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The Community Development Support Program in the Russian Federation. Round 2

Project Complex

Creating conditions for sustainable community development in Elban Urban Settlement

Requested amount $41, 056      Grantee contribution $67, 034     Total cost $108,090

Thematic projects included in the Project Complex:

• Upgrading process pipelines at the central boiler plant to supply hot water to the community during summer.
• Comprehensive modernization of the library building in Elban Settlement to expand the range of community services.
• Increasing environmental literacy in Elban Settlement as a means of controlling the spread of   unauthorized dumps.

Municipality Profile  Elban Municipality with a population of 13,400 (average age – 45 years old) is located in Amursky Raion in Khabarovsk Krai. After a considerable curtailment of production at the local township-forming enterprise, such problems as unemployment, high disease incidence and low civic activeness have come to the forefront in this community.

Community problems addressed by the Project Complex:

• Low quality of communal and social services provided to community members of all ages and social strata.
• Lack of year-round hot water supply that leads to high power consumption due to water heating in summer; pipe corrosion; and high rate of respiratory illnesses among community members.
• High energy consumption rate of the heat supply system (from 967 to 1,470 rub./1 Gcal.) and high housing and communal payments that comprise 12% of the aggregate income of an average family. This is because the community’s boiler plants use local low-quality coal and electricity and their equipment is 90% worn out.
• Inadequate development of the social infrastructure and low attendance of the library, which is one of the few cultural centers of the settlement.
• Low legal literacy of community members regarding the civic and environmental legislations.
• Large number of unauthorized dumps (nearly 150) in the settlement and high municipal expenses for removing the accumulated waste.
• Incompliance with standard temperature levels in most of the local kindergartens

Synergetic effect of the Project Complex:
The Project Complex will promote multi-sector interaction (from children and youth to senior citizens) in socially significant activities. The community will be provided with good-quality hot water during the whole year; and the rate of illnesses will lower thanks to the maintenance of standard indoor temperature. Thus, better physical health of individuals will improve the spiritual and moral wellbeing of the whole community. Reduced expenses will upgrade the economic situation of the settlement’s residents. All this will consolidate the community and enhance civic self-awareness.
Communal and Housing Services Management LLC was founded in Elban to coordinate the work of the local communal and housing services under the guidance of a general director. The Board of Directors of this organization will decide how to use funds saved as a result of modernizing hot water pipelines of the central boiler plant. This decision will be made in collaboration with the local administration and a representative body.

Contact information:
7Garazhnaya St., Elban Settlement, Amursky Raion, Khabarovsk Krai 682610
Tel. (42142)42-9-56, fax (42142)42-0-33, e-mail аdminelb@amursk.ru

Contact person of the Project Complex:
Natalya Draga, first category specialist on the communal and housing services industry at Elban Rural Settlement Administration

Organizations, members of the Project Complex:

Title	Category	Profile
Boiler Plant LLC	business	Maintenance of boiler plants, repair and technical servicing of central heating boilers, and assembly, repair and technical servicing of steam boilers.
Elban Library Network, a municipal cultural institutions	municipal	Culture and education activities.
Elban Settlement Administration	municipal	Municipal governance, coordination of the activities of social institutions, and protection of citizen interests.

Duration (months)

10

Start date

01/10/2007

End date

31/07/2008

Project
Upgrading process pipelines at the central boiler plant to supply hot water to the community during summer

Organization:
Boiler Plant LLC
Type of organization:
business

Start date 01.10.2007

End date 31.07.2008

Project summary:
Installing a new main-line pump of a lower capacity and a steam-water unit heater and laying 150 meters of a pipeline. As a result of these activities, the average annual rate of payments for hot water will increase by only 2.2%, while the cost of other utilities in winter will decrease.
Location of dissemination:
Elban Rural Settlement, Amursky Raion, Khabarovsk Krai

