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| 19-Dec-08 | ||||||
| Activity | Implementing Partner | Name | Countries | Description of project | ||
| Legal Education | ABA/CEELI (Freedom House) | <Tucson3985@gmail.com> | Ivan Abrams | |||
| Country Director | KZ, KG, TI, TK, UZ | The project’s activities are designed to increase the reach and breadth of legal information available to citizens, promote dialogue between the public, civil society and the government, and foster a culture that culture that demands a democratic and corruption free society. | ||||
| Partners in Humman Rights | Freedom House | <dobichina@freedomhouse.org> | Iva Dobichina | |||
| Country Director for Kazakhstan | KZ | The Human Rights Program focuses on improving the environment for protection, awareness, and promotion of human rights in Kazakhstan through partnerships with local organizations on key human rights issues. | ||||
| Support for HR Defenders and Prevention of Torture | Freedom House | UZ | ||||
| Rule of Law | Chemonics | shtashmukhambetova@kjap.org | Sholpan Tashmukhambetova Acting Chief-of-Party | KZ | Based on the success of last year’s Court Recording Component of the Kazakhstan Judicial Assistance Program (KJAP), USAID launched an initiative in September 2007 to expand KJAP’s video court recording project nationwide and extend the project an additional 22 months. | |
| Support for Public Defenders and Human Rights | Freedom House | <dobichina@freedomhouse.org> | Iva Dobichina | |||
| Country Director for Kazakhstan | UZ | The Human Rights Program focuses on improving the environment for protection, awareness, and promotion of human rights in Kazakhstan through partnerships with local organizations on key human rights issues. | ||||
| Media Program | Internews | <oleg@internews.kz> | ||||
| <dabizaid@internews.kz> | Oleg Katsyev |
Regional Director Dana Abizaid
| Program Officer | KZ, KG, TI, UZ | The primary objectives of this activity are “increased availability of information on critical social, economic and political, issues” and “improved sustainability and professionalism of the independent media sector” in Kazakhstan. | |
| NGO legal framework/media legal framework | PACT | 36 Zhandosov St. (between Auesov and Zharokov St.) | |
| ewarner@icnl.org.kz | Elizabeth Warner | ||
| Chief-of-Party | KZ, KG, U, TI, TX | The objective of this program is to provide legal analyses and support to improve the framework for the operation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and private media across the five Central Asian, including improvements in the legislative basis for NGO and media operations. | |
| Empowering Citizens in Local Governance | NDI | 158 Panfilova St., apt. 48 |
NDI@ducatmail.kz <Aschultz@ndi.org> <yisik@ndi.org> Amy Schultz Country Director Yoruk Isik
| Program Officer | KZ | National Democratic Institute (NDI) /Kazakhstan is implementing 19-month (July 2007 – January 2009) CEEPS program titled Empowering Citizens in Local Governance. The program objectives are as following: (a) Increase familiarity with the role and function of local government, executive, and representative bodies in selected cities; (b) Support the implementation of reforms related to the development of a multiparty representative system at the local level: (c) Provide partner local government councils with tools that will assist them in better performing their functions; (d) Support productive citizen participation at the local level. | ||
| Kazakhstan: Political Party Development | IRI | 83 Panfilov St., # 68 <scima@iri.org> | Stephen Cima | |
| Country Director | KZ | International Republican Institute (IRI) / Kazakhstan is implementing a three-year (December 2008 – November 2011) CEEPS program titled Political Party Development and Strengthened Youth Civic and Political Leadership. The program objectives are as following: (a) strengthen organizational capacities of political parties, (b) support issue-based policies and platforms through sound methodological research data, and (c) increase youth civic activism and political leadership at the local level. | ||
| KZ Civic Advocacy | Counterpart | 36 Zhandosov St. (between Auesov and Zharokov St.) |
office@cpart.kz
| schlansker@cpart.kz | William Schlansker | |||||
