2006 FACT SHEET

In 2006 the CFP implemented 41 projects (counting 7 multi-year donor-funded projects). This includes 15 donor-funded projects, 6 research projects for federal agencies, and 20 regional training and consulting projects. (During past 5 years the CFP implemented about 90 projects with 56 regional projects). (Note: For this purpose the term ‘regional projects’ means those projects that the CFP implemented by the direct contracts with regions)

The CFP experts developed 34 analytical and methodological materials out of which 17 related to such new areas as monitoring and evaluation of government performance, development and implementation of administrative standards, transition to normative-based financing of education, and public and private policy options in the sphere of social protection.

The CFP delivered 18 training seminars and conducted 5 inter-regional conferences for regional / municipal professionals and representatives of local self-governments. Total number of trainees considered to be more about 2000 people. In addition, the CFP conducted 5 one-week seminars for about 300 people under the USAID project Technical assistance to the North Caucasus regions and annual April Seminar of the CFP in Moscow (with about 90 participants).

External activities of the CFP included assistance to finance departments of 4 NIS countries (Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Tadzhikistan, and Armenia) and training course for professionals and self-governments of Laos.

PROJECTS

Regional projects Although majority of the regional projects remain in the area of inter-governmental fiscal relations, 2006 brought up new issues of which improvement in government performance was the biggest one. And yet, within IGFR projects there was noticeable reposition of assistance needs from federal/regional to regional/local domain. The next important matter in that line became alteration of systems of public services delivery through incorporation of adequate financing, procurement and monitoring techniques in the budget cycle.

Regional projects by themes:

Federal/regional intergovernmental fiscal relations	1
Regional/federal intergovernmantal fiscal relations	9
Performance-based budgeting and mid-term financial planning	4
Government performance	1
Normative-based financing of education	3
Delivering of the complete CFP training course	2

By regions:

Far East Federal District	Amur oblast	2
Ural Federal District	Yamalo-Nenetsky autonomous okrug	3
	Khanty-Mansiisky autonomous okrug	2
	Sverdlovsk oblast	1
Siberian Federal District	Chita oblast	2
Central Federal District	Smolensk oblast	2
	City of Moscow	1
Privolzhsk Federal District	Rep. of Mari-El	1
	Saratov oblast	1
North-West Federal District	Rep. of Karelia	1
Sourthen Federal District	Stavropol krai	2
	Astrakhan oblast	1
	Rep. of Kalmykiya	1

Donor-funded projects The CFP implements these projects in coordination with its long-term partners as Institute for Urban Economics, Institute for the Economy in Transition Period, Institute for Public Finance Reform, Leontief Centre as well as new partners as Assistance to Russian Orphans Program and other. In doing this the CFP completed its part under 5 projects and launched another 5 projects to be completed somewhere in 2007.

Donor	Project / The CFP component in the project	Pilot regions
Completed projects
Local Government Institute (LGI, Hungary)	Reform of the system of intergovernmental fiscal transfers in Moldova	Moldova
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF-Russia)	Institutional analysis of financing of education, health and communal services in rural areas of Russia. Development of Score Card for rural municipalities (rayon and settlement)	Penza oblast Perm oblast Rep. of Adyhgeya
World Bank	Technical assistance to the North-West regions in implementation of local self-government reform in transition to performance-based budgeting	Rep. of Komi Rep. of Karelia
EBRD	Creditworthiness of the city of Arkhangelsk and Arkhangelsk oblast	Arkhangelsk oblast
	Public expenditures review for the Republic of Sakha (Yakutiya)	Rep. of Sakha (Yakutiya)
2006-2007 projects
Local Government Institute (LGI, Hungary)	Provision of public services in rural areas	Vladimir oblast
	IT in budgetary process on local level	TBD
Assistance to Russian Orphans Programm (ARO)	USAID Program Assistance to Russian Orphans: estimate of costs and economic effect in long-term outlook	Tomsk oblast
DFID	Social budgeting. (Component #3 of SPRILO)	Leningrad oblast
USAID	Administrative and budget reforms on local level	TBD

The biggest CFP’s projects to be completed in 2007 include those supported by USAID and UNDP:

USAID projects:

Reform of intergovernmental fiscal relations and public finance policy in Russia

Technical assistance to the North Caucasus regions

USAID/SUAL GDA partnership program

UNDP projects:

Technical assistance to the Russian Federation in implementation of local self-government reform

Analysis of federal transfers to the subjects of the Russian Federation Research

Projects for federal agencies

The CFP has developed methodology of per capita normative-based financing of education that Ministry of Education and Science recommended to use in all Russian regions. Federal Education Agency supported promotion and scaling up this experience in 22 regions.

To the Accounting Chamber the CFP submitted

Analysis of the intergovernmental fiscal relations in the Russian Federation and of the issues of consolidated budgets of the subjects of the Russian federation, and

Study of issues of stabilization and reliability of the public finance management system; development of the mechanisms of responsibility of the subjects of budgetary planning for the eventual results of the federal funds expenditures.

For the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade the CFP composed proposals on improving coordination mechanisms, based of performance-based budgeting, between federal and regional governments.

And, finally, for the Higher School of Economics the CFP prepared Methodological recommendations of evaluation of effectiveness and efficiency of public procurement.