Annual Report

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• Annual Report
• 2007
• Baki, Caspian Plaza,
• February 21, 2008

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• Programs
• Resources
• Products
• Donors and Partners
• Finance
• Achievements
• Challenges

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• Assistance to sustainable economic development
  and good governance

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• Popularization of economic and business knowledge
  in society.
• Increasing of transparency and accountability of
  public resources.
• Increasing of public participation level in
  decision making process related to public
  resources and achievement of social dialogue

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• Budget Transparency and Budget Control
• Strengthening the role of municipalities in
  local self-governance and poverty reduction
• Assistance to Economic Education
• Assistance to acceleration of Azerbaijani
  membership to WTO
• Participation program in the works of EITI NGO
  Coalition.
• These programs have been implemented during
  2004-2006

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• Alternative Inflation Methodology Development
• Assessment of factors that affect implementation
  and targeting accuracy of needs-tested benefits
  in Azerbaijan
• Budget transparency in municipalities and public
  participation in public decision making process
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• Monitoring of primary health financing programs
  and advocacy
• The implementation of these programs have begun
  since 2006 and are being continued currently.

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• Accounting Policy
• Rules on Public Relations
• Quality Control Standards
• Rules on Human Resources
• Rules on External Relations

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• ERC has held 17 conferences and presentations, 7
  seminars and trainings (3 of them in Baku, 4 in
  regions-Ganja, Khachmaz, Gakh, Lenkoran), public
  hearings in 59 municipalities during 2007.
• ERC has presented 12 talk-shows. 6 of them have
  been presented in capital TV channels (ANS,
  Public TV), the other 6 have been presented in
  regional TV channels. 3 radio-debates have been
  organized.

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Recommendations
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• With the help of municipality tax calculator
  each person could calculate local taxes as land
  and property taxes, field taxes of local
  importance on construction materials paid to
  municipality budgets.

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• It is possible to calculate Consumption
  Price Index with the inflation calculator
  individually. List of goods and comparison period
  are chosen for it. The result shows inflation
  rate of goods used at the chosen period.

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• Products of ERC the Transparent budget Program is
  implemented with the purpose for automation of
  local tax payers accounts in municipalities.

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• Conference on the topic Local governance and
  social responsibility in Central and Eastern
  European Countries, March 27-29, Sarajevo,
  Bosnia/Herzegovina
• Learning tour on Health Funding, May 16-June
  06, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
• Seminar on the topic Construction of the Bridge
  Between Knowledge and Power, May 17-18,
  Budapest, Hungary
• Conference on Management and Distribution of
  Knowledge, June 03-08, Tokyo, Japan
• Seminar on Transparency Initiative in
  Extractive Industry, June 13-15, Djakarta,
  Indonesia
• Regional Conference on Modernization of State
  Building in Central Asia and Southern Caucasus
  June 27-28, Urumchi, China
• Annual Conference of PASOS, November 01-03,
  Berlin, Germany
• XIII Issik-Kul Forum, November 05-06, Goa, India

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• 3 days training-seminar on the topic Preparation
  of Effective Policy Analysis Document organized
  by Civil Society project of USAID, March 15-17
• Training on Public Participation, organized by
  Civil Society project of USAID, July16-20
• Training on accounting organized by Azerbaijan
  micro-finance Association, July 25-26
• Training on human Resources organized by
  Azerbaijan micro-finance Association, November
  28-30

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Funding Sources of ERC in 2007 ()
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Economic Research Center
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• Footholds based on centers researches have
  increased. (for example The Economist, Financial
  Times, CNN Turk, AlJazeera v? s.)
• External Relations have been broadened. (PWYP,
  IBP, ENTO, PASOS, Chatam House, WTTN and etc.)
• Influence opportunities to decision-making
  process have increased.
• Public Relations have been developed.

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Challenges

• Limitation of participation in state programs
• Weakness of partnership opportunities with
  private sector
• Existence of problems in development of Civil
  Society
• Lack of human and financial resources

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Future plans

• 1.RMSM-XP the impact of macroeconomic shocks
  on poverty
• 2.Modelling inflation
• 3.Permanent Oil Income Model.

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Thank you for attention
Baku, Azerbaijan AZ1065Djafar Djabbarli 44,
Caspian Plaza 3, floor 9Telephone [phone]
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