Our vision
UNDP Kyrgyzstan is a trusted and effective partner in national development efforts designed to achieve real improvements in people’s lives.
To strengthen the capacities of key actors in Kyrgyzstan and to build partnerships to achieve tangible results in the following areas by the end of 2010:
- Accelerate implementation of the Country Development Strategy’s priority pro-poor development, good governance and environmental sustainability objectives in close partnership with government, civil society, mass media, the UN system, the private sector and donors.
- Raise awareness of and capacity in cross-cutting themes such as conflict prevention, disaster risk reduction, gender equality and respect for human rights.
- Ensure that the UN system is perceived as a single effective team in Kyrgyzstan even while we (UNDP) respect and understand the diversity of the mandates that the members of the UN Country Team represent.
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 Alexander Avanessov, Deputy Resident Representative Pradeep Sharma, 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.
UN Partnerships
UNDP contributes to the work of the United Nations Country Team through joint projects and advocacy events dedicated to the promotion of MDGs and national ownership of development results. Thus in 2010, in the Democratic Governance focus area UNDP helps the Kyrgyz Parliament, the Ombudsman Institute (as part of the UN System in Kyrgyzstan), and civil society (Social Justice project) to create a modern democracy. UNDP assists the country’s leadership to demonstrate the progress toward the achievement of the MDGs, in general, and poverty reduction, in particular, in the upcoming MDGs Summit in September 2010, along with the continued support to empower and develop capacities of the poor through various socio-economic projects, including expansion of employment opportunities. In the Environment and Sustainable Development portfolio UNDP has prioritized the development of small scale renewable energy projects and implementation of the Global Environment Facility’s projects.
Crisis Prevention and Recovery portfolio includes capacity development projects of the national partners to effectively respond to natural disasters and manage peace and development issues. In 2009, UNDP Kyrgyzstan, in close collaboration with the Central Asian Governments, has generated momentum for transforming ideas into fully operational large scale assistance programmes to address the problems of toxic radioactive uranium tailings interventions that would be funded from several sources in 2010 and onwards. At a broader level, UNDP and the UN System work together with the donor community in the Kyrgyz Republic to improve aid effectiveness in the country through the harmonization and alignment of donor activities. The UN is one of the seven partners of the donors’ Joint Country Support Strategy (JCSS) developed to support the implementation of the Country Development Strategy (CDS) for 2007-2011.
