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.
Duration: December 2022 – July 2023
Budget:
Implemented by: Developmemt Policy Institute
Key partners: NGO "Research Institute "Evidence Central Asia""
Activity location: Jalal-Abad, Issyk-Kul and Naryn oblasts
Contact person in EGAP Metaketa V: Damir Esenaliev, esenaliev@isdc.org
Contact person at DPI: Nadezhda N. Dobretsova, ndobretsova@dpi.kg
Goal: Expanding citizen participation, including women's groups, in decision-making processes aimed at improving living conditions.
The work is focused on the following three areas:
EXPECTED IMPACT AND RESULTS
Strengthening women's leadership at the local level. The project will hold information sessions for 150 rural health committees (RHCs) to increase the capacity of women and community leaders to expand their participation in local development, with practical examples of the application of women's and community leaders' participation in development.
4 thematic trainings for the selected 75 RHCs on key topics such as:
Small Grants Programme. A grant programme is provided to stimulate active participation of citizens in the decision-making process at the local level, their associations, by financing their initiatives. The funds of the small grants programme of the Project are used to finance projects aimed at solving initiatives at the local level.
Applicants for the Programme can be initiative groups from rural municipalities of the Jalal-Abad, Issyk-Kul and Naryn regions.