In Moscow there was held a round table discussion devoted to "Performance-based Management in the context of public management reform implementation in Russia". The objective of the round table discussion was the advance in preparing single methods of performance-based management and the strategy of its realization while implementing governance reforms. In the round table discussion participated: M. Dmitriev, President of the "Centre for Strategic Developments" Fund; V. Yuzhakov, Head of the Administrative Reform Project, the "Centre for Strategic Developments"; A. Lavrov, Director of the Department for Budget Policy of the RF Ministry of Finance; K. Noskov, Deputy Director of the Department for Performance Based Budgeting and Summarized Financial Balance of the RF Ministry of Economical Development and Trade; A. Blokhin, Adviser for Deputy President of the Russian Federation Government; A. Klimenko, Pro-rector of the State University - Higher School of Economics; O. Alexandrov, Director General of the Centre of Economic and Financial Consulting (CEFC). The round table was organized by the "Centre for Strategic Developments" jointly with Donors' Secretariat on civil service and administrative reform in Russia (World Bank/Department for International Development of Great Britain) with participation of the State University - Higher School of Economics and the Centre of Economic and Financial Consulting. See the round table materials here: http://www.csr.ru/event/original_1160.stm

In Rostov on the Don there was held a round table discussion under the title "The Main Directions in the Administrative Reform Implementation. Providing Civil Service: Convenience Standards, Charges, Availability". The Round table discussion was conducted by S.Naryshkin, the Head of the RF Government Machinery, RF Minister and Dm. Kozak, the RF Presidential Envoy in the South Federal Okrug. The representatives of the South Russia regions participated in the event. One can obtain the detailed information and the main presentations at the Rostov Oblast Administration site: http://www.donland.ru/.

Yesterday there was held a presentation of the regular Report on the Economy in Russia (№13, December, 2006), prepared by the World Bank Russian Office. The report is placed here:     (365 kb). You can also download the text of the Report on the following site: www.worldbank.org.ru (see section Report on Economy in Russia).

Leningrad Oblast Administration jointly with North-West Civil Service Academy conducted in Saint-Petersburg the seminar on experience and results of governance reform implementation in the Leningrad Oblast. One can obtain the information on the seminar on the site: http://www.nwags.ru/index.phtml?id_page=11&id=716, agenda of the seminar and organizers' contacts are here:     (271 kb).

In the framework of the preparatory activity for the "Providing Independence and Defense for the Youth in the Northern Caucasus" project in Rostov on the Don there was held a seminar to introduce a research under the title "Youth in the Northern Caucasus: from Risks to Opportunity" which was published by the World Bank. You can download the essay in Russian      (860 кб) or English      (723 кб). You can download agenda here     (26 kb). You can download list of participants here     (95 kb). You can download the photos from the seminar here:     (160 kb). The information on the seminar is placed at the World Bank site: "The World Bank issued the report" and: "Youth in the Northern Caucasus: from Risks to Opportunity".

The Ministry of Economic Development has published on its site the results of selection of programs and action plans for the administrative reform implementation in 2006 executed by federal bodies of executive power and higher executive bodies of state power of the Russian Federation subjects. The proceedings of the competitive committee are here: http://ar.economy.gov.ru/documents,pub_id=29166.

In the Moscow Department for real estate there was held a meeting with the representatives of the executive bodies of the Russian Federation subjects. One can see the detailed information here: http://r77.kadastr.ru/news/official_department/149052/

At present the World Bank is implementing the "Governance Development in the South Russia" Project. Taking into account successful experience of the Tomsk Oblast in the field of administrative reform implementation it was planned to make a training trip for the representatives of the South Federal Okrug in November, 20-24.

The range of issues to be studied includes: strategic planning at the regional level, administrative reform implementation, performance-based management, functional analysis, anticorruption expertise of the legislation and some issues of the addressed social protection of the population.