| Chief-of-Party | KZ | Counterpart International / Kazakhstan is implementing Policy Advocacy and Dialogue Program (March 2007 – April 2010) aimed at increasing (a) public debate and access to information on democratic governance issues; (b) interaction between public institutions and civil society / non-governmental actors on democratic governance issues: and (c) civic advocacy on democratic governance reforms at the national level. | ||||
| (EFCA) | Eurasia Foundation | 10, Kurmangaliev Street; jefferlich@efcentralasia | Jeff Erlich | KZ,KG,TJ,UZ | Eurasia Foundation (EF) in Kazakhstan runs programs in private enterprise development, civil society, public administration, and education. | |
| Expanding Educational and Legal Support Program | Rights Consortium | KG | ||||
| Partners in Humman Rights | Freedom House | Samal 2, Building # 34, office 5, kahn@freedomhouse@org | Suart Kahn | KG | The Human Rights Program focuses on improving the environment for protection, awareness, and promotion of human rights in Kyrgyzstan through partnerships with local organizations on key human rights issues. |
As a part of this program, Freedom House established the locally registered Voice of Freedom (VoF) NGO, a national network of approximately 20 individual human rights defenders (HRDs) and young activists. This was followed by establishing the VoF media NGO which publishes a monthly newspaper, maintains a website, and engages Kyrgyz journalists and advocating for media reform.
The program also participates in a regional network of human rights activists from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
| Integration of Islamic Education | EFCA | jefferlich@efcentralasia.org | Jeff Erlich | KG | The Eurasia Foundation (EF) runs programs in private enterprise development, civil society, public administration, and education. EF provided approximately $900,000 (no exact figure is available for this moment) in core USAID-funded technical assistance benefiting Kyrgyzstan in FY 2007. |
| Decentralization and Local Government Program (DLGP) | UI | KG | The project’s first goal is to have a positive impact on the policy and legislative framework in support of decentralization and local self-government autonomy. The second main goal is to build the capacity of local self-governments so that they manage their resources more effectively, respond to their citizens’ needs and priorities, and operate in a transparent manner. | ||
| Srengthening Political Party | CEPPS/NDI&IRI | 158 Panfilova St., apt. 48 |
NDI@ducatmail.kz <Aschultz@ndi.org> <yisik@ndi.org> Amy Schultz Country Director Yoruk Isik
| Program Officer | KG | The Political Party Strengthening Program provides training for political parties at the national and regional level, supports political party participation in a working group focused on reform of the electoral and political party laws, and strengthens youth and women involvement. | ||||
| Election Assistance | IFES/CEPPS | KG | This program continues the provision of support to the Kyrgyzstan Central Election Commission in order to help promote a more open and fair election process. This includes technical assistance and training. | |||
| Civic Advocacy | PACT | 36 Zhandosov Street, ewarner@icnl.org.kz | Elizabeth Warner | |||
| Chief-of-Party | KG | This three-year program is designed to support national level advocacy, policy debate and information activities involving civil society and other governmental and non-governmental actors on key democratic governance policy issues. | ||||
| Strengthening Local Capacity | CEPPS/NDI | 158 Panfilova St., apt. 48 |
NDI@ducatmail.kz <Aschultz@ndi.org> <yisik@ndi.org> Amy Schultz Country Director Yoruk Isik
| Program Officer | UZ | |||
| Building capacity for Human Rights protection | IND | UZ | ||
| Youth Alternatives Project Assessment | Education Dev. Center (EDC) | UZ | ||
| Support to people with disabilities | Medical Teams International | UZ | ||
| Housing Partnerships Support Project | Institute for Urban Economics | UZ | The Condominium Promotion Program in Uzbekistan has the following objectives: |
• Strengthen organizational and management capacities of partner organizations with a special focus on Regional Housing Associations in order to improve their capacities as advocates of housing partnerships and to promote progressive reforms in the housing sector of Uzbekistan.
