ACTIVITY OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN CHALLENGES: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

Abstract

Local self-government is a powerful potential for state-building and one of the fundamental principles of democratic state-building, as it combines the interests of the state, society and the individual, and also combines the rights and freedoms of man and citizen with the interests of the state and society. According to the Constitution of Ukraine, local self-government is the right of a territorial community – residents of a village or a voluntary association of residents of several villages, towns and cities – to independently resolve issues of local importance within the framework of the Constitution and laws of Ukraine. In the course of studying the activities of local self-government bodies, urgent problems of the quality of staffing of local self-government bodies were identified. The most important ones include the lack of qualified personnel, retraining and advanced training of local government officials in the relevant educational institutions, ensuring proper interaction between executive authorities and local governments, and corruption. The experience of the European Union countries demonstrates a wide range of different specializations, which is facilitated by the availability of a common information and methodological base for the system of training and advanced training of municipal officials.