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Russia Local Initiatives Support Program

LISP BBL Feb.19, 2015

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Russia Local Initiatives Support Program

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  1. ;Russia Local Initiatives Support Program BBL Moscow, February 19, 2015

  2. Outline • Background/Context • LISP approach • LISP Program • Results • Outcomes • Challenges and way forward

  3. Background/Context Russia LISP BBL, February 19, 2015

  4. Development challenges in Russian rural communities • 30% of Russia population (42% of all poor) lives in rural areas with very low quality of life: • 2/3 of rural settlements do not have centralized water supply • 95% of rural settlements have no sewerage • 1/3 of rural settlements have no hard-surfaced access roads • No significant changes since early 90-s. Existing social infrastructure has dilapidated. Growing social apathy of the population; lack of trust between the population and authorities

  5. Russia administrative system / REGIONAL LEVEL 83 regions … RAYON LEVEL 2,335higher level municipalities 1,815 rayons+520 urban districts up to 60 rayons per region … … SETTLEMENT LEVEL 20,185lower level municipalities 18,525 rural+1,660 urban ~10 settlements per rayon … … … … VILLAGE LEVEL over 170,000villages 5-20 villages per settlement … … … … … … … …

  6. There is no good mechanism to identify and address local needs • No funds are available at the settlement level • Revenue base of settlements is very weak • Most budget resources are accumulated and spent in higher level municipalities (regional or rayon centers) • Transfers from regional to settlement budgets are not in use; transfers from rayon to settlement budgets are not transparent • Funds available at the higher level budgets are mainly used to finance infrastructure projects in rayon centers • “Top-down” approach is used to identify development priorities; population is not involved in decision making • While the legal framework for the community engagement is established (FZ#131), there is no experience, incentives, and capacity for the community involvement Interesting fact: there is strong competition for the position of a rayon head but nobody wants to be a head of settlement

  7. Simple LISP Game YOU YOUR TYPICAL ISSUES YOUR TYPICAL ACTIONS Head of a typical settlement Conditions of “critical” infrastructure: community center, road, water supply Send requests («хотелки») to the Governor Governor of a typical region • Suggest that settlements deal with their problems by their own • Continue to finance big infrastructure projects • Swamped with requests from settlement heads; • No funds to cover all the requests • No idea how to prioritize requests Interesting fact: a head of a settlement thinks he needs 30 mln Rub for reconstruction of a community center while he really needs less than 3 mln Rub

  8. Simple LISP Game YOUR TYPICAL ISSUES YOUR TYPICAL ACTIONS YOU Go to the Governor and suggest him LISP Typical LISP TTL Interesting fact: Per each 100 Rub invested in LISP a regional budget would get 30 Rub of local co-financing of which just 5 Rub would be paid for the Bank RAS

  9. LISP Approach Russia LISP BBL, February 19, 2015

  10. LISP solution In 2005 Bank suggested that GoR launches a CDD-type program (LISP) that would identify and address community needs through:

  11. LISP mechanism • Subsidies from regional budgets to support micro-projects aimed at improving local level social infrastructure: • re-construction of community centers; • construction of rural roads; • organization of water-supply; • children playgrounds, street lightening, territorial improvement, etc. • Micro-projects are to be: • identified by population; • jointly prepared by population initiative groups and local administrations; • co-financed by population, local government and local business; • competitively selected by the regional committee based on transparent and formal criteria; • completed within 1 year.

  12. LISP technology and need for TA • Lack of practice of conducting community meetings • No capacity for preparation of micro-project application and technical documentation • No procedure and criteria for assessing applications • No mechanism to transfer funds from regional budgets • No practice of local procurement • Lack of capacity for monitoring micro-projects

  13. Bank role

  14. LISP Team Core Team 8 Based: WB Moscow CO • Design, methodology, MIS, capacity building, expertise, analytical work Based: Stavropol, Yerevan Local Consultants 20-30 • (2-8 per region) • Facilitation of community meetings, supervision of micro-projects, ongoing advice to municipalities Based: in regions

  15. LISP Program Russia LISP BBL, February 19, 2015

  16. Russia LISP Programmatic RAS (P149552) • Duration: 3 years FY14 (April 2014) – FY17 (March 31, 2017) • PDO: to assist interested regional governments from the Russian Federation in identifying and addressing community needs through a participatory approach • Components: • Regional child RAS activities (6 RASs in FY15) • Cross-cutting support to LISP Program (child BB-financed activity)

  17. Active RASs LISPregions

  18. Main Bank deliverables in CY14: Regional RASs 3 3 5 5 19 29 34 116 798 105 29 116 221 69 210 53

  19. Highlights: LISP MIS Database with all projects, consultants’ reports, pics from community meetings etc. Online submission of applications Automatic evaluation of applications On-line monitoring Analytical reports Networking municipalities, responsible ministry and Bank consultants

  20. Highlights : LISP School All municipal heads receive training on use of LISP MIS • Main topics: • LISP principles, procedures, and parameters • Community meetings • Local co-financing • Preparation of micro-project application Tver oblast Every October Near 400 “students” each year

  21. Highlights: LISP Impact Evaluation • Baseline and Follow-up Surveys • Treatment and control groups • Two groups of respondents: • Population (sample: 1200 people per year) • Local authorities (sample: 200 people per year) Interesting fact: we do sell impact evaluation to our clients!

