TYPOLOGY OF PROJECT ACTIVITY IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE

Abstract

The project approach has a long history of its use as a methodological basis for development. In the public sphere, the project management methodology allows us to analyze the problem field, determine promising development paths and relevant project goals, as well as ensure the goals achievement in conditions of limited resources and the changeable environment. However, in the current development stage of the public sphere in Ukraine, there are new examples of project activities that can be initiated, funded and carried out by completely new subjects, such as local communities members. This creates the need to review some of the methods and approaches in project management. Therefore, the aim of the paper is to discover new types of project activities with a corresponding expansion of the typology of projects and programs in the public sphere, aimed at justifying the choice of the most optimal and effective project management tools. To solve this problem, an analysis of modern domestic and foreign experience in solving public problems in a project format was carried out. Based on the results of the analysis, new types of project activities were established and the prospects for their use in the domestic project management practice were evaluated. Based on the A. Chemerys typology of projects in the public sphere, its improvement was proposed and justified. According to the initiation source of project activities in the public sphere, a new type of projects was discovered, which is initiated by representatives of local communities within the framework of public participation budgets. A new type of projects and programs in spatial development has been discovered by its essence that combines the features of project activities in several sectors of the public sphere. According to the source of financing project activities in the public sphere, a new type of investment was established in the form of crowdfunding. The resulting typology can be used later as a theoretical basis for substantiating the choice of effective and efficient methods for managing relevant projects and programs in the public sphere.