Contact information:
26a Vtoroi Mikoraion, Elban Settlement, Amursky Raion, Khabarovsk Krai 682610,
Tel. (42142)41-3-44, fax (42142)41-6-30, e-mail uprjkx@pochta.ru
Project coordinator:
Irina Vozhdayeva, chief economist at ZhKKH Department LLC

Project objectives:
Year-round supply of hot water in the community will eliminate pipeline corrosion, increase the quality of hot water, reduce illnesses, decrease power and gas consumption and expenses of every family, and will improve the financial situation of the boiler plant.
Anticipated results:

• After the establishment of year-round hot water supply, there will no longer be a need in expenses connected with heating water using other methods.
• Decreased monthly consumption of electricity by 10,000 kW/h.
• The service life of the pipelines will be extended due to year-round water filling that will stop active corrosion in summer.
• It is expected that the cost-efficiency of the boiler plant will grow 2%.

Total project amount $69, 235

Grantee contribution $49, 615

Awarded grant $19, 620

Project
Comprehensive modernization of the library building in Elban Settlement to expand the range of community services

Organization:
Elban Library Network
Type of organization:
government

Start date 01.10.2007

End date 30.06.2008

Project summary:
This project will modernize the heating system in the library, brick in the large windows, repair the walls and install multiple glass units. A Legal Information Center will be organized in the modernized premises.
Location of dissemination:
Elban Rural Settlement, Amursky Raion, Khabarovsk Krai

Contact information:
12Vtoroi Mikoraion, Elban Settlement, Amursky Raion, Khabarovsk Krai 682610
Tel.(42142)41-0-95, e-mail adminelb@mail.amursk.ru
Project coordinator:
Irina Sheremyeva, director of Elban Library Network

Project objectives:
A stable indoor temperature in the library will allow to expand the range of provided services (legal information consultations); carry out activities for children from low-income families; organize exhibitions of books, drawings and works of art; and motivate adolescents to join the audience of readers.
Anticipated results:

• The project will allow saving 3,570 kW of power during the winter period, thus economizing 10,446 rubles of municipal budget funds.
• Library attendance by all sectors of the community will increase.
• Community members will have a chance to receive free legal information on all questions they are interested in, which will promote a more active civic standpoint.

Total project amount $30, 822

Grantee contribution $13, 086

Awarded grant $17, 736

Project
Increasing environmental literacy in Elban Settlement as a means of controlling the spread of unauthorized dumps

Organization:
Elban Rural Settlement Administration
Type of organization:
government

Start date 01.02.2008

End date 30.06.2008

Project summary:
Local cultural and educational institutions will conduct public education activities, meetings and contests to increase environmental literacy in the community. Digital cameras will be acquired and conservationists will record the sites of unauthorized dumps and those community members who violate environmental safety rules. Young conservationists will also take pictures of the most cared for areas. The photographs will be placed on information stands in the settlement.
Location of dissemination:
Elban Municipality, Amursky Raion, Khabarovsk Krai

Contact information:
7Garazhnaya St., Elban Settlement, Amursky Raion, Khabarovsk Krai 682610,
Tel. (42142)42-0-33, fax (42142)41-0-33, e-mail аdminelb@amursk.ru
Project coordinator:
Igor Gudin, head of Elban Rural Settlement Administration

Project objectives:
A joint inspection of the settlement by the local Environmental Commission and the children’s environmental organization Green Patrol, identified 149 (26 large) unauthorized dumps of household waste (as of April 22, 2007). To clean one such dump, the local administration has to spend an average of 3,000 rubles, which means that removing all the dumps would cost 447, 000 rubles. New dumps appear in the place of the eliminated ones. The initiative group sees only one way out of this situation: increasing environmental literacy in the community; creating conditions for the appearance of environmentally responsible attitudes among all residents of the settlement; and broadly disseminating information about instances of environmental violations.
Anticipated results:

• Advertising and public education activities will involve over 400 students of local schools and the vocational school in Elban.
• Funds saved as a result of dump cleaning will be used for landscaping and site improvement in the settlements.

Total project amount $8, 033

Grantee contribution $4, 333

Awarded grant $3, 700