WAYS TO ENSURE TRANSPARENCY IN THE FINANCING OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS OF THE REGIONS

This article describes reforms aimed at ensuring openness and transparency of the budget in Uzbekistan based on the Action Strategy for 2017-2021. Suggestions and recommendations were made to increase the transparency of the process of financing regional programs of socio-economic development.The purpose of the study is to analyze the current situation with the transparency of financing programs for the socio-economic development of regions, to develop proposals and recommendations for the effective use of local budgets in the future by increasing transparency.Scientific novelty of the research:1. The need to increase the role of mass media in strengthening public control over the spending of budget funds at the national level, ensuring the effective implementation of regional (regional, district and city) budgets;2. It is proposed to achieve the focus on financing the planned activities for socio-economic development of the regions by strengthening the activity of citizens in monitoring the implementation of budgets;3. In order to ensure the transparency of budget processes, it is necessary to regularly publish indicators related to budget execution on the official websites and periodicals of territorial (regional, district and city) executive bodies.Keywords. State budget, local budgets, budget funding, budget process, budget process transparency, funding of regional programs