Networks of 10 Rural Municipal Consultants and 8 Legal Consultants established in each region to provide ongoing assistance to local communities as well as build skills for future opportunities;
22 Local Government/Community Working Groups formed representing a broad spectrum of settlement administrative staff, elected deputies and community members to spearhead and carry out the local work;
Training for the Local Government/Community Working Groups on a range of interrelated subjects that form building blocks for a comprehensive managing-for-results system, expected to improve government-community relations and the quality of life in general;
Community Meetings attended by hundreds if not thousands of local residents, who provided input into the budget process and worked toward common solutions to identified priorities.
Service Improvement Action Plans created and implemented in all pilot settlements. Based on principles of performance management, these plans help communities improve a service or address a practical issue (e.g. cleanliness of town/village, poverty, repair of road, street lighting, repair of water pipes, revival of local cultural events etc.) The plans focused on identifying the current status of the problem; setting meaningful and feasible goals; creating a strategy and action plan to attain these goals; and monitoring areas in need of improvement.
Local legal framework for self government improved;
500 people benefited from pro bono legal consultations on personal issues of public nature from the trained local legal consultants;Â
Private municipal fund-type initiatives in pilot regions were supported;
Operational needs and technical capacities of 30 pilot municipalities were defined and provided with necessary IT equipment.
Monitoring Surveys were carried out in the pilot and control territories.
Locality Cards of districts and settlements have been developed. The locality cards are useful for investigating local communities’ needs as they contain statistical indicators (for example demography, living standards, engineering infrastructure etc.), analytical information, data on municipal assets and property, and evidence about the provision of public services. The cards were developed by experts from the Center for Fiscal Policy, Moscow and piloted in 2006.
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