ASSESSMENT OF THE STRATEGIC PLANNING LEVEL IN THE COMMUNES OF THE MALOPOLSKA PROVINCE

Strategic planning is one of a very important areas of local government. Prepared strategic documents facilitate the efficient carrying out community development policy. The most commonly prepared planning documents are: development strategies, long-term financial plans, long-term investment plans, plans of local development and village development plans. The article pointed out the large variations among municipalities in the implementation of the strategic management tools. It also stressed that to ensure the usefulness of strategic plans for the creation of local economic development is necessary to take into account the stage of their preparation for specific problems to be solved. The basis for the formulation of strategic plans of municipalities should be bottom-up initiatives. It should not be the administrative necessity of their possession.