Insights from Local Initiatives Support

A paper that reviews the performance of the Russia Local Initiatives Support Program (LISP) as an instrument to address various needs of the population.

This paper reviews the performance of the Russia Local Initiatives Support Program (LISP) as an instrument for directly addressing the needs of the population to access socioeconomic infrastructure, for increasing public confidence in self-governance frameworks and institutions through dialogue and community budgeting consultations, and for strengthening the capacity for local self-governance. The paper does this by looking at historical and survey data from the implementation of the LISP methodology as part of regional programs in Russia.

Author information: Ivan Shulga, Lev Shilov, Anna Sukhova, Peter Pojarski
Source: World Bank