Innovative conference was held in Bishkek where participants and partners of project used an interactive approach to visualize results of work, lessons learned and recommendations to the public bodies in the Kyrgyz Republic.

United Nations Development Programme is announcing a vacancy for the position of UN House Handyman (SC-2 level, duty station - Bishkek)

UNDP colleagues visited famous cow Zorka, living in the aksakal Bektursun Orozaliev’s in Luxemburg village, Chui oblast. Zorka was the first caw in the Kyrgyz Republic who received in a solemn ceremony the first electronic identification passport #000000001 18 November 2016.

Over two hundred representatives of local self-governments, civil society organizations representing interests of persons with disabilities from seven oblasts of the country took part in the Republican conference “Equal rights = Equal opportunities”, dedicated to the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

There are more than 172 million persons with disabilities live in the Kyrgyz Republic today and their number, unfortunately, is continuing to grow. Despite the changes in the legislation in order to improve their rights, persons with disabilities continue to face barriers to their participation in society as equal members.

20 young people graduated the Media laboratory, established on the basis of the Public Regional Television and Radio Broadcasting Company “Yntymak”. They were trained in preparing news and radio reportages and got knowledge on peacebuilding journalism.

Kyrgyzstan launches the training of specialists and identification of livestock in accordance with the requirements of the EURASEC.

During two days experts of the Serbian Criminalistics Centre demonstrated how to determine spatial boundaries of the crime scene, to secure the crime scene from contamination and taught the procedure of forensic investigation and documentation of evidence.

During the Regional Forum on Development, which was held in Bishkek 8-11 November, UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative in the Kyrgyz Republic Mr. Alexander Avanessov said that information and communication technologies play an important role in development of the economy and other spheres of life.

4750 specialists will be trained in the Kyrgyz Republic. Two people from each polling station. Trained specialists act as operators of automatic ballot boxes and will be responsible for their proper operation during Election Day.

Colleagues from Area Based Development Office in Naryn are playing the game during their regular playoff.

Simulation exercises to respond to emergencies have been held last week in the town of Orlovka and the villages Ak-Tuz, Min-Kush and Kadji-Sai for the members of the Civil Defense and local residents. A mechanism to respond to an earthquake with an emergence of a fire in the buildings of secondary schools was simulated in accordance with the scenario.