Council of Europe

COUNTRY SPECIFIC PROGRAMMES FOR CAPACITY BUILDING
 

Activities in 2011

  The Centre of Expertise and the Nordic Council came together to support the implementation of a programme aimed at facilitating transfrontier co-operation in NW Russia, as a result the drafting of a toolkit on cross-border co-operation (CBC) inspired by the Manual on IMC developed by the Centre is underway
  Notabene programme launched in Saint-Petersburg
  In the framework of the Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM), a new co-operation programme on Good Governance (GG) has been proposed and developed
  Planning meeting on the new project on Good Governance held in Strasbourg

Activities in 2010

Inter-municipal co-operation in transfrontier regions

Aim
Facilitating transfrontier co-operation in NW Russia.

In co-operation with
Centre of Expertise
Nordic Council

Tools
Madrid Outline Convention
Toolkit on IMC (Centre of Expertise)

Previous activities

Leadership Benchmark programme in North West Russia

Date:
2005-2006

Joint programme
Council of Europe- European Commission programme for North-West Russia.

In co-operation with
the Council of Europe worked with the Russian Congress of Municipalities and the Academy of Public Administration

Activities
Peer Review project was implemented in the region of Karelia
Self-Assessment project, based on Council of Europe methodology
Russian Leadership Benchmark, was piloted in the Kaliningrad region within the framework of the joint Council of Europe – EC programme for NW Russia.

Best Practice Programme in Transfrontier Co-operation

A Best Practice programme in transfrontier co-operation was implemented in NW Russia

In co-operation with
Academy of Public Administration in St Petersburg,
Congress of Municipalities of Russia,
Regional local authority associations from the Regions of Kaliningrad and Pskov and the Republic of Karelia

Leadership Academy Programme

Date: 2008-2009

Implementation by
The North-Western Academy of Public Administration, on the basis of a statement of co-operation

Funding
Co-funding between the North-Western Academy of Public Administration and the Centre of Expertise