The recent merger of the Ministry of Regional Development and the Ministry of Infrastructure under the roof of one ministry is a very risky experiment of the authorities. ZN. UA has already written about how functions related to regional policy accidentally fell out of the new approved regulation. Although the situation was promptly corrected, the complexity of the tasks facing the new team of the Ministry of Regional Development is maximum. Like the responsibility. What is noted in this article \? "

\; from bridges to the people who use them; from high-speed trains to linking local, regional and national transport networks,"

Experts note that the Ministry of Infrastructure must achieve joint actions between the various participants in the recovery - business, local government, international donors, in order to meet the urgent needs of war-affected Ukrainians who need to be motivated to return to Ukraine.

According to the authors, the Ukraine War Reconstruction Project is the largest and most complex reconstruction project after World War II..

In order for the restoration to ensure the rapid development of Ukraine, experts recommend that a number of necessary tasks be completed:.

Rehabilitate the territories, taking into account their possible development and in accordance with the priorities of the state regional policy, use the restoration to strengthen the administrative viability of the development of the territories, learn how to use funds and control their use for restoration in accordance with the procedures of the EU Cohesion Policy;

together with the EU, develop an action plan for the fulfillment by Ukraine of the conditions determined by chapter 22 of the Acquis Communautaire;

reform statistics, introduce systematic, regular analytical studies and sociological surveys to identify challenges, substantiate problems, program solutions;

to base the planning of regional development on a territorial approach using functional types of territories;

update the State Strategy for Regional Development (GSRD2027), regional development strategies (RDS), develop strategies for the restoration of territorial communities and regions affected by the war;

form a group of high-level Ukrainian advisers under the government, which, together with the government and the EU, will prepare draft decisions, methods, recommendations;

jointly with the EU to create a Joint Task Force on regional policy issues;

form a Ukrainian negotiating team on chapter 22 of the Acquis Communautaire.

The authors note that the tasks are complex and there are many of them, but their solution is necessary and possible..

" In what status already depends on them,"

Today, the Cabinet of Ministers dismissed the Deputy Minister for the Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine Vyacheslav Negoda.

It is not yet clear who in the new team will ultimately oversee these key areas. According to ZN sources. UA Ivan Lukerya was supposed to take the post of Deputy Minister for Regional Policy. At least, such agreements were within the framework of the communication of the new ministry with the relevant parliamentary committee. From who will take this position - a competent professional who knows the essence of the reform, which is now at its decisive final stage, or a beginner who does not know the context, and the ability of the new ministry to fulfill the above tasks will depend.