On June 14, 2017, the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan jointly with the United Nations Development Programme in Uzbekistan is organizing an international scientific-practical conference "Modernization of local governance system: foreign experience and reforms in...

On 31 May, the Press Club held a launch meeting for Ecoweek 2017 in Uzbekistan. The meeting featured panel speakers Uktam Utayev, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Environmental Protection, Boriy Alikhanov, Vice Speaker of the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis, and Farid Garakhanov, UNDP Resident...

How can mobile applications help schoolchildren and students study better, solve the problem of employing older people, improve processing of household waste? Girls from Uzbekistan tried to solve these and other issues within 3 months under the Technovation Challenge programme. Technovation Challenge is an...

The project of the CCI and UNDP ‘Business Forum of Uzbekistan (Phase-III)’ launches a new component to expand legal and economic opportunities for the development of women's entrepreneurships in Uzbekistan. Small business, accounting for 56.9% of the country’s GDP, provides employment for 78.1% of the population...

The second cycle of the Youth Startup Support Programme was launched this year to cover students and teachers of all the universities in Uzbekistan. Compared to the previous cycle, the number of applications submitted has increased by 1.4, and the number of participating universities has reached 57. Applications...

Since April 1, 2017, Uzbekistan has launched a unique national automated system of state registration of business which enable applicants to obtain a certificate of state registration within 30 minutes. Within one month from the launch of the new system, over 21,000 business entities were registered through this...

– Mr Priesner, how would you evaluate the Uzbekistan-UN cooperation during the past 25 years? What results or achievements would you like to highlight specifically?  – Just recently, on 2 March, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of Uzbekistan’s joining the United Nations as a full member, and I think in general it...

This has been the first ever visit to Uzbekistan by any of the six UN High Commissioners for Human Rights, since the Office of the High Commissioner was established in 1993, just two years after Uzbekistan became independent, and one year after it became a member of the United Nations. It has been a very brief...

The United Nations Development Programme in Uzbekistan commends Uzbekistan’s recent signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change. The Paris Agreement is the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate deal, which was adopted at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP 21) of the United Nations Framework...

Interagency Working Group of the project “Green Climate Fund Readiness Programme in Uzbekistan” selected first set of project applications for the Green Climate Fund. The Interagency Working Group (IWG), consisting of representatives of various ministries and organizations, discussed ten project applications...

On May 2, 2017, a joint project of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and UNDP 'Business Forum of Uzbekistan (Phase III)' held a round table on further improving the business environment and raising Uzbekistan’s ranking in the World Bank's ‘Doing Business’ report. Today, the intensification of efforts aimed to...