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Current Projects

Project: GCAP Russia campaign to improve access and quality of health care for poor and marginalized groups.
Using evidence-based approaches to facilitating access and quality of health care for poor and marginalized groups to enable GCAP Russia to contribute to legislative and practice change at the federal and regional levels through an advocacy campaign.
Implementing partner: Oxfam
Duration: June 2008 -March 2010
 
Project: Strengthening of Civil Society and Democratic Institutions in  the Russian Regions
The project will strengthen participants’ knowledge about democratic values and stimulate MSPS Alumni to implement civil development on the local, regional and federal levels, which will make influence on Russian society and strengthen civil society’s role.
Implementing partner: NGO  Moscow School of Political Studies
Duration: Nov 2008 -Oct 2009
 
Project: Enhancing capacity of Russian human rights NGOs to inform and influence policy making
To enhance capacity of Russian human rights NGOs to systematically and professionally produce high quality up-to-date information and policy recommendations on key human rights issues and developments in Russia, disseminate them in the form of expert reports and popular briefing papers, and present them to key target audiences: Russian government agencies, foreign governments and embassies, intergovernmental organisations, Russian NGOs and think tanks, and Russian and foreign media, in order to more effectively influence their policies, decisions, and practices.
Implementing partner: DLC (Democracy and Law Centre)
Duration: July  09-March 10
 
Project: NGOs and Ombudsmen for effective and not excessive counteraction to extremism
To create informal network of local and federal-level NGOs and regional Ombudsmen (under the umbrella of federal Ombudsman) oriented to promote and advocate for positive changes in the sphere of so called anti-extremism, including making this counteraction more oriented to international human rights standards, more effective and more protective for freedom of expression.
Implementing partner: SOVA
Duration: June 09- March 10
 
Project: Accessibility as a Path to Civil Society
Developing a replicable model of enforcing the rights of people with disabilities and mobility impairments to accessible environment in Ulan-Ude (Republic of Buryatia, Russian Federation)
Implementing partner: Community Foundation ‘Society Without Barriers’
Duration: May 09-March 10
 
 
Project: Survey of Prisoners
The Federal Corrections Service (FSIN) will base its rehabilitation services and future resettlement strategy on accurate and up-to-date information about the real problems that prisoners face on release.
Implementing partner: Economy, Policy and Law Research Centre (EPLC)
Duration: June 09- March 10
 
Project: Rights of children, accompanying their mothers in places of detention
The project purpose is to develop a policy and procedures on mothers and babies in prisons in order to promote and to protect in conformity with the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)  and other relevant international documents, the rights of the children, accompanying their mothers in places of detention in the Russian Federation.
Implementing partner: Penal Reform International
Duration: May 09-March 10
 
Project: Development of restorative mediation in Russia
The development of the restorative mediation in Russia to lower the number of conflict and criminal situations.
Implementing partner: CJLR
Duration: June- Nov 2009
 
Project: Increasing business participation in energy, climate change and trade and investment policy  in the Russian Federation:
To foster a closer working relationship between senior policy staff and membership of the most influential business lobbies in the UK and Russia (RSPP ad CBI)  in the fields of energy efficiency, climate change and global trade and investment policy,  initially via the exchange of expert visits and subsequently via CBI/RSPP seminars/working groups.
Implementing partner: CBI
Duration: April 09-March 11
 
Project: Russian banking sector – responding to the banking crisis:
Regional Government of the North-West of Russia adopts the new regional mechanisms that will promote the stability of the Russian banking sector and assist its reform, based on market principles, by the end of 2009
Implementing partner: North-West Association of Banks
Duration: April 09-March 10



See Also

CBI/RSPP project

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