Russian Federation

The key objectives of the report are to evaluate the quality of the project implementation processes and engagement of the population in the project, describe activities... Show More + implemented with support from the Bank as well as preliminary outcomes and lessons learned. The report discusses capacity building events, citizens' participation in microprojects identification, development of competitive bids, selection of microprojects by the LISP tender commission, signing microproject contracts and provision of subsidies, and microprojects co-financing. The report advises in conclusion, that with a careful and aggressive awareness-building campaign, the public is ready to provide significant co-financing of the project, and the level of such co-financing only marginally depends on people's income levels; and in 2011 and subsequent years, the level of co-financing should be given more weight as an evaluation criteria, especially for settlements that used to receive subsidies from the project before. Show Less -