Unfortunately, most local groups have been hard put to find quality consultation from the resource centers in their regions. This is not due to an unwillingness on the part of these resource centers, but rather it is a result of their lack of information and experience in offering such services. Therefore, ISAR-Far East has designed a program to assist Far Eastern NGO resource centers in the professional development of their personnel to provide consultation services to the NGOs and community groups in their regions. In addition, ISAR-Far East provides training to resource center staff on how to organize their consultation services effectively. ISAR-Far East provides these resource centers with the financial resource they need to enlarge their library holdings of reference books on organizational development and NGO law topics.
Trainings held in western Russian or Siberia are usually open to a very few Far Eastern activists.
Therefore, the creation of an RFE-based training team is a critical first step in the growth of the region's NGO community. ISAR-Far East is taking the lead in coordinating a network among the professional trainers that do work in the Far East and building on this core group by holding trainings of trainers. ISAR's own two-person training team, both of whom are very knowledgeable of NGO training, works with the regional resource centers to help them increase their organizational development training skills. In addition, they are working on the creation of a database on available training program materials. Last, ISAR-Far East has organized several visits by representatives of successful training programs from western Russia to visit different areas of the Far East.