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Local Response to TB in the Kyrgyz Republic, TB LON (Kyrgyz Republic):  To accelerate the elimination of TB in the Kyrgyz Republic, USAID partners with local non-government organizations to enable local solutions and sustainability of the TB response. The TB Local Organizations Network (LON) activity supports prevention, care, and treatment of TB through a direct agreement with local organizations, which is a key component of the USAID TB Portfolio's localization efforts. TB LON partners exclusively with local organizations and implements locally-generated solutions to improve TB services. In close collaboration with the Cure TB activity, the TB LON activity contributes to reducing the burden of DR-TB in the Kyrgyz Republic. To achieve this, the activity will continue to increase active TB case detection among contacts of TB patients through community-based detection; contribute to the increase of the treatment success rate among TB defaulters through case management; improve the enabling environment for reduced stigma and discrimination of the TB patients through raising awareness among the general population; and ensure advocacy for strengthening the country's national dialogue for TB services, improved data for decision making, updated policies, and reduced stigma and discrimination...This activity  also supports ICS Mission Objective 3.2: Government Institutions that can effectively formulate and implement policies and provide quality services in an equitable, transparent, and accountable way.  It also supports CDCS DO 2: Robust and Diversified Economic Opportunities for the People of the Kyrgyz Republic, IR 2.2: Improved equitable access to quality health services. Specifically, this activity will contribute to sub-IR 2.2.3: Case detection and treatment adherence to control infection disease threats, especially HIV and TB, improved...This IM contributes $935,000 toward the $6,000,000 FY 2022 Operating Unit TB directive. .. .
USAID Cure TB Activity (Kyrgyz Republic):  Cure Tuberculosis (TB) reduces the burden of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) in the Kyrgyz Republic. To achieve this, the activity will increase DR-TB case detection in primary health care and community-based settings; improve laboratory services and networks; increase the treatment success rate by ensuring that patients are treated with the appropriate drug regimens and by providing case management support for patients to complete their treatment; prevent DR-TB infections through improved infection control in health facilities and laboratories; change provider, patient, and at-risk populations behaviors for improved TB prevention, detection, and treatment; and improve the enabling environment for sustainable TB services through improved financing for TB services, improved data for decision making, updated policies, and reduced stigma and discrimination.  The activity will achieve these goals through a combination of technical assistance, mentoring, policy formation, and advocacy. The combination of these efforts will build on the previous programming and address constraints in reducing the transmission of DR-TB within the Kyrgyz Republic...This activity also supports ICS objective 3.2: Government institutions that can effectively formulate and implement policies and provide quality services in an equitable, transparent, and accountable way..This IM  contributes $4,070,000 toward the  $6,000,000 FY 2022 Operating Unit TB directive. .. .
KYR SO 2.11 CITIZEN PARTICIPATION Strengthened Democratic Culture among Citizens and Target Institutions
Cultivating Media Independence (CMI) Initiative Activity in the Kyrgyz Republic, Media-K (Kyrgyz Republic):  USAID's Media-K initiative will continue to support the development of a more professional, financially viable, and independent media sector. This activity will result in media outlets which better serve the public interest by providing access to diverse and balanced information and analyses about the issues that are of most concern to citizens, while providing a counterweight to state-funded media. This activity will include the provision of training, technical expertise, and mentoring to Kyrgyzstani journalists, media outlets, and production companies to help them build their skills and increase the production of high-quality domestic content. The activity will stimulate the production of domestic content that responds to audience demand, strengthen the ability of targeted media outlets to use audience research to attract more advertising, and bring together disparate stakeholders to advocate for a healthy enabling environment for media businesses. This activity supports ICS objective 3.1: Support a more inclusive and accountable democracy. Objectives for Kyrgyz Republic: Media-K aims to strengthen the professionalism and independence of media in the Kyrgyz Republic in order to ensure that citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic have greater access to diverse and balanced information, are less vulnerable to media bias, and are empowered to make better-informed civic decisions that reflect their communities’ priorities to best serve the public interest.
Financial Crimes and Money Laundering Improve the capacity and sustainability of civil and criminal justice sector actors and institutions, enhance coordination amongst them, develop citizen demand for an effective and accountable justice system, and develop associations to advocate for all citizens. Justice sector actors and institutions include: police, border security, prosecutors, forensics experts, judges, court personnel, public defenders, corrections personnel, private bar, law schools, legal professional associations, and training institutions for each of them. Work towards an equitable justice system by ensuring equality before the law, fair trial standards, and other elements of procedural fairness. Ensure more equitable access to justice through innovations within and beyond the state system and through improvements in the quality and quantity of justice services, with a particular focus on women, youth, the poor, and other marginalized or vulnerable groups. Programs primarily focused on trafficking in persons or migrant smuggling should be included in element 5.3 under the Transnational Crime area in the Peace and Security Objective.
