On 20 October 2019, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the State Programme for the Development of the Ukrainian Carpathian Region for 2020-2022.

The programme is aimed at improving the social and economic development of the Ukrainian Carpathians, increasing the accessibility of individual mountainous areas and includes a wide range of issues: road construction, job creation, tourism development in the Carpathian region, in particular in the mountainous regions of the Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv and Chernivtsi Oblasts.