APPLICATION OF DECISION MAKING METHODS IN LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT

Collaboration with associations has been shown through various financial and non-financial support provided by local governments to programs and projects of general interest. This kind of cross-sectoral cooperation has great potential for generating many positive changes and creating the necessary synergies for sustainable social and economic development. To what extent this potential can be achieved largely depends on the quality of criteria, standards and procedures for granting financial and non-financial support as well as the organizational and human resources of public institutions that must successfully monitor and evaluate contracted support products. The main purpose of this paper was to determine whether it is possible to improve the quality of decision making in local government by using decision making methods in decision-making process regarding the financing of cultural associations. For example, the importance (weighting coefficients) of criteria and subcriteria for quality assessment of projects / applications of cultural associations (N = 18) will be determined from the area of Zabok. Likewise, in this paper, the AHP method will be used to create a model of program / project rating in cultural association that is financed from the budget of the City of Zabok. The model will be validated on historical data from 2018.