• Promote market services in the housing sector in pilot sites.
| Community Empowerment Program | Counterpart International | irina@cpart.org | Irina Dedova | TX | Through the Turkmen Community Empowerment Program USAID via Counterpart International provides technical assistance to citizens targeted to strengthen the local communities’ participation in social and economic improvements and local governance. | |
| Anti-Trafficking program extension | IOM | 6A Zvereva St., Almaty | ||||
| <iomalmaty@nursat.kz> | Mahmud Nadiri | |||||
| Chief-of-Mission | TI, UZ, | The program is aimed at building and improving local and administrative capacity to prevent and combat trafficking in persons in Kazakhstan and to protect victims trafficked from, to, through, and within the region. The project focuses on continued support and capacity building of crisis centers, hotlines and shelters, including preventative and rehabilitative vocational training for targeted vulnerable groups. | ||||
| Collaborative Development Initiative (CDI) | Mercy Corps | KG | ||||
| Parliamentary Elections | IFES | ifes@ifes.tajnet.com | Farangiz Azizova, Senior Program Assistant Rano Dodojonova, Program Assistant | TJ | ||
| Local Governance and Citizen Participation Project (LGCP) | UI | Duane Beard, Country Director | TI | There are 4 objectives/program components under the LGCP project: |
- Decentralization;
- Local Governance Capacity;
- Citizen Participation;
- Information Channels.
| Support to Youth Power Center in Tashkent | Istiqbolli Avlod | UZ | |||
| Emergency Response for Earthquake-Affected Families | Mercy Corps | KG | |||
| Credit Unions Project | WOCCU | sevaram@intal.uz | Sevara Mukhamet-Alieva, Project Director | UZ | The Rural Saving and Credit Unions (SCU) Development Project, implemented by the World Council of Credit Unions, Inc., (WOCCU) has been operating in Uzbekistan since June 2002. The goal of the project is to support sustainability and growth of the private financial system in Uzbekistan by promoting private-sector participation in development of the independent, competitive, and dependable financial market. The project supports USAID’s Program Area 4.7. “Economic Opportunities” and Program Element 4.7.1 “Inclusive Financial Markets” and directly contributes toward achievement of Objective 4 “Economic Growth” in Uzbekistan. |
| REMAP | USEA | michael.bekker@accenture.com; msbekker@usea.org | Michael Bekker | KZ, KG, TJ, TX | Project Description: Development of energy resources within a framework of transparency, good governance and integration with regional markets is an essential building block for sustainable economic growth in Kazakhstan. The Regional Energy Markets Assistance Program (REMAP) has as objectives to: Promote establishment of a transparent, competitive electricity market in Central Asia;Increase electricity trade in Central Asia in order to increase investment in the power sector.Introduce market-based solutions for current and future regional disputes related to hydroelectricity facilities and water reservoirs; and Build the capacity of CAR electricity regulators to support power sector development, while protecting the interests of consumers. |
| CAMFA | ACDI/VOCA | enelson@camfa.kg | Elena P. Nelson | KZ, KG, TJ, UZ | CAMFA II is the second phase of the regional Central Asia Microfinance Alliance (CAMFA) Project implemented by ACDI/VOCA in four countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. CAMFA II is built upon the successful work of creating and supporting micro finance associations during CAMFA’s previous implementation. Phase II began in October 2006 and focuses on the development and expansion of Central Asia’s micro finance associations. At the end of this three-year activity, the Association of Microfinance Organizations of Kazakhstan (AMFOK) and micro finance associations (MFAs) in the three other Central Asian republics will expand membership, member outreach will increase and the MFAs will have sufficient membership dues and service fees to support an office, core staff and essential services. MFAs will also have improved capacity to attract domestic and international grants to expand and develop services. |
| DCA/Bai Tushum Financial Fund | Bai Tushum Fin. Fund | KG | This is a joint Asian Development Bank (ADB) and USAID project where USAID is guaranteeing a loan to Community Drinking Water Users Unions (CDWUUs) to fund their initial cash contribution to start rehabilitation works of the potable water infrastructure. | ||
| KAED (Agro-Inputs Enterpr. Devt.) | IFDC | KG | KAED activities such as input development, policy reforms, advocacy, developing market linkages, and fostering of public-private partnerships have not reached their full country and regional potential because of the southern focus of the existing project. | ||
