May 2008

ON-GOING PROJECTS


TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO THE NORTHERN CAUCASUS REGIONS



  • Cities of Vladikavkaz (Northern Osetia – Alania) and Nalchik (Kabardino-Balkaria) won tender for federal subsidies for implementation municipal finance reform program. The CFP assisted those cities in drafting the programs which then were submitted to the Ministry of Finance of RF.

  • On May 27 – 30, 2008 the CFP conducted the 8th training seminar entitled “Budget and Budget Process on Local Level” for the Southern Federal District (SFD) of the Russian Federation. The seminar was attended by 73 people from 11 regions of SFD. Along with traditional themes - intergovernmental fiscal relations and performance-based budgeting on local level, - the CFP presented such new issues as interrelation between strategic planning and long-term financial planning on local level and transition from financing of budgetary net to financing of public services on local level.


Within the framework of two projects



the CFP assisted Lipetsk and Nizhny Novgorod oblasts in drafting regional finance reform programs. The two regions became winners in the tender for federal subsidies for implementation of the programs in which (i.e., implementation) N. Novgorod then invited the CFP to provide technical assistance to it.


NEW PROJECTS


The CFP is about completing the World Bank project Analytical work on indicators of effectiveness of local governments in the context of decentralization reform


SEMINARS


Besides seminar for SFD, the CFP conducted three more trainings. This includes: