«It is difficult to overestimate the significance of FSD projects carried out in remote taiga settlements in Lake Baikal Region with their meager social budgets. This significance is expressed not only in saved energy, but also in increased public participation and better interaction between government and businesses, in new knowledge and a capacity to design competitive project proposals for raising extra-budgetary funds.

«The small, but concrete and successful projects fulfilled by FSD in the framework of its community development support programs hold out hope for self-development based on local resources.»

S. G. Shapkhaev, Director of Buryatia Regional Association on Lake Baikal, Ulan-Ude.