. The strategic planning documents development should be preceded by significant informational and analytical work as far as it allows public authorities to determine the current situation, to identify problems, to model different development scenarios, to predict their outcomes with high accuracy and to choose the most optimal.The legislation says that the process of positive changes in different fields of livelihoods of regions must be balanced, dynamic, should improve the living standards and ensure the social and economic unity of the regions. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor and evaluate the results of the regional development policy on the basis of statistic information and its analysis.Conclusions of the research1. After studying the essential aspects of the concept of information and analytical provision for public administration, it is proposed to clarify its definition in the sphere of regional development in the following wording: “informational and analytical provision for public administration of regional development is a set of interrelated methods, measures and means to implement technologies of collecting, selecting, transmitting, transforming, storing and displaying of information about the current situation, forecasts and the objectives of development of livelihoods of the regions for effective public administration and raising the level of welfare of people”.2. As a result the research proves that organizing information and analytical support plays an important role in a successful public regional development policy serving as a mechanism for forming, argumentation and making the managerial decisions, effective implementation ofpublic administration functions of regional development, in particular, planning, coordination, monitoring and evaluation, as well as identifying problem situations in different fields of regions’ life, modeling scenarios for development, formulating and implementing regional policy objectives, developing strategies and programs for regional development, anticipating the policy outcomes.