This year, the Annual Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank featured for the first time a Youth Dialogue on jobs and unemployment as part of its Civil Society Program and Program of Seminars.

On 8th-9th October, 2011, the premiere of four plays will take place in Bishkek under the “Theatre Dialogue” project.

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, launched a training series in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan designed to bolster corporate governance, a project that will help firms improve operations and make it easier for them to access financing.

A two-day OSCE-supported workshop on legislative process in the Parliament and control of legislation implementation started today in Bishkek.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) in collaboration with the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic and other donor agencies supports the development of strategic documents on gender equality in the Kyrgyz Republic. 

The third Roundtable of the National Dialogue for Kyrgyzstan (NDK) took place on 22-23 September 2011 at the State Residence “Ala-Archa” near Bishkek. The Roundtable looked at the work and suggestions of the working groups that were set up to follow-up on the eight recommendations of the NDK, defined in previous Dialogue meetings in May and July 2011. The recommendations point out to possible measures to prevent destabilisation of society during the Presidential Elections (30 October 2011) and the post-election period.

A 10-day training course supported by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek to enhance security of the Kambar –Ata 2 hydropower station in central Kyrgyzstan started on 26 September 2011.

Eight presidential candidates in Kyrgyzstan today signed a Code of Conduct for Elections that was developed with the support of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek.

The European Union Delegation issues the following statement in agreement with the EU Heads of Mission in the Kyrgyz Republic.