USAID Media-Kyrgyzstan, Media-K, Activity (Kyrgyz Republic):  USAID's Media-K Activity continues to strengthen Kyrgyz citizens' awareness, engagement and participation in social, economic and political processes by increasing the viability, professionalism and vibrancy of local, factual, and diverse independent media in the Kyrgyz Republic. In FY 2023 the Media-K Activity launched the media platform Checkit Media - a new combined fact checking effort composed of seven experienced outlets under a single brand focusing on video content production and reaching more of a Kyrgyz-speaking audience. In March 2023, the Media-K project in partnership with Bloggers Media and 1.1 Studio hosted the second-ever KurulTime bloggers festival with over 2,700 people registering for the event and more than 1,000 participants attending in person, making it one of the largest media events in the country in recent times. Media-K engages women in training opportunities, leverages gender-relevant expertise in content production, and develops special projects dedicated to gender equality, preventing gender-based violence, and empowering women and girls. The activity supports for Kyrgyz language regional media outlets and increases the production of more engaging and data driven local content in the Kyrgyz language....In FY 2024, the Media-K activity will continue to support local Kyrgyz media efforts to produce content that will cover various topics, including climate change and environment, gender equality, prevention of gender-based violence and empowering women and girls. These efforts will support ICS objective 3.3: An inclusive democracy featuring promotion of human rights and vibrant, effective civic engagement. This mechanism contributes $2,000,000 to meeting the $12,500,000 DRG and $300,000 for the Microenterprise directives...
Conflict Mitigation Activities in Kyrgyzstan Conflict Mitigation Activities in Kyrgyzstan
KYR SO 3.2 HEALTH Increased Utilization of Quality Primary Health Care for Select Populations
Womens Empowerment  Creating Accessibility for Resilient Entrepreneurs (WE CARE) WE CARE is a $3-million initiative that aims to enhance access to quality development and education services for children while fostering economic opportunities for women entrepreneurs through the establishment of early childhood development centers.
Time to Read! (Kyrgyz Republic):  USAID invests in the economic and political future of the Kyrgyz Republic by supporting education for its youngest citizens, improving early grade reading outcomes in grades one through four in targeted schools throughout the country. This activity will: 1) improving reading instruction through in-service and pre-service training to teachers and faculty; 2) increasing access to and availability of quality reading materials that will support the development of reading; and 3) enhancing Kyrgyz government support to improve reading, including promotion of out-of-school reading. The Time to Read! activity will target 40 percent of primary students at 900 schools, building on prior USAID investments that reached the other 60 percent of schools throughout the country. The activity will also support pedagogical institutions with improved reading pre-service training to improve reading skills among students in primary grades one through four. By improving the quality of reading instruction at all administrative levels of the education system, this activity supports ICS objective 3.2, "Support improved policy formation, governance, and service delivery to better connect the government to its people.". Objectives for Kyrgyz Republic: The Time to Read Program helps to improve the foundational reading skills of students in grades 1– 4. The program works with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic to increase education outcomes in 900 Kyrgyz and Russian language schools. To enrich students’ learning experiences, USAID is also focusing on ensuring that primary grade students use a variety of age- and context-appropriate quality learning materials. This work includes strengthening the capacity of local authors, illustrators, and publishing houses to create new stories, and the introduction of a groundbreaking tool used to evaluate books and categorize them according to the level of difficulty. Finally, the program engages parents and communities to support students’ reading competencies.