The delegation included 10-12 representatives of the South federal Okrug of the deputy President of the Government level, Heads of the machinery of State, Ministers, Deputy Ministers. It was also planned that the representatives of the Stavropol Krai, republics of Karachay-Cherkessia, Kalmykia, North Ossetia-Alanya and Dagestan would participate. One can download the agenda of the training trip here     (45 kb).

Russian Ministry for Economic Development and Trade announced that on 14-15 November 2006 in Moscow there was held a practical seminar "Modeling of executive bodies actions as a tool of the administrative reform".
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Ministry for Economic Development and Trade placed information on resources transition and preparation of reports on administrative reform implementation in 2006 on the following site: http://ar.economy.gov.ru/methodics,pub_id=29124

Center for Fiscal Policy with support of USAID conducted in Pyatigorsk the final seminar under the Program of consulting assistance for the North Caucasus regions. The Seminar was prepared for the representatives of municipal bodies. It was devoted to the issues of budgeting and budget process on municipal level, including the issues of middle term projection, property delimitation, forming of liabilities register and other. You can download materials on the program implementation here.

Masterclass was held in Rostov-on-Don on "Expert support of the public administration reform in the regions of the South of Russia". The action was held by Secretariat for Working Group for Coordinating Activities in the Area of Developing Governance in South Russia together with the World Bank. In Masterclass regional and international experts took part. You can download The master-class program here. You can download list of participants here     (60 kb).

The regional seminar - conference_ was held on the results of TASIS project "Public service reform". The places for seminars were regional academies of public service in 3 regions - Nizhniy Novgorod, S-Petersburg and Volgograd. More detailed information you can download here     (30 kb).

Inter - Regional Seminar was held in Pyatigorsk on "New technologies of competitive selection and evaluation of public servants: experience of Russian regions The Program and the registration form you can download here.

"The Transparency International" organization published the Corruption Perception Index for 2006. The data presented cover 163 countries. The first place (the lowest corruption level) is occupied by Finland, Iceland, New Zealand and Denmark. The highest corruption level is demonstrated by Haity, Myanmar, Iraq and Guinea. Russia ranks 121 (2.5 scores), that proves the progress compared to2005 data (126 place, 2.4. scores). However if compared to 2004 (90 place, 2.8 scores) the situation has not changed. The press release and the data on Corruption Perception Index for 2006 you can find here: http://www.transparency.org.ru/, http://www.transparency.org.ru/, and also in the enclosure:     (475 kb).

Last week the Index of budget openness was published for the year 2006. The research was done in 59 countries, in 10 of which the government budget is a closed information. In 2006 rating Russia is placed in the interval 41-60% together with the other 20 countries, including Mexico, India, Turkey, Columbia and others. You can download detailed information about the research here.

International conference was held in Rostov-on-Don on the support of principles of responsible investing and regional development in Russia: "Social investments in economic development of Russian regions". You can download program here.

In Nizhniy Novgorod there was held the final conference under the project "Adressing social support". You can download materials on approaches to improving efficiency and standardization of social services here (see item 68).

Here you can download the materials of the seminar on "Justification for Budget Allocation and Explanatory Notes of the Chief Distributors of the Federal Budget Fund: Lessons Learned in 2006 and Directions of Further Improvement", granted by the EU Project on "Administrative Reform II: Improving Government Expenses Management". (see position № 8).

The Masterclass was held at the British Embassy under the DFID project "Administrative reform and reform of public service in Russia" on the subject "Human resource management in public bodies". Presentations you can download here (see items 63-64)

Institutional reforn in Russia: Transition from projection to implementation in the conditions of multilevel system of government management. Authors: A. Verhaeghen, Elena Dobrolubova, Ylia Shirokova, Maia Gusarova, Natalia Ivanova     (752 kb)

Presentation of analytical works on governance reform.

Resource center catalog.

Masterclass.

Training course.

Southern Region Investment Forum.

The World Bank Experts' Second Visit


Working meetings


Seminar-meeting.

The World Bank and the World Bank Institute Training Course.

Inter - Regional Seminar.

Inter - Regional Seminar.

The World Bank Experts' Visit.

Training Seminar.

Inter - Regional Seminar.