Project Timeline and Initial Work and Advocacy Plan

Period

place

Tasks

01.05-15.05

Nalchik (Kabardino-Balkaria)

Revision of the research proposal, website upload complete with CV, bio, Initial Work and Advocacy Plan

30.06

Issue Paper

15.05. - 31.08.

Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, villages: Ghanhotheko, Koidan, Selenchukskaya, Novaya Balkaria, Chegem

First period of work - field work. Analysis of local governance using official data and the example of several villages in both regions. Study of land privatization in Karachay-Cherkessia; patrimonial and economic relations of different ethnic groups; role of state and traditional institutions

28.06-01.07

Nalchik (Kabardino-Balkaria)

The conference at the Institute of Problems of Regional Development

30.06

Submission of Issue Paper to Policy Documentation Centre

31.08-25.09

Berlin, FU

The workshop and the work in the library at the Institute of East European Study

25.09. - 30.10.

Moscow

The consultations with several scientists from the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology and the work in the library

1-15.10

Research paper  and interim activity report

31.10. - 31.12.

Nalchik (Kabardino-Balkaria)

Second period of work: Data (interviews, statistics, etc.) processing. List of missing data and unanswered questions. Specifying and collecting missing data

05.12

20 p. policy paper draft

1-31.12.

Nalchik (Kabardino-Balkaria) and Cherkessk  (Karachay-Cherkessia)

First presentation to some figures/stakeholders from the governance of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, planning of further dialogue

01.01.- 01.05.

Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia

Third period of work: working out of recommendation to the local governance, writing policy papers (to regional and to federal authorities), publishing articles, working out of universal methods and models

Official presentations of the policy paper at the Ministry for Economic Development, Kabardino-Balkarian Scientific Centre and Karachay Research Institute

15.02

Final policy paper(20 p.)

20.04

Final activity Reports