  22. More than 400 participants • Chaired by Governor Highlights:Annual LISP conferenceKirov LISP Conference, 2012 Conference, Participants Governor Mr.N.Belykh Conference, Handing thank-you letters Round table with representatives of 9 Russian regions

  23. Highlights: LISP Booklets

  24. Cross-cutting Support to LISP Program

  25. Main Bank deliverables : Cross-cutting Support to LISP Program To date (in CY14-CY15) • Information/knowledge sharing events • LISP presentation at the workshop organized by MoF RF and RF Open Government “Population engagement in Open Budget” (Moscow, Sept.9, 2014) • LISP master-class, organized by RF Open Government (Ulianovsk, June 26, 2014) • LISP presentation at Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum (Krasnoyarsk, Feb.27-March 1, 2014) • Detailed LISP overview for 2007-2015 (in process) • Support to the federal level dialogue with MoF, Open Government, and Ministry for North Caucasus Affairs • Managing, monitoring and analysis of LISP Program results

  26. Main Bank deliverables : Cross-cutting Support to LISP Program Planned(in CY15 – until June 30, 2015) • Information/knowledge sharing events • LISP master-class at the WB workshop on local sources of institutional resilience to fragility and conflict in the North Caucasus region of the RF (Vladikavkaz, Feb. 25) • LISP presentation at the workshop organized by Research Institute of MoF RF “Budget as the subject of social science” (Moscow, March 4, 2015) • LISP section at the WB workshop/conference for North Caucasus regions (Vladikavkaz, April 2015 – TBC) • LISP workshop for Russia regions and federal authorities (Ufa, May 2015 – TBC) • LISP master-class under the workshop on participatory budget organized by European Institute (St.Petersburg, June 2015) • LISP presentation at St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (St.Petersburg, June 18-20, 2015) • Support to the federal level dialogue • Article on LISP published in “Finance” journal and disseminated among Russia Governors • Joint LISP workshop/master-class with MoF RF for Governors and regional ministers of Finance

  27. Results Russia LISP BBL, February 19, 2015

  28. Main results

  29. Population involvement in LISP in 2014 Over 1,000community meetings Total (2007-2014): around 3,000meetings Over 130,000 participants of community meetings: • 20% of adultsin KO • Up to 60% of adults in selected municipalities Over 3,300 members of community initiative groups

  30. Population involvement

  31. Community meetings Nizhnyi Novgorod

  32. Community meetings Bashkortostan Tver oblast Kirov oblast Stavropol krai

  33. Community meetings Bashkortostan Bashkortostan Stavropol krai Kirov oblast

  34. Population involvement

  35. Population involvement in micro-project implementation In-kind contribution by population Republic of Bashkortostan Uchalinskyi rayon, Karimovo village Khaibullinskyi rayon, Fiodorovka village Uchalinskyi rayon, Nauruzovo village

  36. Participatory micro-projects in 2014 535 micro-projects completed in 2014 Total(2007-2014): around 2,000 micro-projects • Near 450 rural roads reconstructed in Kirov oblast in 2010-2014 • Near 350 water supply projects in Kirov oblast in 2010-2014 • Near 150 community centers reconstructed in Tver oblast and Stavropol kraiin 2007-2014 Over 1,200,000 direct beneficiaries in 2014

  37. Micro-projects completed in CY14

  38. Micro-projects completed – water supply after before before after

  39. Micro-projects completed – community centers before after before after

  40. Micro-projects completed – children playgrounds before after before after

  41. Micro-projects completed – sport facilities before after after

  42. Micro-projects completed – bridges before after after before

  43. Cash co-financing, mln rub (%) * In 2013 LISP in SK and NO was implemented without the Bank 6% 15% 10% 69%

  44. Outcomes Russia LISP BBL, February 19, 2015

  45. Main outcomes • Improved targeting of local needs • Improved satisfaction of population with: • quality of life in communities • quality of local social services • local self governance practices

  46. LISP targets real needs of the population • 90% of the population believe that the problems solved under LISP were “important” or “very important” • 82% of the population are regularly using outputs of the LISP (measured by KO LISP Sociological Survey, 2010-2013)

  47. Improved quality of life in communities

  48. Improved satisfaction of population by the provision of local social services Cemetery Improvement Condition of sport facilities Collection, removal and utilization of waste Condition of monuments Condition of cultural centers Street lightening Water supply Condition of roads and pavements LISP non-participants LISP participants

  49. To what extent you are satisfied with the following aspects of the self-governance? (balance of positive and negative responses)

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