Development of regional strategies and action plans using sustainable development principles
The national progressive development can be ensured only by taking into account of regional characteristics and an effective regional policy. The role of strategic planning for the territories is currently huge, as it allows to coordinate efforts to achieve long-term goals, ensures sustainable economic, environmental and social situation, provides a decent quality of life, minimizes investment and innovation risks.
For more than 20 years, we have been developing strategies and programs for the development of regions and municipalities in the field of environmental management, environmental protection and sustainable development. We constantly improve approaches to the development of these documents, and participate in their implementation. We also offer the administrations of the regions and municipalities tools for managing the development of territories that ensure the implementation of the developed strategies and programs.
In order to prepare an information-analytical basis for development of a regional strategy, we carry out expert services, including:
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assessment of the state and trends of the socio-economic and environmental development of the region, including analysis of the structure of the gross regional product, determining the role of the region in the country's economy based on available statistics using regional analysis methods;
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analysis of existing programs and other planning documents at the regional and local levels;
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generalization of assessments of conditions, problems and development prospects;
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SWOT analysis of the socio-economic situation in the region, identifying the growth and development capacity, initial conditions for developing the region’s strategy;
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•assessment of expected costs and identification of possible sources of financing;
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synthesis and systematization of materials and opinions expressed during working meetings with regional working groups and industry experts from regional authorities.
We create development strategies taking into account modern principles and approaches used in the international practice of regional development:
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reliance on trends and promising areas of development defined in the main strategic document of the country,
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principles of sustainable development, which means ensuring a balance in solving economic, social and environmental problems through the most efficient use of available resources and opportunities in the interests of present and future generations of the region and the country,
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concentration of efforts and resources on priority areas of development,
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taking into account the cultural, historical, socio-political features and traditions of a particular territory.
Our regional development documents integrate economic, social and environmental development factors into a single vector in order to change the existing negative trends, concentrate resources on the most promising areas, and become an instrument of an organized, transparent dialogue between government, business and the regional community.