| Junior Achievement | JA Worldwide | Elle.ja.roc@gmail.com | Elmira Galieva | KZ, KG, TJ, UZ | Junior Achievement Worldwide (JA Worldwide) is the world’s largest and fastest-growing provider of business education programs and today serves programs in 112 countries. The purpose of JA is to educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, understand business and economics and be workforce ready. JA promotes a pro-business climate that in turn spurs economic development and sets a foundation to attract foreign investment and technology transfers. USAID has provided funding for JA in Central Asia with the aim of strengthening JA Member Nations, which includes training JA management staff, adopting materials to the local environment, and training of teachers to deliver the lessons of economics to young people ages six through university level. |
| Farmer-to-Farmer (CTO in the U.S.) | Winrock Int. | 77/85 Gogol Street, apt 69 | KZ, KG, TJ, TX, UZ | Farmer-to-Farmer program objectives of: Increased sustainability of private agribusiness through improved technologies and business management practices in targeted sectors and geographic areas. Increased capacity of farmers’ associations, cooperatives, and business support organizations to achieve sustainable service delivery and advocacy in targeted sectors and geographic areas. | |
| Sust. Dairy Management (GDA) | Winrock Int. | 77/85 Gogol Street, apt 69 | KZ | The primary goal of this project is to increase the profitability of small- and medium-sized dairy farms in the Central Asian Republics (CAR), primarily in Kazakhstan. Additional project goals include: Improve natural resource management and environmental quality from agriculture;Create jobs and improve livelihoods in rural areas;Foster competitive dairy markets; and Create opportunities for local SMEs to supply appropriate technology and equipment to farmers. | |
| Land Reform | Chemonics | carapova@landreform.kg | Kathrine Kelm, Chynara Arapova | KG, TJ | The overall goal of the proposed program in Kyrgyzstan is to strengthen the development of a market economy by (a) facilitating the development of vibrant, modern agricultural land markets by eliminating impediments in the legal framework, by reforming administrative institutions that shape land access and land market transactions, and by providing citizens and businesses greater access to land market information and services, and (b) by facilitating the development of urban land markets through improving land use management practices (municipal zoning) and real estate appraisal standards and practices. |
| Aglinks | DAI | chuck_may@dai.com | Charles May, Chief of Party | KZ, KG, TJ,TX, UZ | The overall goal of the AgLinks Project is to increase agricultural productivity in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan through market-driven production and private agribusiness development. This goal will be achieved through five integrated objectives: Increasing market-driven agricultural production; Developing key market-linking agribusinesses, including linking producers to processors; Developing local capacity to identify, understand, analyze, and respond to market opportunities through marketing and market information support; Improving the policy and regulatory environment to promote market-driven production, private agribusiness, and trade; and Mobilizing access to credit for producers and linking agribusinesses. |
| DCA AgInvest Bank | AgroInvest Bank of TJ | TJ | |||
| AmCham Advisor | VEGA | Sanjay.Srikantiah@amcham.kz | Sanjay Srikantiah, Public-Private Economic Partnership Specialist | KZ | The primary role of the PPEP Specialist is to assist and support the American Chamber of Commerce in the Republic of Kazakhstan in preparation for a Public-Private Economic Partnership Initiative launch event and implementation of recommendations coming out of the event. The purpose of the PPEP initiative is to encourage further improvement of Kazakhstan’s current business environment and increase the country’s competitiveness through facilitating greater public-private dialogue on such issues as tax, anti-corruption, transparency and rule of law, economic diversification, technology exchange, and WTO accession. |
| Economic Policy Reform Project | BearingPoint, LLC | david.martin@bearingpoint.com | David Martin, Chief of Party | KZ, KG, TJ, TX, UZ | |
