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UNDP CIDP, or UNDP Crimea Integration and Development Programme is a long-term international technical assistance programme financed by the United Nations Development Programme and the international donor community (CIDA, SIDA, SDC, TIKA and others). The main goal of UNDP CIDP is to lead multi-ethnic rural Crimea towards sustainable socio-economic development taking into account the region’s ethnic and cultural diversity.

UNDP CIDP History
UNDP CIDP was established in 1995 as a joint initiative of the international donor community aimed at solving key development problems of the Crimean peninsula. Following the emergency response approach during the first two phases (1995-2000), the programme shifted to the social mobilization approach during its third phase (2001-2004). This phase focused on community initiatives aimed at empowering marginalized and excluded communities and groups of people, including formerly deported people, to take initiative and actively participate in improving their living conditions and to integrate into mainstream society. Complementing these efforts with a more integrated approach, at the fourth phase (2005-2007) UNDP CIDP went beyond the community level to intervene at the policy level. The goal of the forth phase was to alleviate major structural risk factors, which could not be solved at the local level, to ensure a favourable policy environment and institutional framework context in which social infrastructure assets, created by communities, are being used, and to provide for consistency between macro policy and micro level interventions.

Programme Strategy
The main goal of fifth Programme phase (period up to 2011) is to lead multi-ethnic rural Crimea towards socio-economic development, taking into account region’s ethnic and cultural diversity, by ensuring that Crimean institutions, processes and partnerships are strong and sustainable, and operate on the basis of sound democratic practices. This goal will be achieved through the bottom-up delivery approach comprising four stages.

Stage 1 – Community mobilization Within the fifth phase UNDP CIDP focuses its efforts on disseminating the multi-ethnic rural community mobilisation experience in the villages and village councils that have not yet participated in this process. The process includes the transfer of knowledge and skills through the Associations of Community Organizations established with UNDP CIDP assistance. An important task is to ensure sustainability of this approach and its consistent application by local government bodies.

Stage 2 – Socio-economic development models for multi-ethnic rural communities UNDP CIDP supports formation of economic development models that include small farming and agricultural cooperative development model, and green and ethno-tourism development model for in-land ARC regions. In the area of rural social development CIDP works on replication and institutionalization of the tested whole-school approach to school management model, as well as the introduction of a new rural information space model addressing the issue of the information void in remote rural territories.

Stage 3 - Strengthening institutions, partnerships and processes for effective democratic governance Effective good governance entails the rule of law, effective government institutions, transparency and accountability, observation of the human rights principles and real participation of citizens in decision-making that affects their lives. UNDP CIDP works in the following areas: -	Support to local leaders through the set-up of a local leaders school; -	Facilitation of strategic planning processes at the district level; -	Creating an effective local governments’ public information systems for a better accountability towards tax payers; -	Further elaboration of a viable concept of rural water supply, as well as lobby for the legal changes required for implementation of decentralized housing and communal services delivery model; -	Establishment of Regional Grant and Investment Forums to provide adequate platforms for sustainable financing of development initiatives at local level.

Stage 4 - Strengthening republican level institutions and processes for sustainable socio-economic development of Crimea UNDP CIDP activities have, so far, been focused on enhancing analytical capacities in Crimea, supporting the Human Security Council in developing into a platform for constructive dialogue, promoting public dialogue to reduce structural conflicts. UNDP CIDP will further continue preparing monitoring reports and occasional papers. The Programme will facilitate building local analytical capacities and provide analytical support to the Human Security Council. UNDP CIDP will also work on building the capacity of Crimean society for constructive dialogue and reaching consensus, supporting local research organizations and discussion of development issues in mass media.