Priorities for FDIcee LGIOSI

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Priorities for FDIceeLGI/OSI
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LGI/OSIs own new priority areas

• Marketization of public services
• Fiscal transparency with focus on Audit and
  control at the local level
• Revenue raising in informal economies
• Public Services with a focus on rural areas

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• Monitoring of the implementation of
  decentralization laws and of their impact using
  the Stability Pact and benchmarks developed by
  the CoE and LGI (in cooperation with the USAID
  and CoE). Bringing closer to MPs the issues of
  decentralization.
• Continued reform of property taxation (tax
  collection, registers and enforcement) as a key
  source of local government own revenues
• Financing education and educational policies in
  the decentralized context (strategies for
  implementing per capita financing, differentiated
  payments for teachers, delegation of budgets,
  ministry of education policies on educational
  development, etc)
• Financing of social services and rural
  development
• Local government strategic budgeting, management
  of EU funds and borrowing in the context of EU
  programs (for Bulgaria and Romania)

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Caucasus

• Legal amendments and implementation of the
  equalization formula developed by local FDI
  partners and donors in Armenia (with the
  cooperation of UNDP)
• Revenue assignment and taxation (with a focus on
  Armenia and Georgia)
• Capacity building for performance budgeting (in
  cooperation with the WBi)
• Local government budget management and
  transparency
• Building capacities for Associations of Local
  Governments (with a focus on Azerbaijan)

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Central Asia

• Local government own and delegated functions
  differentiation of functions at local, rayon and
  central levels (with a focus on KG)
• Revenue assignment and taxation (KG)
• Financing education (with a focus on KG and TJ)
• Capacity building for performance budgeting (in
  cooperation with the WBi)
• Support for LG Associations (Kyrgyzstan,
  Tajikistan)

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FDIs operation starting with 2007

• Move from fully funded (OSI-USAID) core operation
  
• To Activity which is
• Partnership driven
• Opportunity based
• Parallel funded

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Challenges

• Identification of common strategic issues
• Planning
• Communication
• Joint/Parallel Funding and implementation
• Balance country vs regional

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Successful tools

• Forums brining stakeholders together -gt now with
  topical focus
• Policy analysis and advice
• Neutral advocacy based on technical solutions
• Targeted Technical assistance
• Targeted Capacity building