Identified threats and prospects ofimproving the system of social protection of the population of united territorial communitiees (on the example of the Carpathian region)

The article analyzes the peculiarities of functioning of the system of social protection at the level of territorial communities of the Carpathian region in conditions of decentralization of power. An integrated assessment of the organization and financing of social protection in the united territorial communities allowed us to identify the gaps in ensuring the effective and qualitative provision of the relevant services: the lack of spatial organization of specialized social services institutions; different level of social services provision; fragmentary nature of children's rehabilitation at the expense of financial resources of UTCs; insufficient level of provision of administrative services in the field of social protection; the lack of financial support for public initiatives regarding the provision of social services at the local level, etc. It has been determined that promising tools for effective social protection of the united territorial communities may be the provision of social services by non-governmental organizations through social order and cooperation of territorial communities in the field of social protection.