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News, December 2011

First-Round Projects of the CDSP ICT Program Are Launched in Lake Baikal Region

FSD manager Elena Milanova and Svirsk Mayor Valentin Ornoyev

Poorly lit classrooms in School # 1 in Turkinskoye

Ivan Sukhanov, director of the firm SanEco, and Vladimir Belogolovov, director of the East Siberia Regional Center, examine the heating system of Kindergarten #14 in Shelekhov

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.

  The project in Shelekhov is being fulfilled in Kindergarten # 14 (director- Alyona Suvorova) and involves installing a solar water heating system, since this area in the south of Irkutsk Oblast has a high number of sunny days. The project will resolve the problem of supplying hot water to the kindergarten’s kitchen. The project began with the selection of a manufacturer of solar water heaters and a technical inspection of the heating system of the kindergarten and choosing the type of required water heater jointly with manufacturer representatives. The project will use modern information and communication technologies (ICT) for a broad coverage of project results that will help disseminate best practices in Shelekhov and around it, as well as throughout the region. One of the key goals of the project is to increase awareness of the staff of educational institutions, as well as local community member, including children, about the rational use of energy resources. The kindergarten is a training location of the Irkutsk Teacher’s Institute of Advanced Education and, thus, the students of local high schools will also be informed about the project.

  The project in Svirsk is being carried out by the Svirsk Community Development Fund (director – Marina Zmanovskaya) in collaboration with the city’s administration. It will computerize energy metering systems in three of the city’s social institutions. Project activities will include setting up a dispatch point for servicing Schools ## 1 and 2 and the local hospital that services the population of Svirsk and its environs and also the residents of adjacent apartment buildings and installing  hot and cold water and heat meters. The project team met with Mayor Vladimir Ornoyev and the head of Svirsk Community Development Fund Marina Zmanovskaya. During the meeting, the Mayor spoke about the city’s plans for improving well-being in the community. Thus, soil remediation activities have begun on an area of 17 hectares of the site of the former biochemical plants. This effort, which also includes public health improvement measures, will be completed by 2014 and a health improvement center will also be opened in the city.

  The individual enterprise A.Y.Suknev is working on the project in School #1 in Turkinskoye municipality. It will replace old incandescent light lamps with light-emitting-diode lamps. This is a pilot project and it is important that it is located at the Federal Tourist and Recreation Special Economic Zone and, thus, will create investment prospects for spreading project experience to other populated centers on the coast of Lake Baikal.

  The project began with the competitive selection of a manufacturer based on best price and quality criteria and a technical inspection of the school building for developing a project justification to be coordinated with Pribaikalsky Raion Electric Inspection Service. The installed light-emitting-diode equipment will not respond to the low quality of power or to energy gaps and will provide stable illumination, which, in turn, will make conditions in classrooms more comfortable and will not affect the eyesight of the students. The project will reinvest energy savings into social programs in the community; the use of ICT for disseminating energy-saving experience to other municipalities of Lake Baikal Region; promoting public participation; and increasing awareness among the communities of Pribaikalye.