| EREC | BearingPoint, LLC | bruce.reid@bearingpoint.com | Bruce Reid, Chief of Party | KZ, KG, TJ, TX | This planned three-year project will work to consolidate key aspects of economic reform by ensuring that core institutions have effectively strengthened their capacity. Specific Project tasks will provide assistance on areas (to counterparts) such as: Budget development, program budgeting and inter-governmental finance (MEBP); Public audit (Accounts Committee); Improved capacity in economic and fiscal analysis (Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan); Competition and anti-monopoly policy (Antimonopoly Agency); Financial regulatory policy and risk management (FSA); Monetary policy (NBK). |
| RTLC | The Services Group | allen_shinn@yahoo.com | Allen Shinn, Chief of Party | KZ, KG, TJ | The RTLC project provides technical assistance, training and support to: facilitate accession to the WTO; identify and help remove constraints pertaining to customs, transit and transport barriers; and foster greater regional cooperation and implementation of trade legislation and agreements to promote trade within the region. Over time, assistance provided by the RTLC project should increase transparency, clarity, predictability and certainty in the trading environment, allowing importers, exporters and producers to trade more effectively and efficiently. |
| Fiscal and Banking SEGIR | BearingPoint, LLC | 31 Zenkova Street,, apt 40, bruce.reid@bearingpoint.com | Reid Bruce | KZ, TJ | |
| WUASP | Winrock Int. | 77/85 Gogol Street, apt 69 | KG, TJ, UZ | Project goal (Importance of irrigation in CAR; improvement of on-farm water management through decentralized system, increase of income; diversification of crops; sustainable agriculture through democratic groups and water management; conflict resolution due to equitable distribution of water; improved environment due to efficient water use; lead to increased farmers’ investments into agriculture and facilitate participation in agriculture. | |
| Agriculture Improvement in TKM | Winrock Int. | 77/85 Gogol Street, apt 69 | TX | The goals of this one year project are many faceted: to build competitiveness; to strengthen the value chain for domestic, regional and international markets; to improve rural incomes by helping farmers and agribusinesses to a) link with agricultural markets, b) produce better products and c) deliver consistent quality products to the local and regional markets. This program provides a unique and innovative approach of working with specific areas to strengthen the value chain of the agriculture sector and lay out the ground work for exporting Turkmenistan’s agricultural products. This program will stimulate a public purpose of increasingTurkmenistan’s agricultural sector and fits within USAID’s strategic objective of increasing the economic productivity of the agricultural sector.The project will specifically focus on promoting high value crops through the development of greenhouses and lay the groundwork for Turkmenistan to export high value agriculture commodities. | |
| DCA/Kazkommertsbank | Kazkommertsbank | KZ | The DCA activity will provide partial guarantees to cover up 50% of investors’ risk exposure on the principal amount of financing to be extended by Kazkommertsbank for the purposes of generating medium and long-term capital for the financing of an energy-related loan portfolio. The type of projects will include energy efficiency improvement projects in municipal buildings such as schools and hospitals, infrastructure improvement for regional electric distribution companies in the form of meter and transformer replacement to lower loss rates and improve collections, funding of energy service company projects in the energy efficiency area, and qualifying projects for renewable electricity generation in remote areas. | ||
| Energy Efficiency GDA | Water Efficiency Ltd. | KG | The United States Agency for International Development ("The E&E Bureau or Mission") and Bishkek City Mayor's office, Mandatory Health Insurance Fund, Hospitals Association of KG, ENSI - Energy Saving International (Norway)/ Demo-Zone (Kyrgyzstan) (collectively referred to as "Parties") hereby agree to enter into an Alliance in order to establish and operate a sustainable project implementation and project financing mechanism for hospitals and other health institutions located in the city of Bishkek. The Parties share the goals of promoting economically sustainable and environmentally sound energy efficiency projects. | ||
| KEAS | PA Consulting, Inc | KG | |||
| Accounting/CIPA | Pragma | Alex Fawcett, Chief of Party | Alex Fawcett, Chief of Party | KZ, KG, TJ, TX, UZ | The goal of this two-year Accounting/CIPA project is to assist the Kazakh Government in implementing activities to further develop the accounting and auditing system pursuant to requirements of the international market and to strengthen local institutions in their capacity to advance the accounting profession and support transition to a full market economy. |
