Collection SEPSPU -- sep2019.01.046

UDC 336.14:352/354(477.83); JEL R59, H61, H83
Zhabynets, O. (2019). Informatsiyna publichnist' i prozorist' byudzhetnoho protsesu v OTH L'vivs'koyi oblasti: otsinka ta shlyakhy pokrashchennya [Information publicity and transparency of budget process in the consolidated territorial communities of Lvivska oblast: estimation and ways of improvement]. In Sotsial'no-ekonomichni problemy suchasnoho periodu Ukrayiny [Socio-Economic Problems of the Modern Period of Ukraine]: Vol. 135 (1) (pp. 46-52). DOI: https://doi.org/10.36818/2071-4653-2019-1-9. [in Ukrainian].
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Authors

Zhabynets Olha Yosyfivna

Ph.D. of Economics, Associate Professor

Researcher of the Department of spatial development of the Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of NAS of Ukraine

Contacts: olza@ukr.net, (+38067)38-88-233

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Resume

In the process of decentralization in Ukraine, the information transparency of the management becomes important, which implies the openness and accessibility of information for all members of society. It reflects the current and perspective states of the reform process. Decentralization means not only a transferring of powers, but also financial resources and responsibilities from public authorities to local authorities. So the information publicity and transparency of the budget process should become the key indicator to estimate the effectiveness of the management of the finances of the consolidated territorial communities (CTCs). The purpose of the article is to evaluate and propose ways to increase the information publicity and transparency of the budget process at the local level. The author analyzes the implementation of the requirements of the Ukrainian legislation about informational publicity and transparency of the budget process in the CTCs of Lvivska oblast established in 2015-2017 and shows positive and negative moments in displaying of financial information on CTCs’ sites. A number of measures are proposed to increase the information publicity and transparency of the budget process at the local level. The author considers that in order to ensure publicity and transparency of the budget process in the CTCs of Lvivska oblast it is necessary: to unify and maximally simplify the mechanism of access of CTCs’ members to financial information through the standardization of the procedure for disclosure of information about the budget process; to increase the personal responsibility of the heads of the CTCs for the lack of financial information that is due to be published on the site of communities; to continuously monitor the availability and updating of information about the budget process on the CTCs’ sites in order to respond in a timely manner to the appearance of possible negative trends; to take preventive measures with the use of appropriate sanctions (fine, removal from office, etc.) in cases of delaying the submission of actual financial information to the site of CTCs, the disclosure of information in its entirety, the discovery of unreliability of financial information or other manipulations with figures or financial documents filed on CTCs’ website.

Keywords:

budget process, informational publicity and transparency of budgetary process, disclosure of information, CTC, Lvivska oblast

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