LOCAL GOVERNMENT-BUSINESS INTERSECTORAL PARTNERSHIP IN TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES: EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

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Community partnership capacity is its ability to actively interact with various partner actors from other sectors on a contractual basis in various spheres of social and economic life. Partnerships increase the potential of communities, trigger synergies, and increase the capacity of communities to identify, evaluate, analyze and influence the state of any social and economic problems that is important for the community.The article summarizes the characteristics of the current state of interaction between local governments and business (the level of interaction "local government-business") in the context of joint solutions to problems of social and economic development. The characteristics of intersectoral partnership at this level, problems and obstacles in its organization are determined. The article considers the results of a poll of enterprises of Zakarpattia region (questionnaire) and local governments of territorial communities (method of the indepth semi-structured interviews) on their vision of their own participation in the intersectoral partnership. This poll was conducted as part of the research "Partnership Approaches to Community Development in a Polyethnic Border Region". The poll identified the resources that a business needs from such a partnership and the resources that it invests or is willing to invest in it. It also identified the main reasons that motivate business to cooperate and the main benefits it expects from intersectoral partnerships. The existing "local government-business" connections that have developed in the territorial communities of Zakarpattia, depending on the types of territorial communities (rural, township, city), are analyzed. It is important that the government is aware of the factor of development of the institutional environment through the intensification of partnerships. The development of institutional foundations may not be immediately felt by the community. But it provides knowledge, experience, and thecorrect and effective decisions in the long runfor the social and economic development of the territorial communities.

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