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Northern Forum Activity Report from November 2015 to March 2018 Contents Northern Forum Activity Report from November 2015 to March 2018 Contents INTRODUCTION .............................................................................Ошибка! Закладка не определена. 1. GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT NF STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION ............................................ 4 1.1 Board of Governors ....................................................................................................................... 4 1.2 Regional Coordinators Committee ............................................................................................... 4 1.3 Working Groups ............................................................................................................................ 5 1.4 Secretariat ..................................................................................................................................... 7 2. PROJECT ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................................................ 7 2.1 Prevention of addictions ............................................................................................................... 7 2.2 Suicide prevention ...................................................................................................................... 11 2.3 Infectious diseases control.......................................................................................................... 16 2.3.1 Drug-resistant TB infection monitoring in circumpolar regions of Russia ............................... 17 2.4 Telemedicine ............................................................................................................................... 21 2.5 Development of Specially Protected Areas ................................................................................ 25 2.6 Schools Partnership .................................................................................................................... 28 2.7 Festival of Northern Fishing Traditions ....................................................................................... 31 2.8 Red Book Through the Eyes of Children ..................................................................................... 33 2.9 International Arctic Center of Culture and Arts .......................................................................... 40 2.10 Human in the Arctic .................................................................................................................. 54 2.11 Renewable energy sources. Power supply for isolated settlements of northern regions........ 58 2.12 Brown Bear Working Group ...................................................................................................... 59 2.13 Working Group on Water and Climate Change ........................................................................ 60 2.14 Northern Zoos Cooperation ...................................................................................................... 62 2.15 International Arctic School........................................................................................................ 64 3. MEMBERSHIP .................................................................................................................................... 65 3.1 Regional Membership .................................................................................................................. 65 3.2 Business Membership .................................................................................................................. 68 4. NF MEETINGS AND WORKING SESSIONS .......................................................................................... 70 2015 .................................................................................................................................................. 70 2016 .................................................................................................................................................... 70 2017 .................................................................................................................................................... 74 5. ARCTIC COUNCIL ............................................................................................................................... 85 2016 .................................................................................................................................................... 85 2017 .................................................................................................................................................... 87 2018 .................................................................................................................................................... 88 6. NF REPRESENTATION ON EVENTS ..................................................................................................... 95 2016 .................................................................................................................................................. 95 2017 .................................................................................................................................................. 97 2018 .................................................................................................................................................. 98 7. 2015-2017 BUDGET. .......................................................................................................................... 99 7.1 2015 BUDGET .............................................................................................................................. 99 7.2 2016 BUDGET ............................................................................................................................ 102 7.3 2017 BUDGET ............................................................................................................................ 104 8. PROPOSALS ON NOVEMBER 2015- MARCH 2018 REPORT. ............................................................ 107 2 INTRODUCTION Krasnoyarsk Krai assumed the Chairmanship in the Northern Forum during optimization and reorganization of the Forum’s work initiated by the preceding Chair – Head of Sakha Republic (Yakutia) EgorBorisov. During this transitional period the Northern Forum member-regions have demonstrated a high level of cooperation and fruitful synergy. Our dedicated consolidated efforts to strengthen the status of the organization resulted in significant successes in promoting the regional dimension within the international Arctic agenda. We stepped up as an equal, strong player and a voice of Arctic and Northern regions. The Northern Forum was one of the first to bring the regions together to address common challenges and which has been successfully implementing the vision of the founding governors for 26 years so far, what largely proves the critical significance of and need for regional component in the Arctic international cooperation. The increasing demand for regional structures of cooperation is recognized by the Arctic Council. During the Chairmanship of Krasnoyarsk Krai in the Northern Forum, we successfully went through the Arctic Council’s Observers review process and maintained our status in the Arctic Council as an only one nongovernmental organization leading the interregional cooperation in the Arctic that is currently Observer to the Council. The success of our work is driven by vast engagement of member-regions in cooperation under the auspices of the Northern Forum. At the present stage of organization’s development, we need to take the achieved pace of interaction to the next level and to ensure a broad presence of the Northern Forum in the international arena in order to include regional voices in shaping the Arctic agenda. We truly believe that the following period under next chairing region will mark the new milestone in strategic development of the Northern Forum and strengthening the voice of the regions on global arena. 3 1. GENERALINFORMATIONABOUT NF STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION 1.1Board of Governors The Board of Governors is the highest policy-making body of the Northern Forum. ThemembersoftheBoardareNFmember-regions’ seniorofficials. The Board of Governors is as follows: • AleksandrUss, ActingGovernorofKrasnoyarskKrai (Russia), Chairof the Northern Forum • EgorBorisov, Headof SakhaRepublic (Yakutia) (Russia), Vice-Chairof the Northern Forum from Northeast Russia • EiríkurBjörnBjörgvinsson, MayorofAkureyri (Iceland), Vice-Chair of the Northern Forum from Northern Europe • NatalyaKomarova, GovernorofKhanty-MansiyskAutonomousOkrug – Urga(Russia), Vice-Chair of the Northern Forum from Northwest Russia • ChoiMoonsoon, GovernorofGangwonProvince (RepublicofKorea), Vice- Chair of the Northern Forum from Northeast Asia • VladimirIlyukhin, GovernorofKamchatka Krai (Russia) • DmitriyKobylkin, GovernorofYamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Russia) • RomanKopin, GovernorofChukotkaAutonomous Okrug (Russia) • VladimirPechyoniy, GovernorofMagadan Oblast (Russia) • Mika Riipi, Governor of Lapland (Finland) • AndreyTarasenko, ActingGovernorofPrimorskyKrai (Russia) • Bill Walker, Governor of Alaska (USA) • AleksandrTsybulsky, ActingGovernorofNenetsAutonomous Okrug (Russia) 1.2Regional Coordinators Committee The Regional Coordinators Committee is a collegial executive body and is composed of regional delegates who are designated by each member of the Board of Governors from their home regions. The Committeeis chaired by
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