Sustainable Trans-boundary Resource Allocation Mechanisms for Peace in the Fergana Valley (stream) the programme has the following overall objective (oo) and specific objectives (so):..to contribute to improving the sustainable use of natural water and land resources across all riparian communities (oo1).water efficiency at the local level is improved and competition over resources reduced (so1).dialogue and cooperation between local authorities and experts at the regional level will be enhanced through mutual trust and transboundary information, platforms and dispute resolution processes (so2)..in addition, the anticipated results (r) are as follows:..an in-depth understanding of root causes (including climate stress) is developed and used to restart regional dialogue (r1).stakeholders are empowered to make nrm more conflict sensitive at the community level, while also reducing pressure on natural resources, feeding into increased regional dialogue (r2).transboundary dialogue and cooperation at the community and government level is strengthened by further improving data collection, operating infrastructure and raising awareness (r3)
Collaborative Governance Program (CGP) (Kyrgyz Republic):  .USAID will continue to reinforce the stability of the Kyrgyz Republic by fostering partnerships between civil society and the government, ensuring that responsive and accountable governance provide a lawful and effective means for citizens to protect their rights, voice their concerns, hold their representatives to account, and satisfy their basic needs. This mechanism will enable a credible, sustainable civil society to interact with the government in support of improved policymaking and service delivery, and facilitate the citizen feedback that is necessary for a stable democratic society. The program will work in three primary areas:.Facilitate the transparent, efficient funding of civil society organizations by providing technical assistance to government bodies in their implementation of the law on social procurement;Provide targeted sub-grants in support of citizen engagement, civil society input into public policy, and national networks for policy advocacy; andIncrease access to justice for the most vulnerable populations, including by assisting the Ministry of Justice to improve the management of previously opened free legal clinics..This activity supports ICS objective 3.2, "Support improved policy formation, governance, and service delivery to better connect the government to its people," and ICS objective 3.3, "Strengthen the financial and managerial self-sufficiency and technical capacity of key civil society organizations (CSOs) and government institutions to advocate more effectively for greater respect of and attention to human rights for all citizens, focusing on marginalized, at-risk minorities."...
KyrgyzstanParliamentary Strengthening Program (KPSP). In April 2010, the Government of Kyrgyzstan and its president were brought down amid protests over corruption, abuse of power, and increasing utility prices. Within days a new Government assumed power, followed in June 2010 by a new constitution and parliamentary centric system. The elections to the new Parliamentthe Jogorku Kenesh, or Supreme Councilwere held on October 10, 2010. Challenges abound for the new parliamentarians; they face deep cynicism about state structures because both of Kyrgyzstans post-Soviet Presidents fell into corruption and authoritarianism and were deposed after widespread protests. Tensions continue to simmer in the countrys south between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz. If Kyrgyzstan is able to meet these challenges, its new parliamentary system could sustain a reasonable balance of power that curbs corruption and incentivizes constructive politics. Its transition to a more democratic and effective form of governance could inspire other countries in the region. Failure of the new Parliament, though, could destabilize other states in Central Asia, particularly Uzbekistan. To effect reform and stability, the Parliament must work toward three intertwined objectives: being a more constructive actor in the Kyrgyz state system, a responsive and representative body, and a well-managed institution. DAI supported the Parliament (Jogorku Kenesh) in that effort.
Civic Participation - Citizen Participation and Oversight Strengthen the legal, regulatory, institutional, and information environment which protects and enables the growth in associational life and the development of independent and sustainable civil society organizations (CSOs).  Build the capacity of civil society organizations to act as agents for reform and support their participation in democratic decision-making through articulating and representing their members interests, engaging in service delivery, and advocating for issues which become part of the public agenda and are reflected in public policies. Encourage the strengthening of a civic culture which supports democratic institutions and processes, active participation in political and civic life, and the civic virtues of tolerance, pluralism, compromise, trust, and respect for individual rights, including gender equality.
Conflict Mitigation Reduce the threat or impact of violent conflict and promote peaceful resolution of differences, mitigate violence if it has already broken out, or establish a framework for peace and reconciliation that includes both men and women.
Youth Theater for Peace -Kyrgyzstan The Youth Theater for Peace program promotes sustainable conflict prevention at the community level through a participatory theater methodology called Drama for Conflict Transformation (DCT). IREXs programs introduce DCT to teachers, youth-serving professionals and teenagers (15-16) in rural, conflict-prone areas of Kyrgyzstan (2010  2014) and Tajikistan (2010  2012). By strengthening youth-serving institutions and equipping youth with the attitudes and skills to become agents of peace, the program creates a group of empowered youth and supportive adults ready to lead community-based conflict resolution activities. Participants share DCT techniques to create dialogue and promote tolerance within their larger communities. Objectives for Kyrgyzstan: The Youth Theater for Peace (YTP) program promotes sustainable conflict prevention and a culture of peace at the community, regional, and national levels through a participatory theater methodology called Drama for Conflict Transformation (DCT). The YTP model equips youth and their adult mentors to lead community-based conflict resolution activities and build trust across ethnic and religious lines. Through DCT theater training, youth and adult participants develop skills to analyze, prevent, and resolve conflict; facilitate and lead conflict resolution activities; and engage audiences in their home communities.
