
Integrated area-based development in Osh province, Kyrgyzstan
The UNDP area-based development approach and its considerable concentration on regional and local development enabled it to make a significant contribution to community development and accumulate extensive knowledge of local development challenges. In 2016, UNDP launched the “Integrated Development of the Osh Province of the Kyrgyz Republic” Program (hereinafter referred to as the Program), with the goal to assist the Government of Kyrgyzstan in ensuring conditions for conflict prevention and sustainable development in the Osh Province. The comprehensive interrelated measures of the Program were aimed at improving the well - being of vulnerable target communities of the Osh Province through various types of economic activities, improving access to water, environmental security, job creation and rehabilitation of the socio - economic infrastructure.
The program was implemented in 30 pilot villages of 17 municipalities of Kara-Kulja, Nookat and Uzgen districts of the Osh Province, which were chosen using new mechanisms that ensured the quality of their selection processes.
The main activities of the Program fully correspond to the country priorities as well as national and regional programs of socio - economic development. The components of the program are comprehensive, covering the most important issues of human life in the rural area. The activities of the Program are based on the achievements, experience and lessons learnt from the implementation of the UNDP Program in the Naryn and Batken Provinces.
The program combined the main approaches of UNDP in the promotion of good governance and sustainable development and focused its interventions on strengthening the capacity of key national partners:
- The Government of the Kyrgyz Republic in creating the enabling environment for growth through development programs and the sharing of positive experiences throughout the country;
- Local authorities in implementation, monitoring and reporting on the implementation of local sustainable development plans;
- Rural communities in combating poverty by improving access to services and sources of income.
Output 1.1.2 Marginalised groups, particularly the poor, women, people with disabilities and displaced are empowered to gain universal access to basic services and financial and non-financial assets to build productive capacities and benefit from sustainable livelihoods and jobs
Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
1.4 By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
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Mr. Birsan Marius, International Consultant