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The Community Development Support Program in the Russian Federation. Round 4
Project Complex
Save a Drop and You Will Save the World
(Saved municipal budget funds – for the development of the social sector)
Grant amount $59 932 Grantee contribution $95 436 Total cost $155 368
Thematic projects included in the Project Complex:
- Cost Optimization – Key to Future Development (modernization of heating systems in 4 educational institutions and installation of heating and hot water meters)
- Healthy Family – Healthy Children – Healthy Nation (promoting reproductive health of women, residents of Zima)
- Sports Makes You Healthier (building children’s sports grounds)
Municipality Profile:
The city of Zima in Irkutsk Oblast is a large railroad station of the East-Siberian Railroad with a population of 34,000 people. It is the birthplace of the well-known poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. In Zima, there are a high percentage of professionals, especially, in the health care sector. During recent years, a certain deterioration of the economic and demographic situations has been occurring. Large enterprises, major employers, such as the electrochemical, wood rosin and hydrolysis plants, were either shut down or have curtailed production, thus increasing the level of unemployment. Community development priorities include a modernization of the physical infrastructure of social institutions and an improvement of human health.
Community problems addressed by the Project Complex:
- High municipal budget spending for heat in educational institutions.
- Absence of comfortable conditions for children in educational institutions and a high illness risk.
- A need to improve the demographic situation and protect women’s reproductive health.
- High percentage of abortions and advanced cases of gynecological illnesses; and an insufficient number of diagnostic equipment for early illness detection.
- Low level of public awareness about family planning, the disadvantages of abortions, and the need to protect the health of newborns and their mothers.
Synergetic effect of the Project Complex
The systemic impact of the projects was strengthened by their implementation in the social services sector – children’s and health institutions of the community. The effort to save energy and reduce payments for heating and hot water in educational institutions of the city created additional funds that were reinvested in the social sector. The key areas of the projects - strengthening families and improving the health of children and women – were also state policy priorities, especially in 2008, which was the Family Year. The complex of interrelated projects was supported by the municipal administration and all sectors of the community, which served as a guarantee of the sustainability of project results and their collective synergetic effect.
The project complex was fulfilled in the framework of the Middle Term Integrated Zima Socio-Economic Development Program scheduled through 2012, with the accumulated experience serving as an example for replication in Irkutsk Oblast through the Association of Siberian and RFE Cities.
Project Complex contact:
Galina Andreyeva, head of the Department of Socio-Economic Development Analysis and Forecasting at Zima Municipal AdministrationContact information:
5 Lenina St., Zima, Irkutsk Oblast 665390
Tel./fax 8(39514)-32252, e-mail: econom_admzima@mail.ruOrganizations, members of the Project Consortium:
Title
Category
Profile
Zima Education Department
municipal
Governance of the municipal
education systems
Zima City Hospital
municipal
Health care services to the population
Youth Sports School
municipal
After-school physical education
Duration (months)
10
Start date
01/09/ 2008
End date
30/06/2009
Project
Cost Optimization – Key to Future Development (modernization of heating systems in 4 educational institutions and installation of heating and hot water meters)
Organization:
Zima Education DepartmentType of organization: municipal
Start date September 1, 2008
End date February 28, 2009
Project summary:
This project modernized heating systems in four children’s educational institutions of the city: School # 9, Kindergartens ## 11 and 16, and the Youth Sports School. These activities included acquiring and installing heat and hot water meters and monitoring costs and illness frequency in the children. Energy savings were reinvested into addressing the social needs of these institutions.
Location:
Zima Municipal Education SystemContact information:
65 Maxima Gorkogo St., Zima, Irkutsk Oblast 665390
Tel. 8(39514)-31046, fax 8(39514)-31153, e-mail: gorooz@irmail.ruProject coordinator:
Elena Boiko, lead specialist for financial and economic activitiesProject objectives:
Modernization of heating systems in four children’s educational institutions; reduction of heat consumption; enhancing the effectiveness of spending by educational institutions and reinvestment of savings into the social sector. Creation of an optimal temperature mode in kindergartens, thus facilitating a decrease of respiratory illnesses among the children.
