Abstract
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In the frame of Local Self-governing reform in the Russian Federation we can see serious changes of territorial and structural organization of municipal units, financial-economic basis of local governing, in the field of cooperation between state and municipal institutions.
Samara Oblast became first of the Russian regions where fundamental changes of Local Self-governing organization were made on the legislative level and successfully are being realized in practice. Since January, 1, 2004 till now Samara State Duma passed more than a hundred laws on the development of Federal Law on Local Self-governing. In Samara Oblast there were formed 304 new municipal units, 12 of them have urban Settlement status and 292 – rural Settlement status. There were defined the boundaries of municipal units and urban districts, their regulations are being edited very actively.
International Market Institute (IMI) and its subdivision – Public and Municipal Administration Department as a basic institute of higher education authorized by Samara Oblast Government, within the jurisdiction of Russian Public Service Academy under the auspices of the President of the Russian Federation has developed a complex of the measures aimed at forming the precise system of vocational training for municipal servants, deputies and elective officials of the Local Self-governing, This system includes the improvement of professional skills and professional retraining, generalization of the work experience, the scientific analysis of the problems that municipal servants have at their professional sphere.
The municipal elections were held on October, 9, 2005. The law on Local Self-governing in Samara Oblast comes into force on January, 1, 2006. Nowadays it is necessary to carry out a short-term professional training of municipal servants and deputies of representative bodies according to new rules of municipal Self-government .
IMI introduces several new educational programs and curricula to improve the organization of training for municipal servants. They include a week courses of qualification improvement for various categories of audience: heads of Settlement, chairmen of Settlement representative bodies, heads of the local administration staff, economic division and department servants. Program of the courses reflects the specific character of each group of audience.
For example, for head of settlement training we use the complex approach that includes the analysis of various aspects of municipal unit activities: legal bases of local governing, organizational bases of local governing, financial and economic bases of local governing, management in municipal units.
Professional skill improvement of chairmen in settlement representative bodies is aimed at study of a role and a place of a representative body in local management, a representative body work organization and its competence.
Servants in financial sphere pay special attention to development, implementation of the local budget, the municipal property management, realization of target program on economic settlement development.
Additional to the week programs we introduced one-day courses of qualification improvement carried out together with Samara Oblast legislative and executive powers. Activities of various categories of municipal servants are covered there: budgetary process, a local economy, social an cultural sphere, cooperation with nonprofits.
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