Institutional coordination of management decisions in support of sustainable regional development

This article substantiates the conceptual foundations of institutional coordination of management decisions by public authorities to ensure sustainable regional development. It examines the specific features of interaction between local self-government bodies, state executive authorities, and other participants in regional development, given the need to align strategic priorities, management powers, and resource commitments. The paper argues that the effectiveness of intergovernmental interaction depends on participants’ ability to ensure consistency in formulating, coordinating, and implementing joint decisions, while accounting for their economic, social, environmental, and spatial consequences. The paper examines a conceptual model of institutional coordination that encompasses actor-based, goal-oriented, instrumental, resource-digital, and outcome-adaptive components. The paper characterizes the functional distribution of competencies, identifies responsible actors, coordinates strategic documents, and ensures management decisions are ready for resources. The paper justifies a sequential management cycle that involves identifying territorial problems, defining participants’ competencies, establishing an information base, coordinating positions, securing resources, implementing, monitoring, and adjusting decisions. The paper highlights the importance of digital tools for ensuring information interoperability, transparency in management procedures, and timely detection of deviations from planned results. The paper highlights approaches to evaluating the effectiveness of institutional coordination based on distinguishing between the immediate results of management activities, societal impacts, and long-term changes in territorial development. It examines the need to adapt intergovernmental interaction procedures to territorial communities’ resource capacity, the specific characteristics of intermunicipal cooperation, and the level of security risks. It emphasizes the need to distinguish between coordinating regional development and overseeing the legality of local self-government decisions. The study finds that aligning administrative powers, financial obligations, and performance-evaluation mechanisms is a key prerequisite for improving the efficiency of public resource use and ensuring the balanced development of Ukraine’s regions. Keywords: local self-government, sustainable development, territorial communities, decentralization, mechanism, strategic planning, local budgets, model, digitalization, transparency, competitiveness, public administration, regional investment development, public-private partnerships, digital technologies, public services.