Kulish P. Organizational and Legal Mechanisms for Public Management in the Sphere of International Technical Assistance

Object of the thesis: public management in the sphere of international technical assistance. Purpose: the aim of the thesis is to describe theoretical groundings of the organizational and legal mechanisms for public management of the international technical assistance in Ukraine as well as the ways for improving these mechanisms. Methods: research methods of historical, logical and theoretical analysis; structural, functional, comparative legal and institutional analysis methods; analysis and synthesis methods; methods of comparison, expert assessments and situational analysis; synthesis method of the processed materials. Results: theoretically grounded and improved organizational and legal mechanisms for public management in the sphere of international technical assistance. Novelty: a unified conceptual approach for the monitoring and evaluation system of international technical assistance effectiveness given the project implementation at a regional level has been developed; priority development areas of the public management of the international technical assistance within the decentralization reform have been improved; a conceptual and categorial apparatus of public administration science has been additionally developed; a relevant public policy in terms of getting involved non-state partners in decision-making process has been also developed. Implemented in the Department for Improvement of Regional Competitiveness of Kharkiv Regional State Administration, in National University of Civil Protection of Ukraine. Implementation areas: public administration, local self-government bodies and executive authorities, non-government organizations.