During the last ten days of December, on the eve of New Year celebrations, district councils of Bakhchisaraysky, Dzhankoysky, Pervomaysky and Sovetsky districts have completed the process of adopting long-term development strategies. These documents are the result of the joint project entitled “Integrated strategic planning and strategic environmental assessment in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea”, which was carried out by four local governments and the UNDP-led Crimea Integration and Development Programme.
Ayder Seitosmanov, UNDP CIDP Regional Development Advisor, tells us about the first tangible results of the project and the role played by strategic planning in the work of local authorities...
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End-consumer access is crucial |
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Households and other small agricultural producers in Crimea face a big problem: they have no access to the end user and are obliged to sell their produce to middlemen, getting a very low price for all the labor they invested. It is the middlemen, not the producers, who receive most of the profit, controlling both the price and the demand. One of the ways to address this issue is to produce consumer-ready goods instead of raw material or semi-finished products...
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CIDP Information Bulletin |
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In September CIDP Information bulletin is fully dedicated to the issues of agricultural service cooperatives development in Crimea. In addition to the general information on the effectiveness of cooperatives in alleviating poverty and overcoming economic crisis, you will find important data on non-profit status of services cooperatives, as well as an exciting interview with the leader of a functioning agricultural service cooperative. Relevant news will add to your knowledge of cooperative development issue at Crimean and national scale (available in Russian only).
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| Parents and school: together for a better future of our children |
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Limited access to the up-to-date learning technologies, computers, extra-class activities or advanced courses on school subjects are the problems that many rural schools in Crimea face everyday. Schools often lack teachers, class rooms, and curricular material. However, cooperation between parents and school administration can solve at least some of these problems...
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Life network |
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Before the birth of human society, the nature on the Earth was like a single “life film.” Human settlements and economic activity began to split this “film” into separate parts. Modern wild nature protection approaches are impossible without efforts aimed at the creation of "life network," which consists of protected natural regions and corridors between them...
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