AKDN | Kyrgyz Republic

AKDN improves infrastructure, farming productivity and diversification; ensures access to financial services; and helps farmers collaborate to negotiate better terms and convey local needs to government.

Our work with civil society groups includes organisational assessment and strengthening, facilitating peer exchange, brokering linkages, co-creation and collaborative implementation.

Centre Ustatshakirt works with educational institutions across the Kyrgyz Republic. It introduces primary school children to national musical and literary traditions, and trains talented performers in musical instruments, composition and music arranging.

The Early Childhood Development programme seeks to increase the capacity of existing kindergartens and to provide affordable, quality and culturally-sensitive curricula for children aged three to six.

We helped found KICB, which invests in the country’s main economic sectors and provides remote banking services, loans, insurance and financial literacy courses. We strengthen economic opportunities for women, support small businesses to grow and prepare youth for work.

We invest in education for every age group, supporting government school systems as well as providing our own education. UCA’s Naryn campus offers undergraduate degrees, while the SPCE provides professional and vocational courses for youth and adults.

AKF operates a community health programme, advising expectant mothers and establishing kitchen gardens to supplement nutrition. Teleconsultations and e-learning sessions have improved remote access to health care. A family medicine and diagnostics centre has been launched in Naryn.

AKDN set up FMFC-K to provide microfinance facilities in the rural mountainous areas of Osh and Naryn, which suffer from some of the highest poverty rates in the country. Loans are used for housing improvements, agricultural inputs, trading activities and women’s entrepreneurship.