Analysis of the Results of the Implementation of the “Second Wave” National Projects in the Regions of the Southern Federal District in 2020–2024

The article analyzes the results of the implementation in the southern regions of Russia of such priority non-profit partnerships as “Labor Productivity” (NP PT), “Small and Medium-Sized Entrepreneurship and Support for Individual Entrepreneurial Initiative” (NP SME) within the framework of the federal projects (FP) included in them. The main source of funding for the NP PT is the federal budget, from which a significant portion of funds is distributed between regions through the mechanism of interbudget transfers. All regions of the Southern Federal District have their own regional projects synchronized with the FP from the NP PT, but some of them participate in the implementation and achievement of non-financial results. Within the framework of financing of the Federal Project L1 “Systemic measures to improve labor productivity” included in the NP PT, only Rostov Oblast and Krasnodar Krai have corresponding expenses from the Southern Federal District. The most popular event of FP L1, implemented by all regions of the Southern Federal District, is the holding of a competition of best mentoring practices among enterprises “ participants of the NP, which is the main result in the implementation of the FP. The level of funding for FP L2 “Targeted support for increasing labor productivity at enterprises” as part of the NP PT in the regions of the Southern Federal District strongly correlates with the indicator of the number of participating enterprises. There are 7,172 participating enterprises from 85 subjects of the Russian Federation (excluding new regions), of which 740 are enterprises from the South of Russia. The SME NP includes a whole range of federal projects. The updated structure of the SME NP is built on the principle of covering all levels of entrepreneurship: three FPs are focused on its different categories, and the fourth is focused on the digitalization of interaction between business and the state. In some regions of the Southern Federal District in 2023, there were “bursts” of funding, mainly these were expenses for FP I5 “Acceleration of SMEs”. In the new NPs of the “third wave”, launched in 2025, the SME NP and NP PT will be combined into one federal project NP “Efficient and Competitive Economy”.