| CIPA | CIPA Examination | Alex Fawcett, Chief of Party | Alex Fawcett, Chief of Party | KZ, KG, TJ, TX, UZ | |
| KSBD | Pragma | gphemphill@pragma.kz; <jbohoney@pragma.kz> | Greg Hempphill, Chief of Party | KZ | The goal of the four year Kazakhstan Small Business Development (KSBD) Project is to promote growth of entrepreneurship and competitiveness of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Creating the conditions whereby entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises are able to access information, knowledge, and skills in order to grow and flourish is critical to broad-based economic growth. The program should result in a substantial increase in productivity and capacity among SMEs to increase their sales both domestically and in foreign markets as well as increased GOK capacity to design, manage, and implement development programs. |
| SME Survey | CSPO | As part of the longitudinal study of business environment in Kazakhstan, the Centre for Study of Public Opinion (CSPO) will conduct annual survey in Kazakhstan in 2007. The Contractor conducted the surveys in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. The data collected will help assess changes in the business environment for the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Kazakhstan. The study should provide information that will allow to monitor changes over a period of time. | |||
| Business Environment Improvement | Pragma | tslywka@pragma.kz; Website: www.bei-ca.net | Terence R. Slywka, Chief of Party | KZ, KG, TI | The goal of the four-year BEI project is to reduce the regulatory and administrative burden for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by working with the Government to streamline processes and through informed and effective dialogue and partnerships between the private sector and public sector. This reform process will result in better SME policies; deregulation at the local, national and regional level; and proper implementation of laws and regulations, thus leading to an improved business environment for SMEs. The Project will concentrate on the main national and local-level constraints to SME business operations. Specifically, processes to be targeted will include, but are not necessarily limited to, impediments or obstacles in the following areas:1. Business licensing and permits;2. Government inspections;3. Land site acquisition and real estate construction and development;4. Registering or deregistering a business; registering to pay taxes and social payments;5. Procedures and practices of government procurement of SME products and services; and 6. Tax administration. |
| Transport Corridor Analysis | EBRD | CAR, Afg., Pakist. | This study is a logical extension of the corridor performance measurements and studies currentlyongoing as part of the World Bank's Central Asia program. These measurements and studies wereTurkmenistan. This study will complement the Bank's on-going work as it will include Afghanistan andundertaken along main road/rail transport corridors in Central Asian countries with the exception ofPakistan (and possibly Turkmenistan). Three road corridors will initially be selected for the measurementand study based on traffic volume and strategic importance covering main transit routes from Kazakhstan,Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan (possibly Turkmenistan) via Afghanistan to Karachi port inPakistan (see Table 4). The study will focus on commercial transit and passenger traffic, but will excludetransport of humanitarian aid. | ||
| The Trade and Transport Facilitation Performance Measures in Central Asia and South Asia | World Bank | hkerali@worldbank.org | Henry Kerali, Program Team Leader | CAR, Afg., Pakist. | |
| Strengthening TB Control in Turkmenistan through WHO Technical Assistance (Dr. Tsogt) | WHO/Euro | Dr. Tsogt | CAR | The World Health Organization (WHO) is recognized as an international technical and policy expert on tuberculosis (TB) control. Since 2002, USAID has provided funding to support a WHO Medical Officer, known as the WHO Regional TB Advisor for Central Asia. In this capacity, the advisor provides a full range of consultative, advisory, monitoring, management, data collection, analysis, and evaluative services to the region’s five national TB programs, assisting them to implement WHO’s internationally-recognized Directly Observed Therapy, Short-Course (DOTS) strategy. Representing WHO, the advisor serves as a key figure in coordination of donor and counterparts’ efforts in Central Asia. | |
