Since 2009 till 2024 DPI successfully implemented about 60 projects in the area of municipal and state administration, including municipal and state resource management and citizen participation in local developmemt planning and management (funding from SDC, FCDO, USAID, UNDP, UNICEF, the World Bank, the European Commission, and other international organizations. The main principle of development or choice of a project is its full accordance to DPI’s Mission and possibilities for quality and timely implementation of the project.
DPI was the first local organization in Kyrgyzstan to directly implement SDC and USAID-funded projects aimed at developing LSG, local services, interbudgetary reations, and citizen participation in the budget process.
LSG issues in the new Constitution (UNDP, 2010)
Location: Kyrgyzstan
Period: May 2010 – August 2010
Involved: project design, implementation
Objective:
- Ensure citizen participation in discussions of the new Constitution with a focus on Chapter 8 about Local Government
Activities:
- Citizen survey (2,000 respondents).
- Local governments survey (200 respondents out of total 484 rural and urban local governments).
- Analysis, development of recommendations.
- Design of information brochures. Information campaign on surveys’ results, including wide presentations to policy makers.
DPI conducted a survey of heads of local self-government. The survey was conducted by DPI team through phone interviews of 200 heads of local self-governments, including the heads of cities, ail districts and mayors, their deputies and the former heads of local self-government were interviewed as well.
The survey results were presented to the Constitutional Council. One of the main results was that the election were identified as the most desirable way to determine the heads of cities and villages. This principle was adopted by the Constitutional Council and reflected in the new Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Other results:
- collected, analyzed and summarized the various options of system setup of local self-government in the interests of communities, the current political situation, the provisions of the European Charter of Local Self-Government;
- formulated and presented to the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic proposals for changes in the above-mentioned laws in area of local self-government.
