January 2012
The Program “Youth Votes for Health!” is Continuing in Belaya Kalitva
The second phase of the Alcoa Foundation Program “Youth Votes for Health!” was launched in January 2012. Under this Program, which has begun in 2011, new outdoor fitness sites will be opened in 2012 in the city of Belaya Kalitva and in Belokalitvensky Raion.
In December 2011, the Program partners – the Fund for Sustainable Development (FSD), which has developed the program and is currently implementing it; the Public Relations Department of Alcoa Metallurg Rus; and Belaya Kalitva Committee for Sports examined potential areas where outdoor fitness machines will be installed.
January 2012
26th Webinar of FSD Regional Centers
The twenty sixth seminar of FSD Regional Centers held on January 13, 2012 in the form of a webinar was devoted to a discussion of the beginning of work on the first round of the Community Development Support Program Based on Information and Communication Technologies (CDSP-ICT) and its prospects, as well as of the priorities of the second round whose contest of concept papers was opened on December 26, 2011.
O.Fokin, FSD executive director, and R.Butovsky, FDS program director, described the CDSP-ICT planned activities, priority areas, the specifics of the second round and the role of RC in Program implementation.
RC directors (S.Pleshakov, V.Belogolovov, K.Strukova and E.Volkova) spoke about activities of the initial stages of CDSP-ICT first round projects. Most of these have begun with feasibility studies and were coordinated with local Electric Inspection Services. In his presentation, V. Belogolovov focused on the importance of social contracts as an energy savings reinvestment mechanism supporting social project contests.
December 2011
Advocating Healthy Lifestyles
The project “Youth Votes for Health” that is currently being implemented by the Fund for Sustainable Development with support from the Alcoa Foundation was included in the Library of Best Healthy Lifestyle Practices of the Russian Federation Ministry of Public Health and Social Development
“We are glad to welcome all active participants in the project “Youth Votes for Health” – students and teachers from city and district schools, the Children’s Creativity Center, coaches who conducted training on outdoor fitness machines and supporters and advocates of healthy life styles,” said Irina Seredina on December 13, 2011 while opening a round table to summarize project results of 2011 organized at the Children’s Creativity Center with support from CJSC Alcoa-Metallurg Rus.
December 2011
First-Round Projects of the CDSP ICT Program Are Launched in Lake Baikal Region
Three projects of the CDSP-ICT Program were provided with funding in the first grant-round in this region: two in Irkutsk Oblast, in the cities of Shelekhov and Svirsk, and one in the Republic of Buryatia, in Turkinskoye municipality, Pribaikalsky raion. FSD manager Elena Milanova conducted an initial monitoring of the projects and grantee training devoted to programmatic and reporting issues, monitoring, project evaluation indicators, methods of conducting surveys among project beneficiaries and the population, financial accounting and the preparation of documents for registration with the Commission on Technical Assistance. Elena Milanova and Vladimir Belogolovov, director of the East Siberia Regional Center, went on project site visits.