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.