| Tuberculosis Control Program for CAR | Project HOPE | tmohr@projecthope.kz | Tom Mohr | CAR | The Tuberculosis (TB) Control Program in CAR is aimed to strengthen political commitment and build up the national capacity for TB control; specifically, USAID assists the Governments of five Central Asian states in strengthening the implementation of DOTS, the WHO-endorsed and internationally recommended tuberculosis control strategy. |
| Personal Hygiene and Sanitation Education Project in Tajikistan | Save the Children | bphillips@savechildren.tj | Benjamin Phillips | TJ | Personal Hygiene and Sanitation Education Project (PHASE II): The overall goal of the PHASE II program is to improve health status of school children in the Khatlon region of Tajikistan. In support of this overall goal, the SC team has identified the following strategic objectives:⇒ Improved access to facilities in health, water and sanitation for children and community stakeholders⇒ Improved health and nutrition behavior of enrolled primary school children⇒ Increased community support for PHASE programming In order to meet this objective, the PHASE II program will build the capacity of schools and communities to integrate PHASE activities into everyday school life. |
| Public Health Program | CDC PAPA (TB, HIV, FETP, live birth) | anq9@cdc.gov | Michael Schmoyer | CAR | The overall goal of USAID’s support to CDC is to strengthen health-care systems as they relate to: HIV (surveillance and blood safety); tuberculosis (TB) control and prevention (including laboratory diagnostics and electronic surveillance case management); other public health threats (the training of epidemiologists to carry out outbreak investigations via CDC’s Applied Epidemiology Training Program [AETP]); and, maternal and child health (revising the live birth definition criteria, helping Central Asian governments to reduce infant mortality). The quality of health care is strengthened through development of evidence-based clinical guidelines that encompass infectious disease control and infant health care. |
| Tuberculosis Control Assistance Program (TBCAP) | KNCV TB Foundation | svetapak07@rambler.ru | Svetlana Pak | CAR | TB CAP MDR TB and social support projects is a two year (2009-2010) regional project funded by USAID/Washington based on cooperative agreement and implemented by KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Netherlands. It is directed to accomplishment of the following objectives: scale up of the MDR TB case management model to Eastern oblast of the Republic of Kazakhstan (RK) including the prison sector, development of the summary of best practices based on experience of MDR TB pilots in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan and introduction of these best practices in all CAR countries, and decreasing defaulter rate among TB and MDR TB cases in CAR countries. |
| Kyrgyz National Testing Initiative | CEATM | inval@accels.elcat.kg | Inna Valkova | KG | The USAID-funded National Scholarship Test project aims to level the playing field for government funding for higher education Kyrgyzstan. The exam measures aptitude and is implemented by an independent agency that charges modest student test fees to sustain the test. This activity has resulted in improved access to higher education for rural and disadvantaged students. USAID has also supported an assessment of the potential for local university accreditation in Kyrgyzstan. |
| Quality Learning Project (QLP) | Creative Associates | TerryG@caii.com | Terry Giles | KG, TJ, TX | The goal of USAID’s “Quality Learning Program” (funded at $2.5 million annually) is to expand access to quality general education through the support of government efforts to implement their national education strategies and, when applicable, implementation of its Education for All Fast Track Initiative grants. The five-year project will result in improved student learning outcomes through i) broad application of modern teaching and student assessment methodologies, ii) active participation of teachers in curriculum and education policy development, iii) increased effectiveness of host governments in addressing teacher shortages, and iv) use of transparent and efficient school finance and management systems. |