Good Governance and Public Administration Strengthening (GGPAS) Project The Good Governance and Public Administration Strengthening (GGPAS) program is a flexible, three-year initiative to help strengthen key public and private institutions critical to long-term stability and democratic growth. GGPAS provides targeted assistance for governance reform in order to: Improve management processes in key institutions to formulate better policies and deliver services more effectively and efficiently; improve inclusiveness in policy-making and equitable service delivery for all citizens across the provinces. GGPAS employs a unique management model to help USAID target assistance to reform-oriented institutions in the Kyrgyz Republic. It works across sectors as opportunities emerge, strengthening existing partnerships, and establishing new relationships with key institutions. Specific activities have been identified based on the demonstrated priorities of the government of Kyrgyz Republic and the comparative advantages of USAID. Objectives for Kyrgyzstan: The Good Governance and Public Administration Strengthening (GGPAS) program is a flexible, three-year initiative to help strengthen key public and private institutions critical to long-term stability and democratic growth. GGPAS provides targeted assistance for governance reform in order to: Strengthen the abilities of public sector institutions to deliver key services more effectively and efficiently; and Help a range of public, private, and civil society partners expand access to and improve the quality of citizen services. Employing a unique management model, GGPAS works across sectors as opportunities emerge, strengthening existing partnerships, and establishing new relationships with key institutions. Initiatives reflect the priorities of the government of the Kyrgyzstan and the comparative advantages of USAID.
Conflict Mitigation through Targeted Analysis and Community Action in Kyrgyzstan Conflict Mitigation through Targeted Analysis and Community Action in Kyrgyzstan Objectives for Kyrgyzstan: The goal of the program is to minimize the risk of instability through informed public policy and early warning analysis for citizen protection. This is accomplished by: Supporting actionable analysis on conflict and instability trends. Supporting informal and formal community leadership for conflict mitigation through the creation of Early Warning Networks to analyze and resolve potential conflicts, mediate disputes, and contribute to peace building activities. Developing the REACH Initiative Conflict Early Warning web-based mapping tool as an early warning system for identifying vectors of potential conflict and disputes. Improving the capacity of national institutions such as the Presidential Administration, ministries, and the Parliament, as well as that of local leaders, to identify key concerns and enhance policy-making with data and analysis on conflict trends.
Business Growth Initiative (BGI) (Kyrgyz Republic):  The activity seeks to increase the competitiveness, productivity, sales and incomes of micro, small, and medium size enterprises (MSMEs) in sectors that have high growth and employment potential (apparel, tourism, and construction materials). In partnership with the private sector, the activity introduces best management practices and new technologies, promotes innovation and, mobilizes local and international private investments and expertise. It also partners with buyers, market intermediaries, brokerage and logistics services, certification bodies and other private sector stakeholders in support of commercially sustainable relationships between assisted enterprises and local and international buyers. The activity also advances reforms to improve the business enabling environment. A 12 month extension of the existing contract is envisioned to ensure the sustainability of commercial relationships between assisted apparel MSMEs and European and regional buyers.
Elections and Political Processes Promote legitimate contestation for ideas and political power through democratic political processes that reflect the will of the people. Establish or develop competitive multiparty systems through improving the legal and regulatory framework under which political parties and political entities operate.
USAID Agro Trade (Kyrgyz Republic):  .USAID's Agro Trade activity will apply a market-oriented approach to help companies and workers in target agricultural value chains create more Kyrgyzstani jobs by increasing cross-boundary trade in the Ferghana Valley of Uzbekistan and the Kyrgyz Republic. The activity will help Kyrgyz businesses increase trade by linking them to other firms outside the country, in the process building foundations for long-lasting regional economic ties. The activity will boost trade and investment in the southern Kyrgyz Republic and eliminate obstacles to cross-border trade in the Ferghana Valley. Illustrative activities include improving and increasing the productivity of farms and agricultural companies, facilitating trade partnerships between Kyrgyz and Uzbek producers and buyers, and improving the business enabling environment..USAID's Agro Trade activity supports ICS objective 2.1 to increase regional interconnectivity and help to diversify the local economy. The USAID Agro Trade activity contributes $500,000 towards the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises earmark, $350,000 towards the Gender Indirect earmark, and $325,000 towards the Climate Indirect earmark.. .. .
Public Broadcasting and Online Media Support Project (Kyrgyz Republic):  .The activity strengthens public service broadcasters in Kyrgyzstan in order to enhance access to balanced, objective information for citizens. It includes activities aimed to increase Yntymak TV and Radio's capacity as public service broadcasters. Internews will strengthen the financial sustainability and revenue generation ability of Yntymak TV and Radio....