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Support to territorial public self-governance (TOS) as an effective instrument of developing public participation

Project news: February 2014 | March 2014

This project is a winner of the open grant contest for non-profit non-governmental organizations held in accordance with Executive Order # 115-rp “On state support in 2013 to non-profit non-governmental organizations implementing socially significant projects and participating in developing civil society institutes” issued by the President of the Russian Federation on March 29, 2013.

FSD’s project “Support to territorial public self-governance as an effective instrument of developing public participation” has become one of the winners in this contest, with the Institute for Civil Society Issues acting as its operator.

The award is 2,300,000 rubles.

The project is being carried out in partnership with the Moscow Region Community Council Association and FSD Regional Centers.

Project period: November 2013 – September 2014.

Project geography:     Moscow Oblast, Sverdlovskaya Oblast, Republic of Buryatia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and Khabarovsk Krai.

Main goal – promoting the establishment of territorial public self-governance bodies as one of the key mechanisms of encouraging civic engagement in communities in the Russian Federation.

Primary objectives:

• Collect and summarize information on the situation with organizing TOS in project regions and select best practices.
• Train a group of at least 25 civic activists from municipalities in Moscow Oblast at the TOS School; and train at least 100 civic activists from other project regions on a distance basis in the course of eight webinars.
• Inform decision-makers in local self-government bodies about the prospects and obvious advantages of interacting with local residents with the use of TOS mechanisms in the process of tackling local issues. Conduct a one-day workshop devoted to this question at the TOS School for local deputies and local self-government officials from project regions.
• Practically reinforce skills learned during the training. Strengthen interaction among local activists and TOS committees with local self-government bodies in project regions.
• Increase legal literacy of local activists and through them of the majority of community members, as well as of professionals and administrators of local self-government bodies.
• Disseminate information about best TOS practices to broadly replicate them in municipalities across Russia and among the entire population and stakeholders.