The Details of Developing the Strategic Documents for Regional Development and their Information-Analytical Support

The article is concerned with details of development and implementation of strategic planning documents, regional development programs, and formation of their information-analytical support. The stages of development of a strategic planning system in the current practice of public administration in general and of region in particular have been provided and characterized. It has been concluded that the key element in the mechanism of the State regulating the regional development is its conceptual principles, which are formed under influence of the theoretical-methodological principles of regional development, implementation of world-wide experience, requirements for the State regulation of regional development from the standpoint of other interdependent directions of the State economic policy, and taking into consideration assessment of the current status of development of regions. The information-analytical support for mechanism of the State regulation of regional development should be understood both in a broad and in a narrow sense. The first sense involves formation of a coherent system of methodical support for the collection, processing, storing, protection of information, accumulation of database, preparation of analytical materials on various aspects of regional development with an appropriate scientific accompaniment, while the second sense remains within boundaries of the Section V of the Law of Ukraine «On principles of the State regional policy», regulating the monitoring of implementation of the State regional development policy