The purpose of the study is to assess the impact of European integration processes in Ukraine on the development of investment potential and institutional maturity of rural communities. As a result of the analysis of strategic documents of all rural communities of Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv and Rivne regions, a low level of institutional capacity to attract investments was established. Based on the analysis of the strategies, programs, and investment passports of 79 united territorial communities, it is found that only 39.2% of them have approved development strategies, and 45% of communities have socioeconomic development plans. To assess the challenges and threats arising during the process of implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, the author's methodology was developed and the method of expert assessments was applied-the survey involved 75 experts from 20 regions of Ukraine. It is found that there are much more opportunities (59) than threats (17) at the level of rural communities. Such findings, together with low community activity in attracting investment and developing investment attractiveness, indicate that decentralization and new opportunities arising from European integration processes are still underutilized and are a sign of low institutional maturity of rural communities.
The unified territorial communities are new structural units in the administrative system of Ukraine. In addition to the problems of regulatory and financial nature, issues of scientific and methodological substantiation of the processes of strategic development of the unified territorial communities on the principles of applying modern methodologies and project management practices are also relevant. The article develops methodological approaches to the formation and management of project portfolios for the implementation of strategies for the sustainable development of unified territorial communities on the principles of applying a value-oriented model of project management. The organizational aspects of the introduction of project management in the united territorial communities have been developed based on the creation of a project management office (committee) for managing strategies. The proposed approaches to the formation of territorial strategies will help to ensure the community's economic development and the effectiveness of utilizing the resources available to the communities.
Research is aimed at the improvement of methods and tools to assess the portfolio of regional economic development projects basing on the application of the system theory, algorithmic modelling, methods of expert evaluation, decomposition and synthesis. A methodical approach is proposed to establish the cause-and-effect relationships between strategic and operational goals, their
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