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Partner: Local Authorities: Administrations of the cities of Astrakhan and Pskov
Institutions: National Economy Development Forecasting Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (in kind)
International Organization: UN-HABITAT |
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Cost: US$50,000 + 180,000 Roubles |
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The project is implemented by the "City-Region-Household" Research Partnership, together with the UN-HABITAT Executive Bureau in Moscow in collaboration with the local authorities of Astrakhan and Pskov. The aim is to launch a National Urban Observatory and to provide methodological assistance to the emerging Local Urban Observatories (LUOs) in the cities of Astrakhan and Pskov. Among the beneficiaries are local authorities, executive and representative bodies of federal and regional government of Russia, civil society, researchers, the private sector, UN-HABITAT and other institutions involved in the implementation of urban development programmes.
Main activities envisaged are: - Identify the content of national and local urban observatories.
- Negotiate the conditions for opening LUOs with local authorities and their support to LUOs in the long-term.
- Organize training courses for the personnel of local urban observatories
- Equip urban observatories in Astrakhan and Pskov with relevant hardware and software to carry out their regular activities.
- Provide methodological support to the LUOs.
- Present the first results to the local authorities and representatives of civil society to demonstrate possibilities of the urban indicators monitoring system and its importance to the decision-making process (urban policy formulation, elaboration of socio-economic development strategies for the cities etc.).
- Prepare reports on the state of the cities of Astrakhan and Pskov based on the use of urban indicators collected in the cities by newly established LUOs and submit them to UN-HABITAT’s Global Urban Observatory.
- Awareness-raising campaign related to creation of LUO network is on-going;
- Criteria for the selection of personnel for the LUO were elaborated, discussed and approved by the demonstration cities local authorities.
- A training programme was elaborated.
- Methodical and demonstration materials for the training course have been prepared.
- First training course for the representatives of the two demonstration cities took place.
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