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SAKHALIN INDIGENOUS MINORITIES DEVELOPMENT PLAN 3 PLAN COMPLETION EVALUATION REPORT December 2020 Gregory Eliyu Guldin, Plan Completion Evaluation Team Chair; President of CCCS Gulvaira Kudenovna Kutsenko, Independent Indigenous Peoples Expert; President of the Interregional Public Organization "Indigenous Information and Education Network "Llyoravellian" Alexander Timofeyevich Konkov, Independent Social Scientist; Head, Sociology Department, Sakhalin State University www.crossculturalconsult.com SIMDP3 Plan Completion Evaluation Report December 2020 ACRONYMS ......................................................................................................................... III 1 INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................... 1 1.1 OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 PLAN COMPLETION EVALUATION REPORT OBJECTIVES, METHODOLOGY, AND AUTHORSHIP ............... 4 1.2.1 Objectives .................................................................................................... 4 1.2.2 Team Composition ........................................................................................ 5 1.2.3 Methodology ................................................................................................ 5 2 EVALUATION OF THE 3RD SIMDP: WERE THE OBJECTIVES ACHIEVED? ......................... 7 2.1 OBJECTIVE 1: CAPACITY-BUILDING ..................................................................................... 7 2.2 OBJECTIVE 2: SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND ECONOMIC IMPROVEMENT .............................................10 2.2.1 Social and Cultural Improvement (Social Development Fund) ..........................11 2.2.2 Economic Development (Traditional Economic Activities Support Programme) ..14 2.3 OBJECTIVE 3: INDEPENDENT FUND PREPARATION .................................................................16 2.4 OBJECTIVE 4: PROJECT ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS DISCLOSURE ................................................17 3. EVALUATION OF THE 3RD SIMDP: CHALLENGES .............................................................18 2.5 TRANSPARENCY ............................................................................................................18 2.6 GRANT ACCESSIBILITY OBSTACLES ....................................................................................20 2.7 CONFLICTS OF INTEREST .................................................................................................21 2.8 NEED FOR ENHANCED TRAINING & GUIDANCE ......................................................................22 2.9 PLAN AS LOCUS OF CONFLICT ...........................................................................................23 EVALUATION OF THE 3RD SIMDP: GOVERNANCE ..........................................................24 3.1 GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE RATIONALE ................................................................................24 3.2 DISTRICT COMMITTEES ..................................................................................................24 3.3 EXPERTS GROUPS ..........................................................................................................26 3.4 SDF COMMITTEE ..........................................................................................................26 3.5 TEASP COMMITTEE .......................................................................................................27 3.6 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE & GOVERNING BOARD .....................................................................28 3.7 INTERNAL & EXTERNAL MONITORING .................................................................................29 3.7.1 Internal Monitoring ......................................................................................29 3.7.2 External Monitoring ......................................................................................30 3.8 TRIPARTITE COLLABORATION ...........................................................................................30 4 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE SIMDP4 .......................................................................31 4.1 VISION STATEMENT & STRATEGIC APPROACH .......................................................................31 4.2 SIMDP4 OBJECTIVES & PROGRAMMES ...............................................................................31 4.3 CAPACITY-BUILDING PROGRAMME .....................................................................................33 4.4 SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME ...............................................................35 4.4.1 National Culture and Sport ...........................................................................35 4.4.2 Education....................................................................................................35 4.4.3 Health ........................................................................................................35 4.4.4 Ecological Knowledge Preservation ................................................................35 i 4.5 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME ..............................................................................36 4.6 GRANT ASSESSMENT PROCESS ..........................................................................................36 4.7 GRANT ACCESSIBILITY ....................................................................................................38 4.8 DISTRICT COMMITTEES ..................................................................................................39 4.9 EXPERTS GROUPS ..........................................................................................................40 4.10 GOVERNING BOARD, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, AND GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE .................................40 4.11 EXTERNAL MONITORING & INTERNAL MONITORING ...............................................................41 4.12 REGULATIONS ..............................................................................................................42 4.13 ENHANCING STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION ..........................................................................44 ANNEX 1: ADDITIONAL INDIGENOUS PEOPLES PROJECTS SUPPORTED BY SAKHALIN ENERGY 46 ANNEX 2: SAKHALIN’S INDIGENOUS MINORITIES ...............................................................49 ii Acronyms BP Business Plan CBP Capacity-Building Programme CCCS Cross-Cultural Consulting Services, PLLC CEO Chief Executive Officer DC District Committees EC Executive Committee EG Experts Group EM External Monitor FPIC Free, Prior, and Informed Consent GB Governing Board IMT Internal Monitoring Team IPO Indigenous Peoples Organization MET Midterm Evaluation Team MGF Mini-Grant Fund NGO Non-governmental organisations PC Programme Committee [e.g., either SDF or TEASP Committee] PCER Plan Completion Evaluation Report PCET Plan Completion Evaluation Team RCAR Regional Council of the Authorized Representatives of the Indigenous Minorities of the North of Sakhalin RAIPON Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia, and the Far East SDP Social Development Programme SDF Social Development Fund SIM Sakhalin Indigenous Minorities SIMDP Sakhalin Indigenous Minorities Development Plan 1, 2, 3, and/or 4 SOG Sakhalin Oblast Government TEASP Traditional Economic Activities Support Programme iii SIMDP3 Plan Completion Evaluation Report 1 Introduction 1.1 Overview Over the past 15 years, the Sakhalin Indigenous Minorities Development Plan (SIMDP) has garnered national and global attention as a trendsetting effort to raise the development potential of indigenous communities. With its innovative structure of collaborative governance, based on a tripartite partnership between Sakhalin’s Indigenous Minorities of the North of Sakhalin Region (SIM) 1 , the Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. (Sakhalin Energy, or the Company)2 and the local Sakhalin Oblast Government (SOG), this arrangement has emerged as a model of cooperation and empowerment, from Moscow and from the International Finance Corporation to the United Nations. Naturally, this development has not been without its rough spots, and there have been many lessons learned over its decade and a half of implementation. The Sakhalin Indigenous Minorities Development Plan 3 (SIMDP3) succeeded the first and second SIMDPs that were implemented between May 2006 and December 2015. The SIMDP1 was introduced by Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd (Sakhalin Energy; the Company) with the support of Sakhalin Island’s Indigenous Minorities (as represented by the Regional Council of Authorised Representatives of Sakhalin Oblast; RCAR), and the Sakhalin Oblast Government (SOG). This collaboration was formalized in a Tripartite Agreement signed by all three partners in May, 2006. Sakhalin Energy, RCAR, and the Sakhalin Oblast Government had established a smooth working relationship to supervise and implement the SIMDP. Multiple rounds of consultations with Indigenous Minorities communities and other stakeholders were held and a new SIMDP developed by the fall of 2010. The draft SIMDP2 was distributed in the areas of traditional indigenous residence during the first week of November to be considered by the indigenous population, followed by a special conference in Yuzhno- Sakhalinsk on November 17 called by the RCAR to approve and/or amend the draft SIMDP2. At that conference the indigenous delegates declared that they gave their free, prior and informed