Community-Minded Activity Federal Project: Project Implementation Analysis and Risk Minimization

Introduction. This article compares the provisions of the Community-Minded Activity Federal Project with other policy documents in similar areas of government regulation. The comparative study shows that it is safe to assume that attaining the goals of the project and its implementation are successful, since the achieved results are substantially higher than the targets. Certain issues were, however, found to pose potential risks to the effectiveness of the project.

 Study materials and methods. The study materials include the Community-Minded Activity project worksheet; Russia’s 2025 Volunteering Promotion Concept, the target-oriented departmental program to promote supplementary education for children and identify and support people with outstanding abilities, and some other regulatory documents and information. The methodological basis of the study is general scientific methods: analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction, comparative law research, system analysis.

Findings of the study. The study found that despite restrictions on social activity due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Community-Minded Activity project was successfully carried out in 2018–2021, delivering substantially better results than planned. It was, however, found that certain issues might make the project less effective.

Discussion and conclusion. The grant competition approach used as the main method to select recipients of financial support for regional best practices in volunteering and provide support for young talent is not fully consistent with the project’s goals of covering the widest possible range of people.

The main measures taken under the project are not fully instrumental in achieving the project’s goals because they are limited in number and insufficiently systematic. In this respect, the project is inferior to some other policy documents with the same issues and goals. Using the approaches contained in these documents to expand the tool kit of the adjusted project should help enhancethe effectiveness of the project.

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