Practical Self-Administration is the Main Factor of the Village Development
A course of educational workshops for the members of Deputy Councils from rural settlements was held within the framework of Forest Village project in Knyazhpogostsky district. It was aimed at self-administration development and cooperation within the local community.
The progress of the project implementation showed that undeveloped self-administration of the villages is the main reason of local problems which are not solved for years.
If there is no any practical self-administration on the bottom-up level, there would be no practical change for the better in our settlements. This conclusion was formulated by the residents of Komi settlements on the thematic Forests Dialogue in Syktyvkar a year ago. To fulfill the recommendations of the Dialogue educational seminars for the members of Deputy Councils from rural settlements were held within Forest Village project. At first they took place in Priluzje, and recently – in Emva (Knyazhpogostsky district).
During first two workshops specialists from Komi Academy of State Service and Management acquainted the members of Deputy Councils with the theoretical basis of local administration, legislated functions and authority of both levels in local administration ( district – settlement), possible forms of cooperation between the levels, methods of municipal unit development, and budgeting.
The third workshop was totally devoted to project activities. The participants learned about logic of design thinking, rules of social project planning, writing an application for grants competitions, examples of successful realization of social projects by civil organizations and local administration on the territory of our Republic. During the practical part of the workshop the deputies and administration of the settlements practiced in local project development.
The workshops were interesting for deputies from villages not only as possibility to improve the knowledge, but also as the basis for cooperative discussion of problems and experience interchange.