Global Goals of Sustainable Development in Regional Policу of Ukraine

The article presents the results of regional consultations concerning the regional priorities of sustainable development in Ukraine, initiated by the United Nations in 2016, and outlines the methodological suppositions and principles for expert system definition of priorities for country's sustainable development, policy categories and assessment indicators of the sustainable development at the regional and local levels. The technology of determination of national and regional priorities of sustainable development in Ukraine in the process of performance of consultations in 2016 on adaptation in Ukraine of the United Nations sustainable development goals, observance of their Rio conventions and criteria of the updated strategy of sustainable development of the EU is analysed. The comparison of sustainable development priorities on the national and regional levels have been defined by experts. (2013-2016). The measures proposed by the experts in 2016 in furtherance of the primary goals of local priority, proposals for the establishment of priorities of sustainable development in the content of new programs aimed at ensuring sustainable development on a democratic basis with the participation of civil society are presented. On the basis of the proposals, the major tasks for the transition of regions of Ukraine to sustainable development are: improvement of the legislative framework, development of social infrastructure, provision of economically viable and socially oriented production, realization of reforms in employment relations, establishment of system for monitoring sustainable development, conducting research, supporting innovations and high-tech economy sectors, preservation of ecology, adoption of renewable energy technologies, creation of a raw material base, creation of an effective mechanism for exchange of experience among entrepreneurs in the regions, improvement of the management system for implementation of sustainable development solutions at the regional level, enhancement of investment attractiveness of strong regions, creation of equal conditions for entrepreneurial activity, coordination of business and public company activities with regard to environmental standards, reduction of resource intensity of production, use of ecological technologies, establishment of rational limits of resource potential of the region, assistance in development of market system. The specified decisions should act to raise the living standards, reform the labor-market, including national assistance in the development of entrepreneurship, employment creation, development assistance of small and medium-sized businesses, competitive growth of domestic goods and services about accessing the international market.