Our vision

UNDP Kyrgyzstan is a trusted and effective partner in national development efforts designed to achieve real improvements in people’s lives.

Our values

• Client- and results-focused orientation
• Commitment to prompt and principled problem solving
• Advocacy of new ideas
• Sharing knowledge
• Integrity and transparency
• Respect and tolerance
• Equality and solidarity

The UNDP country office launched its activities in the Kyrgyz Republic in 1993. Since that time, it has become a trusted partner in national development efforts to achieve real improvements in people's lives.

UNDP provides assistance to Kyrgyzstan in response to requests submitted by the country’s government.  This arrangement is laid out in the Standard Basic Assistance Agreement (SBAA) between UNDP and the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, which was signed on September 14, 1992.

SBAA lays the legal foundation for cooperation between UNDP and the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic.  The technical framework, however, is described in multi-year Country Cooperation Framework (CCF) agreements prepared jointly by the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic and UNDP and approved for funding by the UNDP Executive Board.  From 1993 to 2005, the following CCF agreements were implemented:

• CCF I: 1993-1996
• CCF II: 1997-2000
• CCF III: 2001-2004

In 2003, UNDP spearheaded the Common Country Assessment (CCA), a collaborative effort of all the members of the UN family in the Kyrgyz Republic to identify the main development priorities and challenges in the country.  This exercise was a key component of UN reform, which seeks not only to identify areas of intervention for the UN system but also aims to strengthen the work of the UN in the 21st Century and, in particular, create harmony and joint programming among the UN agencies.  The UN country team, in close collaboration with government and civil society partners, prepared the UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) based on the CCA. The UNDAF, covering the period from 2005 until 2010, is a multi-year framework for assistance that brings together the work of all UN agencies operating in Kyrgyzstan and, in this way, aims to achieve alignment with national development priorities.

In 2004, coming out of the CCA analysis and the UNDAF, the Government of Kyrgyzstan and UNDP initiated a new cooperation agreement for 2005-2010 that was defined in the Country Programme approved by the UNDP Executive Board. This was then translated into a Country Programme Action Plan (CPAP), which sets out UNDP’s specific assistance to the country. The CPAP was revised in 2006 to reflect the country’s new priorities and to adapt UNDP programmes to the new political and economic context.

Decision-makers among our partners

National ownership and equal partnerships are the foundation for UNDP operations on the ground.  UNDP ensures that the design and implementation of all programmes and projects responds to national priorities and that they remain flexible to respond to emerging needs.  All UNDP programmes and projects have high-level government officials, heads of ministries or agencies assigned by the Office of the Prime Minister, serving as a national director. Within the CPAP framework, each project develops annual work plans that are approved by the national programme director and the respective government agency. UNDP continuously monitors the progress of its activities by conducting independent evaluations.  The results of these evaluations are available for partners and serve as crucial inputs for designing future work plans.

In line with global practice, UNDP provides assistance to Kyrgyzstan in the form of grant financing only.  In addition to our “core” resources, we emphasize identification of external funding for the host country from various sources, including UN member states, UN trust funds, bilateral donors, international financial organizations and foundations.  Specifically, UNDP strives to attract new or additional grant funding for Kyrgyzstan in areas where the national strategy and the UNDP mandate overlap. In the current CPAP period (2006-2010) UNDP Kyrgyzstan plans to mobilize $58 million in grants for the country, including $16 million from core resources and $42 million from external donors and/or UN trust funds.

UNDP decision-makers

The Senior Management Team of UNDP Kyrgyzstan includes Resident Representative Neal Walker, Deputy Resident Representative Nato Alhazishvili, Operations Manager Saltanat Dospaeva, Assistant Resident Representative Shakirat Toktosunova and Senior Policy Adviser Leonid Komarover. The team is responsible for the strategic direction and management of the country office.

The Country Programme Action Plan (CPAP), the main framework for UNDP cooperation in the country, is signed by the Prime Minister. Executed under the overall coordination of the Prime Minister's Office, the programme is implemented at the national, sub-national and local levels with national counterparts, as appropriate. Each UNDP project has a National Programme Director (NPD) who works with UNDP to develop programmes/projects, executes the Annual Work Plan (AWP) and certifies all the financial reports. NPDs and UNDP Kyrgyzstan prepare joint annual progress reports.

To learn about where our money comes from and what we spend it on, check our activities in the fields of poverty reduction, democratic governance, crisis prevention, envirionment, gender, regional cooperation and Millenium Development Goals. (What We Do)

See our Finance, Human Resources and Procurement pages to learn about how we do business.