The article deals with the procedure for assessing the priority of investment projects necessary to accelerate the socio-economic development of small municipalities on the example of Tazovsky District of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area. Small municipalities are defined as municipalities with a population of up to 50 thousand people. In general, the procedure for assessing the priority of investment projects involves six stages: a desk study of the municipal economy, its opportunities and constraints to identify potential areas for the implementation of business projects; generation of a portfolio of potential projects by an expert group using the brainstorming method, which claim the greatest demand from the economy of the studied municipality; conducting a questionnaire survey of six groups of the population of the district in relation to the generated portfolio of potential projects; sifting the list of projects in accordance with the selection rule, which defines the lower boundary of the cutoff of the average project support index, and the rule of absence of social conflict, which defines the upper boundary of the divergence of extreme estimates of group trust indices. Approbation of the proposed analytical procedure for Tazovsky District of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area made it possible to select 14 of 27 projects as the most preferable, which in turn are segmented into three groups: the most popular, promising and moderately important. The paper discusses the issue of replicating the proposed algorithm for evaluating investment projects to a wide class of small municipalities
Keywords
investment project, small municipalities, evaluation, selection, prioritization