83 situation where many politically active and critical Russian NGOs experience different types of hardship.
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Capacity-Building on Joint Implementation for Energy Efficiency Centres in Russia
# Institutions involved and funding. The project was coordinated by Norsk Energi – and the project director was Gabriella Samuelsson. It also included an additional Norwegian partner, ECON Analysis, which contributed with expertise for the workshop session. These institutions carried out the training programme. At the Russian side they collaborated with the Regional Energy Efficiency Centres (REECs) in Arkhangelsk, Petrozavodsk, Murmansk and Komi. The REECs are centres of expertise that provide technical assistance on energy and environmental matters to local actors in the region. The project was carried out in the first half year of 2006. The project mainly received funding from the Nordic Council of Ministers. Funding from the Barents Secretariat was 100,000 NOK and was earmarked for providing all Russian participants free transportation and accommodation and for imbursement of participation for the REECs. Background. In February 2005, the Russian Federation adopted an Integrated Action Plan for the Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. Having worked on, and succeeded in, the establishment of REES in NW-Russia over a number of years, Norsk Energi took the initiative to build on this collaboration to carry out capacity building courses on Joint Implementation (JI) for REECs and municipal and industrial stakeholders in NW-Russia. The development of energy efficiency and cleaner production projects, which are prime candidates for development into JI projects, had already been an integral part of the capacity building process. The REEC, having close contacts with the regional administrations and industries, were considered to be actors that could play a very central role in the identification and developing of JI-projects in the future. The Nordic Council of Ministers (NMR) sponsored such a capacity building project during 2006. In order to increase the participation of local stakeholders at the workshops, Norsk Energi applied to the Barents Secretariat for additional funding for NIBR Report 2008:4