| Quality Public Health and Primary Health Care | Abt Associates, Inc. | sheila@zplus.kz | Sheila O'Dougherty, Regional Director | CAR | The project aims to ensure the provision of quality public health and primary health care (PHC) by improving both health systems and services in the five countries of Central Asia. The project efforts include working at the policy level to promote health reform (finance reform and the promotion of evidence-based medicine), as well as building capacity for quality improvement and evidence-based medicine at the facility level. “Evidence-based medicine” is the term used to describe medical practices which have been developed upon the basis of scientific research and proven through rigorous testing. While this project began in 2005, the activity builds upon nine years of USAID health reform activities in Central Asia, implemented by the same prime partner under two previous projects: Zdrav Reform and Zdrav Plus. As a result, our partners have worked closely with ministries of health and finance in all of the Central Asian countries and have good working relationships with local governments, other donors, and related partners. |
| CAPACITY | JSI | david.hausner@capacity.kz | David Hausner | CAR | The project builds Central Asian technical capacity to launch large-scale responses to HIV/AIDS and develop indigenous institutions and networks to manage comprehensive HIV/AIDS control programs. |
| American University in Central Asia (AUCA) accreditation | AUCA | ellen.hurwitz@gmail.com. | Ellen Hurwitz | KG | USAID provides support to the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) in Bishkek through an endowment jointly funded by USAID and the Open Society Institute, New York (USAID: $10 million, Open Society: $5 million) in 2002. USAID is currently reviewing a proposal from AUCA requesting support for 1) efforts to achieve U.S. accreditation from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges and 2) upgrades in university marketing, recruiting and other activities. |
| Europe and Eurasia Regional Family Planning Activity | John Snow, Inc. | nino_berdzuli@jsi.com ( to be confirmed) | Nino Berdzuli | TJ, KG | E&E regional family planning activity: The project aims to supply health care providers and policy makers in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan with the information and skills they need to deliver quality family planning services to their communities. This means expanding the safe, informed, and voluntary use of the full range of modern contraceptive methods. Knowledge and skills will be increased through training, conferences, study tours, and direct professional technical assistance by international experts in family planning methods. |
| Maternal & Child Health project | Mercy Corps | brandy@tj.mercycorps.org; philip@tj.mercycorps.org | Brandy Westerman, Country Director; Philip Wegner, Health Programs Manager | TJ | Tajikistan Maternal and Child Health Project Goal is to reduce infant and maternal mortality by improving the health of women and children under five.The MCH program will meet the following objectives:1. Increase the % of mothers of children less than 2 years who practice improved feeding, caring and health-seeking practices.2. Increase the % of women who receive adequate maternal health care and newborn care. The project will indirectly benefit women and newborns from the entire Sughd Oblast through provision of safe motherhood training (pre-and post-natal care, perinatal care, sepsis prevention, newborn care) to midwives and OB/GYNs at the Regional and City Maternity Centers in Khujand and support to the Regional Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) Center. |
| Improving Reproductive Health through Contraceptive Social Marketing in Rural Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan | PSI | koushenova@psi.kz | Leila Kushenova | KG, TJ | PSI is implementing a family planning project, entitled “I Know”, in 6 target areas of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The 6 target areas are Dushanbe, Kurgan Tube and Kulyab in Tajkistan and Chu, Issuk Kul and Talas in Kyrgyzstan. The project aims to reach 115,700 women of reproductive age (WRA) through education and outreach during the first year of the project. Project activities are centered on improving access to family planning products and services by establishing and/or strengthening contraceptive supply and services in the private sector and at village-level health centers and increasing informed demand for family products and services through intensive interpersonal communications. |
&C&F irina@cpart.org hkerali@worldbank.org tslywka@pragma.kz; Website: www.bei-ca.net gphemphill@pragma.kz; <jbohoney@pragma.kz> sevaram@intal.uz michael.bekker@accenture.com; msbekker@usea.org enelson@camfa.kg Elle.ja.roc@gmail.com carapova@landreform.kg chuck_may@dai.com Sanjay.Srikantiah@amcham.kz david.martin@bearingpoint.com bruce.reid@bearingpoint.com allen_shinn@yahoo.com anq9@cdc.gov TerryG@caii.com david.hausner@capacity.kz svetapak07@rambler.ru nino_berdzuli@jsi.com ( to be confirmed) brandy@tj.mercycorps.org; philip@tj.mercycorps.org bphillips@savechildren.tj ellen.hurwitz@gmail.com.
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