The EBRD Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) honoured its most successful partner banks in 2018 in a special award ceremony on the eve of the Bank's Annual Meeting and Business Forum in Sarajevo today.
On April 24, in Nookat and Kara-Suu districts of Osh Oblast, the opening ceremony of drinking water supply systems was held as part of the project “Improving Stability and Better Natural Resource Management in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan”, implemented by the Aga Khan Foundation with the support of the Government of the United Kingdom (UK Aid).
EBRD-managed fund signs grant agreement with Kyrgyz Republic.
Partnership with China's Universal Energy company. EBRD and Green Climate Fund commit US$ 16.7 million loan to finance solar plant in Kazakhstan
On April 16, 2019, a presentation of results of the 16-year program “Medical waste management / hospital acquired infection control in health facilities of the Kyrgyz Republic” was held in Bishkek.
The Swiss Embassy is supporting the 14th International Jazz Festival in Bishkek and has invited the Swiss Duo of Malcolm Braff and Claire Huguenin to perform on April 19, the first day of the Jazz Festival at Asanbay Center (address 21a/4, Tokombaev street).
Job creation is not keeping pace with the rapidly growing population. Kyrgyz Republic’s potential workforce is growing at about 2 percent per annum – faster than some of its neighbors in Europe and Central Asia. Fertility rates in Kyrgyz Republic have increased since 2000, from 2.4 to 3.2 in 2014. An estimated 50,000 new entrants join the labor market each year. By 2030, the working-age population is expected to reach around 4.6 million persons. Acknowledging the challenging economic and political environment in the Kyrgyz Republic, the report offers realistic policy recommendations for addressing some of the most critical issues to improving jobs outcomes in the short run while noting that some policies will take time to develop and implement.
The Kyrgyz Republic is at an important stage of its history when the prerequisites for its long-term development as a politically stable, economically strong and socially responsible state have been created for the first time. In its contemporary history, Kyrgyzstan has experienced a fundamental transformation that seriously changed all spheres of activity. Independence was accompanied by old ideology dismantling and seeking a new paradigm, which will create the basis for development of modern, dynamic and successful society and new civic identity.
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY OF THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC for 2018-2040