On hillside properties like Hulkar Pistasi, in the Zaamin district of Djizakh region, two challenges include how to keep crops watered in the steep, dry environment, and how to keep nutrients in the soil while also making a decent profits. The Zaamin district’s open rolling hills, located in the centre of Uzbekistan,...

Over the last 15 years, Ms. Nilufar Adilbabaeva has not only run ‘Adel Tex’ textile company, but has also advised women who intend to start their own business. Over the years, she experienced and has overcome different challenges a woman entrepreneur faces.  These days, Nilufar and more than 100 women...

The issues of improving the legal foundations of the local governance system, complex socio-economic development of regions, increasing responsibility and openness of local governance bodies and improving the quality of provided public services have been discussed on June 14 during an international scientific and...

As of May 1, 2017, about 90 thousand statements and statements of claim have been received by inter-district civil courts of Tashkent city and Tashkent region via the E-SUD national electronic case management system (http://v3.esud.uz/), which is 7.5 times over the same period last year. The E-SUD national...

On the eve of World Environment Day, staff from UNDP Uzbekistan joined colleagues from the State Committee of Ecology and Environment Protection of Uzbekistan, and NGO representatives, students, volunteers and journalists, in collecting 1.5 tons of plastic garbage in Tashkent region’s Bostanlyk district. The...

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...