• Civil Society and Governance
  • Civil Society and Governance Overview
  • Institutional Capacity Building
  • Civic Education
  • Citizen Participation
  • Advocacy
  • Democratic Governance
  • Grants Solicitation and Management Capacity
  • Women's and Minority Rights
  • Disenfranchised Groups
• Education
  • Education Overview
  • Basic Education
  • Higher Education
  • Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
  • Education for Vulnerable Groups
• HIV/AIDS
  • HIV/AIDS Overview
  • HIV/AIDS Prevention
  • Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC)
  • Grants Solicitation and Management Capacity
  • Institutional Capacity Building
• International Visitors Exchanges
  • International Professional, Academic, and Cultural Exchanges Overview
  • Undergraduate and Graduate Academic Exchanges
  • Professional Exchanges
  • Youth Exchanges
• Capacity Development and Training
  • Capacity Development and Training Overview
  • Participant Training
  • Institutional Capacity Building
  • Undergraduate and Graduate Academic Exchanges
  • Grant Solicitation and Management Capacity
  • Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

FORECAST - Russia BPC

FORECAST - Russia BPC provides training for mid to high-level professionals from the public and private sectors in priority areas emerging from the Bilateral Presidential Commission established by US President Obama and Russian President Medvedev in 2009. Such areas include:
     • Transparency and Governance
     • Global Climate Change
     • International Disaster Management
     • Civil Society Development
Capacity building through training will take place in the US and Russia, with follow-on training planned in order to provide maximum impact. This is the second FORECAST program currently being managed in Russia, in conjunction with our partner, PH International.  

Completed activities to date include a US training on Small Business Innovation (August 2010) that brought a diverse group of 10 officials to the US to explore how US institutions of government support small businesses, especially those engaged in science and technology.  The group consisted of officials from the Ministry of Economic Development, from the NGO OPORA, from private companies, and from academia.  The program's objective was to further the connections and relationships developed between Russian and US counterparts and advance peer-to-peer cooperation so that successful US models, approaches, and techniques can be adapted in Russia.  The program included the Science and Technology Conference (Gordon Research Conferences) in Waterville, NH, and follow-up programs in Boston and Washington, DC, where participants visited economic development officials, Federal agencies such as the Small Business Administration, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, National Institute of Standards and Technology; and the National Academy of Sciences; technology clusters; and made site visits to industrial tours and innovative SMEs, including two highly successful firms owned by Russian-Americans.

Future activities will include a conference on nano-technology in Moscow and a US training aiming to boost the management of protected areas.