Information about the PartNER Program:
The
PartNER program is financed by the US Agency for International Development (USAID)
and will provide three million dollars in funding and technical assistance to
partnership projects that contribute to social and economic development in the
Volga Federal District (VFD) in Russia. For
more information on the PartNER program please visit the IREX website: www.irex.org/volgapartner
or if you have specific questions regarding the Round II phase of competitions,
please contact IREX at [email protected].
IREX has
recently completely the first Round of competition for existing partnerships
between US and Russian organizations. Rounds
II through IV of the PartNER program will support new partnerships: those
between US and Russian organizations and those between Russian organizations.
The PartNER program will encourage new partnerships
between U.S. organizations and Russian organizations from the cities of Saratov,
Kazan, Perm, Ulyanovsk, Kirov and Ufa. U.S. organizations that wish to cooperate with Russian
organizations from these cities should submit a Profile Application to the
PartNER program. In addition, U.S.
organizations that wish to partner with Russian organizations from other cities
in the VFD may submit Profile Applications and participate in the new
partnership competition.
The
profile application below is designed solely for collecting information on
organizations that may serve as partners; it is not an official Request for
Proposal (RFP). Each remaining
round of competition in the PartNER program will be officially opened with an
RFP. The second round of
competition will be officially announced in June 2002.
IREX will distribute the RFP to all organizations that complete the
Profile Application below. Interested
organizations will also be able to download the Round II RFP from the IREX
websites listed above.
Finding
a Partner:
US
organizations that wish to participate in the program, but do not already have a
Russian partner must fill out the Profile Application below.
The information provided in this application will be posted on the IREX
website in a database that will be available to organizations interested in
finding a partner. A follow-up
interview, either in person or by telephone, may take place to supplement the
information submitted in the application form.
To be
included in the database, the US organization should:
·
Have experience
in implementing project activities under at least one of the three strategic
sectors (see question 11).
·
Have been legally
registered for as least one year;
·
Demonstrate
verifiable results and/or accomplishments from previous projects;
·
Have a proven
capacity for developing and implementing activities that fall under one of the
four strategic sectors.
·
Have an interest
in working with a Russian organization to contribute to the social and/or
economic development in Russia.
US
organizations should submit the attached Profile & Application form via
email to [email protected] or in
hardcopy to:
Upon receipt of the Profile Application, IREX will post application information to the online database. We encourage those submitting Profile Applications to review this online database to identify and contact suitable partners. Additionally, if needed, IREX may help facilitate pairing organizations with similar programmatic interests.
Partnerships,
Networking, Empowering and Roll-Out (PartNER)
1. Organization Name:
2. Address:
3. Telephone:
4. Fax:
5. E-mail:
6. Contact Person:
7. How long has your organization been legally registered?
8.
Please list your organization’s past and current sources of funding and
amounts:
9.
Briefly describe activities that you would be interested in implementing in
partnership with a Russian organization or institution. Please be sure that the
activities are relevant to at least one of the three strategic sectors listed
below:
10.
How do you think working with a Russian partner would strengthen or contribute
to your own organization?
11. Strategic Sectors. Listed below are three strategic areas under which your
project with the Russian partner must fall.
Examples of the types of activities USAID seeks to support in the Volga
Federal District are listed under each strategic sector.
Although your planned project activities do not have to precisely match
any of these examples, they should be generally in line with them.
You may select one or more strategic sectors and activities that match
your organization’s field of interest and expertise.
q
Social Reform:
q
Support
approaches that provide expanded services to the most vulnerable, such as
disabled or multiple-children families;
q
Strengthen
relationships between NGOs and governmental organizations that promote more
effective representation of citizens’ interests;
q
Facilitate
cross-sectoral projects that create civic education programs for youth;
q
Promote
programs that eliminate social and economic disparity;
q
Facilitate
partnerships between grassroots groups, advocating change and reform in social
services;
q
Develop
relationships that advocate for improved preventive health and primary health
care services, while advocating for health care change.
q
Local Governance and Economic Development:
q
Increase
the effectiveness and equity in the delivery of goods and services;
q
Develop
a strategic planning tool for local economic growth that includes NGOs,
businesses, and citizen advocates;
q
Improve
information exchange between local governments;
q
Facilitate
partnerships that provide business-related training for young entrepreneurs;
q
Develop
the institutional capacity of Volga Federal District professional associations;
q
Promote
eco-business associations, lobbying for environmentally-conscious and
cost-effective business practices.
q
Reinforce
associations that encourage public participation in budget and resource
allocation within the community.
q
Rule of Law:
q
Promote
citizen’s rights advocacy;
q
Support
for juvenile crime prevention;
q
Expand
sister-bar partnerships;
q
Provide
legal services to the less privileged and most vulnerable groups in society;
q
Promote greater awareness of legal
rights among the indigent.
12.
Describe your accomplishments in the strategic sector(s) that you selected (be
as specific as possible):