ACTIVITY DATES: September 2005 - May 2009

IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS: Arizona State University, Graduate School of Public Administration at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (SPA-MGU)

REGION(S): Moscow

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
This partnership aims to build a sustainable policy research think tank, the Center for Strategic Innovations, at the School of Public Administration at MGU. Aided by ASU experts, the new Center will develop a Russian Workforce Information System (RWIS)-a database that provides an annual profile of the changing occupational outlook at both regional and federal levels. The database includes information on the labor market, training needs and opportunities, salary trends, anticipated and emerging skill needs, and related policy issues. The partners will also produce collaborative state-of-the-art public policy research on issues of labor migration and non-proliferation.

This partnership will be further supported by formal exchange programs administered by the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:

The MGU team, together with their ASU partners, developed a fully accessible Russian Workforce Information System website. International conferences on public administration were conducted by the SPA-MGU in May 2006 and 2007.

MGU specialists assisted the Labor Department of the Russian Ministry of Health and Human Services in their preparations for the ministerial meeting of the International Labor Organization.