INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION OF UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT OF HEALTHCARE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT: ANALYSIS OF MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES

Abstract

The article notes that the international community has provided Ukraine with significant funding for reforming many areas of public life and improving the public administration system. In particular, significant results have been achieved in the field of healthcare thanks to the implementation of the medical reform. International organizations have been active partners in the reform. It has been established that for the first time the issue of international technical cooperation, in which the Ukrainian state acted as a full participant in international interaction, was implemented at the state level in the legal field in 1999 at the initiative of the President of Ukraine. Subsequently, a number of other regulatory legal acts were adopted that regulate issues in the field of international technical assistance. The Ukrainian state mainly receives international technical assistance and implements it on the basis of a project approach. The main subject here, which has the relevant powers, is the Government of Ukraine and a number of central government bodies. It was found that in the area of coordination of the implementation of such projects, the weak point is the direction of effective management of international aid projects. It was determined that one of the subjects of public administration that irregularly reports to the government is the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. This was a consequence of the inconsistency of the current regulatory framework, which currently lacks, in the context of public administration, a methodology for analyzing the impact of project results and their implementation on the functioning of the health care system and its future results. It was determined that the assessment is carried out by comparing the goals of international aid projects with the goals of state programs, and a prospective assessment of expected changes is not carried out due to the lack of methodological tools in the field of public and sectoral management.