Final results:
- Modernization of heating systems in four children’s educational institutions (2 kindergartens and 2 schools) and installation of heat and hot water meters;
- Heat consumption during the year decreased by 212 Gcal (33%) and of hot water by 210 m ³;
- 192,000 rubles of budget funs were saved after payments for heat and hot water were made on the basis of actual consumption figures;
- Creation of an optimal temperature mode and comfortable conditions for the children and staff (1,933 people) and a 20% reduction of colds among the children;
- Reinvestment of savings, in accordance with the Mayor’s Ordinance, into the further modernization of heating systems in social institutions and an improvement of children’s health (in particular, into building a playground with additional funding from UK Zapadanaya LLP);
- Replication of the experience of a rational use of municipal funds in other social institutions in Zima and neighboring municipalities (the city of Sayansk, Ziminsky Raion).
Total project cost $58 775
Own contribution $38 298
Received amount $20 477
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Project
Healthy Family – Healthy Children – Healthy Nation (promoting reproductive health of women, residents of Zima)
Organization:
Zima City HospitalType of organization: municipal
Start date September 1, 2008
End date May 1, 2009
Project summary:
This project organized a family planning room for conducting mass public education activities and training primary care physicians in this subject; monitored family reproductive health; conducted regular examinations of women of fertile age and adolescent girls of 14-16 year of age with the use of modernized ultrasonic equipment capable of early detection of new growth; and provided modern certified contraceptives to low-income families under constant supervision of the gynecologists of the hospital.
Location:
ZimaContact information:
88 Kalinina St., Zima, Irkutsk Oblast 665382
Tel. 8(39514)-32686, fax 8(39514)-31876,
e-mail: zimamuz@yandex.ruProject coordinator:
Irina Stelmakh, head doctor of Zima City HospitalProject objectives:
Addressing the issue of family planning and improving the state of reproductive health in women of fertile age by providing mass public information about the harm of abortions (there is a high rate of abortions in this city – in 2007 over 820 among 9,300 women of fertile age). Outfitting the existing ultrasound equipment to make it capable of performing detailed examinations. Saving municipal funds spent on treating advanced cases of chronic gynecological illnesses, abortions and the consequent health rehabilitation of women.
Final results:
- Setting up a family planning room for conducting regular examinations of families and women of fertile age; preventing abortions and AIDS; advertising responsible attitudes to the health of mothers and children; and organizing educational activities reaching out to 4,000 residents.
- Modernization of the ultrasound examination system in the city hospital and supplementing it with a color Doppler countering option;
- Early disease detection in 1,717 women of fertile age (18.7%) with the use of the modernized ultrasound examination system during which in 35% of these women various reproductive health disorders were identified - they were referred to corresponding specialists.
- The rate of abortions and complications was lowered by 25% (over 200 a year) as a result of consultations at the family planning center and the provision of contraceptives to 60 low-income women for 5 years;
- Reduction of the need in a 24 hour in-patient clinic for gynecological patients, which allowed saving 62,700 rubles of municipal funds;
- Improved demographic situation and better reproductive health in the city and the promotion of a healthy younger generation.
Total project cost $36 330
Own contribution $17 438
Received amount $18 892
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Project
Sports Makes You Healthier (building children’s sports grounds)
Organization:
Youth Sports SchoolType of organization: municipal
Start date September 1, 2008
End date June 30, 2009
Project summary:
Improving four sports grounds of Schools ## 1, 7, 8 and 11 (disassembly of the old and installation of new equipment); organizing sports and cultural mass activities for children, adolescents and their families; and advertising healthy lifestyles.
Location:
Zima MunicipalityContact information:
10a Lenina St., Zima, Irkutsk Oblast 665390
Tel. 8(39514)-32441, fax 8(39514)-31153,
e-mail: gorooz@irmail.ruProject coordinator:
Sergei Seleznev, headmaster of the Youth Sports SchoolProject objectives:
Provision of more sports facilities for children and creation of modern, low-cost all-purpose sports grounds as places of recreation and physical development for children and also sites of athletic tournaments. Improving children’s physical fitness and health.
Final results:
- Improving schoolyards and installing sports grounds in four schools of the city ( for 1,222 pupils) that are also accessible to children living in nearby houses;
- Creating conditions for regular sports training in schools and adding one (third) physical education lesson in accordance with the standards of the RF Ministry of Education and Science;
- Organizing four culture and sports mass events involving children from neighboirng houses, parents and community members (1,500 people);
- Improving child health through lowering the number of posture disorders by 15% and respiratory illnesses by 20% (80 cases a year);
- Lowering juvenile delinquency by 10-15% through greater involvement of children in cultural and sports events;
- Involving children in healthy lifestyles by organizing athletic training and mass public education campaigns.
Total project cost $60 263
Own contribution $39 700
Received amount $20 563
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